| universe | (noun) everything stated or assumed in a given discussion | Synonyms: universe of discourse |
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| (noun) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn | Synonyms: population |
| (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, world |
| university | (noun) establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching | - |
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| (noun) the body of faculty and students at a university | - |
| (noun) a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees | - |
| unperson | (noun) a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons) | Synonyms: nonperson |
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| unpersuasiveness | (noun) inability to persuade | - |
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| versant | (noun) the side or slope of a mountain | Synonyms: mountainside |
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| versatility | (noun) having a wide variety of skills | - |
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| verse | (noun) a piece of poetry | Synonyms: rhyme |
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| (noun) a line of metrical text | Synonyms: verse line |
| (noun) literature in metrical form | Synonyms: poesy, poetry |
| versicle | (noun) a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation | - |
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| versification | (noun) the art or practice of writing verse | - |
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| (noun) the form or metrical composition of a poem | - |
| (noun) a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text) | - |
| versifier | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, rhymester |
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| version | (noun) manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery) | - |
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| (noun) a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something | Synonyms: interpretation, reading |
| (noun) something a little different from others of the same type | Synonyms: edition, variant, variation |
| (noun) a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | Synonyms: interlingual rendition, rendering, translation |
| (noun) an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint | - |
| (noun) a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form | Synonyms: adaptation |
| verso | (noun) the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design | Synonyms: reverse |
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| (noun) left-hand page | - |
| verst | (noun) a Russian unit of length (1.067 km) | - |
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| vespers | (noun) the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays | Synonyms: evensong |
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| viewers | (noun) the audience reached by television | Synonyms: TV audience, viewing audience |
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| viziership | (noun) the position of vizier | - |
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| waders | (noun) waterproof hip boots (sometimes extending to the chest) worn by anglers | - |
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| wardership | (noun) the position of warder | - |
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| waters | (noun) the serous fluid in which the embryo is suspended inside the amnion | Synonyms: amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid |
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| waterscape | (noun) a painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape) | Synonyms: seascape |
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| watershed | (noun) an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend | Synonyms: landmark, turning point |
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| (noun) a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems | Synonyms: divide, water parting |
| (noun) the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet | Synonyms: basin, catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, drainage basin, river basin |
| waterside | (noun) land bordering a body of water | - |
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| waterskin | (noun) a container of skin for holding water | Synonyms: water skin |
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| waterspout | (noun) a channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof) | - |
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| (noun) a tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist | - |
| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent |
| weatherstrip | (noun) a narrow strip of material to cover the joint of a door or window to exclude the cold | Synonyms: weather strip, weather stripping, weatherstripping |
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| weatherstripping | (noun) a narrow strip of material to cover the joint of a door or window to exclude the cold | Synonyms: weather strip, weather stripping, weatherstrip |
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| whippersnapper | (noun) someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous | Synonyms: jackanapes, lightweight |
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| whiskers | (noun) the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face | Synonyms: beard, face fungus |
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| withers | (noun) the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals | - |
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| yachtsperson | (noun) a person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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