| 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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