11-letter words containing a, v, i, r
- overgrainer — someone who overgrains
- overgrazing — to graze (land) to excess.
- overhanging — extending or dangling
- overhastily — in such a way as to be excessively hasty or done without enough consideration
- overheating — heating (something) excessively
- overinflate — to inflate to an excessive degree
- overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overliteral — literal to a fault
- overloading — (language) (Or "Operator overloading"). Use of a single symbol to represent operators with different argument types, e.g. "-", used either, as a monadic operator to negate an expression, or as a dyadic operator to return the difference between two expressions. Another example is "+" used to add either integers or floating-point numbers. Overloading is also known as ad-hoc polymorphism. User-defined operator overloading is provided by several modern programming languages, e.g. C++'s class system and the functional programming language Haskell's type classes. Ad-hoc polymorphism (better described as overloading) is the ability to use the same syntax for objects of different types, e.g. "+" for addition of reals and integers or "-" for unary negation or diadic subtraction. Parametric polymorphism allows the same object code for a function to handle arguments of many types but overloading only reuses syntax and requires different code to handle different types.
- overmanning — overstaffing
- overplaided — (of a garment) covered with a design consisting of an overplaid
- palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
- papovavirus — any of a group of DNA-containing human and animal viruses, including polyoma viruses and some papillomaviruses, most of which produce tumors.
- party-giver — a person who gives a party
- parvanimity — the state or characteristic of being small-minded
- peace river — a river in W Canada, flowing NE from the Rocky Mountains in E British Columbia through Alberta to the Slave River. 1050 miles (1690 km) long.
- pearl diver — a person who dives for pearl oysters or other pearl-bearing mollusks.
- pearl river — a river flowing from central Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico. 485 miles (780 km) long.
- pelvic arch — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the hind limbs or analogous parts.
- penetrative — tending to penetrate; piercing.
- perceivable — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- perceivably — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- perforative — that perforates readily
- pervasively — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- pico rivera — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- placerville — a town in central California; 19th-century gold-mining center.
- portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
- preadaptive — tending to preadapt, causing preadaptation
- predicative — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- 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
- privacy act — an act that protects a person against the unauthorized use of personal data by any government agency
- 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.
- proactivity — 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.