| vulcanisation | (noun) process of treating rubber or rubberlike materials with sulphur at great heat to improve elasticity and strength or to harden them | Synonyms: vulcanization |
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| vulcanise | (verb) undergo vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanize |
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| (verb) subject to vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanize |
| vulcanised | (adjective) (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity) | Synonyms: cured, vulcanized |
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| vulcaniser | (noun) a device used for the vulcanization of rubber. | Synonyms: vulcanizer |
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| (noun) someone who vulcanizes rubber to improve its strength and resiliency | Synonyms: vulcanizer |
| vulcanite | (noun) a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber | Synonyms: ebonite, hard rubber |
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| vulcanization | (noun) process of treating rubber or rubberlike materials with sulphur at great heat to improve elasticity and strength or to harden them | Synonyms: vulcanisation |
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| vulcanize | (verb) undergo vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanise |
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| (verb) subject to vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanise |
| vulcanized | (adjective) (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity) | Synonyms: cured, vulcanised |
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| vulcanizer | (noun) a device used for the vulcanization of rubber. | Synonyms: vulcaniser |
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| (noun) someone who vulcanizes rubber to improve its strength and resiliency | Synonyms: vulcaniser |
| vulcanology | (noun) the branch of geology that studies volcanoes | Synonyms: volcanology |
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| vulgar | (adjective) conspicuously and tastelessly indecent | Synonyms: crude, earthy, gross |
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| (adjective) of or associated with the great masses of people | Synonyms: common, plebeian, unwashed |
| (adjective) lacking refinement or cultivation or taste | Synonyms: coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth |
| (adjective) being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language | Synonyms: common, vernacular |
| vulgarian | (noun) a vulgar person (especially someone who makes a vulgar display of wealth) | - |
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| vulgarisation | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularisation, popularization, vulgarization |
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| (noun) the act of rendering something coarse and unrefined | Synonyms: vulgarization |
| vulgarise | (verb) act in a vulgar manner | Synonyms: vulgarize |
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| (verb) debase and make vulgar | Synonyms: vulgarize |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarize |
| vulgariser | (noun) someone who makes something vulgar | Synonyms: vulgarizer |
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| (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: populariser, popularizer, vulgarizer |
| vulgarism | (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarity |
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| (noun) an offensive or indecent word or phrase | Synonyms: dirty word, filth, obscenity, smut |
| vulgarity | (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism |
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| vulgarization | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularisation, popularization, vulgarisation |
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| (noun) the act of rendering something coarse and unrefined | Synonyms: vulgarisation |
| vulgarize | (verb) act in a vulgar manner | Synonyms: vulgarise |
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| (verb) debase and make vulgar | Synonyms: vulgarise |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise |
| vulgarizer | (noun) someone who makes something vulgar | Synonyms: vulgariser |
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| (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: populariser, popularizer, vulgariser |
| vulgarly | (adverb) in a smutty manner | Synonyms: smuttily |
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| vulnerability | (noun) susceptibility to injury or attack | - |
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| (noun) the state of being vulnerable or exposed | Synonyms: exposure |
| vulnerable | (adjective) susceptible to attack | - |
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| (adjective) susceptible to criticism or persuasion or temptation | - |
| (adjective) capable of being wounded or hurt | - |
| vulnerably | (adverb) in a vulnerable manner | - |
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| vulpecular | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a fox | Synonyms: vulpine |
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| vulpine | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a fox | Synonyms: vulpecular |
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| vulture | (noun) any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion | - |
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| (noun) someone who attacks in search of booty | Synonyms: marauder, piranha, predator |
| vulturine | (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturous |
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| vulturous | (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine |
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| vulva | (noun) external parts of the female genitalia | - |
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| vulval | (adjective) of or relating to the vulva | Synonyms: vulvar |
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| vulvar | (adjective) of or relating to the vulva | Synonyms: vulval |
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| vulvectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the vulva | - |
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| vulvitis | (noun) inflammation of the vulva | - |
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| vulvovaginitis | (noun) inflammation of the vulva and the vagina | - |
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