| viaduct |
a road or passageway built on a series of short spans or arches over a valley or lower routes. |
| vial |
a small, sometimes stoppered bottle of glass or plastic used for small amounts of liquid medicine, chemicals, perfume, or the like. |
| via media |
(Latin) a middle way; compromise between two extremes. |
| viand |
an article of food, esp. a delicacy. [2 definitions] |
| viaticum |
communion given to someone on the brink of death. [2 definitions] |
| vibe |
(often pl.; slang) an emotional quality believed to be detectable in a person or thing by intuition; vibration. |
| vibes |
(informal) vibraphone; vibraharp. |
| vibist |
a musician who plays the vibraphone. |
| vibraharp |
see vibraphone. |
| vibrant |
full of energy or constant activity as if vibrating or pulsing. [3 definitions] |
| vibraphone |
a percussion instrument similar to a marimba but with metal instead of wooden bars and electrically operated resonators that sustain the tone and produce a vibrato. |
| vibrate |
to move back and forth very rapidly and steadily; oscillate. [6 definitions] |
| vibratile |
of, pertaining to, or characterized by vibration. [3 definitions] |
| vibration |
an act or instance of vibrating. [4 definitions] |
| vibrationless |
combined form of vibration. |
| vibrato |
a vibrating or pulsating effect produced with the voice or on a musical instrument by slight and rapid changes in pitch. |
| vibratoless |
combined form of vibrato. |
| vibrator |
someone or something that vibrates or causes vibration. [3 definitions] |
| vibratory |
of, pertaining to, or causing vibration. [2 definitions] |
| viburnum |
any of various shrubs or trees related to honeysuckle, such as the cranberry bush or snowball, that usu. have clusters of small white flowers and red or black berrylike fruit. |
| vicar |
in the Anglican Church, a parish priest who receives a salary but not the tithes of the parish, or who acts in place of a rector. [3 definitions] |