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

viewable
adjective capable of being viewed

viewer
noun an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies

viewgraph
noun a transparency for use with an overhead projector

viewing audience
TV audience noun the audience reached by television

viewless
adjective not having or expressing opinions or views

Vigee-Lebrun
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun noun French painter noted for her portraits (1755-1842)

vigesimal
adjective relating to or based on the number twenty

vigil
noun a period of sleeplessness

vigil light
vigil candle noun a candle lighted by a worshiper in a church

vigilance committee
noun a volunteer committee to maintain order where an efficient legal system does not exist

vigilante
vigilance man noun member of a vigilance committee

vigilantism
noun the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws

vigilantly
watchfully adverb in a watchful manner

Vigna
genus Vigna noun genus of vines or erect herbs having trifoliate leaves and yellowish or purplish flowers; of warm or tropical regions; most species often placed in genus Phaseolus

vignette
noun a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books)

vignette
noun a brief literary description

vigor
vigour noun active strength of body or mind

vigor
noun an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); `his writing conveys great energy`; `a remarkable muscularity of style`

vigorish
noun an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest

vigorous
adjective characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity; `a vigorous hiker`; `gave her skirt a vigorous shake`; `a vigorous campaign`; `a vigorous foreign policy`; `vigorous opposition to the war`

vigorously
adverb with vigor; in a vigorous manner; `he defended his ideas vigorously`

vigour
noun an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); `his writing conveys great energy`; `a remarkable muscularity of style`

Viking
noun any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries

vilely
adverb in a vile manner; `his vilely spelt and illiterate letters`

Villa
Pancho Villa noun Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923)

Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos noun Brazilian composer (1887-1959)

village
small town noun a community of people smaller than a town

village green
noun a village park consisting of a plot of grassy land

villager
noun one who has lived in a village most of their life

Villahermosa
Villa Hermosa noun a city in southeastern Mexico; the capital of the state of Tabasco

villain
scoundrel noun a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately

villain
noun the principle bad character in a film or work of fiction

villainess
noun a woman villain

villainy
villainousness noun the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior

Villard
Henry Villard noun United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900)

villeinage
villainage noun the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf

Villon
Francois Villon noun French poet (flourished around 1460)

villus
noun a minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane

vim
noun an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); `his writing conveys great energy`; `a remarkable muscularity of style`

Viminaria
genus Viminaria noun one species: Australian leafless shrubs: swamp oak

vin ordinaire
noun cheap French table wine of unspecified origin

Vina del Mar
noun a resort city on the Pacific in central Chile

vinaceous
adjective of the color of wine

vinblastine
Velban noun periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Velban) that disrupts cell division

Vinca
genus Vinca noun periwinkles: low creeping evergreen perennials

Vinca minor
noun widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers

Vincent`s angina
Vincent`s infection noun an acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membrane

Vincetoxicum
genus Vincetoxicum noun genus of chiefly tropical American vines having cordate leaves and large purple or greenish cymose flowers; supposedly having powers as an antidote

vincristine
Oncovin noun periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Oncovin); used to treat cancer of the lymphatic system

vindication
noun the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc.; `friends provided a vindication of his position`

vindictiveness
vengefulness noun a malevolent desire for revenge

vine
noun a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

vine maple
Acer circinatum noun small maple of northwestern North America having prostrate stems that root freely and form dense thickets

vine snake
noun slender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia

vinegar
acetum noun sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative

vinegar eel
vinegar worm noun minute eelworm that feeds on organisms that cause fermentation in e.g. vinegar

vinegar fly
noun flies whose larvae feed on pickles and imperfectly sealed preserves

vinegariness
vinegarishness noun a sourness resembling that of vinegar

vinegarroon
Mastigoproctus giganteus noun large whip-scorpion of Mexico and southern United States that emits a vinegary odor when alarmed

vinegary
vinegarish adjective having a sour disposition; ill-tempered

vineyard
vinery noun a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced

vinifera
vinifera grape noun common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes

vinifera grape
noun grape from a cultivated variety of the common grape vine of Europe

vinification
noun the process whereby fermentation changes grape juice into wine

vinous
vinaceous adjective of or relating to wine

Vinson
Frederick Moore Vinson noun United States jurist who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court (1890-1953)

vintage
time of origin noun the oldness of wines

vintager
noun a person who harvests grapes for making wine

vintner
winemaker noun someone who makes wine

vintner
noun someone who sells wine

vinyl
vinyl group noun a univalent chemical radical derived from ethylene

vinyl polymer
vinyl resin noun a thermoplastic derived by polymerization from compounds containing the vinyl group

Vinylite
noun any of various vinyl resins

viol
noun any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family

viola
noun a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower

Viola
noun large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions

viola d`amore
noun viol that is the tenor of the viol family

viola da braccio
noun a member of the viol family with approximately the range of a viola

viola da gamba
gamba noun viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello

Viola tricolor hortensis
noun large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors

violable
adjective capable of being violated; `a violable rule`; `a violable contract`

Violaceae
family Violaceae noun a family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus

violator
debaucher noun someone who assaults others sexually

violator
law offender noun someone who violates the law

violence
noun a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.

violent
adjective effected by force or injury rather than natural causes; `a violent death`

violent
adjective (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud; `a violent clash of colors`; `her dress was a violent red`; `a violent noise`; `wild colors`; `wild shouts`

violently
adverb in a violent manner; `they attacked violently`

violet
reddish blue noun a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum

violet suksdorfia
Suksdorfia violaceae noun slender delicate plant with wide roundish deeply lobed leaves and deep pink to violet funnel-shaped flowers; British Columbia to northern Oregon and west to Idaho and Montana

violet wood sorrel
Oxalis violacea noun perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers

violet-black
adjective of black tinged with violet

violet-colored
violet-coloured adjective having a violet color

violet-flowered petunia
Petunia integrifolia noun herb or small shrublet having solitary violet to rose-red flowers

violet-purple
adjective light violet and dark purple

violet-scented
adjective smelling of violets

violet-streaked
adjective having streaks of violet color

violet-tinged
violet-tinted adjective of something that is tinged with violet

violin
fiddle noun bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow

violin family
noun (music) the family of bowed stringed instruments