16-letter words containing p, o, v
- photosensitivity — the quality of being photosensitive.
- phytosuccivorous — feeding on sap, as certain sucking insects.
- pincers movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
- polyvinyl acetal — any of the class of thermoplastic resins derived by the condensation of an aldehyde with polyvinyl alcohol.
- polyvinyl formal — a colorless, water-insoluble, polyvinyl acetal produced from partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate and formaldehyde, used chiefly in the manufacture of lacquers.
- positive vetting — the checking of a person's background, political affiliation, etc, to assess his suitability for a position that may involve national security
- potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
- poverty-stricken — suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
- pre-conversation — informal interchange of thoughts, information, etc., by spoken words; oral communication between persons; talk; colloquy.
- premier division — a football or soccer league division consisting of the top ten Scottish football teams
- prerevolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- prevost d'exiles — Antoine François [ahn-twan frahn-swa] /ɑ̃ˈtwan frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), ("Abbé Prévost") 1697–1763, French novelist.
- private property — land or belongings owned by a person or group and kept for their exclusive use
- privet andromeda — a spreading shrub, Lyonia ligustrina, of the eastern U.S., having leafless, white flowers in terminal clusters.
- pro-intervention — the act or fact of intervening.
- proenvironmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
- progressive jazz — an experimental, nonmelodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, especially in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz.
- progressive jpeg — (graphics, file format) (PJPEG) An implementation of JPEG that supports progressive coding.
- progressive lens — a multifocal eyeglass lens that provides a continuous range of focal power between near and far distances.
- projective plane — (mathematics) The space of equivalence classes of vectors under non-zero scalar multiplication. Elements are sets of the form {kv: k != 0, k scalar, v != O, v a vector} where O is the origin. v is a representative member of this equivalence class. The projective plane of a vector space is the collection of its 1-dimensional subspaces. The properties of the vector space induce a topology and notions of smoothness on the projective plane. A projective plane is in no meaningful sense a plane and would therefore be (but isn't) better described as a "projective space".
- proper adjective — an adjective formed from a proper noun, as American from America.
- protective slope — a slope given to a yard or the like to drain surface water away from a building.
- provost sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer of a prison or other confinement facility whose chief duty is the supervision of prisoners and of the military police unit.
- pyroconductivity — conductivity brought about by the application of heat, especially in solids that are not conductors at normal temperatures.
- pyrovanadic acid — an oxyacid of vanadium, known chiefly in the form of its vanadate salts; Formula: H4V2O7
- redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
- relative pronoun — one of the pronouns who, whom, which, what, their compounds with -ever or -soever, or that used as the subordinating word to introduce a subordinate clause, especially such a pronoun referring to an antecedent.
- reversal process — a process for converting the negative on a film or plate to a positive by bleaching and redeveloping.
- rodent operative — a name sometimes used for an official (operative) employed by a local authority to destroy vermin
- savannah sparrow — a North American sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis, having brown and white plumage with a yellow stripe over each eye.
- scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
- seal of approval — royal stamp of endorsement
- self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
- self-development — the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
- self-improvement — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- semiprivate room — a hospital room shared by two people, typically with a curtain dividing the room and providing some privacy
- service provider — company: provides internet
- shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
- slave labor camp — labor camp (def 1).
- slip one over on — to hoodwink or trick
- sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
- spiritus vinosus — (in prescriptions) spirits of wine; alcohol.
- the devil to pay — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- the heavens open — If the heavens open, it suddenly starts raining very heavily.
- the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
- to pay dividends — If something pays dividends, it brings advantages at a later date.
- to speak volumes — If something such as an action speaks volumes about a person or thing, it gives you a lot of information about them.
- top drive system — A top drive system is a system which includes a motor that turns the drill string, used instead of the kelly.
- unimproved value — the valuation of land for rating purposes, disregarding the value of buildings or other development
- united provinces — (used with a singular or plural verb) former name of Uttar Pradesh.