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13-letter words containing c, i, v

  • perspectivist — the doctrine that reality is known only in terms of the perspectives of it seen by individuals or groups at particular moments.
  • photovoltaics — (used with a singular verb) a field of semiconductor technology involving the direct conversion of electromagnetic radiation as sunlight, into electricity.
  • 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.
  • polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
  • pollice verso — with thumbs turned downward: the sign made by spectators calling for the death of a defeated gladiator in the ancient Roman circus.
  • popcorn movie — a film that appeals to a mass audience
  • potomac river — a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
  • pre-contrived — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
  • precipitative — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
  • preconvention — taking place immediately prior to a convention
  • preconviction — a conviction or assurance formed beforehand; a preconceived conviction
  • prejudicative — tending to prejudge
  • prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
  • prevaricative — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
  • prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
  • primitivistic — a recurrent theory or belief, as in philosophy or art, that the qualities of primitive or chronologically early cultures are superior to those of contemporary civilization.
  • privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
  • privy council — a board or select body of personal advisers, as of a sovereign.
  • proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • projection tv — a system made up of lenses, mirrors, and a cathode-ray tube, for projecting video images onto a large screen
  • prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
  • provincialise — to make provincial in character.
  • provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
  • provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
  • provinciality — provincial character.
  • provincialize — to make provincial in character.
  • provocational — the act of provoking.
  • provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • puncture vine — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
  • qualificative — That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.
  • quantivalence — quantitative equivalence
  • racing driver — someone who drives a racing car in motor car races
  • radioactivate — to make (a substance) radioactive.
  • radioactivity — the phenomenon, exhibited by and being a property of certain elements, of spontaneously emitting radiation resulting from changes in the nuclei of atoms of the element.
  • radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
  • ratiocinative — the process of logical reasoning.
  • re-activation — to render active again; revive.
  • receivability — the fact or condition of being receivable
  • receiving end — the position in which one is subject to some kind of action or effect, especially an unpleasant one (usually used in the phrase at or on the receiving end): The corporation is on the receiving end of many complaints about its advertising.
  • receiving set — a radio receiver.
  • receptiveness — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
  • recessiveness — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
  • reciprocative — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • reclusiveness — the state or quality of being reclusive
  • recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
  • recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
  • recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • recursiveness — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
  • reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
  • reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
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