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13-letter words containing p, i, e, r, v, n

  • overreporting — an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient.
  • penetratively — in a penetrative manner
  • perivitelline — located around the vitellus (yolk) of an egg
  • perseveration — the act or process of perseverating.
  • perseveringly — displaying perseverance; resolutely persistent; steadfast: a persevering student.
  • peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • pervaporation — Pervaporation is a separation process in which a substance permeates through a membrane and then evaporates.
  • pervasiveness — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
  • petrol-driven — (of a car, engine, etc) powered by petrol
  • popcorn movie — a film that appeals to a mass audience
  • pre-contrived — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
  • pre-interview — a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.
  • pre-inventory — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
  • pre-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • preconvention — taking place immediately prior to a convention
  • preconviction — a conviction or assurance formed beforehand; a preconceived conviction
  • prerevolution — of the period before a revolution
  • preservations — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
  • pretelevision — occurring before the arrival of television
  • preuniversity — of the period before attending university
  • prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
  • prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
  • prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
  • primitiveness — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
  • private brand — a product marketed under a private label.
  • privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
  • 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.
  • projection tv — a system made up of lenses, mirrors, and a cathode-ray tube, for projecting video images onto a large screen
  • 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.
  • provincialise — to make provincial in character.
  • provincialize — to make provincial in character.
  • pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
  • puncture vine — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
  • receptiveness — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
  • ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
  • river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
  • scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
  • serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
  • silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
  • sneak preview — a preview of a motion picture, often shown in addition to an announced film, in order to observe the reaction of the audience.
  • souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
  • spanish river — a river in S Ontario, Canada, flowing S into the North Channel of Lake Huron. 150 miles (241 km) long.
  • sperry univac — (company)   One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • supervirulent — extremely virulent
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • triple-nerved — noting a leaf in which two prominent nerves emerge from the middle nerve a little above its base.
  • uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • undescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
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