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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

valet parking
noun a service provided (at a club or restaurant or airport etc.) whereby a patron leaves a car at the entrance and an attendant parks and retrieves it

valetudinarian
valetudinary adjective of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian

Valhalla
Walhalla noun (Norse mythology) the hall in which the souls of heros slain in battle were received by Odin

Vali
noun (Norse mythology) one of the Aesir and avenger of Balder; son of Odin

valiant
valorous adjective having or showing valor; `a valiant attempt to prevent the hijack`; `a valiant soldier`

valiantly
valorously adverb with valor; in a valiant manner; `he fought valiantly until the end`

valid
adjective still legally acceptable; `the license is still valid`

validated
adjective declared or made legally valid; `a validated claim`

validation
proof noun the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something

validity
validness noun the quality of having legal force or effectiveness

validly
with validity adverb in a valid manner; `this may not validly be done`

valine
noun an essential amino acid found in proteins; important for growth in children and nitrogen balance in adults

valise
noun a small overnight bag for short trips

Valkyrie
noun (Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla

Valle D`Aosta
noun a region in northwestern Italy

Valletta
Valetta noun the capital of Malta; located on the northeastern coast of the island

valley
vale noun a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river

valley girl
noun a girl who grew up in the tract housing in the San Fernando Valley

valley pocket gopher
Thomomys bottae noun of valleys and mountain meadows of western United States

Vallisneria
genus Vallisneria noun eelgrass; eel grass

Valmy
battle of Valmy noun the French defeated the Austrian and Prussian troops in 1792 (with a famous cannonade from the French artillery)

Valois
noun French royal house from 1328 to 1589

Valparaiso
noun the chief port and second largest city of Chile; located on a wide harbor in central Chile

valproic acid
Depokene noun anticonvulsant (trade name Depokene) used to prevent some kinds of seizures

valuable
worthful adjective having worth or merit or value; `a valuable friend`; `a good and worthful man`

valuation
noun assessed price; `the valuation of this property is much too high`

valuation reserve
valuation account noun a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company`s assets

valuator
noun one who estimates officially the worth or value or quality of things

value
noun the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable; `the Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world`

value judgment
value judgement noun an assessment that reveals more about the values of the person making the assessment than about the reality of what is assessed

value statement
noun a statement of the desirability of something

valued
adjective held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature; `a valued friend`

valueless
adjective of no value

valuelessness
noun having none of the properties that endow something with value

valuer
noun someone who assesses the monetary worth of possessions

values
noun beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something); `he has very conservatives values`

valve
noun control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid

valved
adjective (of brass instruments) having valves

valvotomy
valvulotomy noun incision into a stenosed cardiac valve to relieve the obstruction

valvular
adjective relating to or operating by means of valves

valvular heart disease
noun heart disease caused by stenosis of the cardiac valves and obstructed blood flow or caused by degeneration and blood regurgitation

valvular incompetence
noun inability of a bodily valve to close completely

valvule
valvelet noun a small valve

valvulitis
noun inflammation of a valve (especially of a cardiac valve as a consequence of rheumatic fever)

vambrace
lower cannon noun cannon of plate armor protecting the forearm

vamp
noun piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe

vampire
lamia noun (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living

vampire bat
true vampire bat noun any of various tropical American bats of the family Desmodontidae that bite mammals and birds to feed on their blood

vampirism
noun the actions or practices of a vampire

van
noun a truck with an enclosed cargo space

van
noun a camper equipped with living quarters

Van Allen belt
noun a belt of charged particles (resulting from cosmic rays) above the Earth trapped by the Earth`s magnetic field

Van Buren
Martin Van Buren noun 8th President of the United States (1782-1862)

Van de Graaff
Robert Van de Graaff noun United States physicist (1901-1967)

van de Velde
Henri van de Velde noun Belgian architect (1863-1957)

van der Waal`s forces
noun relatively weak attraction between neutral atoms and molecules arising from polarization induced in each particle by the presence of other particles

van der Waals
Johannes van der Waals noun Dutch physicist (1837-1923)

Van Doren
Carl Van Doren noun United States writer and literary critic (1885-1950)

van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh noun Dutch Post-impressionist painter noted for his use of color (1853-1890)

Van Vleck
John Van Vleck noun United States physicist (1899-1980)

vanadate
noun a salt or ester of vanadic acid; an anion containing pentavalent vanadium

vanadinite
noun a mineral consisting of chloride and vanadate of lead; a source of vanadium

vanadium
V noun a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite

vanadium pentoxide
vanadic acid noun any of various oxyacids of vanadium; known mostly in the form of its salts

vanadium steel
noun steel alloyed with vanadium for greater strength and high-temperature stability

Vanbrugh
John Vanbrugh noun English architect (1664-1726)

vancomycin
Vancocin noun an antibiotic (trade name Vancocin) effective against some bacterial infections

Vancouver
George Vancouver noun English navigator remembered for his exploration of the Pacific coast of North America (1757-1798)

Vancouver Island
noun an island off southwestern Canada (off the southwestern coast of British Columbia); the largest island off the west coast of North America

vanda
noun any of numerous showy orchids of the genus Vanda having many large flowers in loose racemes

vandal
noun someone who willfully destroys or defaces property

vandalism
hooliganism noun willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others

Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt noun United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)

Vandyke
Van Dyck noun Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641)

vandyke beard
vandyke noun a short pointed beard (named after Anthony Vandyke)

Vandyke brown
noun a moderate brown color

vane
noun the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft

Vanellus
genus Vanellus noun Eurasian lapwings

Vanessa
genus Vanessa noun painted beauty and red admiral

vanguard
van noun the leading units moving at the head of an army

Vangueria
genus Vangueria noun tropical African and Asiatic trees and shrubs having one-seeded fruit

vanilla
adjective plain and without any extras or adornments; `the most common type of bond is the straight or plain vanilla bond`; `the basic car is known as the vanilla version`

vanilla bean
noun long bean-like fruit; seeds are used as flavoring

vanilla ice cream
noun ice cream flavored with vanilla extract

vanilla orchid
Vanilla planifolia noun a climbing orchid bearing a podlike fruit yielding vanilla beans; widely cultivated from Florida southward throughout tropical America

vanilla pudding
noun sweet vanilla flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs

vanilla-scented
adjective smelling of vanilla

vanillin
noun a crystalline compound found in vanilla beans and some balsam resins; used in perfumes and flavorings

Vanir
noun (Norse mythology) race of ancient gods sometimes in conflict with the Aesir

vanish
verb decrease rapidly and disappear; `the money vanished in las Vegas`; `all my stock assets have vaporized`

vanished
adjective having passed out of existence; `vanished civilizations`

vanisher
noun a person who disappears

vanishing
disappearing adjective quickly going away and passing out of sight; `all I saw was his vanishing back`

vanishing point
noun the appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge

vanishingly
adverb so as to disappear or approach zero; `errors are vanishingly rare`

vanity
noun the quality of being valueless or futile; `he rejected the vanities of the world`

vanity fair
noun a vain and frivolous lifestyle especially in large cities

Vannevar Bush
noun United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)

vantage
noun place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective)

vantage point
viewpoint noun a place from which something can be viewed; `from that vantage point he could survey the whole valley`