13-letter words containing p, i, t, r, v
- private press — a printing establishment primarily run as a pastime
- private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
- private trust — a trust designed for the benefit of a designated or known individual (opposed to charitable trust).
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- privatization — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- 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.
- profit motive — the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
- progressivist — the principles and practices of progressives.
- progressivity — 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.
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- projection tv — a system made up of lenses, mirrors, and a cathode-ray tube, for projecting video images onto a large screen
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- 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.
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provocational — the act of provoking.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- 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.
- quasi-private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- receptiveness — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- reciprocative — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
- retrospective — directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
- silver-plated — Something that is silver-plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver.
- superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
- superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- supervirtuoso — a highly accomplished virtuoso
- 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.
- 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.
- unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- vacation trip — a trip undertaken during a vacation
- valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
- vapor tension — vapor pressure.
- 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
- vip treatment — preferential or special treatment, as or as if given to famous or rich people
- visceroptosis — a downward displacement of the intestine
- vivisepulture — the burying of something while still alive
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.