14-letter words containing e, r, i, v
- persuasiveness — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- phillips curve — a curve that purports to plot the relationship between unemployment and inflation on the theory that as inflation falls unemployment rises and vice versa
- photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
- photoreceptive — of or relating to photoreception
- photoresistive — photoconductive
- pierre vernier — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1580–1637, French mathematician and inventor.
- pigeon-livered — meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
- pizza delivery — a service provided by some pizza restaurants whereby pizzas are delivered to customers who have placed orders by telephone
- pleural cavity — a narrow, fluid-filled space between the pleural membranes of the lung and the inner chest wall.
- policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
- post operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- prairie clover — any plant belonging to the genus Petalostemon, of the legume family, common in western North America, having pinnately compound leaves and spikes of white, purple, or pink flowers.
- pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- pre-investment — the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- pre-invitation — the act of inviting.
- pre-university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
- precompetitive — in marketing, designating or occurring during the stage prior to the completion of development of a product, when companies collaborate rather than compete
- predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
- predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
- predictiveness — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- preoperatively — in a preoperative context
- prerevisionist — preceding revisionism
- prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- prescriptivism — a writer, teacher, or supporter of prescriptive grammar.
- prescriptivist — a writer, teacher, or supporter of prescriptive grammar.
- presentiveness — (of a word) the state of being presentive
- preserving pan — a pan specially designed for preserving fruit
- presuppurative — noting or pertaining to the stage of inflammation before the formation of pus.
- preventive law — consultation, as between lawyer and client, to prevent future litigation by dispensing legal advice, clarifying the terms of a contract, etc.
- preventive war — an attack against a possible enemy to prevent an attack by that enemy at a later time.
- prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
- primitive cell — a unit cell containing no points of the lattice except at the corners of the cell.
- private equity — equity in a business that is raised from private sources, as opposed to shares that can be traded publicly
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- private member — (sometimes lowercase) British. a member of a legislative body, especially of the House of Commons, who has no special duties and is not a member of the ministry.
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
- private treaty — a property sale based on terms resulting from a conference between buyer and seller.
- pro-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- 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.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- progressivists — the principles and practices of progressives.
- proof positive — To be proof positive of a particular fact or quality means to be evidence that it is true or that it exists.
- proprioceptive — pertaining to proprioceptors, the stimuli acting upon them, or the nerve impulses initiated by them.
- protectiveness — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.