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9-letter words containing p, o, v

  • poll evil — an acute swelling on the top of the head of a horse originating in an inflamed bursa that underlies the great neck ligament there.
  • pollutive — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
  • polverine — a glassmaker's potash
  • polyvinyl — pertaining to or derived from a vinyl polymer.
  • pontlevis — a drawbridge.
  • port vila — the capital of Vanuatu, on the island of Efate. Pop: 44 040 (2009)
  • portative — capable of being carried; portable.
  • portreeve — the reeve of a port
  • posidrive — having a patent screwhead that allows greater torque
  • positives — explicitly stated, stipulated, or expressed: a positive acceptance of the agreement.
  • pre-loved — previously used or owned; secondhand.
  • predevote — predestined, predetermined
  • prevision — foresight, foreknowledge, or prescience.
  • primitivo — a black grape grown in the Puglia region of Italy, used for making wine
  • privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
  • privocrat — (esp in neo-conservative thought) a person who is not in favour of relinquishing individual freedoms in order to give the state more powers to combat terrorism
  • proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
  • profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
  • progravid — progestational (def 1).
  • prokhorov — Aleksandr Mikhailovich [al-ig-zan-der mi-kahy-luh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1916–2002, Russian physicist: Nobel prize 1964.
  • prokofiev — Sergei Sergeevich [syir-gyey syir-gye-yi-vyich] /syɪrˈgyeɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1953, Russian composer.
  • prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
  • promotive — tending to promote.
  • protoavis — a fossil bird of the genus Protoavis, from the Triassic Period, having a birdlike, partly toothless jaw structure, a tail and hind legs resembling those of the dinosaur, and the hollow bones and keellike breast that are characteristic of modern birds: the oldest known avian type, preceding the archaeopteryx by an estimated 75 million years.
  • prove out — to show or be shown to be satisfactory, accurate, true, etc.
  • provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
  • provender — dry food, as hay or oats, for livestock or other domestic animals; fodder.
  • proverbed — a short popular saying, usually of unknown and ancient origin, that expresses effectively some commonplace truth or useful thought; adage; saw.
  • provident — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
  • providing — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
  • provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • provisory — containing a proviso or condition; conditional.
  • provocant — a person who deliberately behaves controversially to provoke argument or other strong reactions
  • provoking — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
  • provolone — a mellow light-colored, Italian cheese, usually smoked after drying.
  • provostry — the office of a (secular, ecclesiastical, or scholastic) provost
  • pull over — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
  • pulverous — consisting of tiny particles
  • purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
  • push over — shove to the ground
  • reapprove — to approve (something) again
  • redevelop — to develop (something) again.
  • reproving — If you give someone a reproving look or speak in a reproving voice, you show or say that you think they have behaved in a wrong or foolish way.
  • serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
  • ship over — to enlist or reenlist in the U.S. Navy
  • sleepover — an instance of sleeping over, as at another person's house.
  • slipcover — a cover of cloth or other material for a piece of furniture, as an upholstered chair or sofa, made so as to be easily removable.
  • slop over — to overflow or spill, as a liquid when its container is tilted
  • slop-over — a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
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