15-letter words containing v, i, g, o
- receiving order — court order
- resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
- revolving stage — a circular platform divided into segments enabling multiple theater sets to be put in place in advance and in turn rotated into view of the audience.
- roving reporter — a reporter who travels around, rather than staying in a fixed place
- sauvignon blanc — a white grape grown primarily in France and California.
- savings account — a bank account on which interest is paid, traditionally one for which a bankbook is used to record deposits, withdrawals, and interest payments.
- saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
- serve one right — to act as a servant.
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
- slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
- sleeve coupling — a cylinder joining the ends of two lengths of shafting or pipe.
- tactical voting — Tactical voting is the act of voting for a particular person or political party in order to prevent someone else from winning, rather than because you support that person or party.
- to give rise to — If something gives rise to an event or situation, it causes that event or situation to happen.
- to give vent to — If you give vent to your feelings, you express them forcefully.
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- unforgivingness — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
- unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
- us savings bond — A US Savings bond is a long-term bond issued by the US government that is considered low-risk.
- vanishing point — a point of disappearance, cessation, or extinction: His patience had reached the vanishing point.
- variable region — a configuration in the upper branches of the Y of an antibody molecule, unique in each antibody type, that binds with the determinant of a specific antigen.
- vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
- vegetative coma — a condition in which an injured person is alive but comatose, and does not respond to stimuli
- video recording — sth filmed on videotape
- village college — a centre, often for a group of villages, with educational and recreational facilities for the whole neighbourhood
- 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]>.
- viper's bugloss — the blueweed.
- virginian stock — a similar and related North American plant, Malcolmia maritima
- virtual storage — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
- voltage divider — a resistor or series of resistors connected to a voltage source and used to provide voltages that are fractions of that of the source.
- 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.