11-letter words containing p, v, a
- overexplain — to explain in too much detail
- overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overoperate — to operate on (a patient) unnecessarily
- overpackage — to package excessively
- overpayment — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- overplaided — (of a garment) covered with a design consisting of an overplaid
- overplanned — resulting from overplanning
- overprepare — to prepare more than necessary
- overprogram — to program (something) with unnecessary details or instructions
- painesville — a city in NE Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
- pan-slavism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all the Slavic peoples.
- papovavirus — any of a group of DNA-containing human and animal viruses, including polyoma viruses and some papillomaviruses, most of which produce tumors.
- park avenue — a wide street in New York City traditionally associated with luxurious residential and professional buildings, fashionable living, and high society.
- party-giver — a person who gives a party
- parvanimity — the state or characteristic of being small-minded
- passivation — the process of passivating a material
- passiveness — Also, passiveness [pas-iv-nis] /ˈpæs ɪv nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being passive.
- paul revere — Paul, 1735–1818, American silversmith and patriot, famous for his night horseback ride, April 18, 1775, to warn Massachusetts colonists of the coming of British troops.
- pay a visit — go to the toilet
- peace envoy — someone sent on a mission to end conflict or bring peace
- peace river — a river in W Canada, flowing NE from the Rocky Mountains in E British Columbia through Alberta to the Slave River. 1050 miles (1690 km) long.
- peano curve — a curve that passes through every point of a two-dimensional region.
- pearl diver — a person who dives for pearl oysters or other pearl-bearing mollusks.
- pearl river — a river flowing from central Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico. 485 miles (780 km) long.
- pelvic arch — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the hind limbs or analogous parts.
- penetrative — tending to penetrate; piercing.
- pentavalent — having a valence of 5: pentavalent arsenic.
- perceivable — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- perceivably — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- perforative — that perforates readily
- perseverant — steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
- perseverate — to repeat something insistently or redundantly: to perseverate in reminding children of their responsibilities.
- pervasively — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- photoactive — the activation or control of a chemical, chemical reaction, or organism by light, as the activation of chlorophyll by sunlight during photosynthesis.
- pico rivera — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- pillow lava — lava in the form of an agglomeration of rounded, pillow-shaped masses, the result of subaqueous or subglacial volcanic eruption.
- place value — the value of the place, or position, of a digit in a number or series: In the number 794, the location of the digit 4 has a place value of one.
- place-value — the value of the place, or position, of a digit in a number or series: In the number 794, the location of the digit 4 has a place value of one.
- placerville — a town in central California; 19th-century gold-mining center.
- plain weave — the most common and tightest of basic weave structures in which the filling threads pass over and under successive warp threads and repeat the same pattern with alternate threads in the following row, producing a checkered surface.
- planoconvex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
- polyvalence — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
- port lavaca — a town in S Texas.
- portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
- post-larval — of, relating to, or in the form of a larva.
- postal vote — a voting slip that can be filled in at home and sent by post
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- postvocalic — immediately following a vowel.