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14-letter words containing p, v, s

  • protectiveness — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
  • proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • psychogalvanic — pertaining to or involving electric changes in the body resulting from reactions to mental or emotional stimuli.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
  • recursive type — A data type which contains itself. The commonest example is the list type, in Haskell: data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a) which says a list of a's is either an empty list or a cons cell containing an 'a' (the "head" of the list) and another list (the "tail"). Recursion is not allowed in Miranda or Haskell synonym types, so the following Haskell types are illegal: type Bad = (Int, Bad) type Evil = Bool -> Evil whereas the seeminly equivalent algebraic data types are acceptable:
  • repetitiveness — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
  • representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • reprovisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • reserve player — a member of a sports team who plays in place of another player if they are injured, etc
  • reserved power — a political power that a constitution reserves exclusively to the jurisdiction of a particular political authority.
  • responsiveness — the quality or state of being responsive.
  • reversal plate — a plate developed by the reversal process.
  • saphenous vein — either of two large veins near the surface of the foot, leg, and thigh, one on the inner side and the other on the outer and posterior sides.
  • sauve qui peut — a state of panic or disorder; rout
  • scrip dividend — a dividend issued in the form of a note entitling the holder to a cash payment at a specified later date.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • self-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
  • seropositivity — the quality or state of being seropositive
  • service stripe — a stripe worn on the left sleeve by an enlisted person to indicate a specific period of time served on active duty.
  • seven sleepers — seven Christian youths from Ephesus who were walled up in a cave by the Emperor Decius in 250 ad and, according to legend, slept for 187 years
  • shipping fever — a respiratory disease of cattle, caused by Pasteurella haemolytica, often spread during the shipment of livestock.
  • shove-ha'penny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
  • silver protein — any of several colloidal silver solutions containing silver and a protein, as albumin: formerly used in treating inflammation of mucous membranes
  • silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
  • sleep movement — the folding together of leaflets, petals, etc, that occurs at night in certain plants, such as the prayer plant (Maranta leuconura)
  • solvay process — a process for manufacturing sodium carbonate whereby a concentrated solution of sodium chloride is saturated with ammonia, carbon dioxide is passed through it, and the product is calcined.
  • space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
  • speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
  • spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
  • spirit varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
  • splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
  • subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
  • supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
  • supereffective — very or extremely effective
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superexpensive — very or extremely expensive
  • superior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned above a receptacle of a flower, as in members of the mint family.
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • supersensitive — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
  • superstructive — built onto a structure
  • supportiveness — giving support.
  • supreme soviet — the bicameral legislature, comprising the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities; officially the highest organ of state power
  • think positive — be optimistic
  • topsy-turvydom — a state of affairs or a region in which everything is topsy-turvy.
  • unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
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