13-letter words containing p, o, v, i
- improvability — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- improvidently — In an improvident manner.
- improvisation — the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation: Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
- improvisatore — An individual who recites impromptu verse, as from a song or poem.
- improvisatori — Plural form of improvisatore.
- improvisatory — of, relating to, or characteristic of an improvisation or improvisator.
- incorporative — Tending to incorporate or include things.
- interoceptive — pertaining to interoceptors, the stimuli acting upon them, or the nerve impulses initiated by them.
- interpolative — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- introspective — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- jovian planet — any of the four large outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- low explosive — a relatively slow-burning explosive, usually set off by heat or friction, used for propelling charges in guns or for ordinary blasting.
- negative pole — the south-seeking pole of a magnet
- neopositivism — A resurgent positivism, or an updated version of it.
- non-deceptive — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
- non-receptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- nonabsorptive — Not absorptive.
- nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
- nondispersive — not dispersive
- nondisruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- nonpejorative — Not pejorative.
- nonperceiving — Unperceiving.
- nonpermissive — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
- nonproductive — not productive; unproductive.
- nonprovincial — Not restricted to a small region; not done in isolation.
- nonresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- open interval — (mathematics) A type of interval (range of numbers) that does not include either of its endpoints. For example, when mixing red and blue paint, the proportion of red lies in the interval 0% to 100% but can't be exactly 0% or 100% or it wouldn't be a mixture.
- open universe — a model of the universe in which the universe expands forever because there is not enough mass to counteract the expansion by means of gravitational attraction.
- operativeness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being operative.
- optical drive — optical disk drive
- output device — (hardware) Electronic or electromechanical equipment connected to a computer and used to transfer data out of the computer in the form of text, images, sounds or other media to a display screen, printer, loudspeaker or storage device. Most modern storage devices such as disk drives and magnetic tape drives act as both input and output devices, others such as CD-ROM are input only.
- over-cropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
- over-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- over-promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
- overappraisal — An appraisal that overvalues something.
- overemphasise — (British) alternative spelling of overemphasize.
- overemphasize — to emphasize excessively.
- overexpansion — the act or process of expanding.
- overflow pipe — a pipe which discharges excess or leaking water safely
- overimpressed — very impressed
- overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
- overpotential — overvoltage.
- overprescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- overprovision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- overreporting — an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient.
- ovipositional — pertaining to the laying of eggs through an ovipositor
- ovoviviparity — producing eggs that are hatched within the body, so that the young are born alive but without placental attachment, as certain reptiles or fishes.