(countable) A carnivorous catlike animal, Civettictis civetta, that produces a musky secretion. It is two to three feet (30–90 cm) long, with black bands and spots on the body and tail.
(countable, US) Any of several species of spotted skunk, in the genus Spilogale.
(uncountable) The musky perfume produced by the animal.
Any animal in the family Viverridae or the similar family Nandiniidae
davit
davit
noun
(nautical) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship.
(nautical, construction) A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship.
divet
divet
noun
Alternative form of divot
divot
divot
noun
(especially golf) A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof.
(mathematics, astronomy) a drop in a graph between two linear portions (example)
A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour.
The space between two pillows.
verb
(transitive, especially golf) To tear up pieces of turf from, especially with a golf club in making a stroke.
evict
evict
verb
(transitive) To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
evita
evite
evite
verb
(now rare, chiefly Scotland, transitive) To avoid.
intsv
ivett
kvint
levit
ovist
ovist
adj
Pertaining to ovism.
noun
(historical) Someone who believes that the complete embryo is contained preformed within the ovum; a proponent of ovism.
pivot
pivot
noun
(Canadian football) A quarterback.
(US, politics) A shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
(computing) A pivot table.
(computing) An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.
(figuratively, by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
(graphical user interface) Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
(handball) A circle runner.
(mathematics) An element of a matrix that is used as a focus for row operations, such as dividing the row by the pivot, or adding multiples of the row to other rows making all other values in the pivot column 0.
(military) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
(roller derby) A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
Act of turning on one foot.
verb
(US, politics) To shift a political candidate's messaging during a general election to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
(business slang) To change the direction of a business, usually in response to changes in the market.
(intransitive) To turn on an exact spot.
rivet
rivet
noun
(figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.
(obsolete) A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet.
A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.
verb
(transitive) To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.
(transitive) To install rivets.
(transitive, figurative) To command the attention of.
(transitive, figurative) To make firm or immovable.
rovit
stive
stive
noun
Obsolete form of stew.
The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
verb
(UK, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To stew; to be stifled or suffocated.
(transitive, sometimes with "up") To compress, to cram.
stivy
stivy
adj
(UK, dialect) close; stuffy; stifling
tavgi
tavia
tavie
tavis
tevis
tirve
tiver
tiver
noun
A kind of ochre used for marking sheep in some parts of England.
verb
(transitive) To mark with tiver, as sheep.
uvito
vasti
vatic
vatic
adj
Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.
vieta
vinet
vingt
vinta
virtu
virtu
noun
Alternative form of vertu.
visct
visct
Proper noun
of
visit
visit
noun
(medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.
A single act of visiting.
verb
(transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
(transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
(transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
(transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
(transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
(transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
(transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
(transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
vista
vista
noun
(figuratively) A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination.
A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage.
A site offering such a view.
verb
(transitive) To make a vista or landscape of.
visto
visto
noun
(obsolete) A vista; a prospect.
vitae
vitae
noun
plural of vita
vital
vital
adj
Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.
Containing life; living.
Invigorating or life-giving.
Necessary to continued existence.
Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.
Relating to the recording of life events.
Relating to, or characteristic of life.
Very important.
vitek
vithi
vitia
vitis
vitra
vitro
vitry
vitta
vitta
noun
(botany) An oil tube in the fruit of some plants.
(zoology) A longitudinal stripe.
A fillet, or garland for the head.
vitus
vitus
Proper noun
A lake in Alaska.
vivat
vivat
intj
A cry wishing someone long life and prosperity.
noun
An utterance of the interjection vivat.
volti
volti
verb
(music) turn the page
vomit
vomit
noun
(obsolete) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
The act of regurgitating.
The act of vomiting
The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
verb
(intransitive) To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
(transitive) To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.
To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.