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12-letter words containing o, v, e, r, i

  • postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
  • posteruptive — occurring after a volcanic eruption
  • poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
  • power-driven — powered by an electric motor
  • preconceived — to form a conception or opinion of beforehand, as before seeing evidence or as a result of previously held prejudice.
  • prediscovery — a previous discovery
  • preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
  • preoperative — occurring or related to the period or preparations before a surgical operation.
  • prerogatived — possessing a prerogative
  • preservation — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
  • prevaricator — a person who speaks falsely; liar.
  • previsionary — having foresight
  • prison fever — typhus.
  • privatdocent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
  • privatdozent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
  • private joke — a joke that is understood only by a certain social group
  • proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
  • productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • projectivity — of or relating to projection.
  • proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
  • protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
  • protensively — in the manner of duration
  • proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
  • providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincetown — a town at the tip of Cape Cod, in SE Massachusetts: resort.
  • provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
  • quote-driven — denoting an electronic market system, esp for stock exchanges, in which prices are determined by quotations made by market makers or dealers
  • ravioli code — (jargon, humour)   Object-oriented code consisting of a number of small and loosely-coupled software components. Presumably, the term is a compliment, contrasting the code with spaghetti code.
  • reactivation — to render active again; revive.
  • reconceiving — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
  • reconvention — an action brought by the defendant in pending litigation against the plaintiff: the defendant's claim must be connected in some way with the subject matter of the plaintiff's action.
  • reconversion — to convert again.
  • reconviction — a fixed or firm belief: No clever argument, no persuasive fact or theory could make a dent in his conviction in the rightness of his position.
  • rediscoverer — a person who rediscovers
  • reevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
  • reinvigorate — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • reinvitation — the act of inviting.
  • rejuvenation — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
  • remotivation — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
  • reproductive — serving to reproduce.
  • responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
  • responsivity — the quality or state of being responsive.
  • retrodictive — of or relating to retrodicting or retrodiction
  • retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
  • retroversion — a looking or turning back.
  • revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
  • revegetation — to cause vegetation to grow again on: to revegetate eroded lands.
  • revelational — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
  • reversionary — of, relating to, or involving a reversion.
  • reversionist — a person who advocates reverting to the conditions, customs, ideals, etc., of an earlier era.
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