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Untangle
  • (v. t.) To loose from tangles or intricacy

    Unteach
  • (v. t.) To cause to be forgotten

    Unthink
  • (v. t.) To recall or take back, as something thought.

    Unthread
  • (v. t.) To deprive of ligaments

    Unthrone
  • (v. t.) To remove from, or as from, a throne

    Untidy
  • (a.) Not tidy or neat

    Untie
  • (v. i.) To become untied or loosed.
  • (v. t.) To free from fastening or from restraint

    Until
  • (conj.) As far as
  • (prep.) To

    Untimely
  • (a.) Not timely
  • (adv.) Out of the natural or usual time

    Untitled
  • (a.) Being without title or right

    Unto
  • (conj.) Until
  • (prep.) To

    Untrammeled
  • (a.) Not hampered or impeded

    Untraveled
  • (a.) Having never visited foreign countries

    Untrue
  • (a.) Not faithful
  • (adv.) Untruly.

    Untruth
  • (n.) That which is untrue

    Unused
  • (a.) Not habituated

    Unusual
  • (a.) Not usual

    Unutterable
  • (a.) Not utterable

    Unvalued
  • (a.) Having inestimable value

    Unveil
  • (v. i.) To remove a veil
  • (v. t.) To remove a veil from

    Unwarrantable
  • (a.) Not warrantable

    Unwarranted
  • (a.) Not warranted

    Unwary
  • (a.) Not vigilant against danger

    Unwearied
  • (a.) Not wearied

    Unwell
  • (a.) Not well

    Unwieldy
  • (a.) Not easily wielded or carried

    Unwilled
  • (a.) Deprived of the faculty of will or volition.

    Unwilling
  • (a.) Not willing

    Unwind
  • (v. i.) To be or become unwound
  • (v. t.) To disentangle.

    Unwisdom
  • (n.) Want of wisdom

    Unwise
  • (a.) Not wise

    Unwish
  • (v. t.) To wish not to be

    Unwitting
  • (a.) Not knowing

    Unwonted
  • (a.) Not wonted

    Unworldly
  • (a.) Not worldly

    Unworthy
  • (a.) Not worthy

    Unwrap
  • (v. t.) To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.

    Unwritten
  • (a.) Containing no writing

    Unyoke
  • (v. t.) To loose or free from a yoke.

    Up
  • (a.) Inclining up
  • (adv.) Aloft
  • (n.) The state of being up or above
  • (prep.) From a lower to a higher place on, upon, or along

    Upas
  • (n.) A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands

    Upbraid
  • (n.) The act of reproaching
  • (v. i.) To utter upbraidings.
  • (v. t.) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful

    Upcast
  • (a.) Cast up
  • (n.) A cast
  • (v. t.) To cast or throw up

    Upcountry
  • (a.) Living or situated remote from the seacoast
  • (adv.) In an upcountry direction
  • (n.) The interior of the country.

    Upend
  • (v. t.) To end up

    Upgrowth
  • (n.) The process or result of growing up

    Upheaval
  • (n.) The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved

    Upheave
  • (v. t.) To heave or lift up from beneath

    Uphill
  • (a.) Ascending
  • (adv.) Upwards on, or as on, a hillside

    Uphold
  • (v. t.) To aid by approval or encouragement

    Upholster
  • (n.) A broker.
  • (v. t.) To furnish (rooms, carriages, bedsteads, chairs, etc.) with hangings, coverings, cushions, etc

    Upkeep
  • (n.) The act of keeping up, or maintaining

    Upland
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to uplands
  • (n.) High land

    Uplift
  • (n.) A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like
  • (v. t.) To lift or raise aloft

    Upmost
  • (a.) Highest

    Upon
  • (prep.) On

    Upper
  • (comp.) Being further up, literally or figuratively
  • (n.) The upper leather for a shoe

    Upraise
  • (v. t.) To raise

    Uprear
  • (v. t.) To raise

    Upright
  • (a.) Conformable to moral rectitude.
  • (n.) A tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to skeins

    Uprise
  • (n.) The act of rising
  • (v. i.) To have an upward direction or inclination.

    Uprising
  • (n.) Act of rising

    Uproar
  • (n.) Great tumult
  • (v. i.) To make an uproar.
  • (v. t.) To throw into uproar or confusion.

    Uproot
  • (v. t.) To root up

    Uprush
  • (n.) Act of rushing upward
  • (v. i.) To rush upward.

    Upset
  • (a.) Set up
  • (n.) The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset
  • (v. i.) To become upset.
  • (v. t.) To disturb the self-possession of

    Upshot
  • (n.) Final issue

    Upside
  • (n.) The upper side

    Upsilon
  • (n.) The 20th letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, a vowel having originally the sound of / as in room, becoming before the 4th century b

    Upspring
  • (n.) An upstart.
  • (v. i.) To spring up.

    Upstairs
  • (a.) Being above stairs
  • (adv.) Up the stairs

    Upstart
  • (a.) Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence.
  • (n.) One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor
  • (v. i.) To start or spring up suddenly.

    Upstream
  • (adv.) Toward the higher part of a stream

    Upstroke
  • (n.) An upward stroke, especially the stroke, or line, made by a writing instrument when moving upward, or from the body of the writer, or a line corresponding to the part of a letter thus made

    Uptake
  • (n.) The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack
  • (v. t.) To take into the hand

    Upthrow
  • (v. t.) To throw up.

    Uptown
  • (a.) Situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city
  • (adv.) To or in the upper part of a town

    Upturn
  • (v. t.) To turn up

    Upward
  • (a.) Directed toward a higher place
  • (n.) The upper part

    Upwind
  • (v. t.) To wind up.

    Uraemia
  • (n.) Accumulation in the blood of the principles of the urine, producing dangerous disease.

    Uraeus
  • (n.) A serpent, or serpent's head and neck, represented on the front of the headdresses of divinities and sovereigns as an emblem of supreme power

    Uralic
  • (a.) Of or relating to the Ural Mountains.

    Uralite
  • (n.) Amphibole resulting from the alternation of pyroxene by paramorphism. It is not uncommon in massive eruptive rocks

    Urania
  • (n.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies

    Uranic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the heavens

    Uraninite
  • (n.) A mineral consisting chiefly of uranium oxide with some lead, thorium, etc., occurring in black octahedrons, also in masses with a pitchlike luster

    Uranite
  • (n.) A general term for the uranium phosphates, autunite, or lime uranite, and torbernite, or copper uranite

    Uranium
  • (n.) An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc

    Uranography
  • (n.) A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies

    Uranous
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, uranium

    Uranus
  • (n.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years

    Uranyl
  • (n.) The radical UO2, conveniently regarded as a residue of many uranium compounds.

    Urate
  • (n.) A salt of uric acid

    Urban
  • (a.) Belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city

    Urchin
  • (a.) Rough
  • (n.) A hedgehog.

    Urdu
  • (n.) The language more generally called Hindustanee.

    Urea
  • (a.) A very soluble crystalline body which is the chief constituent of the urine in mammals and some other animals

    Uredo
  • (n.) Nettle rash.

    Ureide
  • (n.) Any one of the many complex derivatives of urea

    Ureter
  • (n.) The duct which conveys the urine from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca. There are two ureters, one for each kidney

    Urethane
  • (n.) A white crystalline substance, NH2.CO.OC2H5, produced by the action of ammonia on ethyl carbonate

    Urethra
  • (n.) The canal by which the urine is conducted from the bladder and discharged.

    Urethritis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the urethra.

    Urethroscope
  • (n.) An instrument for viewing the interior of the urethra.

    Uretic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the urine

    Urge
  • (v. i.) To be pressing in argument
  • (v. t.) To present in an urgent manner

    Uric
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to urine

    Urinal
  • (n.) A place or convenience for urinating purposes.

    Urinary
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the urine
  • (n.) A urinarium

    Urinate
  • (v. i.) To discharge urine

    Urine
  • (n.) In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys
  • (v. i.) To urinate.

    Uriniferous
  • (a.) Bearing or conveying urine

    Urinogenital
  • (a.) Pertaining to the urinary and genital organs

    Urinometer
  • (n.) A small hydrometer for determining the specific gravity of urine.

    Urinous
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to urine, or partaking of its qualities

    Urn
  • (n.) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained
  • (v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, an urn

    Urochord
  • (n.) The central axis or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates.

    Urochrome
  • (n.) A yellow urinary pigment, considered by Thudichum as the only pigment present in normal urine

    Urodele
  • (n.) One of the Urodela.

    Uropod
  • (n.) Any one of the abdominal appendages of a crustacean, especially one of the posterior ones, which are often larger than the rest, and different in structure, and are used chiefly in locomotion

    Uropygium
  • (n.) The prominence at the posterior extremity of a bird's body, which supports the feathers of the tail

    Uroscopy
  • (n.) The diagnosis of diseases by inspection of urine.

    Urostyle
  • (n.) A styliform process forming the posterior extremity of the vertebral column in some fishes and amphibians

    Ursine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a bear

    Ursuline
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Ursula, or the order of Ursulines
  • (n.) One of an order of nuns founded by St. Angela Merici, at Brescia, in Italy, about the year 1537, and so called from St

    Urticaceous
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order (Urticaceae) of plants, of which the nettle is the type

    Urticaria
  • (n.) The nettle rash, a disease characterized by a transient eruption of red pimples and of wheals, accompanied with a burning or stinging sensation and with itching

    Urticate
  • (v. t. & i.) To sting with, or as with, nettles

    Urtication
  • (n.) The act or process of whipping or stinging with nettles

    Urus
  • (n.) A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal (Bos urus / primigenius) anciently abundant in Europe

    Us
  • (pron.) The persons speaking, regarded as an object

    Usable
  • (a.) Capable of being used.

    Usage
  • (n.) Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification.

    Usance
  • (v. t.) Custom

    Use
  • (v. i.) To be accustomed to go
  • (v. t.) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging

    Useful
  • (a.) Full of use, advantage, or profit

    Useless
  • (a.) Having, or being of, no use

    User
  • (n.) Enjoyment of property

    Usher
  • (n.) An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like
  • (v. t.) To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger

    Usnea
  • (n.) A genus of lichens, most of the species of which have long, gray, pendulous, and finely branched fronds

    Usquebaugh
  • (a.) A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland

    Usual
  • (n.) Such as is in common use

    Usufruct
  • (n.) The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance

    Usurer
  • (n.) One who lends money and takes interest for it

    Usurp
  • (v. i.) To commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right
  • (v. t.) To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right

    Usury
  • (v. t.) A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money

    Ut
  • (n.) The first note in Guido's musical scale, now usually superseded by do.

    Utensil
  • (v. t.) That which is used

    Uterine
  • (a.) Born of the same mother, but by a different father.

    Uterus
  • (n.) A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less

    Utilitarian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to utilitarianism
  • (n.) One who holds the doctrine of utilitarianism.

    Utility
  • (n.) Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants

    Utilize
  • (v. t.) To make useful

    Utmost
  • (a.) Being in the greatest or highest degree, quantity, number, or the like
  • (n.) The most that can be

    Utopia
  • (n.) An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like

    Utricle
  • (n.) A little sac or vesicle, as the air cell of fucus, or seaweed.

    Utter
  • (a.) Complete

    Uvea
  • (n.) The posterior pigmented layer of the iris

    Uvula
  • (n.) The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.

    Uvulitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the uvula.

    Uxorial
  • (a.) Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife

    Uxoricide
  • (n.) One who murders his wife.

    Uxorious
  • (a.) Excessively fond of, or submissive to, a wife

    Vacancy
  • (n.) An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things

    Vacant
  • (a.) Abandoned

    Vacate
  • (v. t.) To annul

    Vacation
  • (n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office

    Vaccinal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to vaccinia or vaccination.

    Vaccinate
  • (v. t.) To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows

    Vaccination
  • (n.) The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox

    Vaccine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to cows
  • (n.) any preparation used to render an organism immune to some disease, by inducing or increasing the natural immunity mechanisms

    Vaccinia
  • (n.) Cowpox

    Vacillant
  • (a.) Vacillating

    Vacillate
  • (v. t.) To fluctuate in mind or opinion

    Vacuity
  • (n.) Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only

    Vacuole
  • (n.) A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplasm

    Vacuous
  • (a.) Empty

    Vacuum
  • (n.) A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum)

    Vagabond
  • (a.) Being a vagabond
  • (n.) One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood
  • (v. i.) To play the vagabond

    Vagal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the vagus, or pneumogastric nerves

    Vagary
  • (n.) A wandering or strolling.

    Vagina
  • (n.) A sheath

    Vaginismus
  • (n.) A painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina, often rendering copulation impossible.

    Vaginitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the vagina, or the genital canal, usually of its mucous living membrane

    Vagrancy
  • (n.) The quality or state of being a vagrant

    Vagrant
  • (a.) Moving without certain direction
  • (n.) One who strolls from place to place

    Vague
  • (n.) An indefinite expanse.
  • (v. i.) Proceeding from no known authority

    Vagus
  • (a.) Wandering
  • (n.) The vagus, ore pneumogastric, nerve.

    Vain
  • (n.) Vanity
  • (superl.) Destitute of forge or efficacy

    Vair
  • (n.) The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates

    Vaishnava
  • (n.) A worshiper of the god Vishnu in any of his incarnations.

    Vaisya
  • (n.) The third of the four great original castes among the Hindus, now either extinct or partially represented by the mercantile class of Banyas

    Valance
  • (n.) Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a valance

    Vale
  • (n.) A tract of low ground, or of land between hills

    Valiant
  • (a.) Intrepid in danger

    Valid
  • (a.) Having legal strength or force

    Valise
  • (n.) A small sack or case, usually of leather, but sometimes of other material, for containing the clothes, toilet articles, etc

    Vallation
  • (n.) A rampart or intrenchment.

    Vallecula
  • (n.) A groove

    Valley
  • (n.) The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.

    Vallum
  • (n.) A rampart

    Valonia
  • (n.) A genus of marine green algae, in which the whole frond consists of a single oval or cylindrical cell, often an inch in length

    Valor
  • (n.) A brave man

    Valuable
  • (a.) Having value or worth
  • (n.) A precious possession

    Valuation
  • (n.) The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth

    Valuator
  • (n.) One who assesses, or sets a value on, anything

    Value
  • (n.) Any particular quantitative determination
  • (v. t.) To be worth

    Valvate
  • (a.) Meeting at the edges without overlapping

    Valve
  • (n.) A door

    Valvula
  • (n.) A little valve or fold

    Valvule
  • (n.) A little valve

    Vambrace
  • (n.) The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.

    Vamp
  • (n.) Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance.
  • (v. i.) To advance
  • (v. t.) To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather

    Van
  • (n.) A close railway car for baggage.
  • (v. t.) To fan, or to cleanse by fanning

    Vanadate
  • (n.) A salt of vanadic acid.

    Vanadic
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, vanadium

    Vanadinite
  • (n.) A mineral occurring in yellowish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consist of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride

    Vanadium
  • (n.) A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder

    Vanadous
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to vanadium

    Vandal
  • (n.) Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature.

    Vandyke
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the style of Vandyke the painter
  • (n.) A picture by Vandyke. Also, a Vandyke collar, or a Vandyke edge.
  • (v. t.) fit or furnish with a Vandyke

    Vane
  • (n.) A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows

    Vang
  • (n.) A rope to steady the peak of a gaff.

    Vanilla
  • (n.) A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants, natives of tropical America.

    Vanillic
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, vanilla or vanillin

    Vanillin
  • (n.) A white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. It is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol

    Vanish
  • (n.) The brief terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part
  • (v. i.) To be annihilated or lost

    Vanity
  • (n.) An inflation of mind upon slight grounds

    Vanquish
  • (n.) A disease in sheep, in which they pine away.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to defeat in any contest

    Vantage
  • (n.) superior or more favorable situation or opportunity
  • (v. t.) To profit

    Vanward
  • (a.) Being on, or towards, the van, or front.

    Vapid
  • (a.) Having lost its life and spirit

    Vapor
  • (n.) A medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapor.
  • (v. t.) To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor

    Vaquero
  • (n.) One who has charge of cattle, horses, etc.

    Vara
  • (n.) A Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. The vara now in use equals 33.385 inches

    Varec
  • (n.) The calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the manufacture of soda and iodine

    Variable
  • (a.) Having the capacity of varying or changing
  • (n.) A quantity which may increase or decrease

    Variance
  • (n.) A disagreement or difference between two parts of the same legal proceeding, which, to be effectual, ought to agree

    Variant
  • (a.) Changeable
  • (n.) Something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same

    Variate
  • (v. t. & i.) To alter

    Variation
  • (n.) Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc.

    Varicella
  • (n.) Chicken pox.

    Varicocele
  • (n.) A varicose enlargement of the veins of the spermatic cord

    Varicose
  • (a.) Intended for the treatment of varicose veins

    Varicosis
  • (n.) The formation of varices

    Varicosity
  • (n.) An enlargement or swelling in a vessel, fiber, or the like

    Varicotomy
  • (n.) Excision of a varicosity.

    Varied
  • (a.) Changed

    Variegate
  • (v. t.) To diversify in external appearance

    Varietal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a variety

    Variety
  • (n.) An individual, or group of individuals, of a species differing from the rest in some one or more of the characteristics typical of the species, and capable either of perpetuating itself for a period, or of being perpetuated by artificial means

    Variform
  • (a.) Having different shapes or forms.

    Variola
  • (n.) The smallpox.

    Variole
  • (n.) A foveola.

    Variolite
  • (n.) A kind of diorite or diabase containing imbedded whitish spherules, which give the rock a spotted appearance

    Varioloid
  • (a.) Resembling smallpox

    Variolous
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the smallpox

    Variometer
  • (n.) An instrument for comparing magnetic forces, esp. in the earth's magnetic field.

    Variorum
  • (a.) Containing notes by different persons

    Various
  • (a.) Changeable

    Varix
  • (n.) A uneven, permanent dilatation of a vein.

    Varlet
  • (n.) A servant, especially to a knight

    Varnish
  • (n.) An artificial covering to give a fair appearance to any act or conduct

    Varsity
  • (n.) Colloq. contr. of University.

    Varus
  • (n.) A deformity in which the foot is turned inward.

    Vary
  • (n.) Alteration
  • (v. i.) To alter, or be altered, in any manner
  • (v. t.) To change the aspect of

    Vas
  • (n.) A vessel

    Vascular
  • (a.) Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure

    Vasculum
  • (n.) A tin box, commonly cylindrical or flattened, used in collecting plants.

    Vase
  • (n.) A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses

    Vasoconstrictor
  • (a.) Causing constriction of the blood vessels
  • (n.) A substance which causes constriction of the blood vessels. Such substances are used in medicine to raise blood pressure

    Vasodilator
  • (a.) Causing dilation or relaxation of the blood vessels

    Vasomotor
  • (a.) Causing movement in the walls of vessels

    Vassal
  • (a.) Resembling a vassal
  • (n.) A subject
  • (v. t.) To treat as a vassal

    Vast
  • (n.) A waste region
  • (superl.) Of great extent

    Vat
  • (n.) A large vessel, cistern, or tub, especially one used for holding in an immature state, chemical preparations for dyeing, or for tanning, or for tanning leather, or the like
  • (v. t.) To put or transfer into a vat.

    Vatican
  • (n.) A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc

    Vaticinate
  • (v. i. & t.) To prophesy

    Vaudeville
  • (n.) A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain

    Vault
  • (n.) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.
  • (v. i.) To leap over
  • (v. t.) To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault

    Vaunt
  • (n.) A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done
  • (v. i.) To boast
  • (v. t.) To boast of

    Vavasor
  • (n.) The vassal or tenant of a baron

    Veal
  • (n.) The flesh of a calf when killed and used for food.

    Vector
  • (n.) A directed quantity, as a straight line, a force, or a velocity. Vectors are said to be equal when their directions are the same their magnitudes equal

    Veda
  • (n.) The ancient sacred literature of the Hindus

    Vedette
  • (n.) A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger

    Veer
  • (v. i.) To change direction
  • (v. t.) To direct to a different course

    Vega
  • (n.) A brilliant star of the first magnitude, the brightest of those constituting the constellation Lyra

    Vegetal
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that class of vital phenomena, such as digestion, absorption, assimilation, secretion, excretion, circulation, generation, etc
  • (n.) A vegetable.

    Vegetarian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to vegetarianism
  • (n.) One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk

    Vegetation
  • (n.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart.

    Vegetative
  • (a.) Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants

    Vehement
  • (a.) Acting with great force

    Vehicle
  • (n.) A liquid used to spread sensitive salts upon glass and paper for use in photography.

    Vehicular
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a vehicle

    Veil
  • (n.) A cover

    Vein
  • (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
  • (v. t.) To form or mark with veins

    Velar
  • (a.) Having the place of articulation on the soft palate

    Velate
  • (a.) Having a veil

    Veliger
  • (n.) Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the state when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming

    Velleity
  • (n.) The lowest degree of desire

    Vellum
  • (n.) A fine kind of parchment, usually made from calfskin, and rendered clear and white

    Velocimeter
  • (n.) An apparatus for measuring speed, as of machinery or vessels, but especially of projectiles

    Velocipede
  • (n.) A light road carriage propelled by the feet of the rider. Originally it was propelled by striking the tips of the toes on the roadway, but commonly now by the action of the feet on a pedal or pedals connected with the axle of one or more of the wheels, and causing their revolution

    Velocity
  • (n.) Quickness of motion

    Velum
  • (n.) A delicate funnel-like membrane around the flagellum of certain Infusoria.

    Velure
  • (n.) Velvet.

    Velutinous
  • (a.) Having the surface covered with a fine and dense silky pubescence

    Velvet
  • (a.) Made of velvet
  • (n.) A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back
  • (v. i.) To pain velvet.
  • (v. t.) To make like, or cover with, velvet.

    Vena
  • (n.) A vein.

    Vend
  • (n.) The act of vending or selling
  • (v. t.) To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent

    Veneer
  • (v. t.) A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood

    Venerable
  • (a.) Capable of being venerated

    Venerate
  • (v. t.) To regard with reverential respect

    Veneration
  • (n.) The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated

    Venereal
  • (a.) Adapted to excite venereal desire
  • (n.) The venereal disease

    Venery
  • (n.) Sexual love

    Venesection
  • (n.) The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood

    Venetian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Venice.

    Venge
  • (v. t.) To avenge

    Venial
  • (a.) Allowed

    Venison
  • (n.) Beasts of the chase.

    Venite
  • (n.) The 95th Psalm, which is said or sung regularly in the public worship of many churches. Also, a musical composition adapted to this Psalm

    Venom
  • (n.) Matter fatal or injurious to life

    Venose
  • (a.) Having numerous or conspicuous veins

    Venosity
  • (n.) A condition in which the circulation is retarded, and the entire mass of blood is less oxygenated than it normally is

    Venous
  • (a.) Contained in the veins, or having the same qualities as if contained in the veins, that is, having a dark bluish color and containing an insufficient amount of oxygen so as no longer to be fit for oxygenating the tissues

    Vent
  • (n.) A baiting place
  • (v. i.) To snuff
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a vent

    Venue
  • (n.) A bout

    Venule
  • (n.) A small vein

    Venus
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae


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