15-letter words containing o, n, v, i
- venetian window — Palladian window.
- venus hairstone — a variety of rutilated quartz, used as a gemstone.
- vernier compass — a compass on a transit (vernier transit) having a vernier for adjusting magnetic bearings to read as true bearings.
- vespertilionine — of or relating to the bats of the subfamily Vespertilioninae, common in temperate regions and including most familiar species.
- vice chancellor — a substitute, deputy, or subordinate chancellor.
- vice-chancellor — a substitute, deputy, or subordinate chancellor.
- vicissitudinous — a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
- victor emmanuel — 1869–1947, king of Italy 1900–46.
- victoria island — an island off the coast of N Canada, in the Arctic Ocean. 80,340 sq. mi. (208,081 sq. km).
- victoria nyanza — Victoria (def 10).
- video frequency — transmission frequency of the television picture.
- video on demand — (communications) (VoD) A planned system using video compression to supply programs to viewers when requested, via ISDN or cable.
- video recording — sth filmed on videotape
- videoconference — a teleconference conducted via television equipment.
- vine phylloxera — a homopterous insect, Phylloxera vitifolia, typically feeding on vine juices
- vine technology — (company) A company which provides professional consulting services in the areas of networking, real-time systems, graphic arts, and web server advertisement space. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- violinistically — in a violinistic manner
- viral infection — disease caused by a virus
- virginian stock — a similar and related North American plant, Malcolmia maritima
- viscosity index — an arbitrary scale for lubricating oils that indicates the extent of variation in viscosity with variation of temperature.
- visible horizon — horizon (def 1).
- voice synthesis — the artificial production of the human voice
- 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)
- volume discount — a reduced price for goods given by a seller on the basis that the buyer buys a large quantity
- 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.
- where one lives — in one's sensitive or defenceless position
- window envelope — an envelope with a transparent opening through which the address on the enclosure may be read.
- wolverine state — Michigan (used as a nickname).