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14-letter words containing p, e, v, i, s

  • predictiveness — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
  • prerevisionist — preceding revisionism
  • prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
  • prescriptivism — a writer, teacher, or supporter of prescriptive grammar.
  • prescriptivist — a writer, teacher, or supporter of prescriptive grammar.
  • presentiveness — (of a word) the state of being presentive
  • preserving pan — a pan specially designed for preserving fruit
  • presuppurative — noting or pertaining to the stage of inflammation before the formation of pus.
  • private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
  • private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
  • 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.
  • productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
  • progressivists — the principles and practices of progressives.
  • proof positive — To be proof positive of a particular fact or quality means to be evidence that it is true or that it exists.
  • protectiveness — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
  • proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
  • recursive type — A data type which contains itself. The commonest example is the list type, in Haskell: data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a) which says a list of a's is either an empty list or a cons cell containing an 'a' (the "head" of the list) and another list (the "tail"). Recursion is not allowed in Miranda or Haskell synonym types, so the following Haskell types are illegal: type Bad = (Int, Bad) type Evil = Bool -> Evil whereas the seeminly equivalent algebraic data types are acceptable:
  • repetitiveness — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
  • representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • reprovisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • responsiveness — the quality or state of being responsive.
  • saphenous vein — either of two large veins near the surface of the foot, leg, and thigh, one on the inner side and the other on the outer and posterior sides.
  • sauve qui peut — a state of panic or disorder; rout
  • scrip dividend — a dividend issued in the form of a note entitling the holder to a cash payment at a specified later date.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • self-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
  • seropositivity — the quality or state of being seropositive
  • service stripe — a stripe worn on the left sleeve by an enlisted person to indicate a specific period of time served on active duty.
  • shipping fever — a respiratory disease of cattle, caused by Pasteurella haemolytica, often spread during the shipment of livestock.
  • silver protein — any of several colloidal silver solutions containing silver and a protein, as albumin: formerly used in treating inflammation of mucous membranes
  • silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
  • space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
  • speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
  • spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
  • splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
  • supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
  • supereffective — very or extremely effective
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superexpensive — very or extremely expensive
  • superior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned above a receptacle of a flower, as in members of the mint family.
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • supersensitive — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
  • superstructive — built onto a structure
  • supportiveness — giving support.
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