13-letter words containing p, e, t, a, v
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- prove a point — If you prove a point, you show other people that you know something or can do something, although your action may have no other purpose.
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- quasi-private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- reciprocative — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
- revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
- reverse plate — a plate for printing a reverse.
- silver-plated — Something that is silver-plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver.
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- stovepipe hat — a tall silk hat.
- superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
- superelevated — (of a curve in a road, railroad track, etc.) banked.
- superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- tuva republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: mountainous. Capital: Kizyl. Pop: 305 500 (2002). Area: 170 500 sq km (65 800 sq miles)
- uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- unpreventable — not able to be prevented
- unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- unspeculative — not characterized by speculation
- vaccine point — a thin, pointed, vaccine-coated piece of bone or the like, for use in vaccinating.
- vale of tempe — a wooded valley in E Greece, in Thessaly between the mountains Olympus and Ossa
- valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
- vanity plates — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
- vantage point — a position or place that affords a wide or advantageous perspective; viewpoint: to survey a valley from the vantage point of a high hill.
- vapor tension — vapor pressure.
- vapourer moth — a tussock moth, Orgyia antiqua, of hedgerows and trees, the female of which is wingless and lays her eggs on her former cocoon
- variable type — type that can be varied to fit a page, screen, etc
- velvet carpet — a carpet or rug of pile weave resembling Wilton.
- venus flytrap — firewall machine
- vide ut supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see as above
- vino de pasto — a pale, dry sherry of Spain.
- vip treatment — preferential or special treatment, as or as if given to famous or rich people
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.