15-letter words containing v, d, l
- divide and rule — You use divide and rule to refer to a policy which is intended to keep someone in a position of power by causing disagreements between people who might otherwise unite against them.
- divinity school — a Protestant seminary.
- divisional coin — a coin having a value smaller than a country's main monetary unit
- dogtooth violet — Also called adder's-tongue, trout lily. any of several North American lilies of the genus Erythronium, having nodding flowers and usually mottled leaves.
- dolni vestonice — a camping site of Upper Paleolithic mammoth hunters c23,000 b.c. in southern Moravia, Czech Republic, characterized chiefly by Venus figures, ornaments of mammoth ivory, and animal figures of baked clay.
- dorsiventrality — The quality of being dorsiventral.
- dorsoventrality — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- dose equivalent — a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the absorber: measured in Sievert or rem.
- double genitive — a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father's in He is a friend of father's.
- double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
- dr. strangelove — a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.
- driving licence — A driving licence is a card showing that you are qualified to drive because you have passed a driving test.
- driving license — A driving license is the same as a driver's license.
- eleventh-grader — a student in the eleventh grade of high school
- evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
- faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
- family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
- federal reserve — In the United States, the Federal Reserve is the central banking system, which is responsible for setting policy on monetary matters such as money supply and interest rates.
- field of vision — the entire view encompassed by the eye when it is trained in any particular direction.
- flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
- forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
- 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.
- gatefold sleeve — a record sleeve that opens out like a book
- girdle traverse — a climb that consists of a complete traverse of a face or crag
- glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
- go to the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- guadalupe river — a river in SE Texas, flowing SE to the San Antonio River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- head over heels — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- heaviside layer — E layer.
- heavy-heartedly — in a heavy-hearted manner
- holiday village — a park with villas where holidaymakers stay and which has a central area with a shop, entertainment, etc
- 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.
- indistinctively — without distinctive characteristics.
- 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.
- indivisibleness — The state of being indivisible; indivisibility.
- 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.
- 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.
- judicial review — the power of a court to adjudicate the constitutionality of the laws of a government or the acts of a government official.
- 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).
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- lavender cotton — a silvery-gray, evergreen, woody composite plant, Santolina chamaecyparissus, of southern Europe, having yellow flower heads.