14-letter words containing p, r, e, v, i
- overprivileged — having too many advantages or opportunities compared to others.
- overproduction — excessive production; production in excess of need or stipulated amount.
- overproportion — to make or measure in excess of the correct, normal, or desired proportion.
- overprotection — the act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm.
- overprotective — unduly protective.
- oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
- overspecialize — to specialize to an excessive degree
- overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
- oversuspicious — too suspicious
- 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.
- perceptiveness — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- perez esquivel — Adolfo [uh-dol-foh;; Spanish ah-th awl-faw] /əˈdɒl foʊ;; Spanish ɑˈðɔl fɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Argentine sculptor and human rights activist: Nobel prize 1980.
- perfectiveness — the state or quality of being perfective
- permissiveness — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
- 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.
- phillips curve — a curve that purports to plot the relationship between unemployment and inflation on the theory that as inflation falls unemployment rises and vice versa
- photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
- photoreceptive — of or relating to photoreception
- photoresistive — photoconductive
- pierre vernier — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1580–1637, French mathematician and inventor.
- pigeon-livered — meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
- 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-investment — the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- pre-invitation — the act of inviting.
- pre-university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
- precompetitive — in marketing, designating or occurring during the stage prior to the completion of development of a product, when companies collaborate rather than compete
- predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
- predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
- predictiveness — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- preoperatively — in a preoperative context
- prerevisionist — preceding revisionism
- prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- prescriptivism — a writer, teacher, or supporter of prescriptive grammar.
- prescriptivist — a writer, teacher, or supporter of prescriptive grammar.
- presentiveness — (of a word) the state of being presentive
- 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.