14-letter words starting with vi
- vibratory mill — A vibratory mill is a machine for grinding something, in which the feed and grinding medium are between two surfaces which vibrate against each other.
- vibroflotation — the use of a vibrating probe inserted into soil to prevent soil liquefaction, which can be a hazard in earthquakes
- vibropac block — a precast concrete building block
- vice president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
- vice-president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
- vice-principal — a deputy principal in a school, college, etc
- vicious circle — Logic. (in demonstration) the use of each of two propositions to establish the other. (in definition) the use of each of two terms to define the other.
- vickers number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Vickers test) in which the sample is indented under a known pressure by the point of a diamond and the surface area of the indentation is divided into the amount of pressure applied.
- victim support — Victim support is the giving of help and advice to people who are victims of crime.
- victor charlie — a Vietcong or the Vietcong; the VC.
- victoria cross — a British decoration awarded to soldiers and sailors for acts of conspicuous bravery in the presence of the enemy. Abbreviation: V.C.
- victoria falls — a major waterfall on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, on the Zambezi River. Height: about 108 m (355 ft). Width: about 1400 m (4500 ft)
- victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
- video cassette — a cassette enclosing a length of tape for video recording or reproduction.
- video recorder — A video recorder or a video cassette recorder is the same as a VCR.
- vienna fortran — A data-parallel extension of Fortran 77 for distributed memory multiprocessors by Hans Zima <[email protected]>, Vienna University.
- vienna sausage — a small frankfurter, often served as an hors d'oeuvre.
- viennese table — a dessert buffet, as at a reception, featuring a variety of fancy cakes, tarts, mousses, etc.
- vietnamization — a U.S. policy during the Vietnam War of giving the South Vietnamese government responsibility for carrying on the war, so as to allow for the withdrawal of American troops.
- viewing public — people who watch television, considered collectively
- villa cisneros — former name of Dakhla (def 2).
- villafranchian — designating or of a European geologic stage of the Lower Pleistocene and the Upper Pliocene
- village school — a school in a village
- villari effect — the change in magnetic induction that takes place in certain substances when subjected to longitudinal stress.
- ville-de-paris — a department in N France. 41 sq. mi. (106 sq. km). Capital: Paris.
- villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
- vinca alkaloid — any of a group of alkaloids obtained from the periwinkle Vinca rosea, such as vinblastine and vincristine, that interfere with cell division and are used in the treatment of cancer
- vincennes lisp — (language) (VLISP) A dialect of Lisp resulting from development, starting in 1971, of Lisp interpreters and compilers at the University of Paris VIII - Vincennes. VLISP interpreters and compilers were designed to run on small computers.
- vindictiveness — disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
- vinyl chloride — a colorless, easily liquefied, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, C 2 H 3 Cl, having a pleasant, etherlike odor: used in the manufacture of plastics, as a refrigerant, and in the synthesis of polyvinyl chloride and other organic compounds.
- vinylacetylene — a colorless, volatile liquid, C 4 H 4 , used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of the synthetic rubber neoprene.
- viola da gamba — an old musical instrument of the viol family, held on or between the knees: superseded by the modern violoncello; bass viol.
- viollet-le-duc — Eugène Emmanuel [œ-zhen e-ma-ny-el] /œˈʒɛn ɛ ma nüˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1814–79, French architect and writer.
- virgin islands — group of islands in the Caribbean
- virgin's-bower — any of several American clematis plants, esp Clematis virginiana, of E North America, which has clusters of small white flowers
- virginia beach — a town in SE Virginia.
- virginia fence — snake fence.
- virginia stock — a plant, Malcolmia maritima, of the mustard family, native to the Mediterranean region, having oblong leaves on a weak, often reclining stem and reddish or white flowers.
- virtual memory — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
- virtual retail — Virtual retail is retailing on the Internet.
- visceral cleft — branchial cleft.
- vishakhapatnam — a seaport in Andhra Pradesh, in E India, on the Bay of Bengal.
- visible speech — the representation in graphic or pictorial form of characteristics of speech, as by means of sound spectrograms.
- visiting hours — hospital, prison: period when visits are permitted
- visiting nurse — a registered nurse employed by a social service agency to give medical care to the sick in their homes or to implement other public health programs.
- visiting terms — a degree of acquaintance in which you know someone well enough to visit
- visitors' book — a book in a public building in which people write their names and addresses and any comments they have about the place
- vistula lagoon — a shallow lagoon on the SW coast of the Baltic Sea, between Danzig and Kaliningrad, crossed by the border between Poland and Russia
- vital capacity — the greatest amount of air that can be forced from the lungs after maximum inhalation.
- vital function — any function of the body that is essential for life.
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