13-letter words containing e, v, n
- pervasiveness — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- petrol-driven — (of a car, engine, etc) powered by petrol
- photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
- 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.
- pleasantville — a city in SE New Jersey.
- plumbosolvent — able to dissolve lead
- point of view — a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint: from the point of view of a doctor.
- pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
- pont l'eveque — a strongly flavored, pale-yellow cheese with a soft center, made from whole or skimmed milk.
- popcorn movie — a film that appeals to a mass audience
- positive sign — the sign (+) used to indicate a positive quantity
- pre-contrived — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
- pre-interview — a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.
- pre-inventory — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
- pre-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- preconvention — taking place immediately prior to a convention
- preconviction — a conviction or assurance formed beforehand; a preconceived conviction
- prerevolution — of the period before a revolution
- present value — current monetary worth
- preservations — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- pretelevision — occurring before the arrival of television
- preuniversity — of the period before attending university
- prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- primitiveness — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- private brand — a product marketed under a private label.
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- 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.
- progovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- projection tv — a system made up of lenses, mirrors, and a cathode-ray tube, for projecting video images onto a large screen
- prove a point — If you prove a point, you show other people that you know something or can do something, although your action may have no other purpose.
- 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.
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- puncture vine — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
- quantivalence — quantitative equivalence
- quinquevalent — pentavalent.
- racing driver — someone who drives a racing car in motor car races
- raglan sleeve — a sleeve that begins at the neck and has a long, slanting seam line from the neck to the armhole, giving the garment a relatively undefined shoulder.
- ratiocinative — the process of logical reasoning.
- re-activation — to render active again; revive.
- re-entry visa — a visa that allows someone to enter a country again several times
- re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- re-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- 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.