9-letter words containing p, e, v
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- prokofiev — Sergei Sergeevich [syir-gyey syir-gye-yi-vyich] /syɪrˈgyeɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1953, Russian composer.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- promotive — tending to promote.
- prove out — to show or be shown to be satisfactory, accurate, true, etc.
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- provender — dry food, as hay or oats, for livestock or other domestic animals; fodder.
- proverbed — a short popular saying, usually of unknown and ancient origin, that expresses effectively some commonplace truth or useful thought; adage; saw.
- provident — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- provolone — a mellow light-colored, Italian cheese, usually smoked after drying.
- pull over — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- pulverine — the alkaline ashes resulting from the burning of the barilla plant
- pulverise — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverize — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverous — consisting of tiny particles
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.
- pulvinule — (at the base of a leafstalk) a small swelling
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
- push over — shove to the ground
- quivertip — A flexible tip to a fishing rod that bends when a fish takes the bait.
- reapprove — to approve (something) again
- receptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- redevelop — to develop (something) again.
- reprieval — reprieve; respite.
- reproving — If you give someone a reproving look or speak in a reproving voice, you show or say that you think they have behaved in a wrong or foolish way.
- repulsive — causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.
- revamping — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- revved up — a revolution (in an engine or the like).
- septemvir — a member of a seven-man ruling body in ancient Rome.
- serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- ship over — to enlist or reenlist in the U.S. Navy
- silvertip — grizzly bear.
- sleepover — an instance of sleeping over, as at another person's house.
- slipcover — a cover of cloth or other material for a piece of furniture, as an upholstered chair or sofa, made so as to be easily removable.
- slop over — to overflow or spill, as a liquid when its container is tilted
- slop-over — a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
- sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
- spillover — the act of spilling over.
- spin wave — a magnetic wave propagated through a crystal lattice by a collective excitation of the spin angular momentum of electrons.
- spoilfive — a game played by two to ten persons having five cards each.
- spoolview — (tool) A printing system for Unix. SpoolView can control several printers connected to a TCP/IP network. Different printers can be loaded with different paper and forms. After submitting a print request, the user can change the printer, form, number of copies or priority. Administrators can register new printers, change paper forms on printers, cancel requests, suspend printers.
- stephen v — died a.d. 891, pope 885–891.
- stop over — stay overnight on a journey
- stovepipe — a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
- super vga — Super Video Graphics Array
- superhive — super (def 3).
- supernova — the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star's luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star's mass is blown away at very high velocity, sometimes leaving behind an extremely dense core.