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15-letter words containing v, a, n, d, i

  • galvanized iron — iron or steel, especially in sheets, coated with zinc to prevent rust.
  • gardening leave — If someone who leaves their job is given gardening leave, they continue to receive their salary and in return they agree not to work for anyone else for a period of time.
  • have a nice day — pleasantry
  • henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
  • hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
  • 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.
  • individualising — Present participle of individualise.
  • individualistic — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
  • individualities — Plural form of individuality.
  • individualizing — Present participle of individualize.
  • interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
  • interindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
  • intraindividual — Occurring within an individual.
  • 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.
  • invitation card — a card given to someone to invite them to something
  • 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.
  • jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
  • leonid andreyev — Leonid Nikolaevich [lee-uh-nid nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˈli ə nɪd ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1919, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
  • living standard — standard of living.
  • maidenhair-vine — wire vine.
  • maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
  • media converter — (networking)   A component used in Ethernet, although it is not part of the IEEE standard. The IEEE standard states that all segments must be linked with repeaters. Media converters were developed as a simpler, cheaper alternative to repeaters. However, in the 1990s the cost difference between the two is negligible.
  • medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
  • melville island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, N of Canada, belonging to Canada. 200 miles (320 km) long; 130 miles (210 km) wide.
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • multidivisional — Of or pertaining to more than one division.
  • native canadian — a person born in Canada of American Indian or Inuit descent.
  • nevado del ruiz — a volcano in W central Colombia, in the Andes: eruption 1985. 17,720 feet (5401 meters).
  • new-variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
  • node of ranvier — a gap occurring at regular intervals between segments of myelin sheath along a nerve axon.
  • non-adversarial — a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
  • non-declarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
  • nonadjudicative — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
  • nondegenerative — tending to degenerate.
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • not give a damn — If you say that someone does not give a damn about something, you are emphasizing that they do not care about it at all.
  • oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
  • overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
  • overentertained — entertained to excess
  • overopinionated — too opinionated
  • panzer division — an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.
  • parallel-veined — having closely spaced longitudinal veins, as the leaves of most monocotyledonous plants.
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
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