11-letter words containing e, n, v, a
- peace envoy — someone sent on a mission to end conflict or bring peace
- peano curve — a curve that passes through every point of a two-dimensional region.
- penetrative — tending to penetrate; piercing.
- pentavalent — having a valence of 5: pentavalent arsenic.
- perseverant — steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
- plain weave — the most common and tightest of basic weave structures in which the filling threads pass over and under successive warp threads and repeat the same pattern with alternate threads in the following row, producing a checkered surface.
- planoconvex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
- polyvalence — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
- portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
- potato vine — a tender, woody Brazilian vine, Solanum jasminoides, of the nightshade family, having starlike, blue-tinged white flowers in clusters, grown as an ornamental.
- preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
- preinvasive — of or relating to a stage preceding invasion of the tissues; in situ.
- 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
- prevalently — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- preventable — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- privateness — the quality of being private
- 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.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- punctuative — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
- quaveringly — In a quavering manner; tremulously.
- reinnervate — to restore a lost nerve supply to (a muscle, nerve, etc) by surgery or regeneration
- rejuvenated — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
- rejuvenator — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
- removal man — Removal men are men whose job is to move furniture or equipment from one building to another.
- removal van — a large vehicle used to transport furniture or equipment from one building to another
- reservation — the act of keeping back, withholding, or setting apart.
- revaccinate — to vaccinate (a person or animal) again
- revaluating — to make a new or revised valuation of; revalue.
- revaluation — to make a new or revised valuation of; revalue.
- revelations — the last book of the New Testament, containing visionary descriptions of heaven, of conflicts between good and evil, and of the end of the world
- revendicate — to reclaim or demand the restoring of (something)
- revenue man — a government agent employed to act against the illegal production of alcohol, esp during the time of Prohibition in the United States
- reverberant — reverberating; reechoing: the reverberant booms of cannon.
- reverential — of the nature of or characterized by reverence; reverent: reverential awe.
- revibration — the act of vibrating.
- revindicate — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- revisionary — the act or work of revising.
- rh negative — See under Rh factor.
- rh-negative — See under Rh factor.
- river basin — the area of land drained by a river and its branches.
- run a fever — have a high temperature
- sansevieria — any plant belonging to the genus Sansevieria, of the agave family, grown as a houseplant for its stiff, sword-shaped leaves and white or yellow flowers.
- sao vicente — an island city in SE Brazil.
- satin weave — one of the basic weave structures in which the filling threads are interlaced with the warp at widely separated intervals, producing the effect of an unbroken surface.
- savannakhet — a city in S central Laos.
- screensaver — a program that displays a constantly shifting pattern on a screen when the computer is idle, originally used to prevent damage to the screen through continuous display of the same image but now used primarily for decoration.
- septavalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
- septivalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.