11-letter words containing r, e, p, o, v
- prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
- prevacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- previous to — before, prior to
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- prime mover — Mechanics. the initial agent, as wind or electricity, that puts a machine in motion. a machine, as a water wheel or steam engine, that receives and modifies energy as supplied by some natural source.
- pro-slavery — favoring slavery.
- pro-vaccine — any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
- proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- procreative — to beget or generate (offspring).
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- progenitive — capable of having offspring; reproductive.
- progressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- prohibitive — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- prokopyevsk — a city in the S central Russian Federation in Asia, NW of Novokuznetsk.
- promo video — a video or short film that promotes or advertises something
- propagative — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- protractive — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- provenience — provenance; origin; source.
- provide for — support financially
- providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
- providently — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- provisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- provisioner — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- provocateur — a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator.
- provocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- provokement — the act or instance of provoking
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- puzzle over — be mystified by
- re-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
- reprobative — reprobating; expressing reprobation.
- reprovingly — to criticize or correct, especially gently: to reprove a pupil for making a mistake.
- reprovision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- review copy — a copy of a book sent by a publisher to a journal, newspaper, etc, to enable it to be reviewed
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- spot survey — a survey taken immediately and at random
- superoctave — an organ stop two octaves above the standard pitch
- supervision — the act or function of supervising; superintendence.
- supervisory — of, relating to, or having supervision.
- supervolute — (of convolute leaves) enveloping a rolled up leaf within the bud
- the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
- unoperative — having no use or effect; inoperative
- unprovident — lacking caution; improvident; imprudent
- unreproving — not reprimanding or reproaching
- up-and-over — (of a door, etc) opened by being lifted and moved into a horizontal position
- upper volta — former name of Burkina Faso.
- vapor phase — In its vapor phase a substance can be condensed to a liquid or to a solid by increasing its pressure without reducing the temperature.