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

  • nondescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • nonoverlapping — Not overlapping.
  • nonprocreative — Not procreative.
  • nonprogressive — not progressive; old-fashioned
  • nonprovocative — Not provocative.
  • nonsupervisory — not supervisory
  • nonsuppurative — Not suppurative.
  • on the improve — improving
  • oppressiveness — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
  • over-precision — the state or quality of being precise.
  • over-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • overcompliance — excessive compliance
  • overdeveloping — Present participle of overdevelop.
  • overpersuasion — the act or instance of overpersuading someone
  • overpopulation — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • overproduction — excessive production; production in excess of need or stipulated amount.
  • overproportion — to make or measure in excess of the correct, normal, or desired proportion.
  • overprotection — the act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm.
  • overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
  • panoramic view — wide vista or landscape
  • passive reason — the reasoning faculty existing only within an individual mind, limited in scope and perishing with the body.
  • perceptiveness — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
  • perfectiveness — the state or quality of being perfective
  • permissiveness — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
  • persian violet — any of several plants belonging to the genus Exacum, native to the Old World, as E. affine, having glossy, ovate leaves, and fragrant, bluish flowers: cultivated as a houseplant.
  • persuasiveness — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
  • pierre vernierPierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1580–1637, French mathematician and inventor.
  • pigeon-livered — meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
  • positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
  • pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • pre-investment — the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
  • pre-invitation — the act of inviting.
  • pre-university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
  • predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • predictiveness — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
  • prerevisionist — preceding revisionism
  • presentiveness — (of a word) the state of being presentive
  • preserving pan — a pan specially designed for preserving fruit
  • preventive law — consultation, as between lawyer and client, to prevent future litigation by dispensing legal advice, clarifying the terms of a contract, etc.
  • preventive war — an attack against a possible enemy to prevent an attack by that enemy at a later time.
  • private income — econ: from outside employment
  • pro-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
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