N O D I N G C H A L L E N G E
I have many nodeshells, created over 7+ years. Too many for me to fill, as you can clearly see from the list below. Since December 2004, I have decided to enlist help in filling them. I have made a small start, but the database does need your assistance. To that end, I created this list, partly so I can see what's happening, and partly to give others ideas for noding.
Sadly, since starting, I have added almost as many new ones as have been completed. When I began there were in excess of 670. As I write this, we're at 639, with 109 completed *sigh*.
- The challenge rules are simple - simply fill one of these (my current nodeshells) with something relevant. (You'd better check that it is still a nodeshell first, though - occasionally, someone does fill one without letting me know.)
- Factuals should be well researched, well formatted and suitable for all readers (see Writing for a Wider Audience). Aim for completeness, but don't go over-the-top - 1500 words should top off most topics, and even the shorter topics could be 300-500 words long.
- It's well known that I like a good, readable format, so lots of nice white space and subheadings (bold only, please - none of those dreaded <H> tags) will be smiled upon, especially in the longer writeups.
- It goes without saying that I expect you to have spell-checked and proofread your work before letting me know. If I find gross errors of grammar or whatnot, you may lose out.
- Other (non-factual) stuff may be creative, funny, quirky or what-have-you - use your imagination, I know you have one in there!
- I've decided to extend the closing date indefinitely - feel free to let me know as and when you complete one!
- Provided your work meets the basic criteria, you're guaranteed a C! from me, and maybe other blessings too - GP, votes or whatnot if you really strike a chord with me. Chings for you to spend, and possibly even a temporary homenode pic are not ruled out either, but obviously it's at my discretion.
- When you have posted your work, let me know that you have done so, and that it is for this challenge. This applies long after the fact, so if you realise later that the 'shell was in the challenge, still let me know. Once I've checked it off, I'll credit you in the list here.
If you have any questions or other comments, or think that any of the nodeshells are irrelevant, duplicated or just plain wrong, please /msg me (thanks to ariels for pointing some out already).
Note that there's a list of OH GOD, I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS NOT NODED on jessicapierce's scratchpad, too.
Completed Quest Writeups
- HMS Revenge - floated by Palpz
- Farnborough - now flying, thanks to LSK
- cinnabar moth - noded by wertperch
- steam distillation - done by young Palpz
- Publius Sulpicius Quirinius - sorted by DylanDog
- human cannonball - launched by wertperch
- dry rot - moulded by RACECAR
- The Mekon - first alien bio by wertperch
- dog rose - planted by RACECAR
- bomb disposal - defused by Palpz
- spick and span - cleaned up by Junkill
- Poperinge - neatly placed by DylanDog
- sperm motility - movin' and shakin' thanks to Palpz
- Alain Bombard - wertperch runs out of plays on words
- Walsall - put in place by Redalien
- tannic acid - Redalien reacted nicely
- ducking stool - dropped in by Cairsten
- Maxwell's otter - Junkill's pet
- Coals to Newcastle - carried off by Junkill
- carrier wave - broadcast by redbaker
- Clovis point - sculpted by The Lush
- Weisses Fleisch - Redalien
- dormitory town - woken up by LSK
- Davy Lamp - gbulmer enlightens us
- harvest mouse - sown by RACECAR
- Marsh Arabs - settled by junkill
- MASM - assembled by Vimes
- University of Missouri - Columbia - thesis by The Lush
- Saint Leonard - sanctified by Junkill
- trypanosomiasis - put to bed by Junkill
- Saint Bruno - rescued by Junkill
- barley water - concoted by wertperch
- Fourteen Holy Helpers - assisted by Tlachtga
- Anita Roddick - a body of work by gyrozapose
- Milk Stout - brewed up by thatguy
- 1170 - a good year for gbulmer
- Abigail's Party - hosted by Helen4Morrisey
- magnetosphere - attracted Redalien's attention
- Haddon Hall - built by Helen4Morrissey
- Murder Most Horrid - mystery solved by shimmer
- Andy Fairweather-Low - Amen to Junkill
- 1893 - from young mauler
- petit fours - served up by lesha
- St Bartholomew's Hospital - healed by paraclete
- run the gauntlet - handed out by junkill
- Brian Clough - saved by hubris
- spider mite - in the wild thanks to Envy
- elkhound - bred and trained by nocodeforparanoia
- enterotoxin - paraclete served it up
- blue eyed soul - nocodeforparanoia done it
- bobbing and weaving - dance to lupus
- Holy Island - outlined by gbulmer
- Atanasoff-Berry Computer - worked out by 18thCandidate
- Daughters of the American Revolution - recruited by lesha
- electoral register - recorded by benya
- London Stock Exchange - catered by the.web.hermit
- Spiny Oakworm - nocodeforparanoia
- chromium sulfate - tanned by Grayscale
- phototoxic - exposed by Grayscale
- beware of geeks bearing gifs - presented by Rapscallion
- to coin a phrase - stamped out by twofourtysix
- Ford Model A - driven into view by Envy
- The Woman in Red - recorded by TerribleAspect
- Ragged School - tidied up by Paraclete
- every cloud has a silver lining - turned out nicely, by Hubris
- Maurice Saatchi - as advertised by Hubris
- Devil amongst the Tailors - knocked off by TerribleAspect
- 616 - beautifully timed by hapax
- Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly - tuned up by Tlachtga
- Bombay mix - spiced up by twofourtysix
- 1189 - mauler, timed beautifully.
- cricket pitch - rolled by __kk__
- poker dice - defined by Webster 1913 (and thrown by jclast)
- chrysophanic acid - released by Grayscale
- bee hummingbird - small, but perfectly formed by lesha
- Daring jumping spider - pounced on by wertperch
- tintinnabulum - rattled out by Webster 1913
- Lady Penelope - strung together by waverider37
- Lembit Öpik - closed by Redalien
- Inglenook - built by wertperch
- Neti Pot - done, indirectly by geneva
- Japanese etiquette - beautifully finished by crypulse
- Jane's Fighting Ships - launched by The Custodian
- California Singing Fish - noted by Bitriot
- robber crab - nipped by Bitriot
- prawn crackers - served up by twofourtysix
- autothrottle - opened by The Custodian
- Joy Adamson - released into the wild by skybluefusion
- Women in Love - web unravelled by ShadowSpinner
- Thomas Coke - brought in by niruena
- William Stukeley - conjured by Tlachtga
- chamber pot - filled by Excalibre
- sodium thiosulfate - developed by RPGeek
- Paper Lace - unfolded by XWiz
- babul - "rescued" by Webster 1913, still in need of some more lovin' though
- Roseanne Barr - bar raised *groans* by Azzer
- white tea - brewed by Oolong
- 1925 - worked out by Grey Knight
- Kim's Game - found by Grey Knight
- malky - done in by Grey Knight
- moonraking - fished out by npecom
- dandelion and burdock cordial - polished off by npecom
- double digging - forked over by npecom
- laughter lines - :) by Danneeness
- spoon and pusher - fed to you by wertperch
- club moss - bashed out by grundoon
- multigrade oil - changed by Mikebert
- intentional grounding - spiked by Mikebert
- Cooper's Hawk - saved from extinction by Mikebert
- Here's Lucy - broadcast by Timeshredder
- arrow loop - fired off by Mikebert
- hydraulic fluid - Mikebert put the squeeze on it
- offensive holding - flagged by Mikebert
- Mods and Rockers - kickstarted by Mikebert
- The London Gazette - published by Redalien
- Tequila Stuntman - performed by ReiToei (originally as "tequila suicide") and PureDoxyk
- cucumber beetle - unearthed by kanoodle
- A dying playground can be Eden - planted by graceness
- 1118 - timed nicely by kanoodle (shame it wasn't number 118 on the list)
- sparring partner - fought for by cameron101
- Dennis Weaver - smoked out by kanoodle
- Fröhlich's syndrome - described here by dwardu
- Dalwhinnie - distilled by meezzio
- Imperial Tobacco - smoked out by meezzio
- Saint Petroc - blessed by Nadine_2
- Blue rinse - hair by virtue of kanoodle
- National Command Authority - led by The Custodian
- glove puppet - nicely handled by e-lainey
- shaving horse - shaped and finished by kanoodle
- Dropkick Me Jesus, Through The Goalposts Of Life - confidently scored by myself
- Saint Peregrine - nodeshell cured by Augustine
- Ginger Nuts - slammed (and dunked) by Andrew Aguecheek
- TASM - shot into the nodegel by The Custodian
- BAC TSR.2 - flying thanks to The Custodian
- open-heart surgery - cracked by metabrain
- North Atlantic Conveyor - brought by RainDropUp
- Nanette Newman - cleaned up by XWiz
- A disaster of Biblical proportions - brought down by Augustine
- Blackle - energetically written by resiak
- moue - poutingly rescued by Tem42
- Bodmin Moor - explored by XWiz
- Igorot - populated by Heitah
- Dutch courage - bravely filled by Mikebert
- grotty - delightfully finished by Heitah
- Sea Buckthorn - unfrozen by Heitah
- One in Five - shot down by Venkman
- foliar feed - homegrown by npecom
- rags to riches - brought up by sangsoo
- Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich - a hit from pdraleigh
⊂~ begin Iron Noder Challenge 2008 ~⊃
- cattle cake - fed to us by Aerobe
- air support - now flying thanks to The Custodian
- alcohol intolerance - a more-than-tolerable effort by Palpz
- spot market - bought up by filoraene
- Cuisenaire rods - added by filoraene
- Heidelberg Tun - filled by filoraene
- Economy Seven - saved by The Custodian
- Darrieus turbine - generated by The Custodian
- test pilot - in the air thanks to The Custodian
- sterling silver - polished off by filoraene
⊂~ end Iron Noder Challenge 2008 ~⊃
- borehole - filled by TedBronson
- shoo-in - race won by TedBronson
- 1124 counted by blahbleh
- donkey's years - matured by tentative
- sanpaku - eyeballed by mauler
- Yang Wanli - by mauler
- T-Mobile G1 - called in by Wuukiee
- pogonophobia - bearded in its den, by mauler
- I have a Little Dreidel - spun out by HC Shannon
- Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill - overturned by easterner
- A Tourist Guide to SouthEast England - mapped by tifrap
- Session Beer, or How To Drink More Beer - by me
- kitchen sink drama - cleaned up by the cheshire cat
- Zippo Raid - The Custodian enlightened us
- British Armed Forces Special Voucher - paid in full by The Custodian
⊂~ begin Iron Noder Challenge 2009 ~⊃
- Handley-Page - flying thanks to The Custodian
- The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu - unraveled by The Custodian
Still To Do
- 1473
- 3 Mustaphas 3 - British band
- 6502A
- Abbot Ale
- ABC Cinemas
- Abraham Holzel
- Accurist
- Agnostica
- Alan Bates - English actor
- Alan K. Simpson
- Alemanni
- Alex Cox - film director
- Alexei Shulgin
- Alfred Marks - British actor
- Alice Kahn
- Ali Hassan Salameh
- All Industrials index
- alpine meadow - 17 Dec 04 momomom
- Althingi
- Amy Prentice
- Andrew Strong
- Andy Ferguson
- Anne Fadiman
- Anthony McPartlin
- Anthony Newley
- Antiochene Rite
- Apostle spoon
- Arnold Alanen
- aromatic oil - 21 Dec 04 grundoon (/msg her if you want to do it, though)
- Arthur Askey
- Arthur Negus
- Artists Against Apartheid
- Atlas Mountains in Morocco
- Augustin Fresnel
- Auteuil
- Bailey Bridge
- Barbour
- Barefoot College
- Barry Sheen
- Basford
- Bass brewery
- bauernfruhstuck
- Bay Marchand
- beef stock
- Been Brown So Long, It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature
- Bernard Lovell
- Berwick on Tweed
- Betty Bowers
- Beverley Allit
- Bewdley
- Bill Foggitt
- Bill Nighy
- Billy Butlin
- Biojewellery
- Blackshirts
- Blair Athol
- Blue Funnel Line
- Blue John Cavern
- Bob McAllister
- bomoh
- bottle garden
- Brackenhill Tower
- Brandon Carter
- brass band
- Brian Rix
- Bridgwater
- British Film Institute
- British Israelites
- British National Corpus
- British Waterways
- Bruce Welch
- Butlins
- BUPA
- Call My Bluff
- Cambridge University Press - 28 Dec 04 RPGeek
- Campaign Against Racial Discrimination
- carer
- Carl Foreman
- carrier oil
- Carter Bar
- Castleton
- Chaddesden
- chador - 21 Dec 04 grundoon (/msg her if you want to do it, though)
- Chalons
- Chapel of Elvis
- Cheapside
- chemo curls
- chernozem
- Children in Need
- Chiltern Hills
- Chorale - 21 Jan 05 paradoxmo
- Chris Denning
- Christening
- Christopher Trace
- Cirencester
- Clan Drummond
- Clevedon
- cloth cap
- coaching inn
- Coalbrookdale
- Colin Davis
- Columbia Basin
- Common Entrance Examination
- Concrete Island - novel by J. G. Ballard
- Coniston Water
- Coolgardie safe
- Coritani
- Cornish Rebellion
- courtroom
- craft beer
- Craig Breedlove
- Crary Lab
- Cripple Mr Onion - a Discworld card game
- Cromer
- Culpeper's Herbal
- curtsey
- Dagenham
- Dave Swarbrick
- David Bailey
- Daz
- Debatable Lands
- Declan Donnelly
- Deddington
- Deep Heat
- Der Freischütz
- Derbyshire
- Devil's Punchbowl County Park
- Diana Dors
- Dixon of Dock Green
- Dodi Fayed
- drag hunt
- drawing room
- Duncton Wood
- Dundee cake
- Dunster Castle
- DynoRod
- Early Spider Orchid
- East Dereham
- East Kilbride
- Eastbourne
- Eileen McGann
- Enclosure Act
- Epsom
- Eric Sykes
- Ernest Seton
- Estrelda
- EUFA
- Eugene Lang
- EverReady
- Everybody's Everything
- Everything is Illuminated
- eximia
- Exmoor
- Eyelash mite
- Fairfield County, Ohio
- falling asleep
- Felix Dzerzhinsky
- Felix Klein
- Five Towns
- fly-half
- Folk Roots
- Folkestone
- For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three
- Ford Granada
- Forest of Bowland
- Fosse Way
- Francis Chichester
- Frankie Foursleeper
- Freda Lingstrom
- Friendly Society - a kind of mutual insurance company
- Gael Kathryns
- Gateshead
- Gay News
- GeekLog
- Gentlemen's Relish - Billy Connolly film about a Victorian pornographer
- Geoff Capes
- Geoff Hurst
- George Chisholm
- George Downing
- George Wald
- Georges Claude
- George Grossmith
- gin trap - a type of trap
- Giovanni Papini
- Goat and Compasses
- Going For A Song
- Golden Rose Of Montreux
- Goldendale, WA
- Gorbals
- Great Universal Stores
- Great Yarmouth - town in Norfolk, UK
- green beer
- Greenhalg
- Grosse & Blackwell
- Günther Prien
- handout
- Hans Makart
- Harold Taylor Ricketts
- Harry Somers
- Harvey Fite
- Hat Creek Observatory
- Hattie Jacques - actress, star of the "Carry On" films
- he who pays the piper calls the tune
- Health and Safety at Work Act
- Hellfighters
- Henri de Blois
- Henry N. Cobb
- Henry Cooper
- Henry Normal
- Hermitage Castle
- Hidcote Manor
- Hieronymus Bock - the herbalist
- Hindenburg Line
- hip bath
- HMS Royal Sovereign
- Hocking River
- hold your head up
- Holstein
- Honiton
- hospital radio
- Hosta
- hot trod - in pursuit of Border Reivers
- Howard W. Florey
- huckle-buff - a drink
- Humboldt Fog - it's a cheese, not a state of mind
- Hungerford
- Hyder Ali
- I hear in advance the criticism of The Elders 19 January redbaker
- Imperial Moth
- India Act
- Ingleborough
- Institute of Contemporary Arts
- Italia Irredenta
- IXTOC
- Jack Rosenthal
- Jack Sarfatti, physicist
- jian (a Chinese sword)
- James Bolam
- James Fox
- jamesway
- Jane Taylor
- Jeanne Cagney
- Jerome Rodale - champion of organic farming and food
- Jimmy Edwards
- Jodhpur - the place in India
- Johannine Comma
- John Barbirolli
- John C. Dvorak
- John Collet
- John Mills
- John Sainsbury
- John Stewart Collis
- John Surtees
- John Turtle Wood
- Johnny Dankworth
- Johnson & Johnson
- Joseph Grimaldi - British clown
- Josef Pieprzyk
- Josef Svoboda
- Joseph Rutherford
- Josiah Spode
- Josiah Wedgwood
- Juluka
- Junichi Yamamoto - two people, sumo wrestler and director of Meatball Machine
- Karl Wilhelm Kastner
- Kathryn Roberts
- KBE
- keep cavey
- Kelso
- Kenilworth Castle
- Kenneth Horne
- Kevin Blahut
- Kilcoe Castle
- Kinloss
- Kirkwall
- knee surgery
- Knole
- Konya
- La Stampa
- Lachrimæ, or Seven Teares
- Lady Dai
- Lady Emma Hamilton
- Lady Margaret Beaufort - 18 Dec 04 Brontosaurus
- The Land Girls - film about the Women's Land Army
- Language Through the Looking Glass
- Laramie, Wyoming
- Large Binocular Telescope Observatory
- Lark Rise
- Laurel Canyon
- Lavengro
- leaf mould
- levain - a type of French sourdough
- Leicester Cathedral
- Leicester Tigers
- Leicestershire
- Leon Rosselson
- Leonard Shlain
- Lionel Jeffries
- Liskeard
- Listen with Mother
- Life Change Units
- Liverpool Polytechnic
- Lombardi Award
- London Palladium
- Lord Nuffield
- Lutterworth
- Macclesfield
- macroencephaly
- Mackeson
- Macuna Pruriens
- Mackem
- Madhya Pradesh
- madrass
- Malcolm Campbell
- Malcolm Sargent
- male infertility
- manbag
- Mansfield
- maqlubi
- Margaret MacDonald
- Marischal College
- Mark Shand
- Marke Edelman
- Mars Express
- Marsh Fritillary
- Martin Harris
- Martin Johnson
- Martin Niemoller
- Marty Wilde
- mass trespass
- Master of Foxhounds
- Mastercare
- Masterchef
- Matt Busby
- Matthew Parris
- Maulana Karenga
- Max Bygraves
- Maximian
- medicine bag
- Melvyn Bragg
- Mercator's projection - 21 Dec 04 grundoon (/msg her if you want to do it, though)
- Merry Wives of Windsor
- Met Office
- Methocarbamol
- Metuchen, New Jersey
- Middlesborough
- Mike Hammer - a Mickey Spillane character
- Mike Harding
- Milkybar
- Milnut
- mine disaster - 21 Dec 04 grundoon (/msg her if you want to do it, though)
- Minute Maid
- monkey picked tea
- Monreith
- Moors Murderers
- Moon Trees
- Mothercare
- Mount Graham
- MTRLI
- mucopolysaccharides
- mulled ale
- Multiple System Atrophy
- Murchison Meteorite
- Murrayfield
- Muscular Dystrophy Association
- Museum of Oceanography
- Myron Kinley
- Nain Singh
- Naked as the sky
- naming ceremony
- narrowboat
- National Blood Service
- National Guitar
- National Space Centre
- nautical terms
- Neighbourhood Watch
- netymology
- Newcastle Falcons
- Nicolas Courtois
- Nicholas Parsons
- nine nights
- North American Rockwell
- Norwich Cathedral
- Oakham
- Ode to a Skylark
- offshore oil exploration
- old lag
- Olympus C-2
- Operation Linebacker II
- OPG
- orphan negative
- Oran
- Oruvail
- Osias Beert
- osmanthus tea
- Oxford University Dramatic Society
- Pangbourne Naval College
- Patience Worth
- Patrick, Lord Litchfield
- Paul Foot
- paviour
- Pedot
- Peggy Seeger
- Penderyn
- Percy Hobart
- Puirt a beul - a form of Scots mouth music
- Peter Nichols
- Peter Osgood (Chelsea FC)
- Peter Shilton
- Peter Sutcliffe
- Philip Clayton
- Philip Massinger
- pictogram
- podsol soil type
- Pole of Inaccessibility - remotest part of a place, e.g. Antarctica)
- Polesden Lacey
- Port Talbot
- Porta Asinaria
- Porta Latina
- potato flour
- POW camp
- powerlift
- Preparatory school
- principal boy - the traditional pants role in pantomime
- principles of navigation
- prisoner of the city
- Project Chatter
- publishing house
- Pulau Redang National Marine Park
- quarry tile
- Queenstown
- radio interferometry
- Radio Luxemburg
- Rae Beth
- Red Buttons
- Reg Varney
- Reichstaler
- Religious Science
- Renegade Software
- retroperitoneum
- Rhaetian Alps
- Riber Castle
- rhubarb fool the tastiest of all desserts
- Ric Sanders
- Richard Arkwright
- Richard Attenborough
- Richard Ingrams
- Richard Tauber
- Rick Kemp
- Ring of Bright Water
- River Dog
- River Soar
- Robert Hardy
- Robert Lazar
- Robert Melnick
- Robert Colquhoun
- Rochdale
- Rodney Bewes
- Roger MacDougall
- Roger Touhy
- Rolls razor
- rompope
- Ron Harris (Chelsea FC)
- rostrum camera
- Round The Horne
- Rousay
- Routemaster - classic double-decker London bus
- Roy Hudd
- Royal Hospital, Chelsea
- Royal Army Medical Corps
- Royal College of Music
- Royal College of Surgeons
- Royal Geographical Society
- Royal Naval Air Service
- rugby songs
- Rutland Weekend Television
- S.S. Adams
- Sausilito, California
- Saint Anthony's Bread
- Saint Joseph
- Saint-Leger
- salt marsh - 21 Dec 04 grundoon (/msg her if you want to do it, though)
- Salvatore Quasimodo
- Samuel Shem
- San Francisco Brewing Company
- San Francisco International Airport
- San Rafael, California
- Sandaig
- Sandringham
- Sayan Mountains
- Scots Guards
- Scottish Football Association
- Screw Magazine
- Serania de Cuenca
- Serinette
- Seth Carlo Chandler
- shikimic aid
- Shirebrook
- Shirley Williams
- Shiva lingam stone
- Shitting duck of France
- Sidi Bel Abbès
- Sigurd Savonius
- Simen Mountains
- Simon Munnery
- Sir Douglas Quintet
- sleep clinic
- slow-release
- Smyrna
- Sneinton
- Soay
- Sobelair
- Socialist Worker
- Sopwith Pup
- sound pollution
- Southend
- Southwell
- Spalding
- SSSI
- Stafford
- Staffordshire
- Steelboys
- Stella Gibbons
- Sticklebricks
- Stoke Mandeville
- Stratford Johns
- Stuart Hall
- Stuart Pearce
- Sudarium of Oviedo - cousin to the Shroud of Turin
- Suits you, Sir!
- Swatch time
- Swavely Preparatory School
- Sánchez de Lozada
- T wave
- tabloid press
- Tarquinius Superbus
- Tasmanian Aborigine
- Terence Rattigan
- Terry Nutkins
- The Albion Country Band
- The Cat and the Pigeons
- The Classic of Tea
- The Enid
- The Faces
- The female of the species is more deadly than the male - 21 Dec 04 grundoon (/msg her if you want to do it, though)
- The Fireboming of Bremen
- The Groundhogs (British Blues Band)
- The Great Stink
- The Hay Wain
- The Jesus Project
- The Last Remake of Beau Geste
- The Lord's Taverners
- The Mouse That Roared
- The Müller-Fokker Effect
- The Natural History
- The Needles
- The New Avengers
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- The penis mightier than the sword
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again
- The Plank
- The Potteries
- The Romany Rye
- The Sack of Antwerp
- The Tufty Club
- thermal mass
- These are not the Druids you are looking for
- Thieves Cant
- Thomas Bateman
- Thomas Fuller - English clergyman and author
- Thomas Heywood
- Thomas Minton
- Thomas Turner
- thousand-yard stare
- Threadneedle Street
- Tik-Tok - 21 Dec 04 grundoon (/msg her if you want to do it, though)
- Tim Severin
- Tom Brown's Schooldays
- Tommee Tippee
- Topset
- tower house
- Transglobal Underground - trance/fusion band
- Trent Bridge
- Triumph Herald
- tropical fish
- Trot of Turriff
- Twistor theory
- two penn'orth
- Ullswater
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Urban VIII
- Vale of Aylesbury
- Valerie Singleton
- Vincent M Holt
- virilization
- Viscount Linley
- Viscount Torrington
- Völund
- WAAF
- Waldorf School
- Walsingham
- war canoe
- Warwick Castle
- Weedon - town in England
- Weedon Grossmith
- West Bromwich Albion
- wet rot
- Wheeling, Pennsylvania
- where there's muck, there's brass
- Whipsnade Park
- Whiskas
- Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press
- Will Greenwood
- William Bates
- William F. Nolan (Logan's Run)
- William H. Davies
- William Lilly
- William Rowley
- William Webb Ellis
- Wilson A. Bentley
- Wirral
- Wish I was Skinny
- WinDbg the Windows debugger
- worm snake
- Yves Thuries
- Zincali, Gypsies of Spain