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16-letter words containing p, v

  • pre-conversation — informal interchange of thoughts, information, etc., by spoken words; oral communication between persons; talk; colloquy.
  • preemptive right — a privilege given to an existing shareholder to buy a portion of a new stock issue at the offering price on a pro-rata per-share basis.
  • premier division — a football or soccer league division consisting of the top ten Scottish football teams
  • prerevolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • preserved ginger — fresh ginger preserved in syrup and used in cooking, esp desserts
  • presumptive heir — heir presumptive.
  • prevenient grace — divine grace operating on the human will prior to its turning to God.
  • prevost d'exiles — Antoine François [ahn-twan frahn-swa] /ɑ̃ˈtwan frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), ("Abbé Prévost") 1697–1763, French novelist.
  • primary deviance — the violation of a norm or rule that does not result in the violator's being stigmatized as deviant.
  • primitive church — the early Christian church, especially in reference to its earliest form and organization.
  • private judgment — personal opinion formed independently of the expressed position of an institution, as in matters of religion or politics.
  • private language — a language that is not merely secret or accidentally limited to one user, but that cannot in principle be communicated to another
  • private practice — the practice of one's profession as an independent rather than as an employee.
  • private property — land or belongings owned by a person or group and kept for their exclusive use
  • private viewdata — an interactive video text system with restricted access
  • private-line car — a freight car owned by a company other than a railroad but operated over the tracks of railroads.
  • privet andromeda — a spreading shrub, Lyonia ligustrina, of the eastern U.S., having leafless, white flowers in terminal clusters.
  • privileged altar — an altar at which a plenary indulgence for a departed soul may be granted upon celebration of a Mass.
  • pro-intervention — the act or fact of intervening.
  • proenvironmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
  • progressive jazz — an experimental, nonmelodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, especially in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz.
  • progressive jpeg — (graphics, file format)   (PJPEG) An implementation of JPEG that supports progressive coding.
  • progressive lens — a multifocal eyeglass lens that provides a continuous range of focal power between near and far distances.
  • projective plane — (mathematics)   The space of equivalence classes of vectors under non-zero scalar multiplication. Elements are sets of the form {kv: k != 0, k scalar, v != O, v a vector} where O is the origin. v is a representative member of this equivalence class. The projective plane of a vector space is the collection of its 1-dimensional subspaces. The properties of the vector space induce a topology and notions of smoothness on the projective plane. A projective plane is in no meaningful sense a plane and would therefore be (but isn't) better described as a "projective space".
  • proper adjective — an adjective formed from a proper noun, as American from America.
  • protective slope — a slope given to a yard or the like to drain surface water away from a building.
  • provost sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer of a prison or other confinement facility whose chief duty is the supervision of prisoners and of the military police unit.
  • punitive damages — law: penalty payment
  • pyroconductivity — conductivity brought about by the application of heat, especially in solids that are not conductors at normal temperatures.
  • pyrovanadic acid — an oxyacid of vanadium, known chiefly in the form of its vanadate salts; Formula: H4V2O7
  • pyruvic aldehyde — a yellow, liquid compound, C 3 H 4 O 2 , containing both an aldehyde and a ketone group, usually obtained in a polymeric form: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • reap the harvest — If you reap the harvest, you benefit or suffer from the results of your past actions or of someone else's past actions.
  • redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
  • relative pronoun — one of the pronouns who, whom, which, what, their compounds with -ever or -soever, or that used as the subordinating word to introduce a subordinate clause, especially such a pronoun referring to an antecedent.
  • relatively prime — (mathematics)   Having no common divisors (greater than 1). Two numbers are said to be relativey prime if there is no number greater than unity that divides both of them evenly. For example, 10 and 33 are relativly prime. 15 and 33 are not relatively prime, since 3 is a divisor of both.
  • representatively — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • republican river — a river flowing E from E Colorado through Nebraska and Kansas into the Kansas River. 422 miles (680 km) long.
  • reserve capacity — the capacity of a battery, measured in minutes, to keep a vehicle operating if the charging system fails.
  • reversal process — a process for converting the negative on a film or plate to a positive by bleaching and redeveloping.
  • river carpsucker — a carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio, found in silty rivers of the central U.S. south to Mexico.
  • rodent operative — a name sometimes used for an official (operative) employed by a local authority to destroy vermin
  • savannah sparrow — a North American sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis, having brown and white plumage with a yellow stripe over each eye.
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • seal of approval — royal stamp of endorsement
  • self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • self-development — the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
  • self-improvement — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • semiprivate room — a hospital room shared by two people, typically with a curtain dividing the room and providing some privacy
  • service provider — company: provides internet
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