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12-letter words containing p, a, r, v

  • liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
  • lover's leap — a high area, as on a cliff, from which frustrated or grieving lovers jump or are reputed to have jumped to their death.
  • mare vaporum — (Sea of Vapors) a dark plain in the first quadrant and near the center of the face of the moon: about 39,000 sq. mi. (101,000 sq. km).
  • nonoperative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
  • over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
  • over-popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
  • overcapacity — capacity beyond what is normal, allowed, or desirable.
  • overemphasis — excessive or undue emphasis.
  • overemphatic — excessive or undue emphasis.
  • overpedalled — relating to overpedalling
  • overpersuade — to persuade (a person) against his or her inclination or intention: By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
  • overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
  • overpopulate — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • overseas cap — a soft, brimless military cap
  • overtime pay — a higher than normal rate of pay, for work done as overtime
  • park savanna — savanna grassland scattered with trees
  • parma violet — a variety of the sweet violet, Viola odorata, that is the source of an essential oil used in perfumery.
  • parrot fever — psittacosis.
  • parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
  • pay-per-view — a system requiring that a subscriber pay for each program viewed: championship games seen only on pay-per-view.
  • pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
  • peradventure — chance, doubt, or uncertainty.
  • performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
  • perivisceral — surrounding or situated about the viscera.
  • perseverance — steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
  • perseverator — a person who perseverates
  • perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
  • persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
  • pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
  • petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
  • petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
  • photoengrave — to make a photoengraving of.
  • photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
  • phrasal verb — a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.
  • picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
  • polar vortex — a whirling mass of very cold air that sits over the North or South Pole: A displaced polar vortex is causing Arctic temperatures across the United States.
  • pole vaulter — A pole vaulter is an athlete who performs the pole vault.
  • polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
  • pons varolii — pons (def 1).
  • popular vote — the vote for a U.S. presidential candidate made by the qualified voters, as opposed to that made by the electoral college. Compare electoral vote.
  • post-harvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
  • poverty trap — If someone is in a poverty trap, they are very poor but cannot improve their income because the money they get from the government decreases as the money they earn increases.
  • power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
  • preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
  • preoperative — occurring or related to the period or preparations before a surgical operation.
  • preovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
  • prerogatived — possessing a prerogative
  • presentative — (of an image, idea, etc.) presented, known, or capable of being known directly.
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