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15-letter words containing i, n, v, g, o, r

  • receiving order — court order
  • resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
  • revolving stage — a circular platform divided into segments enabling multiple theater sets to be put in place in advance and in turn rotated into view of the audience.
  • roving reporter — a reporter who travels around, rather than staying in a fixed place
  • saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
  • serve one right — to act as a servant.
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • unforgivingness — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
  • unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
  • variable region — a configuration in the upper branches of the Y of an antibody molecule, unique in each antibody type, that binds with the determinant of a specific antigen.
  • video recording — sth filmed on videotape
  • virginian stock — a similar and related North American plant, Malcolmia maritima
  • 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.
  • voronoi polygon — (mathematics, graphics)   For a member s of a set S of points in a Euclidean space, the locus of points in the plane that are closer to s than to any other member of S.
  • vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
  • voting precinct — one of several areas, each containing a polling place, into which a town or city is split for voting purposes
  • vulgar fraction — common fraction.
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