Nouns in english starting with V

• van der Waals — Noun – English ～ Dutch physicist (1837-1923)
• Virginia Wade — Noun – English ～ English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)
• Vagn Walfrid Ekman — Noun – English ～ Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954)
• Vietnam War — Noun – English ～ a prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States
• Veterans of Foreign Wars — Noun – English ～ an organization of United States war veterans
• venereal wart — Noun – English ～ a small benign wart on or around the genitals and anus
• vespid wasp — Noun – English ～ mostly social nest-building wasps
• Vichy water — Noun – English ～ sparkling mineral water from springs at Vichy, France or water similar to it
• Virginia waterleaf — Noun – English ～ showy perennial herb with white flowers; leaves sometimes used as edible greens in southeastern United States
• vegetable wax — Noun – English ～ a waxy substance obtained from plants (especially from the trunks of certain palms)
• valley white oak — Noun – English ～ tall graceful deciduous California oak having leathery leaves and slender pointed acorns
• von Willebrand — Noun – English ～ Finnish physician who first described vascular hemophilia (1870-1949)
• von Willebrand's disease — Noun – English ～ a form of hemophilia discovered by Erik von Willebrand; a genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait; characterized by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding
• Vaughan Williams — Noun – English ～ English composer influenced by folk tunes and music of the Tudor period (1872-1958)
• varietal wine — Noun – English ～ a wine made principally from one grape and carrying the name of that grape
• vernal witch hazel — Noun – English ～ fragrant shrub of lower Mississippi valley having very small flowers from midwinter to spring
• Virginian witch hazel — Noun – English ～ common shrub of eastern North America having small yellow flowers after the leaves have fallen
• violet wood sorrel — Noun – English ～ perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers
• Victoria Clafin Woodhull — Noun – English ～ United States advocate of women's suffrage; in 1872 she was the first woman to run for the United States presidency (1838-1927)
• virgin wool — Noun – English ～ wool not used before; wool not processed or woven before

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