11-letter words containing p, r, e, s, v
- pervasively — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- pitt-rivers — Augustus (Henry Lane Fox).1827–1900, British archaeologist; first inspector of ancient monuments (1882): assembled a major anthropological collection of tools and weapons (now in the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford)
- postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
- preinvasive — of or relating to a stage preceding invasion of the tissues; in situ.
- prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
- preservable — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- previous to — before, prior to
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- privateness — the quality of being private
- privy purse — a sum from the public revenues allotted to the sovereign for personal expenses.
- pro-slavery — favoring slavery.
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- progressive — 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.
- prokopyevsk — a city in the S central Russian Federation in Asia, NW of Novokuznetsk.
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
- provisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- provisioner — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- r.s.v.p.'ed — to reply to an invitation: Don't forget to RSVP before Thursday.
- reprovision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- reverse arp — Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- scrap value — what sth is worth for recycling or reuse
- semiprivate — having some degree of privacy but not fully private, as a hospital room with fewer beds than a ward.
- sempervivum — any of various succulent plants belonging to the genus Sempervivum, of the stonecrop family, having leaves in dense basal rosettes and a compact, flat-topped cluster of flowers, and including the houseleek, S. tectorum, and other commonly cultivated species.
- septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.
- service cap — a saucer-shaped uniform cap with a visor, standard in the U.S. Army and Air Force.
- sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
- silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
- spider vein — one of a radiating network of dilated capillaries on the skin.
- spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- spot survey — a survey taken immediately and at random
- spree-river — a river in E Germany, flowing N through Berlin to the Havel River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- springville — a town in central Utah.
- stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
- superactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- superoctave — an organ stop two octaves above the standard pitch
- supervirile — highly virile
- supervision — the act or function of supervising; superintendence.
- supervisory — of, relating to, or having supervision.
- supervisual — of or relating to seeing or sight: a visual image.
- supervolute — (of convolute leaves) enveloping a rolled up leaf within the bud
- suppressive — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.