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15-letter words containing e, a, v

  • inversion layer — a layer of the atmosphere in which there is a temperature inversion, with the layer tending to prevent the air below it from rising, thus trapping any pollutants that are present.
  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
  • investment bank — a financial institution that deals chiefly in the underwriting of new securities.
  • invisible glass — glass that has been curved to eliminate reflections.
  • involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
  • invulnerability — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
  • ipsissima verba — with the very words; verbatim.
  • irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
  • irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
  • irvine dataflow — (language)   (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
  • island universe — an external galaxy.
  • ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • javelin thrower — a person who throws a javelin
  • jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
  • joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
  • judicial review — the power of a court to adjudicate the constitutionality of the laws of a government or the acts of a government official.
  • juvenal plumage — the first plumage of birds, composed of contour feathers, which in certain species follows the naked nestling stage and in other species follows the molt of natal down.
  • kilovolt-ampere — an electrical unit, equal to 1000 volt-amperes. Abbreviation: kVA, kva.
  • labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
  • lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
  • lamino-alveolar — articulated with the blade of the tongue approaching the alveolar ridge.
  • las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • lavender cotton — a silvery-gray, evergreen, woody composite plant, Santolina chamaecyparissus, of southern Europe, having yellow flower heads.
  • law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
  • lazy evaluation — (reduction)   An evaluation strategy combining normal order evaluation with updating. Under normal order evaluation (outermost or call-by-name evaluation) an expression is evaluated only when its value is needed in order for the program to return (the next part of) its result. Updating means that if an expression's value is needed more than once (i.e. it is shared), the result of the first evaluation is remembered and subsequent requests for it will return the remembered value immediately without further evaluation. This is often implemented by graph reduction. An unevaluated expression is represented as a closure - a data structure containing all the information required to evaluate the expression. Lazy evaluation is one evaluation strategy used to implement non-strict functions. Function arguments may be infinite data structures (especially lists) of values, the components of which are evaluated as needed. According to Phil Wadler the term was invented by Jim Morris. Opposite: eager evaluation. A partial kind of lazy evaluation implements lazy data structures or especially lazy lists where function arguments are passed evaluated but the arguments of data constructors are not evaluated.
  • leave the field — to back out of a competition, contest, etc
  • leaves of grass — a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.
  • leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
  • left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
  • length over all — Nautical. the entire length of a vessel, measured from the foremost point of the bow to the aftermost point of the stern.
  • leonid andreyev — Leonid Nikolaevich [lee-uh-nid nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˈli ə nɪd ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1919, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
  • level one cache — primary cache
  • level two cache — secondary cache
  • levelheadedness — The property of being levelheaded, stable, not overly swayed by passion.
  • levi-montalcini — Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
  • literary device — technique used in writing
  • liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • loan investment — a loan made as an investment
  • lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • low-level waste — waste material contaminated by traces of radioactivity that can be disposed of in steel drums in concrete-lined trenches but not (since 1983) in the sea
  • lower slobbovia — any place considered to be remote, poor, or unenlightened.
  • maidenhair-vine — wire vine.
  • make one's move — to pass from one place or position to another.
  • make-up remover — a substance that you use to remove make-up from your face
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