12-letter words containing p, a, v, e, r
- private view — a preview, esp of an art exhibition, for specially invited guests
- privateering — an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
- proper value — characteristic root.
- provableness — the quality of being provable
- proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- pulverizable — that can be pulverized
- putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- recuperative — that recuperates.
- renal pelvis — a small funnel-shaped cavity of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter
- replevisable — capable of being replevied.
- reputatively — according to reckoning; by repute; putatively
- septemvirate — the ruling body of septemvirs.
- severna park — a city in central Maryland.
- silver maple — a maple, Acer saccharinum, having leaves that are light green above and silvery white beneath.
- silver paper — silver foil.
- silver plate — thin coat of silver
- silver-plate — to coat (base metal) with silver, especially by electroplating.
- space travel — spaceflight of manned vehicles.
- spinal nerve — any of a series of paired nerves that originate in the nerve roots of the spinal cord and emerge from the vertebrae on both sides of the spinal column, each branching out to innervate a specific region of the neck, trunk, or limbs.
- stirrup-vase — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
- superelevate — to raise above a normal level
- supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
- supermassive — (of a black hole or star) having a mass in the range of millions or billions of times that of the sun
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- transumptive — of or relating to transumption
- trypaflavine — acriflavine hydrochloride.
- unapprovable — capable of being approved.
- unpersuasive — not capable of persuading
- unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
- unreprovable — not able to be reproved, reproached, or criticized
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
- vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
- vellum paper — a creamy coloured heavy paper resembling vellum
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- veneer patch — a patch made in one of the veneers of a sheet of plywood before layup.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- viola player — someone who plays the viola
- vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
- vituperative — characterized by or of the nature of vituperation: vituperative remarks.
- vituperatory — abusive or blaming