Village green A village green is a commons open area which is a part of a settlement. Traditionally, such an area was often common pasture land at the centre of a small agricultural settlement, used for grazing and sometimes for community events. Some may also have a pond, originally for watering stock.
	Villain A villain is an "evil" character in a story, whether an history narrative or, especially, a work of fiction. The villains are the bad guys or heavies, the characters who strive against the hero. Female villains are sometimes called villainesses. It is the unmitigated evil nature which distinguishes the villain from an antagonist, like Javert in Les Miserables — a character who opposes the hero, but by such means or reasons as not to become entirely odious, and who may be even
	Villus Villi are tiny, finger-like structures that protrude from the wall of the intestine and have additional extensions called microvilli which protrude from epithelial cells lining villi. In all humans, the villi and microvilli together increase intestinal absorptive surface area 30-fold and 600-fold, respectively, providing exceptionally efficient absorption of nutrients in the lumen.
	Vilnius Vilnius is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 553,904 as of December 2005. It is the capital of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the county seat of Vilnius County.
	Viminaria Viminaria juncea is the single species in the genus Viminaria endemic to Australia. The genus is in the family Fabaceae. It is colloquially known as native broom after its resemblance to the related European Broom plants.
	Viņa del Mar Via del Mar, also known locally as La Ciudad Jardn, is a thriving coastal city in central Chile, in the Valparaso Region of Chile. The population stands at 318,489, making it Chile's fourth largest city. It is best known as a tourist and beach destination. One of its key attractions include a gambling casino and a yearly music festival The city also hosts a yearly Association of Tennis Professionals tennis tournament in clay courts.
	Vinblastine Vinblastine is a medication used to treat certain kinds of cancer, including Hodgkin's lymphoma, non-small cell lung cancer, breast cancer and testicular cancer.
	Vinca Vinca is a genus of five species of in the family Apocynaceae, native to Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. The common name, shared with the related genus Catharanthus, is Periwinkle. They are shrub or herbaceous, and have slender trailing stems 1-2 m long but not growing more than 20-70 cm above ground; the stems frequently take root where they touch the ground, enabling the plant to spread widely.
	Vinca major Vinca major, is a flowering plant native to southern Europe, from Spain and southern France east to the western Balkans, and also in northeastern Turkey and the western Caucasus. It is an evergreen trailing vine, spreading along the ground and rooting along the stems to form patches of ground cover 2-5 m across and scrambling up to 50-70 cm high.
	Vinca minor Vinca minor, variously known as Small Periwinkle, Lesser Periwinkle, Common Periwinkle, and sometimes in the USA, Myrtle and Creeping Myrtle, is a plant native to central and southern Europe but widely cultivated and naturalised in other temperate regions.
	Vincent van Gogh Vegetarian cuisine is cookery of food that meets vegetarianism ethical principles and health standards. In terms of lacto-ovo vegetarianism, which is the most common type of vegetarianism in the Western world, this means food which excludes ingredients for which an animal must have died, such as meat, meat broth, cheeses that use animal rennet , gelatin , and for the strictest, even some sugars that are whitened with bone char .
	Vincenzo Bellini Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italy opera composer. Known for his flowing melodic line, Bellini was the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera.
	Vincristine Vincristine is an alkaloid from the Madagascar periwinkle. It is used in chemotherapy.
	Vindicator Vindicator is a fictional character, a Canada superheroine in the Marvel Universe, and a former leader of Alpha Flight. She was created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne.
	Vine A vine is any plant of genus Vitis or, by extension, any similar climbing or trailing plant. The word, ultimately derived from Latin vinea, originally referred exclusively to the grape-bearing plant; the modern extended sense is largely restricted to North American English, which then uses grapevine to refer specifically to the grape-bearing Vitis species.
	Vine Maple Vine Maple is a species of maple, native to western North America from southwest British Columbia to northern California, always within 300 km of the Pacific Ocean coast. It most commonly grows as a large shrub growing to around 5-10 m, but it will occasionally form a small to medium-sized tree, exceptionally as tall as 18 m.
	Vinegar Vinegar is a sour-tasting liquid made from the oxidation of ethanol in wine, cider, beer, fermented fruit juice, or nearly any other liquid containing alcohol. It can also be made by certain bacteria operating on sugar-water solutions directly, without intermediary conversion to ethanol .
	Vineyard A vineyard is a place where grapes are grown for making wine, raisins, or table grapes.
	Vintage Vintage, in wine-making, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product. A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown in a single specified year. In certain wines it can denote quality, as in Port, where Port houses make and declare "vintage" Port in their best years.
	Vinyl A vinyl is any organic compound that contains a vinyl group, −CarbonHydrogendouble bondCH2. These are derivatives of ethene , CH2=CH2, with one hydrogen atom substituted with some other group. The vinyl group forms part of the allyl group and is also contained in all acrylates.
	Vinyl polymer Vinyl polymers are a group of polymers derived from vinyl monomers. Their backbone is a giant alkane chain, made by polymerizing an ethelyne group into a chain. In popular usage, "vinyl" refers only to PVC. Vinyl polymers are the most common type of plastic. *Polymerized simple alkenes: polyethylene from ethene, polypropylene from propene and polybutadiene from butadiene.
	Viol The viol is any one of a family of bowed, fretted stringed instruments musical instruments developed in the 1400s and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The family is related to and descends from the vihuela and rebec.
	Viola The viola is a stringed musical instrument played with a bow which serves as the middle voice of the violin family, between the upper lines played by the violin and the lower lines played by the cello and double bass. The casual observer may mistake the viola for the violin because of their similarity in size, closeness in pitch range , and identical playing position .
	Viola arvensis Viola arvensis is a species of the genus Violet. It is also called Field pansy. Also called Heart's Ease. Category:Violaceae Category:Flora of Europe Category:Flora of Estonia Category:Flora of the United Kingdom da:Ager-Stedmoderblomst fr:Pense des champs
	Viola canina Viola canina is a species of the genus Violet, native to Europe, where it is found in heath, fens, and moist woodlands, especially on acidic soils. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 5-15 cm tall. The flowers are pale blue, produced from April to July.
	Viola d'amore The viola d'amore is a 7- or 6-string instrument musical instrument with sympathetic strings used chiefly in the Baroque music. It is played under the chin in the same manner as the violin.
	Viola pubescens Viola pubescens is a species of the genus Violet. It is also known as the Downy yellow violet. This plant is found in dry mixed and deciduous woodland areas from Minnesota through Ontario to Nova Scotia and South to Virginia. 6 to 10 inches tall, it blooms from April through may
	Violaceae Violaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 800 species in 21 genera. It takes its name from the genus Violet, the violets and pansy. Older classifications such as the Cronquist system placed Violaceae in an order named after it, the Violales.
	Violent Storm Violent Storm is an arcade game beat 'em up game by Konami. It was published in 1993. It was a third installment of a series, following Crime Fighters and Vendetta. The game features 3 playable characters: * Wade - blonde man, wears blue outfit; he has average power and speed
	Violin The violin is a Bow string instrument with four string s tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello. A violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle, no matter what kind of music is played on it.
	Violin family The Violin family of musical instruments was developed in Italy in the 17th Century. The modern violin family consists of the violin, viola and cello, along with the double bass. While the violin, viola and cello are true members of the ancestral violin family, the double bass origins are generally believed to be of the viol family, due to its sloping shoulders, its tuning, and its sometimes flat back.
	Viper's Bugloss Viper's Bugloss is a Biennial plant or monocarpic perennial with rough, hairy, lanceolate leaf. The flowers start pink and turn vivid blue and are 15-20 mm in a branched spike, with all the stamens protruding. Stamens remain red and stand out against the blue flowers.
	Vipera Common names: Palaearctic vipers,Mallow D, Ludwig D, Nilson G. 2003. True Vipers: Natural History and Toxinology of Old World Vipers. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida. ISBN 0-89464-877-2. Eurasian vipers.Spawls S, Branch B. 1995. The Dangerous Snakes of Africa. Ralph Curtis Books.
	Vipera aspis Common names: asp, asp viper,Mallow D, Ludwig D, Nilson G. 2003. True Vipers: Natural History and Toxinology of Old World Vipers. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida. ISBN 0-89464-877-2. European asp. at Vipera aspis is a venomous snake Viperinae species found in southwestern Europe.
	Vipera berus Common names: common European adder, common European viper, European viper, Vipera berus#Common names. Vipera berus is a venomous snake Viperinae species that is extremely widespread and can be found throughout most of western Europe and Great Britain and all the way to Far East Asia.scription
	Viperidae The Viperidae are a family of venomous snakes commonly referred to as vipers, although the term viperids is more specific and distinguishes them from the viperines. These snakes are found all over the world, except in Australia and Madagascar. All have relatively long, hinged fangs that permit deep penetration and injection of venom.
	Vireo The vireos are a group of small to medium sized passerine birds restricted to the New World. They are typically greenish in colour and resemble New World warbler apart from their heavier bills. The four genera of these insectivore birds make up the family Vireonidae, and are believed to be related to the New World warblers in the family Parulidae.
	Virga In meteorology, virga is precipitation that falls from a cloud but evaporates before reaching the ground. At high altitudes the precipitation falls mainly as ice crystals before melting and finally evaporating; this is usually due to compressional heating because the atmospheric pressure increases closer to the ground.
	Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro , later called Virgilius, and known in English language as Virgil or Vergil, was an ancient Roman poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's national epic.
	Virgil Thomson Virgil Thomson was an American composer from Missouri, whose rural background gave a sense of place in his compositions. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, and later established himself in New York City, as a peer of Aaron Copland and was also a music critic for the New York Herald-Tribune from 1940 through 1954.
	Virgin Islands The Virgin Islands are an archipelago in the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean Sea. The islands are divided into two parts, one of which, the British Virgin Islands to the east and north, is an British overseas territory of the United Kingdom. The other, the U.S. Virgin Islands to the west and south, is an unincorporated territory and organized territory United States territory.
	Virgin Islands National Park Virgin Islands National Park is a United States national park covering approximately 60% of the island of Saint John, United States Virgin Islands in the United States Virgin Islands. The park is famous for scuba diving and snorkeling and has miles of hiking trails through tropical forests.
	Virginia The Commonwealth of Virginia is one of the thirteen colonies of the United States that revolted against British Empire rule in the American Revolution. It is located in the Southern United States but is sometimes included, geographically, in the Mid-Atlantic States.
	Virginia Bluebell The Virginia Bluebell, Mertensia virginica, has many different common names, including "Virginia Cowslip", "Lungwort Oysterleaf", and "Roanoke Bells". It is a species of plant belonging to the Family Boraginaceae. This bluebell ranges in height from 12-24 inches. The most distinguishing feature of the plant is the noticeable bell-shaped flower, which is usually blue or violet in color.
	Virginia Pine The Virginia Pine is a medium-sized tree, often found on poorer soils from Long Island in southern New York south through the Appalachian Mountains to western Tennessee and Alabama. The usual size range for this pine is 9–18 m, but can grow taller under optimum conditions.
	Virginia Strawberry The Virginia Strawberry, is one of two species of strawberry that were hybridized to create the modern domesticated Garden Strawberry. Its natural range is confined to North America, in the United States and Canada. It is also sometimes called "Wild Strawberry", though this can also refer to several other species of Fragaria, particularly Woodland Strawberry.
	Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf is by reputation one of the foremost modernist literature literature figures of the twentieth century. Though she is commonly regarded by many as feminism, it should be noted that she herself deplored the term, as she felt it suggested an obsession with women and womens' concerns.
	Virginity Virginity is a term used to describe what a person has when he or she has not yet engaged in sexual intercourse. A person who still has his or her virginity can accordingly be described as being a virgin. In broader usage of these terms, they can characterize a state of unimpacted purity.
	Viroid Pospiviroidae Avsunviroidae Viroids are plant pathogens that consist of a short stretch of highly complementary, circular, single-stranded RNA without the capsid that is typical for viruses. The smallest so far is a 220 nucleobase scRNA associated with the rice yellow mottle sobemovirus ids RNA does not code for any known protein; some even lack the AUG start codon.
	Virtual image In optics, a virtual image is a representation of an actual object formed by diverging ray_(optics) of light which seem to originate from the image, but in reality do not come from that position. A screen or an observer placed where a virtual image appears to be cannot actually "see" it.
	Virtual memory Virtual memory or virtual memory addressing is a memory management technique, used by Computer multitasking computer operating systems wherein non-contiguous memory is presented to a software as contiguous memory. This contiguous memory is referred to as the virtual address space.
	Virtual reality Virtual reality is a technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated Surroundings. Most virtual reality environments are primarily visual experiences, displayed either on a computer screen or through special Stereoscopy, but some simulations include additional sensory information, such as sound through speakers or headphones.
	Virtue Virtue is moral excellence of a person. A virtue is a Moral character trait Value as being Goodness and value theory. The conceptual opposite of virtue is vice. The Greek language word has not come into ordinary English language.
	Virtuoso A virtuoso is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability at singing or playing a musical instrument. The plural form is either virtuosi or the Anglicisation, virtuosos. Virtuosi are often musical composers as well. During the age of Baroque music many, if not most, composers were also virtuosi on their respective instruments.
	Virus A virus is a microscopic particle that can infectious diseases the cell s of a biological organism. At the most basic level, viruses consist of genetic material contained within a protective protein shell called a capsid; the existence of both genetic material and protein distinguishes them from other virus-like particles such as prions and viroids.
	Visage Visage was a New Romantic Musical ensemble that began life in 1978, mainly to provide some danceable music to be played on Steve Strange's and Rusty Egan's Billy's London nightclub. Steve Strange commented about the meaning of the ensemble's name: "The meaning of Visage, apart from being French for face, is that the Vis is for the visual side of the band...
	Viscacha The viscacha or vizcacha is a rodent of the chinchilla family Chinchillidae. There are two genera and four species of viscacha. * Plains viscacha: Resident of the Pampas of Argentina, easily differentiated from other viscachas by black and gray mustache-like facial markings.
	Viscose Viscose is a viscous organic liquid used to make rayon and cellophane. Cellulose from wood or cotton fibres is treated with sodium hydroxide, then mixed with carbon disulfide to form cellulose xanthate, which is dissolved in more sodium hydroxide. The resulting viscose is extruded into an acid bath either through a slit to make cellophane, or through a spinneret to make viscose rayon.
	Viscosity Viscosity is a measure of the resistance of a fluid to deform under shear stress. It is commonly perceived as "thickness", or resistance to pouring. Viscosity describes the property of a fluid that resists the force,friction, causing the fluid to flow . Thus, water is "thin", having a lower viscosity, while vegetable oil is "thick" having a higher viscosity.
	Viscum Viscum is a genus of about 70-100 species of mistletoes, native to temperate and tropical regions of Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia. Traditionally, the genus has been placed in its own family Viscaceae, but recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group shows this family to be correctly placed within a larger circumscription of the family Santalaceae.
	Viscum album Viscum album is a species of mistletoe, the species originally so-named, and also known as European Mistletoe or Common Mistletoe to distinguish it from other related species. It is native to Europe, and western and southern Asia. It is a parasitic plant shrub, which grows on the stems of other trees.
	Vishnu Vishnu , is a form of God, in Hinduism. For Vaishnavism, he is the Ultimate Reality or God, as is Shiva for Shaivites. In Trimurti concept , he is the second aspect of God . Known as the Preserver, he is most famously identified with his avatars, or incarnations, especially Krishna and Rama.
	Visibility In meteorology, visibility is a measure of the distance at which an object or light can be seen. It is important to all forms of traffic: roads, sailing and aviation. Meteorological visibility refers to transparency of air: in dark, meteorological visibility is still the same as in the same air in daylight.
	Visible Visible is a not-for-profit, free, quarterly magazine dedicated to giving LGBT history more visibility. The first of its kind, it aims to reveal the full diversity and richness of the LGBT communitys history. The emphasis is put on good design, accessibility and inclusiveness.
	Visible spectrum The visible spectrum is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visual perception to the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation in this range of wavelengths is called visible light or simply light. There are no exact bounds to the visible spectrum; a typical human eye will respond to wavelengths from 1 E-7 m, although some people may be able to perceive wavelengths from 380 to 780 nanometres.
	Visible Speech Visible speech is the name of the system used by Alexander Melville Bell, who was known internationally as a teacher of speech and proper elocution and an author of books on the subject. The system is composed of symbols that show the position and movement of the throat, tongue, and lips as they produced the sounds of language and it is a type of phonetic transcription.
	Visigoth The Visigoths were one of two main branches of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe . Together these tribes were among the loosely-termed Germanic tribes who disturbed the late Roman Empire during the Migration Period. After the fall of the Roman Empire the Visigoths played a major role in western European affairs for another two and a half centuries.
	Visiting card Visiting cards also known as calling cards first appeared in China in the 15th century, and in Europe in the 17th century. The footmen of aristocrats and of Royal family would deliver these first European visiting cards to the servants of their prospective hosts solemnly introducing the arrival of their owners.
	Visor A visor is a surface that Eye protection, such as shading them from the sun or other bright light or protecting them from objects. Types of visors include:- *A type of hat consisting only of a visor and a way to fasten it to the head. *The transparent or semi-transparent front part of a motorcycle helmet
	Vistula The Vistula is the longest river in Poland. It is 1,047 kilometers long and drains an area of 194,424 km , of which 168,699 km lies within Poland . The Vistula has its source in the south of the country, at Barania Gra in the Beskidy Mountains where it starts with the White Little Vistula and the Black Little Vistula .