| vital | (adjective) manifesting or characteristic of life | - |
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| (adjective) full of spirit; full of life | Synonyms: lively |
| (adjective) performing an essential function in the living body | Synonyms: life-sustaining |
| (adjective) urgently needed; absolutely necessary | Synonyms: critical |
| vitalisation | (noun) the state of being vitalized and filled with life | Synonyms: vitalization |
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| vitalise | (verb) make more lively or vigorous | Synonyms: vitalize |
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| (verb) give life to | Synonyms: vitalize |
| vitaliser | (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energiser, energizer, vitalizer |
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| vitalism | (noun) (philosophy) a doctrine that life is a vital principle distinct from physics and chemistry | - |
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| vitalist | (noun) one who believes in vitalism | - |
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| vitality | (noun) the property of being able to survive and grow | Synonyms: animation |
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| (noun) an energetic style | Synonyms: verve |
| (noun) (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms | Synonyms: elan vital, life force, vital force |
| (noun) a healthy capacity for vigorous activity | Synonyms: energy, vim |
| vitalization | (noun) the state of being vitalized and filled with life | Synonyms: vitalisation |
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| vitalize | (verb) make more lively or vigorous | Synonyms: vitalise |
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| (verb) give life to | Synonyms: vitalise |
| vitalizer | (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energiser, energizer, vitaliser |
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| vitalizing | (adjective) giving or having the power to give life and spirit | Synonyms: life-giving |
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| vitally | (adverb) to a vital degree | - |
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| vitalness | (noun) the quality of being essential to maintain life | - |
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| (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensability, indispensableness |
| vitals | (noun) a bodily organ that is essential for life | Synonyms: vital organ |
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| vitamin | (noun) any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism | - |
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| vitaminise | (verb) add vitamins as a supplement | Synonyms: vitaminize |
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| vitaminize | (verb) add vitamins as a supplement | Synonyms: vitaminise |
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| vitellarium | (noun) A modified part of the ovary that in many flatworms and rotifers produces yolk-filled cells serving to nourish the true eggs. | - |
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| vitellus | (noun) nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg) | Synonyms: yolk |
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| vitiate | (verb) take away the legal force of or render ineffective | Synonyms: invalidate, void |
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| (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, impair, mar, spoil |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert |
| vitiated | (adjective) ruined in character or quality | Synonyms: corrupted, debased |
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| (adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: diminished, lessened, weakened |
| vitiation | (noun) nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null | - |
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| viticulture | (noun) the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing | Synonyms: viniculture |
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| viticulturist | (noun) a cultivator of grape vine | - |
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| vitiliginous | (adjective) of or relating to or having vitiligo | - |
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| vitiligo | (noun) an acquired skin disease characterized by patches of unpigmented skin (often surrounded by a heavily pigmented border) | - |
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| vitrectomy | (noun) a surgical procedure that removes the vitreous humor and replace it with saline solution | - |
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| vitreous | (adjective) relating to or resembling or derived from or containing glass | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of the eye | - |
| (adjective) (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it | Synonyms: glassy, vitrified |
| vitrification | (noun) the process of becoming vitreous | - |
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| (noun) a vitrified substance; the glassy result of being vitrified | - |
| vitrified | (adjective) (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it | Synonyms: glassy, vitreous |
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| vitrify | (verb) undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like | - |
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| (verb) change into glass or a glass-like substance by applying heat | - |
| vitrine | (noun) a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home | Synonyms: case, display case, showcase |
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| vitriol | (noun) abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will | Synonyms: invective, vituperation |
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| (noun) (H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry | Synonyms: oil of vitriol, sulfuric acid, sulphuric acid |
| (verb) subject to bitter verbal abuse | - |
| (verb) expose to the effects of vitriol or injure with vitriol | - |
| vitriolic | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, erosive, mordant |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent |
| vitriolically | (adverb) in a caustic vitriolic manner | Synonyms: caustically |
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| vituperate | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, revile, vilify |
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| vituperation | (noun) abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will | Synonyms: invective, vitriol |
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| vituperative | (adjective) marked by harshly abusive criticism | Synonyms: scathing |
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