Associations to the word «Velvet»

VELVET, noun. A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.

VELVET, noun. Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.

VELVET, noun. (rare) A female chinchilla; a sow.

VELVET, noun. (slang) The drug dextromethorphan.

VELVET, verb. (cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying

VELVET, adjective. Made of velvet.

VELVET, adjective. Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.

VELVET, adjective. (politics) peaceful, carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.

VELVET ANT, noun. A wasp of the family Mutillidae with dense hair and whose wingless females resemble ants.

VELVET ANTS, noun. Plural of velvet ant

VELVET CORK, noun. The best kind of cork bark, supple, elastic, and not woody or porous.

VELVET CRAB, noun. Necora puber, the largest swimming crab found in British coastal waters.

VELVET DIVORCE, noun. A non-violent separation of formerly united nations, especially the one which occurred when Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.

VELVET DUCK, noun. Velvet scoter

VELVET FLOWER, noun. Amaranthus caudatus, an annual flowering plant.

VELVET HANDCUFFS, noun. Used other than as an idiom: see velvet,‎ handcuffs.

VELVET HANDCUFFS, noun. (idiomatic) Golden handcuffs: any arrangement designed to provide favorable benefits or pay so as to discourage a participant from wanting to leave it.

VELVET REVOLUTION, noun. Any non-violent political revolution, especially the events in Czechoslovakia that led to the velvet divorce.

VELVET REVOLUTIONS, noun. Plural of Velvet Revolution

VELVET SCOTER, noun. An arctic sea duck, Melanitta fusca.

VELVET SCOTERS, noun. Plural of velvet scoter

VELVET SHANK, noun. An enoki or enokitake mushroom, Flammulina velutipes.

VELVET SHANKS, noun. Plural of velvet shank

VELVET SPIDER, noun. Any spider, of the family Eresidae, that build unkempt webs

VELVET SPIDERS, noun. Plural of velvet spider

VELVET WATER BUG, noun. Any insect in the family Hebridae, which lives in vegetation in and around water

VELVET WATER BUGS, noun. Plural of velvet water bug

VELVET WORM, noun. An ecdysozoan organism with tiny eyes, antennae, multiple pairs of legs, and slime glands.

VELVET WORMS, noun. Plural of velvet worm

VELVET, noun. A silky densely piled fabric with a plain back.

VELVET, adjective. Smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste.

VELVET, adjective. Resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface.