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13-letter words containing p, r, e, v, i

  • privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
  • 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.
  • profit motive — the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
  • progressively — 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.
  • progressivism — the principles and practices of progressives.
  • progressivist — the principles and practices of progressives.
  • progressivity — 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.
  • prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
  • projection tv — a system made up of lenses, mirrors, and a cathode-ray tube, for projecting video images onto a large screen
  • prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
  • prove a point — If you prove a point, you show other people that you know something or can do something, although your action may have no other purpose.
  • proverbialism — a proverbial expression
  • proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
  • proverbialize — to use in a proverbial way
  • provincialise — to make provincial in character.
  • provincialize — to make provincial in character.
  • provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
  • puncture vine — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
  • quasi-private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
  • receptiveness — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
  • reciprocative — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
  • reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
  • reserve price — floor price.
  • retrospective — directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
  • ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
  • river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
  • river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
  • scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
  • self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • semioviparous — bearing young in an incomplete state of development, as a marsupial.
  • service clasp — clasp (def 4).
  • serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
  • silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
  • silver poplar — white poplar (def 1).
  • silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
  • silver-plated — Something that is silver-plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver.
  • sneak preview — a preview of a motion picture, often shown in addition to an announced film, in order to observe the reaction of the audience.
  • souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
  • spanish river — a river in S Ontario, Canada, flowing S into the North Channel of Lake Huron. 150 miles (241 km) long.
  • sperry univac — (company)   One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
  • superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
  • superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
  • supervirtuoso — a highly accomplished virtuoso
  • supervirulent — extremely virulent
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
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