16-letter words containing r, v

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.
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.
quiet revolution — a period during the 1960s in Quebec, marked by secularization, educational reforms, and rising support for separation from the rest of Canada
radiation levels — the levels of the emission or transfer of radiant energy or the levels of the particles emitted in the transfer of radiant energy, esp the particles and gamma rays emitted in nuclear decay
radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
random vibration — Random vibration is a type of forced vibration in which the motion follows no regular pattern.
re-entry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
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.
rear-view mirror — a mirror mounted on the side, windshield, or instrument panel of an automobile or other vehicle to provide the driver with a view of the area behind the vehicle.
rear-wheel drive — a layout in motor vehicles which places the engine at the front and the driven wheels at the rear
receiver general — a public official in charge of the government's treasury.
reckless driving — a serious traffic offence whereby the driver of a vehicle disregards the rules of the road, driving very dangerously, causing accidents or other damage
recovered memory — a memory of a past event that has been recalled after having been forgotten or repressed for a long time. Compare false-memory syndrome.
recovery vehicle — a truck used to transport motor vehicles which have broken down to another location (generally a repair garage), or to recover vehicles which are no longer on a drivable surface
redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
refractive index — index of refraction.
relative bearing — the bearing of an object, relative to the heading of a vessel or aircraft.
relative density — specific gravity.
relative maximum — maximum (def 4a).
relative minimum — minimum (def 5a).
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.
relative-maximum — maximum (def 4a).
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.
relativistically — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
released version — release
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.

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