soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain
fauvisms
impluvia
maneuver
maneuver
noun
(medicine) A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments.
(military) The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units.
A controlled (especially skillful) movement taken while steering a vehicle.
A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.
Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.
verb
(figurative, intransitive) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme
(figurative, transitive) To guide, steer, manage purposefully
(transitive, intransitive) To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
maneuvre
manuever
marivaux
mauveine
mauveine
noun
A purple dye, the first synthetic organic dye created.
mauvette
mauvette
adj
having this color
noun
a purple color similar to mauve
misvalue
misvalue
verb
(transitive) To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
mungovan
murnival
murnival
noun
Alternative form of mournival
mutative
mutative
adj
Relating to mutation.
navagium
privatum
unvamped
unvamped
adj
Not vamped.
vacuumed
vacuumed
adj
Having been cleaned with a vacuum cleaner; hoovered.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of vacuum
vampyrum
vanadium
vanadium
noun
A chemical element (symbol V) with atomic number 23; it is a transition metal, used in the production of special steels.
vaporium
vaporium
noun
A curved hollow metal sheet that is filled with boiling water and used for the therapeutic application of heat.
A shop where one can buy e-cigarettes and vaping paraphernalia, sometimes with a lounge for smoking them.
A steam bath (room for taking steam baths).
variorum
variorum
noun
An edition of a written work (especially the complete works of a classical writer) showing the notes and readings of a variety of different editors or commentators.
vasculum
vasculum
noun
A container used by botanists to store newly-collected samples.
velarium
velarium
noun
(historical) An awning that stretched over the seating area of the Colosseum in Ancient Rome and other Roman amphitheaters.
(zoology) The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.
A cloth stretched over another space, such as that stretched below the roof of the Royal Albert Hall.
velumina
veratrum
veratrum
noun
Any of various poisonous herbs of the genus Veratrum
viaticum
viaticum
noun
(especially Catholicism) The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death.
(often figurative) Provisions, money, or other supplies given to someone setting off on a long journey.
A portable altar.
vivarium
vivarium
noun
A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals.