| vocable | (noun) a word that is spoken aloud | Synonyms: spoken word |
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| vocabulary | (noun) a language user's knowledge of words | Synonyms: lexicon, mental lexicon |
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| (noun) the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts) | - |
| (noun) a listing of the words used in some enterprise | - |
| vocal | (adjective) having or using the power to produce speech or sound | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or designed for or using the singing voice | - |
| (adjective) given to expressing yourself freely or insistently | Synonyms: outspoken |
| (adjective) full of the sound of voices | - |
| (noun) music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment | Synonyms: vocal music |
| (noun) a short musical composition with words | Synonyms: song |
| vocalic | (adjective) being or containing or characterized by vowels | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or associated with or containing a vowel | - |
| vocalisation | (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalism, vocalization, voice, vox |
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| vocalise | (verb) pronounce as a vowel | Synonyms: vocalize, vowelise, vowelize |
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| (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: articulate, enunciate, vocalize |
| (verb) utter with vibrating vocal chords | Synonyms: sound, vocalize, voice |
| (verb) utter speech sounds | Synonyms: phonate, vocalize |
| (verb) sing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel | Synonyms: vocalize |
| vocaliser | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: singer, vocalist, vocalizer |
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| (noun) an organism that can utter vocal sounds | Synonyms: utterer, vocalizer |
| vocalism | (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalization, voice, vox |
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| (noun) the system of vowels used in a particular language | Synonyms: vowel system |
| vocalist | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: singer, vocaliser, vocalizer |
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| vocalization | (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, voice, vox |
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| (noun) the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication | Synonyms: utterance |
| vocalize | (verb) pronounce as a vowel | Synonyms: vocalise, vowelise, vowelize |
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| (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: articulate, enunciate, vocalise |
| (verb) utter with vibrating vocal chords | Synonyms: sound, vocalise, voice |
| (verb) utter speech sounds | Synonyms: phonate, vocalise |
| (verb) sing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel | Synonyms: vocalise |
| vocalizer | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: singer, vocaliser, vocalist |
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| (noun) an organism that can utter vocal sounds | Synonyms: utterer, vocaliser |
| vocalizing | (noun) the act of singing vocal music | Synonyms: singing |
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| vocally | (adverb) in a vocal manner | - |
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| vocation | (noun) the particular occupation for which you are trained | Synonyms: calling, career |
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| (noun) a body of people doing the same kind of work | Synonyms: occupational group |
| vocational | (adjective) of or relating to a vocation or occupation; especially providing or undergoing training in special skills | - |
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| vocationally | (adverb) affecting the pursuit of a vocation or occupation | - |
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| vocative | (adjective) relating to a case used in some languages | - |
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| (noun) the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed | Synonyms: vocative case |
| vociferate | (verb) utter in a very loud voice | Synonyms: shout out |
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| vociferation | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, shout, yell |
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| vociferator | (noun) a loud and vehement speaker (usually in protest) | - |
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| vociferous | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, clamorous, strident |
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| vociferously | (adverb) in a vociferous manner | - |
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| vodka | (noun) unaged colorless liquor originating in Russia | - |
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| vodoun | (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: hoodooism, voodoo, voodooism |
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| vogue | (noun) the popular taste at a given time | Synonyms: style, trend |
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| (noun) a current state of general acceptance and use | - |
| voguish | (adjective) in accord with the latest fad | Synonyms: trendy |
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| (adjective) elegant and stylish | Synonyms: chic, smart |
| voice | (noun) a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated | - |
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| (noun) the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech | - |
| (noun) the ability to speak | - |
| (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, vox |
| (noun) expressing in coherent verbal form | Synonyms: articulation |
| (noun) the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression | - |
| (noun) A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced. | - |
| (noun) a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance | - |
| (noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: interpreter, representative, spokesperson |
| (noun) (metonymy) a singer | - |
| (noun) (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes | - |
| (verb) give voice to | - |
| (verb) utter with vibrating vocal chords | Synonyms: sound, vocalise, vocalize |
| voiced | (adjective) produced with vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: soft, sonant |
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| (adjective) communicated in words | Synonyms: expressed, uttered, verbalised, verbalized |
| voiceless | (adjective) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | Synonyms: disenfranchised, disfranchised, voteless |
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| (adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: hard, surd, unvoiced |
| (adjective) being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech | Synonyms: aphonic |
| (adjective) uttered without voice | Synonyms: breathed |
| voicelessness | (noun) having no voice in the management or control of affairs | - |
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| (noun) speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: susurration, whisper, whispering |
| (noun) (phonetics, of a consonant) The property of being spoken without vibration of the vocal cords, as [t], [s], or [f]. | - |
| (noun) a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice | Synonyms: aphonia |
| voicemail | (noun) a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed | Synonyms: voice mail |
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| voiceprint | (noun) biometric identification by electronically recording and graphically representing a person's voice | - |
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| voicer | (noun) a speaker who voices an opinion | - |
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| (noun) someone who regulates the tone of organ pipes | - |
| voicing | (noun) the act of adjusting an organ pipe (or wind instrument) so that it conforms to the standards of tone and pitch and color | - |
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| void | (adjective) containing nothing | - |
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| (adjective) lacking any legal or binding force | Synonyms: null |
| (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: emptiness, vacancy, vacuum |
| (noun) the state of nonexistence | Synonyms: nihility, nothingness, nullity |
| (verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: empty, evacuate |
| (verb) take away the legal force of or render ineffective | Synonyms: invalidate, vitiate |
| (verb) clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something | - |
| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, quash |
| voidable | (adjective) capable of being rescinded or voided | Synonyms: rescindable |
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| voidance | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: emptying, evacuation |
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| voider | (noun) a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried | Synonyms: clothes basket, clothes hamper, laundry basket |
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| (noun) a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate | Synonyms: gusset |
| (noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: invalidator, nullifier |
| (noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: defecator, shitter |
| voiding | (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: elimination, evacuation, excreting, excretion |
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| voile | (noun) a light semitransparent fabric | - |
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| volaille | (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: chicken, poulet |
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| volant | (adjective) with wings extended in a flying position | - |
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| volar | (adjective) relating to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot | Synonyms: palmar |
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| volary | (noun) a building where birds are kept | Synonyms: aviary, bird sanctuary |
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| volatile | (adjective) evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures | - |
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| (adjective) tending to vary often or widely | - |
| (adjective) marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments | Synonyms: fickle |
| (adjective) liable to lead to sudden change or violence | Synonyms: explosive |
| (noun) a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor | - |
| volatilisable | (adjective) (used of substances) capable of being volatilized | Synonyms: evaporable, vaporific, vaporizable, vapourific, vapourisable, volatilizable |
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| volatilise | (verb) make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor | Synonyms: volatilize |
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| volatilised | (adjective) converted into a gas or vapor | Synonyms: gasified, vaporized, vapourised, volatilized |
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| volatility | (noun) being easily excited | Synonyms: excitability, excitableness |
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| (noun) the trait of being unpredictably irresolute | Synonyms: unpredictability |
| (noun) the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor | - |
| volatilizable | (adjective) (used of substances) capable of being volatilized | Synonyms: evaporable, vaporific, vaporizable, vapourific, vapourisable, volatilisable |
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| volatilize | (verb) make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor | Synonyms: volatilise |
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| volatilized | (adjective) converted into a gas or vapor | Synonyms: gasified, vaporized, vapourised, volatilised |
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| volcanic | (adjective) relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes | - |
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| (adjective) igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt | - |
| (adjective) explosively unstable | - |
| volcanically | (adverb) by or like volcanoes | - |
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| volcanism | (noun) the phenomena associated with volcanic activity | - |
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| volcano | (noun) a mountain formed by volcanic material | - |
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| (noun) a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt | Synonyms: vent |
| volcanology | (noun) the branch of geology that studies volcanoes | Synonyms: vulcanology |
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| vole | (noun) any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows | Synonyms: field mouse |
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| volition | (noun) the act of making a choice | Synonyms: willing |
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| (noun) the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention | Synonyms: will |
| volitional | (adjective) with deliberate intention | - |
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| volitionally | (adverb) in a willing manner | Synonyms: willingly |
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| volley | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, fusillade, salvo |
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| (noun) a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces | - |
| (verb) utter rapidly | - |
| (verb) make a volley | - |
| (verb) discharge in, or as if in, a volley | - |
| (verb) hit before it touches the ground | - |
| (verb) be dispersed in a volley | - |
| volleyball | (noun) a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands | Synonyms: volley ball, volleyball game |
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| (noun) an inflated ball used in playing volleyball | Synonyms: volley ball |
| volt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through it | Synonyms: V |
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| voltage | (noun) the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts | Synonyms: electric potential, potential, potential difference, potential drop |
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| (noun) the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts | Synonyms: electromotive force, emf |
| voltaic | (adjective) pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action | Synonyms: galvanic |
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| voltmeter | (noun) meter that measures the potential difference between two points | - |
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| volubility | (noun) the quality of being facile in speech and writing | Synonyms: articulateness, fluency |
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| voluble | (adjective) marked by a ready flow of speech | - |
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| volubly | (adverb) in a chatty manner | Synonyms: chattily |
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| volume | (noun) physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together | Synonyms: book |
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| (noun) the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction) | Synonyms: intensity, loudness |
| (noun) the property of something that is great in magnitude | Synonyms: bulk, mass |
| (noun) a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications | - |
| (noun) the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object | - |
| (noun) a relative amount | - |
| volumed | (adjective) (often used in combination) consisting of or having a given number or kind of volumes | - |
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| (adjective) furnished with volumes | - |
| (adjective) formed or rising in rounded masses | - |
| volumeter | (noun) a meter to measure the volume of gases, liquids, or solids (either directly or by displacement) | - |
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| volumetric | (adjective) of or relating to measurement by volume | Synonyms: volumetrical |
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| volumetrical | (adjective) of or relating to measurement by volume | Synonyms: volumetric |
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| volumetrically | (adverb) with respect to volume | - |
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| voluminosity | (noun) greatness of volume | Synonyms: fullness, voluminousness |
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| voluminous | (adjective) large in number or quantity (especially of discourse) | Synonyms: copious |
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| (adjective) marked by repeated turns and bends | Synonyms: tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding |
| (adjective) large in volume or bulk | - |
| voluminously | (adverb) in a voluminous manner | - |
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| voluminousness | (noun) greatness of volume | Synonyms: fullness, voluminosity |
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| voluntarily | (adverb) out of your own free will | - |
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| voluntary | (adjective) of your own free will or design; done by choice; not forced or compelled | - |
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| (adjective) controlled by individual volition | - |
| (noun) composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance | - |
| (noun) (military) a person who freely enlists for service | Synonyms: military volunteer, volunteer |
| volunteer | (adjective) without payment | Synonyms: unpaid |
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| (noun) a person who performs voluntary work | Synonyms: unpaid worker |
| (noun) (military) a person who freely enlists for service | Synonyms: military volunteer, voluntary |
| (verb) tell voluntarily | - |
| (verb) do volunteer work | - |
| (verb) agree freely | Synonyms: offer |
| voluptuary | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuous |
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| (noun) a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses | Synonyms: sybarite |
| voluptuous | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary |
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| (adjective) having strong sexual appeal | Synonyms: juicy, luscious, lush, red-hot, toothsome |
| (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, well-endowed |
| voluptuously | (adverb) in an indulgently voluptuous manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a shapely and voluptuous manner | - |
| voluptuousness | (noun) the quality of having a well-rounded body | Synonyms: curvaceousness, shapeliness |
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| (noun) the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses | Synonyms: lushness, luxuriance |
| (noun) the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting) | Synonyms: hot stuff |
| volute | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, voluted, whorled |
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| (noun) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | Synonyms: coil, helix, spiral, whorl |
| (noun) ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center | Synonyms: spiral |
| voluted | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, whorled |
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| volution | (noun) a rolling or revolving motion | - |
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| volva | (noun) cuplike structure around the base of the stalk of certain fungi | - |
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| volvelle | (noun) a circular slide chart having rotating parts | Synonyms: wheel chart |
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| volvulus | (noun) abnormal twisting of the intestines (usually in the area of the ileum or sigmoid colon) resulting in intestinal obstruction | - |
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| vomer | (noun) thin trapezoidal bone of the skull forming the posterior and inferior parts of the nasal septum | - |
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| vomit | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, puking, regurgitation, vomiting |
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| (noun) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: emetic, nauseant, vomitive |
| (noun) the matter ejected in vomiting | Synonyms: barf, puke, vomitus |
| (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit up |
| vomiter | (noun) a person who vomits | Synonyms: spewer |
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| vomiting | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, puking, regurgitation, vomit |
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| vomitive | (noun) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: emetic, nauseant, vomit |
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| vomitory | (noun) an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium | - |
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