A supposed chemical element discovered in 1877, later found to be a mixture of iridium and rhodium.
maulvi
maulvi
noun
(loosely, chiefly South Asia) Any man of learning; a scholar, a teacher of Classical languages.
An imam; a Muslim doctor of law.
mauves
mauves
noun
plural of mauve
vacuum
vacuum
noun
(colloquial, only pluralized as "vacuums") A vacuum cleaner.
(physics) A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude.
A region of space that contains no matter.
An emptiness in life created by a loss of a person who was close, or of an occupation.
An exercise in which one draws their abdomen towards the spine.
The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.
verb
(intransitive) To use a vacuum cleaner.
(transitive) To clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner.
(transitive, databases) To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples.
vadium
vadium
noun
(law, archaic) A pledge or security; bail.
valium
valium
Noun
A drug, now known as diazepam
vallum
vallum
noun
(anatomy) The eyebrow.
(historical, Roman antiquity) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.