bout 
(bout)
(bout)n.
1. A contest between antagonists; a match: a wrestling bout.
2. A period of time spent in a particular way; a spell: "His tremendous bouts of drinking had wrecked his health" (Thomas Wolfe).
[From obsolete English bought, a turning (influenced by ABOUT), from Middle English, from bowen, to bend, turn; see BOW2.]
- voluble
- volubleness
- volubly
- volume
- volumed
- volume strain
- volumeter
- volumetric
- volumetrically
- volumetric analysis
- voluminosity
- voluminous
- voluminously
- voluminousness
- voluntarily
- voluntariness
- voluntarism
- voluntarist
- voluntaristic
- voluntary
- voluntaryism
- voluntaryist
- voluntary muscle
- volunteer
- volunteerism