12-letter words containing p, r, e, v
- private joke — a joke that is understood only by a certain social group
- private life — the social or family life or personal relationships of an individual, esp of a person in the public eye, such as a politician or celebrity
- private view — a preview, esp of an art exhibition, for specially invited guests
- privateering — an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
- prize-giving — A prize-giving is a ceremony where prizes are awarded to people who have produced a very high standard of work.
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- projectivity — of or relating to projection.
- proper value — characteristic root.
- proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
- protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- protest vote — a ballot cast for a candidate with a minimal chance of winning, to register dislike for the other candidates.
- provableness — the quality of being provable
- proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- provincetown — a town at the tip of Cape Cod, in SE Massachusetts: resort.
- provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
- proxy server — (software, security) (Capitalised) Microsoft's proxy server and proxy gateway, designed to provide extensible firewall and network security. Proxy Server is part of BackOffice.
- pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
- pulverizable — that can be pulverized
- putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- receivership — the condition of being in the hands of a receiver.
- recuperative — that recuperates.
- redemptively — serving to redeem.
- renal pelvis — a small funnel-shaped cavity of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter
- repercussive — causing repercussion; reverberating.
- repetitively — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
- replevisable — capable of being replevied.
- reprehensive — the act of reprehending; reproof; censure.
- repressively — tending or serving to repress: repressive laws.
- reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- reputatively — according to reckoning; by repute; putatively
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- responsivity — the quality or state of being responsive.
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- revenge porn — sexually suggestive images of someone, typically a former romantic partner, that are posted online or otherwise shared without the person's consent.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- septemvirate — the ruling body of septemvirs.
- seropositive — showing a significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, indicating previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
- service pipe — a pipe connecting a building with a water or gas main.
- servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
- severna park — a city in central Maryland.
- silver maple — a maple, Acer saccharinum, having leaves that are light green above and silvery white beneath.
- silver paper — silver foil.
- silver perch — Also called mademoiselle. Ichthyology. a drum, Bairdiella chrysoura, of southern U.S. waters.
- silver plate — thin coat of silver
- silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
- silver spoon — spoon (def 16).