A Scandinavian liquor that is about 40% alcohol by volume; distilled from potato or grain mash and flavored with caraway seeds, anise, fennel, dill and other spices and herbs, depending on variety.
autovon
autovon
Proper noun
of: a worldwide US military telephone system from the 1960s to the 1990s.
avitzur
avouter
avoutry
avoutry
noun
(obsolete) Alternative form of advoutry (“adultery”)
buvette
cautivo
cavuoto
couvert
couvert
noun
cover charge
cultive
culvert
culvert
noun
A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
verb
To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.
curvant
curvate
curvate
adj
bent in a regular form; curved
curvets
curvets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curvet
curvity
curvity
noun
The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
cutover
cutover
adj
Having been cleared of valuable timber.
noun
(by extension) Any process of quickly replacing a machine so as to minimize downtime.
An area of cutover land.
The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.
cuvette
cuvette
noun
(analytical chemistry) a small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer
(military) a cunette
a pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table
an inner lid of a timepiece
devault
devaunt
duvetyn
duvetyn
noun
Alternative spelling of duvetyne
envault
envault
verb
(transitive) To enclose in a vault; to entomb.
eventus
evolute
evolute
adj
(malacology) Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a surface.
noun
(geometry) A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve.
fauvist
fauvist
adj
Of or pertaining to fauvism.
noun
An artist who used this style.
furtive
furtive
adj
Of a person or an animal: sly, stealthy.
Of a person, etc.: inclined to steal; pilfering, thieving.
Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
Of a thing: that has been acquired by theft; stolen; also (generally) taken stealthily.
gavyuti
gavyuti
noun
An ancient Indian unit of distance, equivalent to 12,000 feet; supposed to be the distance at which a cow's call or lowing can be heard.
gustave
gustave
Proper noun
name, a variant of
gustavo
ketuvim
ketuvim
Proper noun
A subdivision of the Hebrew Testament (Tanakh), known in English as "The Writings." It is composed of Songs (Psalms, and Song of Solomon), Proverbs, and eight other books of the Bible that were written near the close of the canon. These scriptures are viewed as less authoritative than the Torah.
kutuzov
kutuzov
Proper noun
A Field Marshal of the Russian Empire under the reign of Catherine II, Paul I and Alexander I.
kvutzah
levitus
lietuva
nativus
octavus
outgave
outgave
verb
simple past tense of outgive
outgive
outgive
verb
(transitive) To surpass in giving; to give more than.
outlive
outlive
verb
(intransitive) To live longer; continue to live.
(transitive) To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.
(transitive) To live through or past (a given time).
(transitive) To surpass in duration; outlast.
outlove
outlove
verb
(transitive) To love more than somebody else.
outmove
outmove
verb
(transitive) To move faster or more skilfully than; to outmaneuver.
outoven
outrave
outrave
verb
(transitive) To surpass in raving.
outrive
outrive
verb
(obsolete) To rive; to sever.
outrove
outrove
verb
simple past tense of outrive
outvied
outvied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outvie
outvier
outvies
outvies
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outvie
outvote
outvote
verb
To cast more votes than another
To defeat another by obtaining more votes
outwave
outwove
outwove
verb
simple past tense of outweave
ouverte
overcut
overcut
adj
(participial adjective) Excessively cut.
noun
(motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone else by pitting after them and running in clean air to make up time.
An opening resulting from such cutting; an extreme incision or wound.
The act or result of excessive cutting.
verb
(transitive) To cut excessively.
overput
overput
verb
(transitive) To overthrow; subdue.
oviduct
oviduct
noun
(anatomy) A duct through which an ovum passes from an ovary to the uterus or to the exterior.
ovulate
ovulate
adj
(botany) Containing, or bearing, an ovule.
verb
(intransitive) To produce eggs or ova.
ovulist
ovulist
noun
(biology, historical) A believer in the theory (called "encasement theory") that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were enclosed one within the other.
ovulite
ovulite
noun
A fossil egg.
qiviuts
quiteve
revuist
revuist
noun
A writer of revues.
rivulet
rivulet
noun
A small brook or stream; a streamlet; a gill.
Perizoma affinitatum, a geometrid moth.
ruptive
ruptive
adj
(obsolete) disruptive
ruthven
shavuot
shavuot
Proper noun
A Jewish holiday that occurs in the spring, a harvest festival, also commemorating the anniversary of the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai.
stuiver
stuiver
noun
stiver
suavest
suavest
adj
superlative form of suave: most suave
suavity
suavity
noun
(obsolete) Sweetness or agreeableness to the senses, especially of taste and odour.
The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness
subvert
subvert
noun
An advertisement created by subvertising.
verb
(transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
(transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
(transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
torvous
torvous
adj
(obsolete) sour of aspect; of a severe countenance; stern; grim
totuava
trivium
trivium
noun
(historical, in medieval universities) The lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric.
(zoology) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
trouvre
tuitive
tupolev
tussive
tussive
adj
(medicine) Related to, caused by, or accompanied by a cough
unitive
unitive
adj
Of, causing, or involving unity or union.
unovert
unrivet
unrivet
verb
(transitive) To remove or loosen the rivets of.
unvital
unvital
adj
Lacking vitality.
unvoted
unvoted
adj
(of a ballot paper) not having been used to cast a vote
upvomit
ustinov
uvanite
uvanite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic brownish yellow mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, uranium, and vanadium.
uveitic
uveitic
adj
Relating to uveitis.
uveitis
uveitis
noun
(pathology) Inflammation of the uvea
vacatur
vacatur
noun
(law) An announcement in court that something is cancelled or set aside; an annulment.
vacuate
vacuate
verb
To empty; to clear out.
vacuist
vacuist
noun
(philosophy) One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter, is a vacuum.
vacuity
vacuity
noun
An empty or inane remark or thing.
Idleness; listlessness.
Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum.
vagitus
vagitus
noun
The crying of a newborn baby
vaguest
vaguest
adj
superlative form of vague: most vague
vaguity
vaguity
noun
Vagueness.
valuate
valuate
verb
To estimate the value of something; to appraise or to make a valuation.
valutas
vanuatu
vasyuta
vatfuls
vaulted
vaulted
adj
(architecture) Of a ceiling supported by arches, introduced in the Gothic style.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of vault
vaulter
vaulter
noun
a person who vaults or leaps
vaunted
vaunted
adj
Highly or widely praised or boasted about.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of vaunt
vaunter
vaunter
noun
Someone who vaunts, who brags; a braggart.
vauntie
vauxite
vauxite
noun
(mineralogy) A phosphate mineral of the laueite–paravauxite group.
vecture
vecture
noun
(obsolete) The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.
veguita
vellute
veloute
ventura
venture
venture
noun
A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.
The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
verb
(intransitive) to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or on
(transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
(transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
(transitive) To risk or offer.
(transitive) To say something.
(transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
venturi
venturi
noun
(rare, pathology) A constriction in the flow of air to lungs.
A venturi tube.
The throat of a carburetor.
venusty
venusty
noun
(rare) Elegance; physical beauty.
vermuth
vermuth
noun
Alternative spelling of vermouth
versute
versute
adj
crafty; wily; artful
verutum
vesture
vesture
noun
A covering of, or like, clothing.
vettura
vettura
noun
(historical) An Italian four-wheeled carriage, especially one let for hire; a hackney coach.
vetture
vetture
noun
plural of vettura
vetusty
vetusty
noun
(obsolete) antiquity; great age
viaduct
viaduct
noun
(transport) A bridge with several spans that carries road or rail traffic over a valley or other obstacles.
victual
victual
noun
(Scotland) Grain of any kind.
(archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.
(archaic, chiefly in the plural) Food supplies; provisions.
Edible plants.
verb
(intransitive) To eat.
(intransitive, chiefly military, nautical) To lay in or procure food supplies.
(transitive, reflexive, chiefly military, nautical) To provide (military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of victuals or food; to provision.
videtur
viduate
viduity
viduity
noun
(rare) the state of being a widow; widowhood
vingtun
vingtun
noun
(archaic) The card game vingt-et-un.
virtual
virtual
adj
(computing, object-oriented programming, of a class member) Capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass.
(physics) Pertaining to particles in temporary existence due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or measurable part; potential.
In effect or essence, if not in fact or reality; imitated, simulated.
Nearly, almost. (A relatively recent development in meaning)
Operating by computer or in cyberspace; not physically present.
Simulated in a computer or online.
noun
(computing, programming) A virtual member function of a class.
(gambling) A computer simulation of a real-world sport such as horse racing.
virtued
virtued
adj
(in combination) Having the specified kind or number of virtues.
virtues
virtues
noun
plural of virtue
virtuti
vistula
vitraux
vitraux
noun
plural of vitrail
vitreum
vitreum
noun
(anatomy) vitreous humor
vitrous
vitular
vitular
adj
Of or relating to the time of calving.
vituper
voiture
voiture
noun
A carriage; a vehicle, now chiefly in French contexts.
volunty
volunty
noun
(obsolete) The positive aspect of God, encompassing light, love, creation, etc.
volupte
volupty
volupty
noun
(obsolete) voluptuousness
volutae
voluted
voluted
adj
Having a volute, or spiral scroll.
volutes
volutes
noun
plural of volute
volutin
volutin
noun
A granular nucleoprotein complex found in the cytoplasm of some bacteria, yeasts and protozoa.
vomitus
vomitus
noun
(medicine) vomit, the product of an emesis.
vougeot
vouster
vulgate
vulgate
adj
(archaic) Made common, published for common use, vulgarized.
(of a text, especially the Bible, not comparable) In or pertaining to the common version or edition.
noun
(of a text, especially the Bible) A common version or edition.
The vernacular language of a people.
verb
To publish, spread, promulgate to the people.
vulture
vulture
adj
(obsolete) ravenous; rapacious
noun
(figurative, colloquial) A person who profits from the suffering of others.
Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
verb
(figurative, colloquial) To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture.