13-letter words containing p, i, e, r, v
- triple-nerved — noting a leaf in which two prominent nerves emerge from the middle nerve a little above its base.
- trophic level — any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.
- tuva republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: mountainous. Capital: Kizyl. Pop: 305 500 (2002). Area: 170 500 sq km (65 800 sq miles)
- typhoid fever — Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.
- 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.
- unperceivable — imperceptible
- unperceivably — imperceptibly
- unperceivedly — without being perceived; so as not to be perceived
- unprogressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- unprovisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- unreprievable — not able to be reprieved, eased, or postponed
- valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
- vapor barrier — a layer of material, as plastic film or foil, used to protect installed insulation by retarding the transmission of moisture from the interior environment.
- vapor tension — vapor pressure.
- vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
- variable type — type that can be varied to fit a page, screen, etc
- vide ut supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see as above
- vinyl polymer — any of a group of compounds derived by polymerization from vinyl compounds, as vinyl acetate and styrene.
- violin spider — brown recluse spider.
- vip treatment — preferential or special treatment, as or as if given to famous or rich people
- virginia pine — a pine tree, Pinus virginiana, of the eastern U.S., that grows in poor soil and has needles in groups of two.
- visceroptosis — a downward displacement of the intestine
- visual purple — rhodopsin.
- vivisepulture — the burying of something while still alive
- voice over ip — (communications) (VoIP) Any technology providing voice telephony services over IP, including CODECs, streaming protocols and session control. The major advantage of VoIP is lower cost, by avoiding dedicated voice circuits. Currently VoIP is being deployed on internal corporate networks, and, via the Internet, for low cost (and low quality) international calls. It is also used for telephony applications such as voice and fax mail. The ITU standard is H.323, which is a whole suite of protocols, while the IETF has developed the much simpler SIP to solve the session control problem and MGCP/Megaco to solve the gateway problem.
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
- well-provided — having been furnished or supplied with a sufficient amount