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

  • pre-contrived — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
  • pre-developed — to bring out the capabilities or possibilities of; bring to a more advanced or effective state: to develop natural resources; to develop one's musical talent.
  • pre-inventory — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
  • pre-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • preconvention — taking place immediately prior to a convention
  • preconviction — a conviction or assurance formed beforehand; a preconceived conviction
  • prerevolution — of the period before a revolution
  • prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
  • preservations — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
  • pretelevision — occurring before the arrival of television
  • prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
  • prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
  • prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
  • private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
  • 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.
  • problem-solve — find solutions
  • proces-verbal — a report of proceedings, as of an assembly.
  • profit motive — the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
  • progovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • 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.
  • provence rose — an erect Eurasian shrub, Rosa gallica, of the rose family, having a creeping rootstock, densely prickly and bristly stems, and large, solitary, pink or crimson flowers.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
  • 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
  • self-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
  • spotted fever — any of several fevers characterized by spots on the skin, especially as in cerebrospinal meningitis or typhus fever.
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