15-letter words containing i, n, o, v, a, d
- nondegenerative — tending to degenerate.
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- not give a damn — If you say that someone does not give a damn about something, you are emphasizing that they do not care about it at all.
- oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
- overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
- overentertained — entertained to excess
- overopinionated — too opinionated
- panzer division — an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- pre-deprivation — the act of depriving.
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
- starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
- undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
- universal donor — a person with blood of group O.
- us savings bond — A US Savings bond is a long-term bond issued by the US government that is considered low-risk.
- vector addition — the process of finding one vector that is equivalent to the result of the successive application of two or more given vectors.
- venetian window — Palladian window.
- victoria island — an island off the coast of N Canada, in the Arctic Ocean. 80,340 sq. mi. (208,081 sq. km).
- video on demand — (communications) (VoD) A planned system using video compression to supply programs to viewers when requested, via ISDN or cable.
- volcano islands — a group of three volcanic islands in the W Pacific, about 1100 km (700 miles) south of Japan: the largest is Iwo Jima, taken by US forces in 1945 and returned to Japan in 1968. Area: about 28 sq km (11 sq miles)
- 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.