12-letter words containing p, i, t, v
- hypertensive — characterized by or causing high blood pressure.
- ibota privet — a Japanese spreading shrub, Ligustrum obtusifolium, of the olive family, having hairy leaves and nodding white flower clusters.
- imperatively — absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave.
- imperceptive — not perceptive; lacking perception.
- imperfective — noting an aspect of the verb, as in Russian, that indicates incompleteness of the action or state at a temporal point of reference.
- improvements — Plural form of improvement.
- improvisator — a person who improvises; improviser.
- imputatively — In an imputative fashion or manner.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- input device — a peripheral device, as a keyboard or stylus, used to enter data into a computer for processing.
- insusceptive — insusceptible
- intempestive — untimely or inopportune
- interceptive — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- interpretive — serving to interpret; explanatory.
- interruptive — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- irrespective — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- liverpolitan — a native or inhabitant of Liverpool
- manipulative — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- motive power — any power used to impart motion; any source of mechanical energy.
- non-punitive — not involving or exerting punishment
- nondeceptive — not deceptive
- nonoperative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- open verdict — law: coroner's jury finding
- opinionative — of, relating to, or of the nature of opinion.
- overcapacity — capacity beyond what is normal, allowed, or desirable.
- overemphatic — excessive or undue emphasis.
- overexplicit — excessively explicit
- overmultiply — to increase too much or too often
- overoptimism — a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- overoptimist — someone who is too optimistic
- overplotting — the provision of an excessively elaborate plot
- overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- overtime pay — a higher than normal rate of pay, for work done as overtime
- parma violet — a variety of the sweet violet, Viola odorata, that is the source of an essential oil used in perfumery.
- parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
- paving stone — slab used to lay a path
- perceptively — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- perceptivity — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- perfectively — in a perfective manner; thoroughly
- perfectivity — the state or quality of being (a) perfective
- perfectivize — to make perfective.
- performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
- permissivist — lenience toward or indulgence of a wide variety of social behavior.
- permittivity — Electricity. the ratio of the flux density produced by an electric field in a given dielectric to the flux density produced by that field in a vacuum.
- perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
- petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
- petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
- photovoltaic — of or relating to the photovoltaic effect.