11-letter words containing p, e, v
- perspective — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- pervasively — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- photoactive — the activation or control of a chemical, chemical reaction, or organism by light, as the activation of chlorophyll by sunlight during photosynthesis.
- picked over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pico rivera — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- pile driver — a machine for driving piles, usually composed of a tall framework in which either a weight is raised and dropped on a pile head or in which a steam hammer drives the pile.
- pile-driver — a machine for driving piles, usually composed of a tall framework in which either a weight is raised and dropped on a pile head or in which a steam hammer drives the pile.
- pitt-rivers — Augustus (Henry Lane Fox).1827–1900, British archaeologist; first inspector of ancient monuments (1882): assembled a major anthropological collection of tools and weapons (now in the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford)
- place value — the value of the place, or position, of a digit in a number or series: In the number 794, the location of the digit 4 has a place value of one.
- place-value — the value of the place, or position, of a digit in a number or series: In the number 794, the location of the digit 4 has a place value of one.
- placerville — a town in central California; 19th-century gold-mining center.
- plain weave — the most common and tightest of basic weave structures in which the filling threads pass over and under successive warp threads and repeat the same pattern with alternate threads in the following row, producing a checkered surface.
- planoconvex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
- pluviometer — rain gauge.
- pocket veto — the action of the President in retaining unsigned a bill passed by Congress within the last ten days of a session and thus causing it to die
- pocket-veto — to veto (a bill) by exercising a pocket veto.
- polyvalence — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
- polyvoltine — multivoltine.
- pore volume — The pore volume is the total volume of very small openings in a bed of adsorbent particles.
- portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
- porterville — a town in central California.
- porto velho — a state in W Brazil. 93,815 sq. mi. (242,980 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Velho.
- postal vote — a voting slip that can be filled in at home and sent by post
- postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- posttussive — of or relating to a cough.
- potato vine — a tender, woody Brazilian vine, Solanum jasminoides, of the nightshade family, having starlike, blue-tinged white flowers in clusters, grown as an ornamental.
- pre-emptive — of or relating to preemption.
- preadaptive — tending to preadapt, causing preadaptation
- preapproval — the act of approving; approbation.
- preapproved — to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably: to approve the policies of the administration.
- preconceive — to form a conception or opinion of beforehand, as before seeing evidence or as a result of previously held prejudice.
- predelivery — the act of delivering in advance of need, use or expectation of the thing delivered
- predicative — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
- preinvasive — of or relating to a stage preceding invasion of the tissues; in situ.
- premedieval — prior to the Middle Ages.
- premonitive — of, or relating to, a premonition
- premovement — the act of premoving
- preparative — preparatory.
- prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
- prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
- preservable — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- preteritive — (of verbs) limited to past tenses.
- prevacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- prevailment — the action of prevailing
- prevalently — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- prevaricate — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.