A condition caused by ground moisture rising up a masonry wall by capillary action

A bed comprising a top frame and mattress and another that can be collapsed and stashed beneath the first.

A main vertical pipe, usually kept empty, intended to distribute water to multiple levels of a building in the event of a fire.

(finance, banking) A widely used measure of the risk of loss on a specific portfolio of financial assets. For a given portfolio, probability and time horizon, VaR is a threshold value such that the probability that the mark-to-market loss on the portfolio over the given time horizon exceeds this value (assuming normal markets and no trading) is the given probability level.

(finance) The risk associated with an asset that is correlated with the risk of asset markets generally, often measured as its beta.

(informal) The drug sildenafil citrate marketed as Viagra.

The imprint upon the surface of a body of water that is made by a feeding trout, indicative by its form of the feeding behavior of the fish.

(periphrasis) Japan (a country in Asia)

present participle of rise up

past participle of rise up