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Vaginicola
A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell.
Valetudinary
Infirm; sickly; valetudinarian.
Vamp
The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.
Vanadyl
The hypothetical radical , regarded as a characteristic residue of certain vanadium compounds.
Vanessa
Any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterflies belonging to and allied genera. Many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped.
Vaporizer
One who, or that which, vaporizes, or converts into vapor.
Varveled
Having varvels, or rings.
Vasoformative
Concerned in the development and formation of blood vessels and blood corpuscles; .
Vastidity
Vastness; immensity.
Vastitude
Vastness; immense extent.
Veiled
Covered by, or as by, a veil; hidden.
Velvet
To make like, or cover with, velvet.
Venation
The act or art of hunting, or the state of being hunted.
Vend
The act of vending or selling; a sale.
Veneration
The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentiment excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, by consecration to sacred services, or by hallowed associations.
Ventouse
A cupping glass.
Verdant
Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing;
Verminous
Tending to breed vermin; infested by vermin.
Vernacularism
A vernacular idiom.
Versant
The slope of a side of a mountain chain; hence, the general slope of a country; aspect.
Verset
A verse.
Versicle
A little verse; especially, a short verse or text said or sung in public worship by the priest or minister, and followed by a response from the people.
Verst
A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet.
Vert
Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; .
Vertical
Vertical position; zenith.
Vesica
A bladder.
Vest
To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by ; .
Vestibule
To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules.
Vial
A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; .
Viary
Of or pertaining to roads; happening on roads.
Vibratiuncle
A small vibration.
Vicegerent
An officer who is deputed by a superior, or by proper authority, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar.
Viking
One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
Villatic
Of or pertaining to a farm or a village; rural.
Villosity
State of being villous.
Vinewed
Same as .
Vinification
The conversion of a fruit juice or other saccharine solution into alcohol by fermentation.
Vinum
Wine, -- chiefly used in in the name of solutions of some medicinal substance in wine; as: , medicated wines; , wine of opium.
Viperous
Having the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; .
Viraginian
Of or pertaining to a virago; having the qualities of a virago.
Virago
A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior.
Visualizer
One who visualizes or is proficient in visualization;
vitamin B12
a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia.
Vitriolic
Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; . Cf. .
Vitrite
A kind of glass which is very hard and difficult to fuse, used as an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.
Vittate
Bearing or containing vitt.
Vivacity
The quality or state of being vivacious.
Vivandire
In Continental armies, especially in the French army, a woman accompanying a regiment, who sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler.
Vivisect
To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.
Vivisection
The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.
Volcanization
The act of volcanizing, or the state of being volcanized; the process of undergoing volcanic heat, and being affected by it.
Voltaism
That form of electricity which is developed by the chemical action between metals and different liquids; voltaic electricity; also, the science which treats of this form of electricity; -- called also , from , on account of his experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals.
Voluminous
Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
Voluntariness
The quality or state of being voluntary; spontaneousness; specifically, the quality or state of being free in the exercise of one's will.
Volunteer
To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; .
Vomition
The act or power of vomiting.
Vortex tube
An imaginary tube within a rotating fluid, formed by drawing the vortex lines through all points of a closed curve.
Vulnerability
The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.
Vulturism
The quality or state of being like a vulture; rapaciousness.
Vulvitis
Inflammation of the vulva.
Vyce
A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.