13-letter words containing p, i, e, v, n
- 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
- self-punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- 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.
- stevens point — a city in central Wisconsin.
- 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.
- uncompetitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
- 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
- unspeculative — not characterized by speculation
- v-type engine — an engine having the cylinders aligned in two banks at an angle to each other, forming a V .
- vaccine point — a thin, pointed, vaccine-coated piece of bone or the like, for use in vaccinating.
- valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
- vanity plates — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
- vantage point — a position or place that affords a wide or advantageous perspective; viewpoint: to survey a valley from the vantage point of a high hill.