15-letter words containing l, e, v
- hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
- hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
- hypoventilation — Breathing at an abnormally slow rate, resulting in an increased amount of carbon dioxide in the blood.
- ille-et-vilaine — a department in W France. 2700 sq. mi. (7000 sq. km). Capital: Rennes.
- imperial valley — an irrigated agricultural region in SE California, adjacent to Mexico, formerly a part of the Colorado Desert: it is largely below sea level and contains the Salton Sink.
- imperviableness — the state of being imperviable
- implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
- in-visible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
- indistinctively — without distinctive characteristics.
- individualities — Plural form of individuality.
- indivisibleness — The state of being indivisible; indivisibility.
- inevitabilities — Plural form of inevitability.
- interclavicular — a median membrane bone developed between the collarbones, or in front of the breastbone, in many vertebrates.
- interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
- interindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
- interval signal — a characteristic snatch of music, chimes, etc, transmitted as an identifying signal by a radio station between programme items
- intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
- intervisibility — the state or fact of being visible.
- introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- 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.
- investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
- 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.
- irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
- irreversibility — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
- 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
- judicial review — the power of a court to adjudicate the constitutionality of the laws of a government or the acts of a government official.
- jupiter pluvius — Jupiter regarded as the giver of rain
- 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.
- knowledge level — (artificial intelligence) A level of description of the knowledge of an agent that is independent of the agent's internal symbol-level representation. Knowledge can be attributed to agents by observing their actions. An agent "knows" something if it acts as if it had the information and is acting rationally to achieve its goals. The "actions" of agents, including knowledge base servers and knowledge-based systems, can be seen through a "tell and ask" functional interface, where a client interacts with an agent by making logical assertions (tell), and posing queries (ask).
- 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.