English to English Dictionary

Viscerality

Quality of evoking deep, instinctive, and unrefined emotional reactions rather than intellectual ones.

Visible hand

The interventionist control and coordination exercised by government regulators, central authorities, or corporate management over economic activity, contrasting with the decentralized market forces of the invisible hand.

Vitiable

Capable of being vitiated, impaired, or made legally void and defective.

Vitiosity

The quality or state of being vicious, corrupt, or depraved in moral character.

Vitreous body

The transparent, colorless gel that fills the space between the lens of the eye and the retina in the posterior compartment of the eye.

Vivat

An acclamation or expression of good wishes for the long life or success of someone, often sung or shouted.

Viverrid

Any of various small- to medium-sized, long-bodied carnivorous mammals of the family Viverridae, native to Africa and southern Asia, including civets, genets, and oyans.

Vives

A disease of horses, characterized by swelling of the glands around the ears.

Vivify

To enliven, invigorate, or inspire; to make more lively or animated.

Vivisepulture

The act of burying someone alive.

Vocative

The grammatical case used in some languages when addressing a person or thing directly.

Vociferate

To utter loud, vehement shouts or cries; to clamor or express opinions loudly and forcefully.