Nouns in english starting with V

• venture — Noun – English ～ any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome
• venture — Noun – English ～ a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit
• venture capitalist — Noun – English ～ a speculator who makes money available for innovative projects (especially in high technology)
• venture capital — Noun – English ～ wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises
• venturer — Noun – English ～ a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas)
• venturer — Noun – English ～ a person who enjoys taking risks
• venturesomeness — Noun – English ～ the trait of being adventurous
• venturi — Noun – English ～ a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor)
• Venturi tube — Noun – English ～ a short tube inserted into a pipeline and used to measure the quantity of a liquid that is flowing in the pipeline
• venturi — Noun – English ～ United States architect (born in 1925)
• venue — Noun – English ～ the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
• venue — Noun – English ～ in law: the jurisdiction where a trial will be held
• venula — Noun – English ～ a minute vein continuous with a capillary
• venule — Noun – English ～ a minute vein continuous with a capillary
• Venus — Noun – English ～ type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells
• Venus — Noun – English ～ the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star'; "before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer"
• Venus — Noun – English ～ goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
• Venus' slipper — Noun – English ～ any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips
• Venus mercenaria — Noun – English ～ an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians
• Venus maidenhair — Noun – English ～ delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan

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