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.