| vice-admiral |
a U.S. naval officer ranking between admiral and rear admiral. |
| vice chairman |
a man who serves as an assistant or deputy chairman. |
| vice chairwoman |
a woman who serves as an assistant or deputy chairperson. |
| vice consul |
an officer who is subordinate to and sometimes substitutes for a consul. |
| vicegerent |
a person appointed, usu. by a ruler, to exercise the ruler's power and authority; deputy. [2 definitions] |
| vicennial |
happening every twenty years. [2 definitions] |
| vice president |
an officer ranking directly below a president and assuming duties and authority in the president's absence or inability to perform. [3 definitions] |
| viceregal |
of or pertaining to a viceroy. |
| vice-regent |
a regent's deputy. |
| viceroy |
the appointed governor of a colony, country, or province, who serves as the representative of the sovereign. [2 definitions] |
| vice squad |
a police division assigned to enforce laws governing prostitution, gambling, narcotics, and other forms of vice. |
| vice versa |
with the order, esp. preceding order, reversed; conversely. |
| vichyssoise |
a cream of potato soup flavored with leeks and onions and usu. served chilled. |
| Vichy water |
a natural mineral water from springs at Vichy, France, sometimes used in treating gout and digestive diseases. [2 definitions] |
| vicinage |
a region or district near or around a place; vicinity. [3 definitions] |
| vicinity |
an area or district near or around a particular spot; somewhere nearby. [3 definitions] |
| vicious |
given to or characterized by violence or cruelty; savage; fierce. [3 definitions] |
| vicious circle |
a situation in which the solution to a problem gives rise to another, which can be worse or may bring back the first with greater complications, thereby increasing the difficulty of solving any of them. [2 definitions] |
| vicissitude |
(usu. pl.) unexpected and unforeseeable changes or shifts, as in one's circumstances. [3 definitions] |
| victim |
someone who is harmed physically or emotionally by a person or group of people, or by circumstance. [3 definitions] |
| victimize |
to make a victim of. [2 definitions] |