8-letter words containing v, s, i
- visegrad — a town in N Hungary, NW of Budapest on the Danube: site of summit in 1991 of the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland.
- viselike — any of various devices, usually having two jaws that may be brought together or separated by means of a screw, lever, or the like, used to hold an object firmly while work is being done on it.
- visicalc — (application, tool, business, history) /vi'zi-calk/ The first spreadsheet program, conceived in 1978 by Dan Bricklin, while he was an MBA student at Harvard Business School. Inspired by a demonstration given by Douglas Engelbart of a point-and-click user interface, Bricklin set out to design an application that would combine the intuitiveness of pencil and paper calculations with the power of a programmable pocket calculator. Bricklin's design was based on the (paper) financial spreadsheet, a kind of document already used in business planning. (Some of Bricklin's notes for VisiCalc were scribbled on the back of a spreadsheet pad.) VisiCalc was probably not the first application to use a spreadsheet model, but it did have a number of original features, all of which continue to be fundamental to spreadsheet software. These include point-and-type editing, range replication and formulas that update automatically with changes to other cells. VisiCalc is widely credited with creating the sudden demand for desktop computers that helped fuel the microcomputer boom of the early 1980s. Thousands of business people with little or no technical expertise found that they could use VisiCalc to create sophisticated financial programs. This makes VisiCalc one of the first killer apps.
- visigoth — a member of the westerly division of the Goths, which formed a monarchy about a.d. 418, maintaining it in southern France until 507 and in Spain until 711.
- visional — of or relating to visions.
- visioned — pertaining to, seen in, or arising from a vision: a visioned battle between good and evil.
- visioner — a person given to having or seeing visions
- visitant — a temporary resident; visitor; guest.
- visiting — to go to and stay with (a person or family) or at (a place) for a short time for reasons of sociability, politeness, business, curiosity, etc.: to visit a friend; to visit clients; to visit Paris.
- visually — in a visual manner; with respect to sight; by sight.
- vitalise — to give life to; make vital.
- vitalism — the philosophical doctrine that the phenomena of life cannot be explained in purely mechanical terms because there is something immaterial which distinguishes living from inanimate matter
- vitamins — any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism, found in minute amounts in natural foodstuffs or sometimes produced synthetically: deficiencies of vitamins produce specific disorders.
- vitellus — the yolk of an egg.
- vitreous — of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
- vivisect — to dissect the living body of (an animal).
- vixenish — a female fox.
- vocalics — the non-verbal aspects of voice creation
- vocalise — a musical composition consisting of the singing of melody with vowel sounds or nonsense syllables rather than text, as for special effect in classical compositions, in polyphonic jazz singing by special groups, or in virtuoso vocal exercises.
- vocalism — Phonetics. a vowel, diphthong, triphthong, or vowel quality, as in a syllable. the system of vowels of a language.
- vocalist — a singer.
- voidness — Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.
- volscian — of or relating to the Volsci or to their language.
- voltaism — the branch of electrical science that deals with the production of electricity or electric currents by chemical action.
- volumist — an author or someone who produces a volume
- vomitous — of, relating to, or causing vomiting.
- vorspiel — an introductory movement to a musical work, especially a prelude or overture.
- vortices — a plural of vortex.
- votaries — a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun.
- votarist — a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun.
- voussoir — any of the pieces, in the shape of a truncated wedge, that form an arch or vault.
- vulvitis — inflammation of the vulva.
- waviness — curving alternately in opposite directions; undulating: a wavy course; wavy hair.
- weavings — Plural form of weaving.
- yeshivah — Alternative spelling of yeshiva.
- yeshivas — Plural form of yeshiva.
- yvelines — a department in N France. 877 sq. mi. (2271 sq. km). Capital: Versailles.