12-letter words containing p, r, o, v, e
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- supervention — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- trevor-roper — Hugh (Redwald) [red-wawld] /ˈrɛd wɔld/ (Show IPA), 1914–2003, British historian.
- triple voile — a lightweight, sheer voile of silk or synthetic fibers constructed in plain or novelty weaves.
- unapprovable — capable of being approved.
- underdevelop — to develop (something) short of the required amount: to underdevelop film.
- unoppressive — not cruel or harsh
- unproductive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- unprotective — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- unprovokedly — in an unprovoked manner
- unreprovable — not able to be reproved, reproached, or criticized
- unresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- unsupportive — giving support.
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- ventripotent — having a large belly
- vesper mouse — white-footed mouse.
- video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- video porn's — pornographic movies available on videocassette or optical disk, on the Internet, or on subscription television.
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- viola player — someone who plays the viola
- vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
- vituperatory — abusive or blaming
- vortex depth — The vortex depth is the depth below an impeller at which its influence can still be seen in a mixed fluid.
- voting paper — a ballot.
- water vapour — steam