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13-letter words containing p, o, v

  • provost court — a military court convened in occupied territory under military government, usually composed of one officer and empowered to try military personnel and civilians for minor offenses.
  • provost guard — a detachment of soldiers assigned to police duties under the provost marshal.
  • pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
  • reciprocative — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
  • redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
  • retrospective — directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
  • 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
  • self-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
  • self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • semioviparous — bearing young in an incomplete state of development, as a marsupial.
  • serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
  • silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
  • silver poplar — white poplar (def 1).
  • souphanouvong — Prince, 1909–1995, Laotian political leader: president 1975–86 (half brother of Prince Souvanna Phouma).
  • souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
  • speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
  • spotted fever — any of several fevers characterized by spots on the skin, especially as in cerebrospinal meningitis or typhus fever.
  • stevens point — a city in central Wisconsin.
  • stovepipe hat — a tall silk hat.
  • supervirtuoso — a highly accomplished virtuoso
  • support level — a minimum price below which a specific stock is not supposed to fall, as because of the stock's inherent worth.
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • to play havoc — If one thing plays havoc with another or wreaks havoc on it, it prevents it from continuing or functioning as normal, or damages it.
  • trophic level — any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.
  • 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.
  • unapprovingly — in an unapproving manner
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • unprovokingly — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
  • upland plover — a large, field-inhabiting sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, of eastern North America, resembling a plover: now protected and increasing in numbers.
  • vacation trip — a trip undertaken during a vacation
  • vaccine point — a thin, pointed, vaccine-coated piece of bone or the like, for use in vaccinating.
  • vagodepressor — decreasing or mimicking the decrease of the activity of the vagus nerve.
  • vale of tempe — a wooded valley in E Greece, in Thessaly between the mountains Olympus and Ossa
  • valproic acid — a carboxylic acid, C 8 H 16 O 2 , used for its antiepileptic properties in the treatment of various seizures including petit mal.
  • valued policy — a policy in which the company and the policyholder agree to the amount to be paid in the event of total loss of property, regardless of the value of the property.
  • 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.
  • vapor barrier — a layer of material, as plastic film or foil, used to protect installed insulation by retarding the transmission of moisture from the interior environment.
  • vapor tension — vapor pressure.
  • vapourer moth — a tussock moth, Orgyia antiqua, of hedgerows and trees, the female of which is wingless and lays her eggs on her former cocoon
  • vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
  • vicente lopez — a city in E central Argentina, N of Buenos Aires.
  • vino de pasto — a pale, dry sherry of Spain.
  • vinyl polymer — any of a group of compounds derived by polymerization from vinyl compounds, as vinyl acetate and styrene.
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