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15-letter words containing v, o

  • bevelled mirror — a mirror with a bevelled edge
  • bioavailability — the extent to which a drug or other substance is taken up by a specific tissue or organ after administration; the proportion of the dose of a drug that reaches the systemic circulation intact after administration by a route other than intravenous
  • biot-savart law — the law that the magnetic induction near a long, straight conductor, as wire, varies inversely as the distance from the conductor and directly as the intensity of the current in the conductor.
  • blagoveshchensk — a city and port in E Russia, in Siberia on the Amur River. Pop: 222 000 (2005 est)
  • bohemia-moravia — a former German protectorate including Bohemia and Moravia, 1939–45.
  • brave new world — If someone refers to a brave new world, they are talking about a situation or system that has recently been created and that people think will be successful and fair.
  • breakbone fever — dengue
  • breakdown cover — insurance cover against breakdowns in a vehicle
  • breakeven point — a point at which the total revenue and total cost are equal
  • brown-and-serve — requiring only a brief period of browning, as in an oven, before being ready to serve: brown-and-serve rolls.
  • bucket conveyor — a conveyor consisting of an endless chain with a series of buckets attached at regular intervals, used for moving ore, gravel, grain, or other bulk materials.
  • bucket elevator — a chain of buckets for raising liquids or materials to a higher level
  • buffer overflow — (programming)   What happens when you try to store more data in a buffer than it can handle. This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see overrun and firehose syndrome), or because the buffer is simply too small to hold all the data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed. For example, in a text-processing tool that crunches a line at a time, a short line buffer can result in lossage as input from a long line overflows the buffer and overwrites data beyond it. Good defensive programming would check for overflow on each character and stop accepting data when the buffer is full. See also spam, overrun screw.
  • bulimia nervosa — a disorder characterized by compulsive overeating followed by vomiting: sometimes associated with anxiety about gaining weight
  • bun in the oven — in the womb
  • button mangrove — a tropical tree, Conocarpus erectus, having small, reddish, conelike fruits and bark used in tanning.
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • caernarvonshire — (until 1974) a county of NW Wales, now part of Gwynedd
  • calorific value — the quantity of heat produced by the complete combustion of a given mass of a fuel, usually expressed in joules per kilogram
  • calvin coolidge — Calvin, 1872–1933, 30th president of the U.S. 1923–29.
  • cape horn fever — illness feigned by malingerers.
  • cardinal vowels — a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language
  • carnivorousness — flesh-eating: A dog is a carnivorous animal.
  • cavalry officer — an officer in a cavalry regiment
  • celo-navigation — celestial navigation.
  • cerebrovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels and the blood supply of the brain
  • change of venue — the removal of a trial out of one jurisdiction into another
  • charlottesville — city in central Va.: pop. 45,000
  • charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
  • chemoprevention — the prevention of disease, esp cancer, by means of chemical agents
  • church slavonic — Old Church Slavonic, esp as preserved in the liturgical use of the Orthodox church
  • circumnavigator — A person who circumnavigates; that is, sails around the world.
  • circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
  • circumvolutions — Plural form of circumvolution.
  • ciudad victoria — a city in E central Mexico, capital of Tamaulipas state. Pop: 285 000 (2005 est)
  • civilianization — the conversion from military to civilian status
  • closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
  • closed traverse — a traverse ending at its point of origin.
  • closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
  • cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
  • coldwater-river — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
  • collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
  • collective farm — (chiefly in Communist countries) a farm or group of farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community
  • collective mark — a trademark or service mark used by the members of a cooperative, a union, or other collective association to identify themselves as members.
  • collective noun — A collective noun is a noun such as 'family' or 'team' that refers to a group of people or things.
  • colour-reversal — (of film or photographic paper) designed to produce a positive image directly from a positive subject
  • communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • commutative law — a law asserting that the order in which certain logical operations are performed is indifferent.
  • comparativeness — of or relating to comparison.
  • competitiveness — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
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