(physics) Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions. / (of a substance, informal) Explosive. / (of a price etc) Variable or erratic. / (of a person) Quick to become angry or violent.

A chemical or compound that changes into a gas easily. / (programming) A variable that is volatile, i.e. has its associated memory immediately updated with any change in value.

Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae of the family Cricetidae which are not lemmings or muskrats.

A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.

(card games, intransitive) To win all the tricks by a vole.

A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.

(intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft. / (transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft. / (intransitive) To swell.

(physics) The difference in electrostatic potential between two points in space, especially between live and neutral conductors or the earth.

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V

A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a centre makes two concentric tracks. / (fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.