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15-letter words containing v, i, t, u

  • double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
  • dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
  • erosive mixture — An erosive mixture is a mixture containing substances that wear away components or cause problems with the flow of oil along pipelines.
  • evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
  • eviction clause — a clause by which a contract or other agreement may be terminated, especially between theatrical producers and theater owners in whose agreements it is often stipulated that when weekly receipts fall below a certain minimum usually for two consecutive weeks, the production must vacate the theater.
  • executive board — administrative committee
  • executive order — An executive order is a regulation issued by a member of the executive branch of government. It has the same authority as a law.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • faites vos jeux — place your bets! (a phrase used by croupiers in roulette and other casino gambling games)
  • follow-up visit — a visit made as a follow-up to an initial visit
  • fountain valley — a city in SW California.
  • free university — a school run informally by and for college students, organized to offer courses and approaches not usually offered in a college curriculum.
  • furniture mover — person: removal worker
  • geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
  • give it the gun — to cause something to start or gain speed
  • gram equivalent — the combining power, especially in grams (gram equivalent) of an element or compound, equivalent to hydrogen as a standard of 1.00797 or oxygen as a standard of 8; the atomic weight divided by the valence.
  • have to lump it — If you say that someone will have to lump it, you mean that they must accept a situation or decision whether they like it or not.
  • house detective — an employee of a department store, hotel, etc., employed to prevent thefts, violations of regulations, or other forms of misconduct on the part of patrons.
  • hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
  • in the universe — If you say that something is, for example, the best or biggest thing of its kind in the universe, you are emphasizing that you think it is bigger or better than anything else of its kind.
  • incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
  • incommunicative — not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.
  • individualistic — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
  • individualities — Plural form of individuality.
  • inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
  • inquisitiveness — given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious: an inquisitive mind.
  • instructiveness — Quality of being instructive.
  • interclavicular — a median membrane bone developed between the collarbones, or in front of the breastbone, in many vertebrates.
  • interindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
  • intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
  • interuniversity — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
  • intraindividual — Occurring within an individual.
  • intravascularly — Within a blood vessel.
  • intussusceptive — Relating to intussusception.
  • involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
  • invulnerability — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
  • 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.
  • joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
  • jupiter pluvius — Jupiter regarded as the giver of rain
  • lazy evaluation — (reduction)   An evaluation strategy combining normal order evaluation with updating. Under normal order evaluation (outermost or call-by-name evaluation) an expression is evaluated only when its value is needed in order for the program to return (the next part of) its result. Updating means that if an expression's value is needed more than once (i.e. it is shared), the result of the first evaluation is remembered and subsequent requests for it will return the remembered value immediately without further evaluation. This is often implemented by graph reduction. An unevaluated expression is represented as a closure - a data structure containing all the information required to evaluate the expression. Lazy evaluation is one evaluation strategy used to implement non-strict functions. Function arguments may be infinite data structures (especially lists) of values, the components of which are evaluated as needed. According to Phil Wadler the term was invented by Jim Morris. Opposite: eager evaluation. A partial kind of lazy evaluation implements lazy data structures or especially lazy lists where function arguments are passed evaluated but the arguments of data constructors are not evaluated.
  • liquidity event — the ending of an investor's involvement in a business venture with a view to realizing a gain or loss from the investment
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • 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.
  • maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
  • milliequivalent — a unit of measure, applied to electrolytes, that expresses the combining power of a substance. Abbreviation: mEq.
  • mount of olives — a hill to the east of Jerusalem: in New Testament times the village Bethany (Mark 11:11) was on its eastern slope and Gethsemane on its western one
  • mountain beaver — a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae
  • multidivisional — Of or pertaining to more than one division.
  • multiple voting — the casting of ballots in more than one constituency in one election, as in England before the election reform of 1918.
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