| vinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to wine | Synonyms: vinous |
|---|
| (adjective) of the color of wine | - |
| vinaigrette | (noun) oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic | Synonyms: French dressing, sauce vinaigrette |
|---|
| vinblastine | (noun) periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Velban) that disrupts cell division | Synonyms: Velban |
|---|
| vincible | (adjective) susceptible to being defeated | Synonyms: beatable, vanquishable |
|---|
| vincristine | (noun) periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Oncovin); used to treat cancer of the lymphatic system | Synonyms: Oncovin |
|---|
| vindicate | (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: justify |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| vindication | (noun) the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc. | Synonyms: exoneration |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| vindicatory | (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, justificatory |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| (adjective) disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge | Synonyms: revengeful, vengeful |
| vindictively | (adverb) in a vindictive, revengeful manner | Synonyms: revengefully, vengefully |
|---|
| vindictiveness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vengefulness |
|---|
| vine | (noun) a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface | - |
|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| (noun) dilute acetic acid | - |
| vinegariness | (noun) a sourness resembling that of vinegar | Synonyms: vinegarishness |
|---|
| vinegarish | (adjective) having a sour disposition; ill-tempered | Synonyms: vinegary |
|---|
| (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetose, acetous, vinegary |
| vinegarishness | (noun) a sourness resembling that of vinegar | Synonyms: vinegariness |
|---|
| vinegarroon | (noun) large whip-scorpion of Mexico and southern United States that emits a vinegary odor when alarmed | Synonyms: Mastigoproctus giganteus |
|---|
| vinegarweed | (noun) aromatic plant of western United States | Synonyms: camphorweed, Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed |
|---|
| vinegary | (adjective) having a sour disposition; ill-tempered | Synonyms: vinegarish |
|---|
| (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetose, acetous, vinegarish |
| vinery | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vineyard |
|---|
| vineyard | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vinery |
|---|
| viniculture | (noun) the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing | Synonyms: viticulture |
|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| vinification | (noun) the process whereby fermentation changes grape juice into wine | - |
|---|
| vinify | (verb) convert a juice into wine by fermentation | - |
|---|
| vino | (noun) fermented juice (of grapes especially) | Synonyms: wine |
|---|
| vinous | (adjective) of or relating to wine | Synonyms: vinaceous |
|---|
| vintage | (noun) the oldness of wines | Synonyms: time of origin |
|---|
| (noun) a season's yield of wine from a vineyard | - |
| vintager | (noun) a person who harvests grapes for making wine | - |
|---|
| vintner | (noun) someone who makes wine | Synonyms: wine maker, winemaker |
|---|
| (noun) someone who sells wine | Synonyms: wine merchant |
| vinyl | (noun) a univalent chemical radical derived from ethylene | Synonyms: vinyl group, vinyl radical |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|