Nouns starting with V

• 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
• Virginia Woolf — Noun – English ～ English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941)
• velvet worm — Noun – English ～ any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms
• vinegar worm — Noun – English ～ minute eelworm that feeds on organisms that cause fermentation in e.g. vinegar
• Van Wyck Brooks — Noun – English ～ United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963)
• Viverra zibetha — Noun – English ～ common civet of India and southeast Asia

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