15-letter words containing a, c, i, v, e
- vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
- vegetative coma — a condition in which an injured person is alive but comatose, and does not respond to stimuli
- vending machine — a coin-operated machine for selling small articles, beverages, etc.
- venetian school — any of various groups of artists identified with Venice throughout the history of Italian art but most notably the painters of the 18th century, as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Francesco Guardi, and Antonio Canaletto.
- venture capital — funds invested or available for investment in a new or unproven business enterprise.
- vermouth cassis — a mixed drink made with dry vermouth, crème de cassis, soda or mineral water, and cracked ice.
- vernier caliper — a caliper formed of two pieces sliding across one another, one having a graduated scale and the other a vernier.
- vernier compass — a compass on a transit (vernier transit) having a vernier for adjusting magnetic bearings to read as true bearings.
- vertical angles — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
- vertical circle — a great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the zenith.
- vice chancellor — a substitute, deputy, or subordinate chancellor.
- vice-chancellor — a substitute, deputy, or subordinate chancellor.
- victor emmanuel — 1869–1947, king of Italy 1900–46.
- village college — a centre, often for a group of villages, with educational and recreational facilities for the whole neighbourhood
- vincent de paul — Saint, 1576–1660, French Roman Catholic priest noted for his work to aid the poor.
- vindicativeness — the quality or state of being vindicative
- viral infection — disease caused by a virus
- virtual machine — Also called system virtual machine. a self-contained operating environment that behaves as if it is a separate computer, with no access to the host operating system: When an application runs in a virtual machine, there is little chance that it will damage files or applications in the host system.
- visual literacy — the ability to apprehend or interpret pictures or other visual images.
- vitreous silica — silica glass
- voice-activated — (of a telephone answering machine or other device) operationally responsive to a human voice.
- voltaic battery — battery (def 1a).
- voyeuristically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a voyeur or of voyeurism.
- well-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.