14-letter words containing p, r, o, v, a
- overemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overemphasize.
- 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.
- overprogrammed — characterized by overprogramming
- overspecialize — to specialize to an excessive degree
- panoramic view — wide vista or landscape
- papillomavirus — any of several viruses of the family Papovaviridae, containing circular DNA, causing papillomas in various animals and responsible for human genital warts.
- passive reason — the reasoning faculty existing only within an individual mind, limited in scope and perishing with the body.
- 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.
- photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
- pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
- 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.
- post-victorian — of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.
- 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-invitation — the act of inviting.
- predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
- preoperatively — in a preoperative context
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- 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.
- 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.
- provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- 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.
- self-operative — automatic.
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- solvay process — a process for manufacturing sodium carbonate whereby a concentrated solution of sodium chloride is saturated with ammonia, carbon dioxide is passed through it, and the product is calcined.
- splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
- superior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned above a receptacle of a flower, as in members of the mint family.
- superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- vapor pressure — the pressure exerted by the molecules of a vapor, especially that part of the total pressure exerted by vapor in a mixture of gases, as by water vapor in air.
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- varsity sports — sports involving the main or first teams at a high school, college, or university
- vector graphic — a computer image that is stored in memory as lines rather than a series of dots, allowing it to be rotated or proportionally scaled.
- vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
- vesper sparrow — a common finch, Pooecetes gramineus, of fields and pastures in North America, noted for its evening song.
- vexillographer — a person who designs or makes flags.
- vibropac block — a precast concrete building block