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12-letter words containing p, r, o, v

  • provisionary — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • provisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • provitamin a — carotene.
  • 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
  • pulvilliform — resembling a pulvillus
  • reproductive — serving to reproduce.
  • 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.
  • rostropovich — Mstislav (Leopoldovich) [mis-tuh-slahv lee-uh-pohl-duh-vich;; Russian mstyi-slahf lyi-uh-pawl-duh-vyich] /ˈmɪs təˌslɑv ˌli əˈpoʊl də vɪtʃ;; Russian mstyɪˈslɑf lyɪ əˈpɔl də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1927–2007, Soviet cellist and conductor (husband of Galina Vishnevskaya).
  • self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • seropositive — showing a significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, indicating previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
  • servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
  • 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).
  • snowy plover — a small plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, mainly of the U.S. and Mexico, having a white breast and sand-colored upper parts.
  • spot remover — a concentrated cleaning fluid used to remove small areas of staining, such as on a carpet
  • 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).
  • survivorship — the state of being a survivor.
  • 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
  • vaporization — the act of vaporizing.
  • vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
  • 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.
  • victory ship — a fast, turbine-powered cargo ship of World War II, having a capacity of about 11,000 dead-weight tons.
  • 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.
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