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15-letter words containing v, a, i, s

  • individualistic — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
  • individualities — Plural form of individuality.
  • inevitabilities — Plural form of inevitability.
  • informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • initiative test — a test to see how resourceful someone is and their ability to decide what to do and when to do it
  • inoperativeness — The state or condition of being inoperative; nonfunction.
  • insignificative — not expressed or denoted by external signs
  • interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
  • intertransverse — (anatomy) Between the transverse processes of the vertebrae.
  • 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.
  • intervisitation — the act of visiting.
  • intravascularly — Within a blood vessel.
  • 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.
  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
  • investment bank — a financial institution that deals chiefly in the underwriting of new securities.
  • invisible glass — glass that has been curved to eliminate reflections.
  • involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
  • ipsissima verba — with the very words; verbatim.
  • irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
  • irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
  • 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.
  • ivano-frankovsk — a city in W Ukraine, S of Lvov.
  • jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
  • labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
  • 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
  • leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
  • liskov, barbara — Barbara Liskov
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • living standard — standard of living.
  • loan investment — a loan made as an investment
  • lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
  • lower slobbovia — any place considered to be remote, poor, or unenlightened.
  • maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
  • male chauvinism — the beliefs, attitudes, or behavior of male chauvinists (men who patronize, disparage, or otherwise denigrate females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit).
  • male chauvinist — a male who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
  • marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
  • melville island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, N of Canada, belonging to Canada. 200 miles (320 km) long; 130 miles (210 km) wide.
  • mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • misappreciative — not fully or properly appreciative
  • misvocalization — an incorrect or bad vocalization
  • molecular sieve — a compound with molecule-size pores, as some sodium aluminum silicates, that chemically locks molecules in them: used in purification and separation processes.
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
  • multidivisional — Of or pertaining to more than one division.
  • musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
  • nastic movement — a response of plant parts that is independent of the direction of the external stimulus, such as the opening of buds caused by an alteration in light intensity
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