12-letter words containing p, v, s
- impoverisher — Someone who impoverishes.
- impoverishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impoverish.
- impressively — having the ability to impress the mind; arousing admiration, awe, respect, etc.; moving; admirable: an impressive ceremony; an impressive appearance.
- improvements — Plural form of improvement.
- improvisator — a person who improvises; improviser.
- inexpressive — not expressive; lacking in expression.
- insusceptive — insusceptible
- intempestive — untimely or inopportune
- irrespective — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- irresponsive — not responsive; not responding, or not responding readily, as in speech, action, or feeling.
- japanese ivy — Boston ivy
- java sparrow — a small grey-and-pink finchlike Indonesian weaverbird, Padda oryzivora: a popular cage bird
- lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- lepenski vir — the site of an advanced Mesolithic fishing culture on the banks of the Danube in Serbia, characterized by trapezoidal buildings and large stone sculptures of human heads and torsos.
- live spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- lord provost — the chief magistrate of any of certain large cities in Scotland.
- lover's leap — a high area, as on a cliff, from which frustrated or grieving lovers jump or are reputed to have jumped to their death.
- misperceived — Simple past tense and past participle of misperceive.
- misperceives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misperceive.
- nonexplosive — tending or serving to explode: an explosive temper; Nitroglycerin is an explosive substance.
- nonpurposive — lacking purpose
- observership — someone or something that observes.
- oppressively — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- over-precise — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- over-promise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- overcompress — to compress, squeeze or condense excessively
- overdevelops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overdevelop.
- overemphasis — excessive or undue emphasis.
- overexposure — excessive exposure, especially of photographic film or a sensitized plate to light rays.
- overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- overoptimism — a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- overoptimist — someone who is too optimistic
- overpersuade — to persuade (a person) against his or her inclination or intention: By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
- overpressure — pressure in excess of normal atmospheric pressure, as that caused by an explosion's shock wave or created in an accelerating airplane.
- overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- overripeness — the state of being too ripe
- overseas cap — a soft, brimless military cap
- overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- oversimplify — make too simple
- overspending — the act or an instance of spending in excess of one's desires or what one can afford or is allocated
- park savanna — savanna grassland scattered with trees
- passive noun — a noun whose referent is the recipient of an action, as trainee, multiplicand.
- paving stone — slab used to lay a path
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- pennsylvania — a state in the E United States. 45,333 sq. mi. (117,410 sq. km). Capital: Harrisburg. Abbreviation: PA (for use with zip code), Pa., Penn., Penna.
- perivisceral — surrounding or situated about the viscera.
- permissively — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
- permissivism — lenience toward or indulgence of a wide variety of social behavior.
- permissivist — lenience toward or indulgence of a wide variety of social behavior.