Name Report For First Name VON:
VON
First name VON's origin is German. VON means "the prefex von is equivalent of van in dutch names and of de in french names". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with VON below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of von.(Brown names are of the same origin (German) with VON and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with VON - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming VON
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES VON AS A WHOLE:
ivona avonmora davonna devon devona devonna devony divone ivonne sylvonna yvonna yvonne arvon avonaco avonmore cleavon clevon deavon delvon dervon devonn donavon estevon ivon jovon kevon melvon stevon tavon travon trevon trevonn yvon divon tivona devondra devonne evon evonna evonne evonyNAMES RHYMING WITH VON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (on) - Names That Ends with on:
afton carnation aedon solon strephon sidon cihuaton nijlon sokanon odion sion accalon dudon hebron pendragon antton erromon gotzon txanton zorion celyddon eburacon mabon bendision alston alton benton burton carelton fenton hamilton harrison histion kenton pierson preston ralston rawson remington rexton sexton stanton weston aymon ganelon vernon glendon lon anton acheron acteon aeson agamemnon alcmaeon amphion amphitryon andraemon arion bellerophon biton cadmon cenon cercyon charon chiron corydon creon daemon demogorgon demophon deucalion echion endymion erysichthon euryton geryon haemon hyperion iasion iason ion ixion jason kedalion korudon ladon laocoon laomedon lycaon machaon myron ophion palaemon panteleimon phaethon phaon philemon phlegethon poseidon pygmalionNAMES RHYMING WITH VON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (vo) - Names That Begins with vo:
voctorita vogel vohkinne voileta voistitoevitz voisttitoevetz vojin vokivocummast volante voleta voletta voliny volker vollny volney vortigem vortigern vortimer voshkieNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH VON:
First Names which starts with 'v' and ends with 'n':
vaden valen valentin valkoinen vallen van vardan varden vardon vartan vaughan vaughn venamin veniamin venjamin verddun vern veron vien vingon vinn vinson vivian vivienEnglish Words Rhyming VON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES VON AS A WHOLE:
| devon | noun (n.) One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen. |
| devonian | noun (n.) The Devonian age or formation. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England; as, the Devonian rocks, period, or system. |
| favonian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle. |
| livonian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Livonia, a district of Russia near the Baltic Sea. |
| panslavonian | adjective (a.) See Panslavic. |
| pavon | noun (n.) A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon. |
| pavone | noun (n.) A peacock. |
| pavonian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a peacock. |
| pavonine | adjective (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo. |
| adjective (a.) Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent. |
| sclavonian | noun (a. & n.) Same as Slavonian. |
| sclavonic | adjective (a.) Same as Slavonic. |
| slavonian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Slavonia; ethnologically, a Slav. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Slavonic |
| slavonic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Slavonia, or its inhabitants. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Slavs, or their language. |
| vondsira | noun (n.) Same as Vansire. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH VON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (on) - English Words That Ends with on:
| abacination | noun (n.) The act of abacinating. |
| abaction | noun (n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale. |
| abaddon | noun (n.) The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus. |
| noun (n.) Hell; the bottomless pit. |
| abalienation | noun (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. |
| abandon | noun (n.) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease. |
| verb (v. t.) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. | |
| verb (v. t.) Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense. | |
| verb (v. t.) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. | |
| verb (v.) Abandonment; relinquishment. |
| abannation | noun (n.) Alt. of Abannition |
| abannition | noun (n.) Banishment. |
| abarticulation | noun (n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. |
| abbreviation | noun (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing. |
| noun (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. | |
| noun (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America. | |
| noun (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. |
| abdication | noun (n.) The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority. |
| abduction | noun (n.) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. |
| noun (n.) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. | |
| noun (n.) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress. | |
| noun (n.) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable. |
| aberration | noun (n.) The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. |
| noun (n.) A partial alienation of reason. | |
| noun (n.) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4", and in the latter, to 0.3". Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth. | |
| noun (n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus. | |
| noun (n.) The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it. | |
| noun (n.) The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B. |
| abevacuation | noun (n.) A partial evacuation. |
| abirritation | noun (n.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia. |
| abjection | noun (n.) The act of bringing down or humbling. |
| noun (n.) The state of being rejected or cast out. | |
| noun (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. |
| abjudication | noun (n.) Rejection by judicial sentence. |
| abjuration | noun (n.) The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return. |
| noun (n.) A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. |
| ablactation | noun (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. |
| noun (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach. |
| ablaqueation | noun (n.) The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. |
| ablation | noun (n.) A carrying or taking away; removal. |
| noun (n.) Extirpation. | |
| noun (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste. |
| ablegation | noun (n.) The act of sending abroad. |
| abligurition | noun (n.) Prodigal expense for food. |
| ablution | noun (n.) The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite. |
| noun (n.) The water used in cleansing. | |
| noun (n.) A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. |
| abluvion | noun (n.) That which is washed off. |
| abnegation | noun (n.) a denial; a renunciation. |
| abnodation | noun (n.) The act of cutting away the knots of trees. |
| abolition | noun (n.) The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc. |
| abomination | noun (n.) The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. |
| noun (n.) That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. | |
| noun (n.) A cause of pollution or wickedness. |
| abortion | noun (n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage. |
| noun (n.) The immature product of an untimely birth. | |
| noun (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. | |
| noun (n.) Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion. |
| abrasion | noun (n.) The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins. |
| noun (n.) The substance rubbed off. | |
| noun (n.) A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds. |
| abrenunciation | noun (n.) Absolute renunciation or repudiation. |
| abreption | noun (n.) A snatching away. |
| abrogation | noun (n.) The act of abrogating; repeal by authority. |
| abruption | noun (n.) A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. |
| abscession | noun (n.) A separating; removal; also, an abscess. |
| abscision | noun (n.) See Abscission. |
| abscission | noun (n.) The act or process of cutting off. |
| noun (n.) The state of being cut off. | |
| noun (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more." |
| absentation | noun (n.) The act of absenting one's self. |
| absolution | noun (n.) An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. |
| noun (n.) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent. | |
| noun (n.) The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven. | |
| noun (n.) An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication. | |
| noun (n.) The form of words by which a penitent is absolved. | |
| noun (n.) Delivery, in speech. |
| absorbition | noun (n.) Absorption. |
| absorption | noun (n.) The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger. |
| noun (n.) An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc. | |
| noun (n.) In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs. | |
| noun (n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment. |
| abstention | adjective (a.) The act of abstaining; a holding aloof. |
| abstersion | noun (n.) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. |
| abstraction | adjective (a.) The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. |
| adjective (a.) The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects. | |
| adjective (a.) An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions. | |
| adjective (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction. | |
| adjective (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects. | |
| adjective (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. | |
| adjective (a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. |
| abstrusion | noun (n.) The act of thrusting away. |
| absumption | noun (n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. |
| abutilon | noun (n.) A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow. |
| acceleration | noun (n.) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation. |
| accension | noun (n.) The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition. |
| accentuation | noun (n.) Act of accentuating; applications of accent. |
| noun (n.) pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH VON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (vo) - Words That Begins with vo:
| vocable | noun (n.) A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning. |
| vocabulary | noun (n.) A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book. |
| noun (n.) A sum or stock of words employed. |
| vocabulist | noun (n.) The writer or maker of a vocabulary; a lexicographer. |
| vocal | noun (n.) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal. |
| noun (n.) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices. | |
| adjective (a.) Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, /poken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds. | |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See Voice, and Vowel, also Guide to Pronunciation, // 199-202. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel. |
| vocalic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to vowel sounds; consisting of the vowel sounds. |
| vocalism | noun (n.) The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization. |
| noun (n.) A vocalic sound. |
| vocalist | noun (n.) A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist. |
| vocality | noun (n.) The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters. |
| noun (n.) The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character. |
| vocalization | noun (n.) The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized. |
| noun (n.) The formation and utterance of vocal sounds. |
| vocalizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vocalize |
| vocalness | noun (n.) The quality of being vocal; vocality. |
| vocation | noun (n.) A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession. |
| noun (n.) Destined or appropriate employment; calling; occupation; trade; business; profession. | |
| noun (n.) A calling by the will of God. | |
| noun (n.) The bestowment of God's distinguishing grace upon a person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of salvation; as, the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and of the Gentiles under the gospel. | |
| noun (n.) A call to special religious work, as to the ministry. |
| vocative | noun (n.) The vocative case. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling; specifically (Gram.), used in address; appellative; -- said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed; as, Domine, O Lord. |
| vociferance | noun (n.) Vociferation; noise; clamor. |
| vociferant | adjective (a.) Noisy; clamorous. |
| vociferating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vociferate |
| vociferation | noun (n.) The act of vociferating; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice. |
| vociferator | noun (n.) One who vociferates, or is clamorous. |
| vociferous | adjective (a.) Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds. |
| vocule | noun (n.) A short or weak utterance; a faint or feeble sound, as that heard on separating the lips in pronouncing p or b. |
| vodanium | noun (n.) A supposed element, afterward found to be a mixture of several metals, as copper, iron, lead, nickel, etc. |
| vodka | noun (n.) A Russian drink distilled from rye. |
| voe | noun (n.) An inlet, bay, or creek; -- so called in the Orkney and Shetland Islands. |
| vogle | noun (n.) Same as Vugg. |
| vogue | noun (n.) The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; -- used now generally in the phrase in vogue. |
| noun (n.) Influence; power; sway. |
| voice | noun (n.) Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice. |
| noun (n.) Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; -- distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper. | |
| noun (n.) The tone or sound emitted by anything. | |
| noun (n.) The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice. | |
| noun (n.) Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion. | |
| noun (n.) Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote. | |
| noun (n.) Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language. | |
| noun (n.) One who speaks; a speaker. | |
| noun (n.) A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of the nation. | |
| verb (v. t.) To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ. | |
| verb (v. t.) To vote; to elect; to appoint. | |
| verb (v. i.) To clamor; to cry out. |
| voicing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Voice |
| voiced | adjective (a.) Furnished with a voice; expressed by the voice. |
| adjective (a.) Uttered with voice; pronounced with vibrations of the vocal cords; sonant; -- said of a sound uttered with the glottis narrowed. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Voice |
| voiceful | adjective (a.) Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding. |
| voiceless | adjective (a.) Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb. |
| adjective (a.) Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd. |
| void | noun (n.) An empty space; a vacuum. |
| adjective (a.) Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled. | |
| adjective (a.) Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like. | |
| adjective (a.) Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use. | |
| adjective (a.) Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain. | |
| adjective (a.) Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul. | |
| adjective (a.) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2. | |
| adjective (a.) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table. | |
| adjective (a.) To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements. | |
| adjective (a.) To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be emitted or evacuated. |
| voiding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Void |
| noun (n.) The act of one who, or that which, v/ids. | |
| noun (n.) That which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated; a remnant; a fragment. | |
| adjective (a.) Receiving what is ejected or voided. |
| voidable | adjective (a.) Capable of being voided, or evacuated. |
| adjective (a.) Capable of being avoided, or of being adjudged void, invalid, and of no force; capable of being either avoided or confirmed. |
| voidance | noun (n.) The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating. |
| noun (n.) A ejection from a benefice. | |
| noun (n.) The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which is without an incumbent. | |
| noun (n.) Evasion; subterfuge. |
| voided | adjective (a.) Emptied; evacuated. |
| adjective (a.) Annulled; invalidated. | |
| adjective (a.) Having the inner part cut away, or left vacant, a narrow border being left at the sides, the tincture of the field being seen in the vacant space; -- said of a charge. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Void |
| voider | noun (n.) One who, or that which, voids, /mpties, vacates, or annuls. |
| noun (n.) A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal. | |
| noun (n.) One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller. |
| voidness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being void; /mptiness; vacuity; nullity; want of substantiality. |
| voiture | noun (n.) A carriage. |
| voivode | noun (n.) See Waywode. |
| volacious | adjective (a.) Apt or fit to fly. |
| volador | noun (n.) A flying fish of California (Exoc/tus Californicus): -- called also volator. |
| noun (n.) The Atlantic flying gurnard. See under Flying. |
| volage | adjective (a.) Light; giddy. |
| volant | adjective (a.) Passing through the air upon wings, or as if upon wings; flying; hence, passing from place to place; current. |
| adjective (a.) Nimble; light and quick; active; rapid. | |
| adjective (a.) Represented as flying, or having the wings spread; as, an eagle volant. |
| volante | noun (n.) A cumbrous two-wheeled pleasure carriage used in Cuba. |
| noun (n.) A two-wheeled carriage formerly much used in Cuba. The body is in front of the axle; the driver rides on the horse. |
| volapuk | noun (n.) Literally, world's speech; the name of an artificial language invented by Johan Martin Schleyer, of Constance, Switzerland, about 1879. |
| volapukist | noun (n.) One who is conversant with, or who favors adoption of, Volapuk. |
| volar | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot. |
| volary | noun (n.) See Volery. |
| volatile | noun (n.) A winged animal; wild fowl; game. |
| adjective (a.) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly. | |
| adjective (a.) Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aeriform state; subject to evaporation. | |
| adjective (a.) Fig.: Light-hearted; easily affected by circumstances; airy; lively; hence, changeable; fickle; as, a volatile temper. |
| volatileness | noun (n.) Alt. of Volatility |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH VON:
English Words which starts with 'v' and ends with 'n':
| vacation | noun (n.) The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter. |
| noun (n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure. | |
| noun (n.) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess. | |
| noun (n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation. | |
| noun (n.) The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant. |
| vaccination | noun (n.) The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation. |
| vacillation | noun (n.) The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering. |
| vacuation | noun (n.) The act of emptying; evacuation. |
| vacuolation | noun (n.) Formation into, or multiplication of, vacuoles. |
| vain | noun (n.) Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain. |
| superlative (superl.) Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying. | |
| superlative (superl.) Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt. | |
| superlative (superl.) Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated. | |
| superlative (superl.) Showy; ostentatious. |
| valediction | noun (n.) A farewell; a bidding farewell. |
| valedictorian | noun (n.) One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship. |
| valentinian | noun (n.) One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century; -- so called from Valentinus, the founder. |
| valerian | noun (n.) Any plant of the genus Valeriana. The root of the officinal valerian (V. officinalis) has a strong smell, and is much used in medicine as an antispasmodic. |
| valerin | noun (n.) A salt of valeric acid with glycerin, occurring in butter, dolphin oil., and forming an forming an oily liquid with a slightly unpleasant odor. |
| valetudinarian | noun (n.) A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health. |
| adjective (a.) Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm. |
| validation | noun (n.) The act of giving validity. |
| valkyrian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Valkyrias; hence, relating to battle. |
| vallation | noun (n.) A rampart or intrenchment. |
| valsalvian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Valsalva, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century. |
| valuation | noun (n.) The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose of taxation. |
| noun (n.) Value set upon a thing; estimated value or worth; as, the goods sold for more than their valuation. |
| van | noun (n.) The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle. |
| noun (n.) A shovel used in cleansing ore. | |
| noun (n.) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods. | |
| noun (n.) A large covered wagon for moving furniture, etc., also for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition. | |
| noun (n.) A close railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2. | |
| noun (n.) A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain. | |
| noun (n.) A wing with which the air is beaten. | |
| verb (v. t.) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow. |
| vanessian | noun (n.) A vanessa. |
| vanillin | noun (n.) A white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. It is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol. |
| vaporation | noun (n.) The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation. |
| vaporization | noun (n.) The act or process of vaporizing, or the state of being converted into vapor; the artificial formation of vapor; specifically, the conversion of water into steam, as in a steam boiler. |
| vapulation | noun (n.) The act of beating or whipping. |
| varan | noun (n.) The monitor. See Monitor, 3. |
| varangian | noun (n.) One of the Northmen who founded a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century; also, one of the Northmen composing, at a later date, the imperial bodyguard at Constantinople. |
| variation | noun (n.) The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language. |
| noun (n.) Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a position or state; amount or rate of change. | |
| noun (n.) Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or harmony, or sometimes change of key; the presentation of a musical thought in new and varied aspects, yet so that the essential features of the original shall still preserve their identity. | |
| noun (n.) One of the different arrangements which can be made of any number of quantities taking a certain number of them together. |
| variegation | noun (n.) The act of variegating or diversifying, or the state of being diversified, by different colors; diversity of colors. |
| variolation | noun (n.) Inoculation with smallpox. |
| vastation | noun (n.) A laying waste; waste; depopulation; devastation. |
| vatican | noun (n.) A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc. |
| vaticination | noun (n.) Prediction; prophecy. |
| vection | noun (n.) Vectitation. |
| vectitation | noun (n.) The act of carrying, or state of being carried. |
| vegetarian | noun (n.) One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to vegetarianism; as, a vegetarian diet. |
| vegetation | noun (n.) The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. |
| noun (n.) The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation. | |
| noun (n.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. |
| vehiculation | noun (n.) Movement of vehicles. |
| vein | noun (n.) One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2. |
| noun (n.) One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf. | |
| noun (n.) One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See Venation. | |
| noun (n.) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores. | |
| noun (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance. | |
| noun (n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation. | |
| noun (n.) A train of association, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course. | |
| noun (n.) Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins. |
| velitation | noun (n.) A dispute or contest; a slight contest; a skirmish. |
| vellon | noun (n.) A word occurring in the phrase real vellon. See the Note under Its Real. |
| velveteen | noun (n.) A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet. |
| venation | noun (n.) The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See Illust. in Appendix. |
| noun (n.) The act or art of hunting, or the state of being hunted. |
| venditation | noun (n.) The act of setting forth ostentatiously; a boastful display. |
| vendition | noun (n.) The act of vending, or selling; sale. |
| vennation | noun (n.) The act of poisoning. |
| noun (n.) Poison; venom. |
| veneration | noun (n.) The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, by consecration to sacred services, or by hallowed associations. |
| venerean | adjective (a.) Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal. |
| venesection | noun (n.) The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy. |
| venetian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Venice. |
| noun (n.) Galligaskins. | |
| noun (n.) A Venetian blind. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy. |
| venison | noun (n.) Beasts of the chase. |
| noun (n.) Formerly, the flesh of any of the edible beasts of the chase, also of game birds; now, the flesh of animals of the deer kind exclusively. |
| ventilation | noun (n.) The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a house, a church, a mine, etc.; free exposure to air. |
| noun (n.) The act of refrigerating, or cooling; refrigeration; as, ventilation of the blood. | |
| noun (n.) The act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain. | |
| noun (n.) The act of sifting, and bringing out to view or examination; free discussion; public exposure. | |
| noun (n.) The act of giving vent or expression. |
| ventrilocution | noun (n.) Ventriloquism. |
| ventrimeson | noun (n.) See Meson. |
| verbalization | noun (n.) The act of verbalizing, or the state of being verbalized. |
| verbarian | noun (n.) One who coins words. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to words; verbal. |
| verberation | noun (n.) The act of verberating; a beating or striking. |
| noun (n.) The impulse of a body; which causes sound. |
| verdin | noun (n.) A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of Lower California, allied to the titmice; -- called also goldtit. |
| vergalien | noun (n.) Alt. of Vergaloo |
| verfication | noun (n.) The act of verifying, or the state of being verified; confirmation; authentication. |
| noun (n.) Confirmation by evidence. | |
| noun (n.) A formal phrase used in concluding a plea. |
| vermiculation | noun (n.) The act or operation of moving in the manner of a worm; continuation of motion from one part to another; as, the vermiculation, or peristaltic motion, of the intestines. |
| noun (n.) The act of vermiculating, or forming or inlaying so as to resemble the motion, track, or work of a worm. | |
| noun (n.) Penetration by worms; the state of being wormeaten. | |
| noun (n.) A very fine wavy crosswise color marking, or a patch of such markings, as on the feathers of birds. |
| vermilion | noun (n.) A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc. |
| noun (n.) Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion. | |
| verb (v. t.) To color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion; to dye red; to cover with a delicate red. |
| vermin | noun (n. sing. & pl.) An animal, in general. |
| noun (n. sing. & pl.) A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, flies, lice, bugs, etc. | |
| noun (n. sing. & pl.) Hence, in contempt, noxious human beings. |
| vermination | noun (n.) The generation or breeding of vermin. |
| noun (n.) A griping of the bowels. |
| vernacularization | noun (n.) The act or process of making vernacular, or the state of being made vernacular. |
| vernation | noun (n.) The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation. |
| vernonin | noun (n.) A glucoside extracted from the root of a South African plant of the genus Vernonia, as a deliquescent powder, and used as a mild heart tonic. |
| verseman | noun (n.) Same as Versemonger. |
| versification | noun (n.) The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition. |
| version | noun (n.) A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning. |
| noun (n.) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See Anteversion, and Retroversion. | |
| noun (n.) The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language. | |
| noun (n.) A translation; that which is rendered from another language; as, the Common, or Authorized, Version of the Scriptures (see under Authorized); the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament. | |
| noun (n.) An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account; as, he gave another version of the affair. |
| vervain | noun (n.) Any plant of the genus Verbena. |
| vesication | noun (n.) The process of vesicating, or of raising blisters. |
| vesiculation | noun (n.) The state of containing vesicles, or the process by which vesicles are formed. |
| vessicnon | noun (n.) Alt. of Vessignon |
| vessignon | noun (n.) A soft swelling on a horse's leg; a windgall. |
| vestiarian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a vestiary or vestments. |
| vestryman | noun (n.) A member of a vestry; especially (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a member other than a warden. See Vestry. |
| vesuvian | noun (n.) A kind of match or fusee for lighting cigars, etc. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Vesuvius, a volcano near Naples. | |
| adjective (a.) Vesuvianite. |
| veteran | noun (n.) One who has been long exercised in any service or art, particularly in war; one who has had. |
| adjective (a.) Long exercised in anything, especially in military life and the duties of a soldier; long practiced or experienced; as, a veteran officer or soldier; veteran skill. |
| veterinarian | noun (n.) One skilled in the diseases of cattle or domestic animals; a veterinary surgeon. |
| vexation | noun (n.) The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation. |
| noun (n.) The cause of trouble or disquiet; affliction. | |
| noun (n.) A harassing by process of law; a vexing or troubling, as by a malicious suit. |
| vexillation | noun (n.) A company of troops under one vexillum. |
| vibration | noun (n.) The act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical string. |
| noun (n.) A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever. |
| vicarian | noun (n.) A vicar. |
| viceman | noun (n.) A smith who works at the vice instead of at the anvil. |
| victorian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets. |
| viduation | noun (n.) The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement. |
| vigesimation | noun (n.) The act of putting to death every twentieth man. |
| vilification | noun (n.) The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse. |
| villain | noun (n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant. |
| noun (n.) A baseborn or clownish person; a boor. | |
| noun (n.) A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp. | |
| adjective (a.) Villainous. | |
| verb (v. t.) To debase; to degrade. |
| villakin | noun (n.) A little villa. |
| villan | noun (n.) A villain. |
| villein | noun (n.) See Villain, 1. |
| vimen | noun (n.) A long, slender, flexible shoot or branch. |
| vincentian | noun (n.) Same as Lazarist. |
| noun (n.) A member of certain charitable sisterhoods. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Saint Vincent de Paul, or founded by him. |
| vincetoxin | noun (n.) A glucoside extracted from the root of the white swallowwort (Vincetoxicum officinale, a plant of the Asclepias family) as a bitter yellow amorphous substance; -- called also asclepiadin, and cynanchin. |
| vindemiation | noun (n.) The operation of gathering grapes. |
| vindication | noun (n.) The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of opinions; his vindication is complete. |
| noun (n.) The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. |
| vingtun | noun (n.) Contraction for Vingt et un. |
| violantin | noun (n.) A complex nitrogenous substance, produced as a yellow crystalline substance, and regarded as a complex derivative of barbituric acid. |
| violaquercitrin | noun (n.) A yellow crystalline glucoside obtained from the pansy (Viola tricolor), and decomposing into glucose and quercitrin. |
| violation | noun (n.) The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated. |
| noun (n.) Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc. | |
| noun (n.) An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church. | |
| noun (n.) Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance. | |
| noun (n.) Ravishment; rape; outrage. |
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