| ABRASIVES | • abrasives n. Plural of abrasive. • ABRASIVE n. an abrasive substance. |
| ASSUASIVE | • assuasive adj. Mild, soothing. • assuasive n. (Archaic) Anything that soothes. • ASSUASIVE adj. mitigating, soothing. |
| AVANTISTS | • AVANTIST n. an avant-garde artist, writer or musician. |
| AVIANISES | • AVIANISE v. to make eg a virus less severe by repeated culture in a chicken embryo stock, also AVIANIZE. |
| AVIARISTS | • aviarists n. Plural of aviarist. • AVIARIST n. a keeper of an aviary. |
| AVIATRESS | • aviatress n. A female pilot of an aircraft. • AVIATRESS n. a female aviator, also AVIATRICE, AVIATRIX. |
| MALVASIAS | • malvasias n. Plural of malvasia. • MALVASIA n. a type of grape from which malmsey is made. |
| NAVALISMS | • navalisms n. Plural of navalism. • NAVALISM n. the cult of naval supremacy. |
| PASSIVATE | • passivate v. (Chemistry) to reduce the chemical reactivity of a surface by applying a coating. • PASSIVATE v. to coat metal with oxides to protect from corrosion. |
| PIASSAVAS | • piassavas n. Plural of piassava. • PIASSAVA n. (Tupi) a coarse, stiff fibre, also PIASABA, PIASAVA, PIASSABA. |
| SALIVATES | • salivates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of salivate. • SALIVATE v. to secrete saliva. |
| SAVAGISMS | • savagisms n. Plural of savagism. • SAVAGISM n. the state of being savage, also SAVAGEDOM. |
| STRAVAIGS | • stravaigs v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stravaig. • STRAVAIG v. (Scots) to wander aimlessly, also STRAVAGE, STRAYVE. |
| SVASTIKAS | • svastikas n. Plural of svastika. • SVASTIKA n. (Sanskrit) a Greek cross with arms bent at a right angle, also SWASTICA, SWASTIKA. |
| VANITASES | • vanitases n. Plural of vanitas. • VANITAS n. (Latin) a 17th century Dutch still life painting featuring a memento mori etc. |
| VASSALISE | • vassalise v. Alternative spelling of vassalize. • VASSALISE v. to reduce to the status of a vassal, also VASSALIZE. |
| VASSALIZE | • vassalize v. (Transitive) To make into a vassal. • VASSALIZE v. to reduce to the status of a vassal, also VASSALISE. |
| VIPASSANA | • vipassana n. (Buddhism) Insight into the true nature of reality, namely as the three marks of existence: impermanence… • VIPASSANA n. (Sanskrit) meditative practice in Buddhism, aimed at obtaining a true metaphysical picture of reality, which means dissolving the stable categories of substance and self in favour of the evanescent. |
| VISCACHAS | • viscachas n. Plural of viscacha. • VISCACHA n. (Quechua) a gregarious burrowing South American rodent related to the chinchilla, also BISCACHA, BIZCACHA, VIZCACHA. |
| VISCARIAS | • VISCARIA n. any plant of the genus Viscaria. |