0 core K5 entries + 0 reading-linked candidates + 0 WordNet reference entries · local review

English Word Dictionary

Browse the admitted K-5 cohort, reading-linked candidates, and the locally materialized Open English WordNet reference layer. WordNet and Wiktionary entries are not automatic K5 admission.

volatilize

verb · make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor

volcanic

adjective · igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt

Example: volcanic rock includes the volcanic glass obsidian

volcanically

adverb · by or like volcanoes

Example: volcanically created landscape

vole

noun · any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows

volitional

adjective · with deliberate intention

Example: a volitional act

volitionally

adverb · in a willing manner

Example: I willingly accept

voltaic

adjective · pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action

Example: a galvanic cell

voluble

adjective · marked by a ready flow of speech

Example: she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations

volubly

adverb · in a chatty manner

Example: `when I was a girl,' she said chattily, `I used to ride a bicycle'

volume unit

noun · a unit of measurement of volume or capacity

volumed

adjective · furnished with volumes

Example: a large room volumed with ancient books

volumetrically

adverb · with respect to volume

Example: analyzed volumetrically

voluntarily

adverb · out of your own free will

Example: he voluntarily submitted to the fingerprinting

volunteer

adjective · without payment

Example: the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers

voluptuous

adjective · displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses

Example: an epicurean banquet

voluptuously

adverb · in an indulgently voluptuous manner

Example: he sniffed the perfume voluptuously

volute

adjective · in the shape of a coil

vomit up

verb · eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Example: After drinking too much, the students vomited

vomitive

noun · a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting

von braun

noun · United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977)

voraciously

adverb · in an eagerly voracious manner

Example: she reads voraciously

votary

noun · a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity

Example: the cultured votary of science

vote down

verb · vote against

Example: The faculty turned thumbs down on the candidate for the Dean position

vote in

verb · elect in a voting process

Example: They voted in Clinton

vote out

verb · thwart the passage of

Example: kill a motion

votive

adjective · dedicated in fulfillment of a vow

Example: votive prayers

vouch

verb · give supporting evidence

Example: He vouched his words by his deeds

vowelise

verb · pronounce as a vowel

Example: between two consonants, this liquid is vowelized

vowelize

verb · pronounce as a vowel

Example: between two consonants, this liquid is vowelized

vox angelica

noun · an organ stop producing a gentle tremolo effect

voyeuristic

adjective · of or relating to voyeurs or voyeurism

Example: his voyeuristic pleasures

voyeuristically

adverb · like a voyeur

Example: he sneaks voyeuristically around the swimming pool

vulcanise

verb · subject to vulcanization

Example: vulcanized rubber

vulcanization

noun · process of treating rubber or rubberlike materials with sulphur at great heat to improve elasticity and strength or to harden them

vulcanize

verb · subject to vulcanization

Example: vulcanized rubber

vulcanized

adjective · (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)

vulgar

adjective · conspicuously and tastelessly indecent

Example: coarse language

vulgarise

verb · act in a vulgar manner

Example: The drunkard tends to vulgarize

vulgarize

verb · act in a vulgar manner

Example: The drunkard tends to vulgarize

vulpecular

adjective · resembling or characteristic of a fox

Example: vulpine cunning

vultur gryphus

noun · large vulture of the high Andes having black plumage and white neck ruff

vulturous

adjective · living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

Example: a predatory bird

vulval

adjective · of or relating to the vulva

wabash river

noun · a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio and flows southwestward across Indiana

wackily

adverb · in a mildly insane manner

Example: the old lady is beginning to behave quite dottily

wacky

adjective · informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

Example: it used to drive my husband balmy

wading bird

noun · any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food

wage-earning

adjective · of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers- G.B.Shaw

Example: party of the propertyless proletariat

wagram

noun · a battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809); Napoleon defeated the Austrians

waif

noun · a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned

Example: street children beg or steal in order to survive

wailful

adjective · vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression- Shakespeare

Example: lamenting sinners

wainscoted

adjective · fitted or decorated with panels or wainscoting

waist-deep

adverb · up to the waist

Example: the water rose waist-high

waist-high

adverb · up to the waist

Example: the water rose waist-high

wait on

verb · work for or be a servant to

Example: May I serve you?

waive

verb · lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime

Example: you've forfeited your right to name your successor

wake up

verb · stop sleeping

Example: She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock