| vulcanism |
variant of volcanism. |
| vulcanite |
a hard rubber manufactured through the process of vulcanization. |
| vulcanize |
to treat (rubber or plastics) with sulfur or sulfur compounds under heat and pressure to increase hardness and elasticity. |
| vulgar |
lacking in taste, propriety, or refinement; coarse; crude. [4 definitions] |
| vulgarian |
an obscene, unrefined, or pretentious person, esp. a rich one who displays a lack of taste, culture, or restraint. |
| vulgarism |
an instance of coarse, unrefined, or obscene behavior; vulgarity. [2 definitions] |
| vulgarity |
an act, utterance, condition, or quality that offends good taste, manners, and propriety. |
| vulgarize |
to make unrefined, base, or obscene. [2 definitions] |
| Vulgar Latin |
the common, spoken language of the ancient Romans, from which the Romance languages developed; popular Latin as distinct from literary Latin. |
| Vulgate |
the Latin translation of the Bible prepared by St. Jerome in the late fourth century and used by the Roman Catholic Church as its official biblical text. [3 definitions] |
| vulnerability |
the state of being vulnerable. [2 definitions] |
| vulnerable |
being capable of being hurt or injured; having weakness. [3 definitions] |
| vulpine |
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a fox. [2 definitions] |
| vulture |
any of various large hawklike birds that feed on dead animals and usu. have dark feathers and a naked head. [2 definitions] |
| vulva |
the external female genital organs of mammals. |
| vying |
that competes or contends; that vies. [2 definitions] |
| W1 |
symbol of the chemical element tungsten. |
| W2 |
abbreviation of "west." [2 definitions] |
| W3 |
abbreviation of "work." |
| W4 |
abbreviation of "watt," or "watts," a unit of electrical power equal to the current of one ampere produced by the electromotive force of one volt, or to one joule per second. |
| w |
the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet. |