8-letter words containing a, s, v
- vaporous — having the form or characteristics of vapor: a vaporous cloud.
- varanasi — a city in SE Uttar Pradesh, in NE India, on the Ganges River: Hindu holy city.
- varicose — abnormally or unusually enlarged or swollen: a varicose vein.
- varistor — a resistor whose resistance automatically varies in proportion to the voltage of the current through it.
- varnishy — glossy; like varnish
- vasarely — Victor. 1908–97, French painter, born in Hungary; a leading exponent of op art
- vascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- vasculum — a kind of case or box used by botanists for carrying specimens as they are collected.
- vaselike — like or resembling a vase
- vaseline — Vaseline is a soft clear jelly made from petroleum, which is used to protect the skin and for other purposes.
- vasiform — having the form of a duct or tube.
- vasotomy — incision or opening of the vas deferens.
- vassalic — of, relating to, or resembling a vassal or vassalage.
- vasteras — a city in central Sweden.
- vastness — of very great area or extent; immense: the vast reaches of outer space.
- vaucluse — a department in SE France. 1382 sq. mi. (3580 sq. km). Capital: Avignon.
- vavasory — the tenure of a fee held by a vavasor.
- vax mips — (benchmark) (Or VAX Unit of Performance, VUP) The processing power normally attributed to a Digital Equipment Corporation VAX 11/780. Future VAX systems were rated according to this scale (e.g. VAX 8350's being 2.7 VUPs per CPU). A MicroVAX II is normally associated with 0.9 VUPs and at a later time the MicroVUP was coined to rate VAX workstations. The use of the VUP by Digital Equipment Corporation has been replaced with more standard benchmarks (SPECint and SPECfp) in the DEC Alpha processor systems.
- veganism — a vegetarian who omits all animal products from the diet.
- venusian — of or relating to the planet Venus.
- verseman — a man who writes verse
- versiera — witch of Agnesi.
- vesalius — Andreas [ahn-dre-ahs] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1514–64, Flemish anatomist.
- vesicant — producing a blister or blisters, as a medicinal substance; vesicating.
- vesicate — to raise vesicles or blisters on; blister.
- vesperal — the part of an antiphonary containing the chants for vespers.
- vespiary — a nest of social wasps.
- vestally — in a vestal manner
- vestiary — of or relating to garments or vestments.
- vestigia — a vestigial structure of any kind; vestige.
- vesuvian — of, relating to, or resembling Mount Vesuvius; volcanic.
- viatores — a wayfarer; traveler.
- vibrissa — one of the stiff, bristly hairs growing about the mouth of certain animals, as a whisker of a cat.
- vicaress — a rank of nun
- victuals — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- villages — The, a city in central Oklahoma.
- vinasses — the residuum in a still after distillation; slop.
- vinnitsa — a city in central Ukraine, on the Bug River.
- virtuosa — a female virtuoso; a woman with exceptional talent or skill, especially in music.
- viscacha — a burrowing rodent, Lagostomus maximus, about the size of a groundhog, inhabiting the pampas of Paraguay and Argentina, allied to the chinchilla.
- viscaria — any plant of the Eurasian perennial genus Viscaria, closely related to genus Lychnis, in which it is sometimes included: low-growing, with pink, white, or purple flowers: family Carophyllaceae
- visceral — of or relating to the viscera.
- visegrad — a town in N Hungary, NW of Budapest on the Danube: site of summit in 1991 of the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland.
- visicalc — (application, tool, business, history) /vi'zi-calk/ The first spreadsheet program, conceived in 1978 by Dan Bricklin, while he was an MBA student at Harvard Business School. Inspired by a demonstration given by Douglas Engelbart of a point-and-click user interface, Bricklin set out to design an application that would combine the intuitiveness of pencil and paper calculations with the power of a programmable pocket calculator. Bricklin's design was based on the (paper) financial spreadsheet, a kind of document already used in business planning. (Some of Bricklin's notes for VisiCalc were scribbled on the back of a spreadsheet pad.) VisiCalc was probably not the first application to use a spreadsheet model, but it did have a number of original features, all of which continue to be fundamental to spreadsheet software. These include point-and-type editing, range replication and formulas that update automatically with changes to other cells. VisiCalc is widely credited with creating the sudden demand for desktop computers that helped fuel the microcomputer boom of the early 1980s. Thousands of business people with little or no technical expertise found that they could use VisiCalc to create sophisticated financial programs. This makes VisiCalc one of the first killer apps.
- visional — of or relating to visions.
- visitant — a temporary resident; visitor; guest.
- visually — in a visual manner; with respect to sight; by sight.
- vitalise — to give life to; make vital.
- vitalism — the philosophical doctrine that the phenomena of life cannot be explained in purely mechanical terms because there is something immaterial which distinguishes living from inanimate matter
- vitamins — any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism, found in minute amounts in natural foodstuffs or sometimes produced synthetically: deficiencies of vitamins produce specific disorders.