15-letter words containing v, o, i, d, a
- to have it made — If you say that someone has it made or has got it made, you mean that they are certain to be rich or successful.
- total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
- undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
- universal donor — a person with blood of group O.
- us savings bond — A US Savings bond is a long-term bond issued by the US government that is considered low-risk.
- vector addition — the process of finding one vector that is equivalent to the result of the successive application of two or more given vectors.
- venetian window — Palladian window.
- victoria island — an island off the coast of N Canada, in the Arctic Ocean. 80,340 sq. mi. (208,081 sq. km).
- video on demand — (communications) (VoD) A planned system using video compression to supply programs to viewers when requested, via ISDN or cable.
- villeda morales — Ramón [rah-mawn] /rɑˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1909?–71, Honduran diplomat and statesman: president 1957–63.
- voice-activated — (of a telephone answering machine or other device) operationally responsive to a human voice.
- volcano islands — a group of three volcanic islands in the W Pacific, about 1100 km (700 miles) south of Japan: the largest is Iwo Jima, taken by US forces in 1945 and returned to Japan in 1968. Area: about 28 sq km (11 sq miles)
- volta river dam — a hydroelectric dam on the Volta river
- 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.