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11-letter words containing p, a, l, v

  • pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
  • pillow lava — lava in the form of an agglomeration of rounded, pillow-shaped masses, the result of subaqueous or subglacial volcanic eruption.
  • place value — the value of the place, or position, of a digit in a number or series: In the number 794, the location of the digit 4 has a place value of one.
  • place-value — the value of the place, or position, of a digit in a number or series: In the number 794, the location of the digit 4 has a place value of one.
  • placerville — a town in central California; 19th-century gold-mining center.
  • plain weave — the most common and tightest of basic weave structures in which the filling threads pass over and under successive warp threads and repeat the same pattern with alternate threads in the following row, producing a checkered surface.
  • planoconvex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
  • polyvalence — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
  • port lavaca — a town in S Texas.
  • portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
  • post-larval — of, relating to, or in the form of a larva.
  • postal vote — a voting slip that can be filled in at home and sent by post
  • postvocalic — immediately following a vowel.
  • pot-valiant — brave only as a result of being drunk.
  • potvaliancy — brave only as a result of being drunk.
  • preapproval — the act of approving; approbation.
  • premedieval — prior to the Middle Ages.
  • preservable — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
  • prevailment — the action of prevailing
  • prevalently — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
  • preventable — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
  • previsional — characteristic of prevision
  • private law — a branch of law dealing with the legal relationships of private individuals. Compare public law (def 2).
  • pro-slavery — favoring slavery.
  • proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • provascular — of or relating to procambium
  • provisional — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • pulp cavity — the entire space occupied by pulp, composed of the root canal and pulp chamber.
  • pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
  • re-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
  • replicative — characterized by or capable of replication, especially of an experiment.
  • scrap value — what sth is worth for recycling or reuse
  • septavalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
  • septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.
  • septivalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
  • sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
  • speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
  • supervisual — of or relating to seeing or sight: a visual image.
  • supplicavit — a mandatory writ formerly issued from the King's Bench or Court of Chancery
  • upper volta — former name of Burkina Faso.
  • upvaluation — the state or process of being or becoming higher in value
  • vanilla pod — the seed pod of the vanilla plant, used in cooking
  • vapor cloud — A vapor cloud is vapor which has gathered in one place.
  • vapor trail — contrail.
  • vapour lock — a stoppage in a pipe carrying a liquid caused by a bubble of gas, esp such a stoppage caused by vaporization of the petrol in the pipe feeding the carburettor of an internal-combustion engine
  • vapouringly — in a boastful manner
  • varley loop — a device containing a Wheatstone bridge, for comparing resistances and for locating faults in circuits.
  • vespertinal — of, relating to, or occurring in the evening: vespertine stillness.
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