13-letter words containing p, e, v
- disrespective — (obsolete) Showing a lack of respect; disrespectful.
- diving petrel — any of several small seabirds of the family Pelecanoididae, of Southern Hemisphere seas, having compact bodies, tubelike processes near the nostrils, and usually drab plumage.
- eavesdroppers — Plural form of eavesdropper.
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- escape device — a device with a collapsible extensible slide, used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- eve's pudding — a baked sponge pudding with a layer of apple at the bottom
- even-tempered — mild mannered
- evening paper — a newspaper that comes out in the evening
- executive pay — the money that an executive of an organization gets as wages or salary
- expansiveness — The state of being expansive.
- expectorative — an expectorant medicine
- expensiveness — The state of being expensive; entailing great expense.
- expert advice — advice given by someone who has studied a subject thoroughly or who is very skilled at a particular job
- explanatively — in an explanative manner
- explicatively — in an explicative or explanatory manner
- exploded view — a drawing or photograph of a complicated mechanism that shows the individual parts separately, usually indicating their relative positions
- exploratively — in an explorative manner
- explosiveness — The state of being explosive.
- exteroceptive — Relating to stimuli that are external to an organism.
- extrapolative — That serves to extrapolate.
- fairview park — a city in N Ohio.
- false vampire — any large, carnivorous bat of the families Megadermatidae and Phyllostomatidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, erroneously reputed to suck the blood of animals and humans.
- fever therapy — therapy by means of an artificially induced fever.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- fosamprenavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral prodrug of the protease inhibitor amprenavir. It is used to treat HIV infected patients.
- galvanic pile — voltaic pile.
- give a leg up — to help to mount
- give it heaps — to try very hard
- give pause to — to cause to hesitate
- give priority — If you give priority to something or someone, you treat them as more important than anything or anyone else.
- give the slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- golden plover — either of two plovers of the genus Pluvialis, having the back marked with golden-yellow spots, P. apricaria, of Europe, or P. dominica, of America.
- gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- grape harvest — gathering of ripe grapes from the vine
- grape variety — type of grape
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- graving piece — a piece of wood let into a wooden hull to replace decayed wood.
- group of five — France, Japan, UK, US, and Germany acting as a group to stabilize their currency exchange rates
- hairpin curve — A hairpin curve or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- heavy petting — Informal. intense petting that involves mutual stimulation of the genitals but not sexual intercourse.
- herpesviruses — Plural form of herpesvirus.
- hyperactivate — (biology) To cause or undergo hyperactivation.
- hyperactively — In a hyperactive manner.
- hyperactivity — the condition of being hyperactive.
- hyperreactive — Showing a much greater than normal response to a stimulus.
- hypertensives — Plural form of hypertensive.
- hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- hypervelocity — extremely high velocity, as of projectiles, space vehicles, or accelerated nuclear particles.
- hypervigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
- hypervirulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.