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15-letter words containing v, l, s

  • governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
  • governmentalism — the trend toward expansion of the government's role, range of activities, or power.
  • governmentalist — one who promotes the philosophy of governmentalism
  • hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
  • haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
  • 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.
  • hovering vessel — a vessel in territorial waters apparently collaborating in illicit operations.
  • hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
  • imperviableness — the state of being imperviable
  • implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
  • improvisational — the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation: Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
  • improvisatorial — relating to an improvisator
  • 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.
  • indivisibleness — The state of being indivisible; indivisibility.
  • inevitabilities — Plural form of inevitability.
  • interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
  • 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.
  • intervisibility — the state or fact of being visible.
  • intravascularly — Within a blood vessel.
  • introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
  • 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.
  • investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
  • invisible glass — glass that has been curved to eliminate reflections.
  • involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
  • irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
  • irreversibility — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
  • 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.
  • jupiter pluvius — Jupiter regarded as the giver of rain
  • 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
  • law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
  • leaves of grass — a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.
  • leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
  • levelheadedness — The property of being levelheaded, stable, not overly swayed by passion.
  • levelling screw — a screw, often one of three, for adjusting the level of an apparatus
  • light-sensitive — (of a surface) having a photoelectric property, such as the ability to generate a current, change its electrical resistance, etc, when exposed to light
  • liskov, barbara — Barbara Liskov
  • liver of sulfur — sulfurated potash.
  • living expenses — money spent on basic needs
  • living quarters — accommodation
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