14-letter words containing p, v, s
- improvisations — Plural form of improvisation.
- improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
- improvvisatore — an improvisator, especially a person who extemporizes verse.
- inapprehensive — not apprehensive (often followed by of).
- insusceptively — in an insusceptive manner
- intempestively — in an intempestive manner
- intempestivity — the state or quality of being intempestive
- interpretivism — Antipositivism.
- irreplevisable — not replevisable; not capable of being replevied.
- irrespectively — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- jeff davis pie — a custard pie baked in a pastry shell and containing spices, raisins, pecans, etc.
- kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
- l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
- life preserver — a buoyant jacket, belt, or other like device for keeping a person afloat.
- lupus vulgaris — a rare form of tuberculosis of the skin, characterized by brownish tubercles that often heal slowly and leave scars.
- mangrove swamp — a coastal marine swamp of tropical or subtropical regions that is dominated by mangrove trees.
- markov process — a process in which future values of a random variable are statistically determined by present events and dependent only on the event immediately preceding.
- misimprovement — a flaw or shortcoming arising from an attempt to make better
- monodispersive — Monodisperse.
- native speaker — sb: language is their mother tongue
- naval hospital — a hospital that provides treatment for people in the Navy
- negative space — shape of space around an object
- non-assumptive — taken for granted.
- non-dispersive — serving or tending to disperse.
- non-disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- non-expressive — full of expression; meaningful: an expressive shrug.
- non-oppressive — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- non-responsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- nonconsumptive — not consumptive of a resource, product, or service
- nondescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- nonprogressive — not progressive; old-fashioned
- nonspeculative — not speculative
- nonsupervisory — not supervisory
- nonsuppurative — Not suppurative.
- oppressiveness — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- over-precision — the state or quality of being precise.
- over-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- overemphasised — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasise.
- overemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasize.
- overemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overemphasize.
- overoptimistic — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- overpersuasion — the act or instance of overpersuading someone
- overscrupulous — excessively scrupulous.
- oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
- overspecialize — to specialize to an excessive degree
- overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
- oversuspicious — too suspicious
- palacio valdes — Armando [ahr-mahn-daw] /ɑrˈmɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1938, Spanish novelist and critic.
- papillomavirus — any of several viruses of the family Papovaviridae, containing circular DNA, causing papillomas in various animals and responsible for human genital warts.