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11-letter words containing a, i, r, v, e

  • preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
  • preinvasive — of or relating to a stage preceding invasion of the tissues; in situ.
  • premedieval — prior to the Middle Ages.
  • preparative — preparatory.
  • prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
  • prevacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
  • prevailment — the action of prevailing
  • prevaricate — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
  • previsional — characteristic of prevision
  • private bar — the saloon or lounge bar of a public house
  • private eye — a private detective.
  • private key — (cryptography)   A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
  • private law — a branch of law dealing with the legal relationships of private individuals. Compare public law (def 2).
  • privateness — the quality of being private
  • privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
  • pro-vaccine — any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
  • proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • procreative — to beget or generate (offspring).
  • propagative — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • protractive — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
  • provocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
  • quaveringly — In a quavering manner; tremulously.
  • radio waves — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
  • radioactive — of, pertaining to, exhibiting, or caused by radioactivity.
  • rave review — extremely favourable critique
  • reactivated — to render active again; revive.
  • readvertise — to advertise (something) again
  • rebarbative — causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent.
  • receivables — the part of the assets of a business represented by accounts due for payment
  • recultivate — to plant, tend, harvest, or improve (plants) again
  • reformative — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
  • reinnervate — to restore a lost nerve supply to (a muscle, nerve, etc) by surgery or regeneration
  • reiterative — to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively.
  • relative to — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
  • remotivated — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
  • replicative — characterized by or capable of replication, especially of an experiment.
  • reprivatize — to restore to private control; remove from governmental jurisdiction.
  • reprobative — reprobating; expressing reprobation.
  • repudiative — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • reservation — the act of keeping back, withholding, or setting apart.
  • restorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
  • resultative — (in grammar) a phrase which describes the state of a noun by completing the verb phrase
  • retaliative — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
  • retrievable — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
  • retroactive — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
  • revaccinate — to vaccinate (a person or animal) again
  • revalidated — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
  • revaluating — to make a new or revised valuation of; revalue.
  • revaluation — to make a new or revised valuation of; revalue.
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