| viii | (adjective) being one more than seven | Synonyms: 8, eight |
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| vile | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, worthless, wretched |
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| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening |
| vilely | (adverb) in a vile manner | - |
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| vileness | (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: loathsomeness, lousiness, repulsiveness, sliminess, wickedness |
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| (noun) the quality of being wicked | Synonyms: nefariousness, ugliness, wickedness |
| vilification | (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: malignment, smear |
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| (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, contumely, insult, revilement |
| vilifier | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer |
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| vilify | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, revile, vituperate |
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| vilipend | (verb) belittle | Synonyms: deprecate, depreciate |
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| villa | (noun) pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds | - |
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| (noun) country house in ancient Rome consisting of residential quarters and farm buildings around a courtyard | - |
| (noun) detached or semidetached suburban house | - |
| village | (noun) a community of people smaller than a town | Synonyms: settlement, small town |
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| (noun) a settlement smaller than a town | Synonyms: hamlet |
| villager | (noun) one who has lived in a village most of their life | - |
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| villain | (noun) a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately | Synonyms: scoundrel |
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| (noun) the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction | Synonyms: baddie |
| villainage | (noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villeinage |
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| villainess | (noun) a woman villain | - |
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| villainous | (adjective) extremely wicked | Synonyms: nefarious |
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| villainousness | (noun) the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior | Synonyms: villainy |
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| villainy | (noun) a criminal or vicious act | - |
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| (noun) the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior | Synonyms: villainousness |
| villein | (noun) (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord | Synonyms: helot, serf |
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| villeinage | (noun) tenure by which a villein held land | - |
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| (noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villainage |
| villoma | (noun) a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass | Synonyms: papillary tumor, papillary tumour, papilloma |
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| villus | (noun) a minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane | - |
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| vim | (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour |
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| (noun) a healthy capacity for vigorous activity | Synonyms: energy, vitality |
| vinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to wine | Synonyms: vinous |
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| (adjective) of the color of wine | - |
| vinaigrette | (noun) oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic | Synonyms: French dressing, sauce vinaigrette |
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| vinblastine | (noun) periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Velban) that disrupts cell division | Synonyms: Velban |
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| vincible | (adjective) susceptible to being defeated | Synonyms: beatable, vanquishable |
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| vincristine | (noun) periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Oncovin); used to treat cancer of the lymphatic system | Synonyms: Oncovin |
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| vindicate | (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: justify |
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| (verb) clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof | - |
| (verb) maintain, uphold, or defend | - |
| vindicated | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: absolved, clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated |
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| vindication | (noun) the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc. | Synonyms: exoneration |
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| (noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defence, defense |
| vindicator | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: apologist, justifier |
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| vindicatory | (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, justificatory |
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| (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributive, retributory |
| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory |
| vindictive | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: despiteful, spiteful |
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| (adjective) disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge | Synonyms: revengeful, vengeful |
| vindictively | (adverb) in a vindictive, revengeful manner | Synonyms: revengefully, vengefully |
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| vindictiveness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vengefulness |
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| vine | (noun) a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface | - |
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| vinegar | (noun) sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative | Synonyms: acetum |
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| (noun) dilute acetic acid | - |
| vinegariness | (noun) a sourness resembling that of vinegar | Synonyms: vinegarishness |
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| vinegarish | (adjective) having a sour disposition; ill-tempered | Synonyms: vinegary |
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| (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetose, acetous, vinegary |
| vinegarishness | (noun) a sourness resembling that of vinegar | Synonyms: vinegariness |
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| vinegarroon | (noun) large whip-scorpion of Mexico and southern United States that emits a vinegary odor when alarmed | Synonyms: Mastigoproctus giganteus |
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| vinegarweed | (noun) aromatic plant of western United States | Synonyms: camphorweed, Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed |
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| vinegary | (adjective) having a sour disposition; ill-tempered | Synonyms: vinegarish |
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| (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetose, acetous, vinegarish |
| vinery | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vineyard |
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| vineyard | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vinery |
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| viniculture | (noun) the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing | Synonyms: viticulture |
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| vinifera | (noun) common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes | Synonyms: common grape vine, vinifera grape, Vitis vinifera |
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| vinification | (noun) the process whereby fermentation changes grape juice into wine | - |
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| vinify | (verb) convert a juice into wine by fermentation | - |
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| vino | (noun) fermented juice (of grapes especially) | Synonyms: wine |
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| vinous | (adjective) of or relating to wine | Synonyms: vinaceous |
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| vintage | (noun) the oldness of wines | Synonyms: time of origin |
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| (noun) a season's yield of wine from a vineyard | - |
| vintager | (noun) a person who harvests grapes for making wine | - |
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| vintner | (noun) someone who makes wine | Synonyms: wine maker, winemaker |
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| (noun) someone who sells wine | Synonyms: wine merchant |
| vinyl | (noun) a univalent chemical radical derived from ethylene | Synonyms: vinyl group, vinyl radical |
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| (noun) shiny and tough and flexible plastic; used especially for floor coverings | - |
| vinylbenzene | (noun) a colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene | Synonyms: cinnamene, phenylethylene, styrene |
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| viol | (noun) any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family | - |
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| viola | (noun) any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola | - |
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| (noun) a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower | - |
| violable | (adjective) capable of being violated | - |
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| violate | (verb) destroy | - |
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| (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, spoil |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, offend, transgress |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish |
| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, outrage, profane |
| (verb) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns | Synonyms: break, go against |
| violated | (adjective) treated irreverently or sacrilegiously | Synonyms: profaned |
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| violation | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, infringement, misdemeanor, misdemeanour |
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| (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: encroachment, intrusion, trespass, usurpation |
| (noun) the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will | Synonyms: assault, rape, ravishment |
| (noun) a disrespectful act | Synonyms: irreverence |
| (noun) an act that disregards an agreement or a right | Synonyms: infringement |
| violative | (adjective) violating or tending to violate or offend against | Synonyms: offensive |
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| violator | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: debaucher, ravisher |
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| (noun) someone who violates the law | Synonyms: law offender, lawbreaker |
| violence | (noun) an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists) | Synonyms: force |
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| (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, wildness |
| (noun) a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc. | - |
| violent | (adjective) acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by violence or bloodshed | Synonyms: crimson, red |
| (adjective) effected by force or injury rather than natural causes | - |
| (adjective) marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid | Synonyms: fierce, tearing, trigger-happy, vehement |
| (adjective) (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud | Synonyms: wild |
| violently | (adverb) in a violent manner | - |
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| violet | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purple, purplish |
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| (noun) a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum | Synonyms: reddish blue |
| (noun) any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers | - |
| violin | (noun) bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow | Synonyms: fiddle |
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| violinist | (noun) a musician who plays the violin | Synonyms: fiddler |
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| violist | (noun) a musician who plays the viola | - |
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| violoncellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: cellist |
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| violoncello | (noun) a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing | Synonyms: cello |
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| viomycin | (noun) a basic polypeptide antibiotic (trade name Viocin) administered intramuscularly (along with other drugs) in the treatment of tuberculosis | Synonyms: Viocin |
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| viosterol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: calciferol, cholecalciferol, D, ergocalciferol, vitamin D |
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| viper | (noun) venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw | - |
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| viraemia | (noun) the presence of a virus in the blood stream | Synonyms: viremia |
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| virago | (noun) a noisy or scolding or domineering woman | - |
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| (noun) a large strong and aggressive woman | Synonyms: amazon |
| viral | (adjective) relating to or caused by a virus | - |
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| viremia | (noun) the presence of a virus in the blood stream | Synonyms: viraemia |
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| vireo | (noun) any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-grey in color | - |
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| virga | (noun) light wispy precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground (especially when the lower air is low in humidity) | - |
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| virgin | (adjective) in a state of sexual virginity | Synonyms: pure, vestal, virginal, virtuous |
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| (adjective) being used or worked for the first time | - |
| (noun) a person who has never had sex | - |
| virginal | (adjective) characteristic of a virgin or virginity | - |
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| (adjective) in a state of sexual virginity | Synonyms: pure, vestal, virgin, virtuous |
| (adjective) untouched or undefiled | - |
| (noun) a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: pair of virginals |
| virginity | (noun) the condition or quality of being a virgin | - |
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| virgule | (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke |
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| viricidal | (adjective) tending to destroy viruses | Synonyms: virucidal |
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| viricide | (noun) an agent (physical or chemical) that inactivates or destroys viruses | Synonyms: virucide |
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| viridity | (noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass | Synonyms: green, greenness |
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| virile | (adjective) (of a male) capable of copulation | Synonyms: potent |
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| (adjective) characteristic of a man | Synonyms: male, manful, manlike, manly |
| (adjective) characterized by energy and vigor | - |
| virilisation | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinisation, masculinization, virilization |
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| virilise | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinise, masculinize, virilize |
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| virilism | (noun) the development of male secondary sexual characteristics in a female (or prematurely in a young boy) | - |
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| virility | (noun) the trait of being manly; having the characteristics of an adult male | Synonyms: manfulness, manliness |
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| (noun) the masculine property of being capable of copulation and procreation | - |
| virilization | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation |
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| virilize | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinise, masculinize, virilise |
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| virino | (noun) (microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists of nucleic acid in a protective coat of host cell proteins | - |
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| virion | (noun) (virology) a complete viral particle; nucleic acid and capsid (and a lipid envelope in some viruses) | - |
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| viroid | (noun) the smallest of viruses; a plant virus with its RNA arranged in a circular chromosome without a protein coat | Synonyms: virusoid |
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| virological | (adjective) of or relating to the science of virology | - |
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