14-letter words containing p, i, t, r, v
- prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
- primitive cell — a unit cell containing no points of the lattice except at the corners of the cell.
- prison visitor — a person who volunteers to pay regular visits to prison inmates
- private equity — equity in a business that is raised from private sources, as opposed to shares that can be traded publicly
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- private member — (sometimes lowercase) British. a member of a legislative body, especially of the House of Commons, who has no special duties and is not a member of the ministry.
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
- private treaty — a property sale based on terms resulting from a conference between buyer and seller.
- 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.
- productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- progressivists — the principles and practices of progressives.
- proof positive — To be proof positive of a particular fact or quality means to be evidence that it is true or that it exists.
- proprioceptive — pertaining to proprioceptors, the stimuli acting upon them, or the nerve impulses initiated by them.
- 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.
- provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- put it over on — to deceive; trick
- reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
- recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- recursive type — A data type which contains itself. The commonest example is the list type, in Haskell: data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a) which says a list of a's is either an empty list or a cons cell containing an 'a' (the "head" of the list) and another list (the "tail"). Recursion is not allowed in Miranda or Haskell synonym types, so the following Haskell types are illegal: type Bad = (Int, Bad) type Evil = Bool -> Evil whereas the seeminly equivalent algebraic data types are acceptable:
- relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
- repetitiveness — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
- representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- self-operative — automatic.
- seropositivity — the quality or state of being seropositive
- service stripe — a stripe worn on the left sleeve by an enlisted person to indicate a specific period of time served on active duty.
- silver protein — any of several colloidal silver solutions containing silver and a protein, as albumin: formerly used in treating inflammation of mucous membranes
- spirit varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- supereffective — very or extremely effective
- superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
- superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- supersensitive — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
- superstructive — built onto a structure
- supportiveness — giving support.
- supreme soviet — the bicameral legislature, comprising the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities; officially the highest organ of state power
- unappreciative — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
- unproductivity — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
- varsity sports — sports involving the main or first teams at a high school, college, or university
- vector graphic — a computer image that is stored in memory as lines rather than a series of dots, allowing it to be rotated or proportionally scaled.
- vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
- vice president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.