14-letter words containing l, i, v, e, r, p
- 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 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.
- pro-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
- pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
- recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
- rip van winkle — (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.
- self-operative — automatic.
- self-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- silver protein — any of several colloidal silver solutions containing silver and a protein, as albumin: formerly used in treating inflammation of mucous membranes
- silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
- spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
- splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
- superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
- superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- unresponsively — in an unresponsive manner
- variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
- vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
- vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
- vexillographer — a person who designs or makes flags.
- vice-principal — a deputy principal in a school, college, etc
- ville-de-paris — a department in N France. 41 sq. mi. (106 sq. km). Capital: Paris.
- waxleaf privet — an evergreen shrub, Ligustrum japonicum, native to Japan and Korea, having leathery leaves and large clusters of small white flowers.
- whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.