13-letter words containing a, l, v, e
- overinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- overland mail — a government mail service, started in 1848, for sending mail from the Mississippi to the Far West.
- overland park — a town in E Kansas, near Kansas City.
- overlay glass — case glass.
- overleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively high ratio of debt capital to equity capital
- overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
- overpopulated — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- overpotential — overvoltage.
- overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
- oversocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- overstability — the state of being excessively stable
- overstimulate — to stimulate too much
- overtalkative — characterized by a tendency to talk excessively
- overvaluation — to value too highly; put too high a value on: They should be careful not to overvalue the property.
- overzealously — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
- pas de cheval — a step in which the dancer hops on one foot and paws the ground with the other.
- penetratively — in a penetrative manner
- pennsylvanian — of or relating to the state of Pennsylvania.
- petropavlovsk — a city in N Kazakhstan on the Ishim River. Pop: 190 000 (2005 est)
- piss all over — to be far superior to
- plano-concave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
- platonic love — Platonism. love of the Idea of beauty, seen as terminating an evolution from the desire for an individual and the love of physical beauty to the love and contemplation of spiritual or ideal beauty.
- pleasantville — a city in SE New Jersey.
- pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
- postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
- prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
- present value — current monetary worth
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
- private label — the label of a product, or the product itself, sold under the name of a wholesaler or retailer, by special arrangement with the manufacturer or producer.
- proces-verbal — a report of proceedings, as of an assembly.
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- proverbialize — to use in a proverbial way
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- qualificative — That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.
- qualitatively — pertaining to or concerned with quality or qualities.
- quantivalence — quantitative equivalence
- quinquevalent — pentavalent.
- raglan sleeve — a sleeve that begins at the neck and has a long, slanting seam line from the neck to the armhole, giving the garment a relatively undefined shoulder.
- ratable value — (formerly) a fixed value assigned to a property by a local authority, on the basis of which variable annual rates are charged
- rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
- re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- re-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.