10-letter words containing r, e, p, o, v
- proveditor — (in the Venetian republic) a senior civilian officer in charge of supplies, provisions, and artillery for the city
- provenance — place or source of origin: The provenance of the ancient manuscript has never been determined.
- provencale — (sometimes lowercase) cooked, usually in olive oil, with garlic, tomatoes, onions, and herbs.
- proverbial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- providable — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
- providence — a state of the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast: a part of New England. 1214 sq. mi. (3145 sq. km). Capital: Providence. Abbreviation: RI (for use with zip code), R.I.
- provokable — able to be provoked
- proxy vote — a vote cast by a person's representative
- pure vowel — a vowel that is pronounced with more or less unvarying quality without any glide; monophthong
- re-approve — to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably: to approve the policies of the administration.
- reapproval — the act of approving; approbation.
- reprovable — deserving of reproof.
- responsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- shreveport — a city in NW Louisiana, on the Red River.
- sleep over — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- sleep-over — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- spill over — be full of: emotion
- supercover — an insurance policy with additional benefits
- supervisor — a person who supervises workers or the work done by others; superintendent.
- supportive — giving support.
- unapproved — to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably: to approve the policies of the administration.
- unimproved — not developed to full potential, as resources or the mind.
- unprovable — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- unprovided — not provided or supplied
- unprovoked — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- unreproved — not reproved or rebuked for wrongdoing
- vapourware — new computer software that has not yet been produced and which is likely never to be released or not to work as promised
- vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
- venography — x-ray examination of a vein or veins following injection of a radiopaque substance.
- verb group — A verb group or verbal group consists of a verb, or of a main verb following a modal or one or more auxiliaries. Examples are 'walked', 'can see', and 'had been waiting'.
- veto-power — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- vibraphone — vibraharp.
- video-porn — pornographic movies available on videocassette or optical disk, on the Internet, or on subscription television.
- viperiform — resembling, or in the shape of, a viper
- voice part — the melody or succession of tones for one of the voices or instruments in a harmonic or concerted composition.
- voiceprint — a graphic representation of a person's voice, showing the component frequencies as analyzed by a sound spectrograph.
- voltampere — an electric measurement unit, equal to the product of one volt and one ampere, equivalent to one watt for direct current systems and a unit of apparent power for alternating current systems. Abbreviation: VA.
- wave power — power extracted from the motion of sea waves at the coast
- wove paper — paper that exhibits a pattern of fine mesh when held up to the light.