| ACTIVISMS | • activisms n. Plural of activism. • ACTIVISM n. a policy of direct action. |
| LACTIVISM | • lactivism n. The advocacy of breastfeeding, and especially of the right to nurse children in public. • LACTIVISM n. strong advocacy of breastfeeding as opposed to bottle-feeding. |
| MAVERICKS | • mavericks n. Plural of maverick. • Mavericks n. Plural of Maverick. • MAVERICK n. an unbranded animal; a person independent in thought and action. |
| MIDCALVES | • midcalves n. Plural of midcalf. • MIDCALF n. a garment reaching to middle of the calf. |
| MISADVICE | • misadvice n. (Archaic) bad advice. • MISADVICE n. wrong advice. |
| MUSCAVADO | • MUSCAVADO n. (Spanish) raw or unrefined sugar obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporation and draining off the molasses, also MUSCOVADO. |
| MUSCOVADO | • muscovado n. An unrefined brown sugar with a strong flavour of molasses. • MUSCOVADO n. (Spanish) raw or unrefined sugar obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporation and draining off the molasses, also MUSCAVADO. |
| OVERCRAMS | • overcrams v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcram. • OVERCRAM v. to stuff to excess. |
| SEMIVOCAL | • semivocal adj. (Phonetics) Of or relating to a semivowel. • SEMIVOCAL adj. of or relating to a semivowel, also SEMIVOCALIC. |
| VAMBRACES | • vambraces n. Plural of vambrace. • VAMBRACE n. (historical) a piece of armour designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist, also VANTBRACE, VANTBRASS. |
| VASCULUMS | • vasculums n. Plural of vasculum. • VASCULUM n. (Latin) a box used to hold plant specimens. |
| VASECTOMY | • vasectomy n. (Surgery) The surgical incision of all or part of the vas deferens as a means of male sterilization. • VASECTOMY n. the excision of part or all of the vas deferens, esp. in order to produce sterility. |
| VERBASCUM | • verbascum n. A mullein (of genus Verbascum). • Verbascum prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Scrophulariaceae – the mulleins. • VERBASCUM n. another name for the flower mullein. |
| VIATICUMS | • viaticums n. Plural of viaticum. • VIATICUM n. (Latin) an allowance for travelling expenses. |
| VICESIMAL | • vicesimal adj. Synonym of vigesimal. • VICESIMAL adj. based on the number twenty, also VICENARY, VIGESIMAL. |
| VIDEOCAMS | • videocams n. Plural of videocam. • VIDEOCAM n. a camera for taking video. |
| VOCALISMS | • vocalisms n. Plural of vocalism. • VOCALISM n. the exercise of the vocal organs. |
| VOLCANISM | • volcanism n. (Volcanology) Any of the natural phenomena and processes associated with the action of volcanos, geysers… • VOLCANISM n. volcanic power or action, also VULCANISM. |
| VULCANISM | • vulcanism n. Alternative spelling of Vulcanism (“historical scientific view”). • vulcanism n. Alternative spelling of volcanism (“volcanic activity”). • Vulcanism prop.n. (Historical) The belief, held mostly in the 18th century, that rocks were formed in fire. It was a rival… |