12-letter words containing p, e, r, s, v, i
- 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.
- pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
- postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
- posteruptive — occurring after a volcanic eruption
- prediscovery — a previous discovery
- prescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- presentative — (of an image, idea, etc.) presented, known, or capable of being known directly.
- preservation — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- preservative — something that preserves or tends to preserve.
- previsionary — having foresight
- print server — (printer) A server device that is set up on a network to route print requests and status information between computers and printers connected by a network. A typical print server routes print requests for multiple computers and printers on a network. For example, a networked workstation user submits a print command that includes a print file and information about the printer to be used, usually a nearby printer for convenience. The print server sends the print file to the requested printer. The printer spools the print file and provides job status. The print server relays the status of the printer back to the workstation and makes this status information available to other devices on the network.
- prison fever — typhus.
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- receivership — the condition of being in the hands of a receiver.
- renal pelvis — a small funnel-shaped cavity of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter
- repercussive — causing repercussion; reverberating.
- replevisable — capable of being replevied.
- reprehensive — the act of reprehending; reproof; censure.
- repressively — tending or serving to repress: repressive laws.
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- responsivity — the quality or state of being responsive.
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- septemvirate — the ruling body of septemvirs.
- seropositive — showing a significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, indicating previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
- service pipe — a pipe connecting a building with a water or gas main.
- servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
- silver maple — a maple, Acer saccharinum, having leaves that are light green above and silvery white beneath.
- silver paper — silver foil.
- silver perch — Also called mademoiselle. Ichthyology. a drum, Bairdiella chrysoura, of southern U.S. waters.
- silver plate — thin coat of silver
- silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
- silver spoon — spoon (def 16).
- silver-plate — to coat (base metal) with silver, especially by electroplating.
- 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.
- spirit level — a device for determining true horizontal or vertical directions by the centering of a bubble in a slightly curved glass tube or tubes filled with alcohol or ether.
- spring fever — a listless, lazy, or restless feeling commonly associated with the beginning of spring.
- spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
- 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.
- subscriptive — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- superevident — extremely or very evident
- 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
- supervenient — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
- supervention — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.