14-letter words containing p, r, e, v, a, i
- overparticular — precise beyond necessity
- overpersuasion — the act or instance of overpersuading someone
- overpopulation — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- overspecialize — to specialize to an excessive degree
- panoramic view — wide vista or landscape
- passive reason — the reasoning faculty existing only within an individual mind, limited in scope and perishing with the body.
- passive-matrix — of or relating to a relatively low-resolution liquid-crystal display (LCD) with low contrast, a type of flat-panel display.
- perceivability — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- persian violet — any of several plants belonging to the genus Exacum, native to the Old World, as E. affine, having glossy, ovate leaves, and fragrant, bluish flowers: cultivated as a houseplant.
- persuasiveness — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
- pizza delivery — a service provided by some pizza restaurants whereby pizzas are delivered to customers who have placed orders by telephone
- pleural cavity — a narrow, fluid-filled space between the pleural membranes of the lung and the inner chest wall.
- policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
- post operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- prairie clover — any plant belonging to the genus Petalostemon, of the legume family, common in western North America, having pinnately compound leaves and spikes of white, purple, or pink flowers.
- pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- pre-invitation — the act of inviting.
- predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
- predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
- preoperatively — in a preoperative context
- preserving pan — a pan specially designed for preserving fruit
- presuppurative — noting or pertaining to the stage of inflammation before the formation of pus.
- preventive law — consultation, as between lawyer and client, to prevent future litigation by dispensing legal advice, clarifying the terms of a contract, etc.
- preventive war — an attack against a possible enemy to prevent an attack by that enemy at a later time.
- prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
- private equity — equity in a business that is raised from private sources, as opposed to shares that can be traded publicly
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- private member — (sometimes lowercase) British. a member of a legislative body, especially of the House of Commons, who has no special duties and is not a member of the ministry.
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
- private treaty — a property sale based on terms resulting from a conference between buyer and seller.
- proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
- reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
- recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
- representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- rip van winkle — (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.
- self-operative — automatic.
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
- spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
- splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.