8-letter words containing l, i, v, a
- 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.
- visually — in a visual manner; with respect to sight; by sight.
- vitalian — died a.d. 672, pope 657–672.
- 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
- vitality — exuberant physical strength or mental vigor: a person of great vitality.
- vitalize — to give life to; make vital.
- vitiable — capable of being vitiated.
- vladimir — Saint. Also, Vladimir I, Wladimir. (Vladimir the Great) a.d. c956–1015, first Christian grand prince of Russia 980–1015.
- vlaminck — Maurice de [moh-rees duh] /moʊˈris də/ (Show IPA), 1876–1958, French painter.
- vocalics — the non-verbal aspects of voice creation
- vocalion — a type of reed instrument which resembles a human voice
- vocalise — a musical composition consisting of the singing of melody with vowel sounds or nonsense syllables rather than text, as for special effect in classical compositions, in polyphonic jazz singing by special groups, or in virtuoso vocal exercises.
- vocalism — Phonetics. a vowel, diphthong, triphthong, or vowel quality, as in a syllable. the system of vowels of a language.
- vocalist — a singer.
- vocality — of, relating to, or uttered with the voice: the vocal mechanism; vocal criticism.
- vocalize — to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
- voidable — capable of being nullified or invalidated.
- volatile — evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor: Acetone is a volatile solvent.
- volcanic — of or relating to a volcano: a volcanic eruption.
- volitant — engaged in or having the power of flight.
- volitate — to flutter
- volscian — of or relating to the Volsci or to their language.
- voltaire — (François Marie Arouet) 1694–1778, French philosopher, historian, satirist, dramatist, and essayist.
- voltaism — the branch of electrical science that deals with the production of electricity or electric currents by chemical action.
- vortical — of or relating to a vortex.
- vuillard — (Jean) Édouard [zhahn ey-dwar] /ʒɑ̃ eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1868–1940, French painter.
- wavelike — a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.