15-letter words containing a, n, d, v, r
- sons and lovers — a novel (1913) by D. H. Lawrence.
- starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
- superindividual — greater than the individual
- surrender value — cash value.
- tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
- transindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- transvaal daisy — a composite plant, Gerbera jamesonii, native to southern Africa, having showy, many-rayed, variously colored flower heads.
- unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
- undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
- universal donor — a person with blood of group O.
- vaginal dryness — abnormal dryness of the vagina, caused by lack of natural lubrication
- variant reading — an alternative interpretation of a word in a text to the one generally accepted
- vascular bundle — a longitudinal arrangement of strands of xylem and phloem, and sometimes cambium, that forms the fluid-conducting channels of vascular tissue in the rhizomes, stems, and leaf veins of vascular plants, the arrangement varying with the type of plant.
- vector addition — the process of finding one vector that is equivalent to the result of the successive application of two or more given vectors.
- victoria island — an island off the coast of N Canada, in the Arctic Ocean. 80,340 sq. mi. (208,081 sq. km).
- vindhya pradesh — a former state in central India: now part of Madhya Pradesh.
- völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
- voronoi diagram — (mathematics, graphics) (Or "Voronoi tessellation", "Voronoi decomposition", "Dirichlet tessellation", After Georgy Feodosevich Voronoy) For a set S of points in a Euclidean space, the partition Vor(S) of the plane into the voronoi polygons associated with the members of S, where each polygon is defined by the set of points nearer to some given point in S than to any other point in S. The Voronoi diagram is the dual of the Delaunay triangulation of S.