13-letter words containing e, v, c
- papaveraceous — belonging to the Papaveraceae, the poppy family of plants.
- paper advance — the feeding of paper through a printer
- participative — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
- pas de cheval — a step in which the dancer hops on one foot and paws the ground with the other.
- passive voice — grammar: verb form takes when subject acted upon
- paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
- pavement café — part of a café which is outdoors or on the pavement or sidewalk
- pelvic girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the hind limbs or analogous parts.
- perspectively — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- perspectivism — the doctrine that reality is known only in terms of the perspectives of it seen by individuals or groups at particular moments.
- perspectivist — the doctrine that reality is known only in terms of the perspectives of it seen by individuals or groups at particular moments.
- 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.
- 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
- postvasectomy — of or occurring in the period after a vasectomy
- potomac fever — the determination or fervor to share in the power and prestige of the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., especially by being appointed or elected to a government position.
- 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.
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- 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.
- proces-verbal — a report of proceedings, as of an assembly.
- 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.
- provence rose — an erect Eurasian shrub, Rosa gallica, of the rose family, having a creeping rootstock, densely prickly and bristly stems, and large, solitary, pink or crimson flowers.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- 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.
- 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.