14-letter words containing t, o, v
- oversaturation — the act or process of saturating.
- oversensitized — to render sensitive.
- overshot wheel — a water wheel in which the water enters the buckets tangentially near the top of the wheel.
- oversolicitous — too solicitous: oversolicitous concerning one's health.
- overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
- overstructured — excessively structured or organized.
- pay television — a commercial service that broadcasts or provides television programs to viewers who pay a monthly charge or a per-program fee.
- peace movement — a movement seeking to end wars and reduce nuclear weapons
- persian violet — any of several plants belonging to the genus Exacum, native to the Old World, as E. affine, having glossy, ovate leaves, and fragrant, bluish flowers: cultivated as a houseplant.
- phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
- photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
- photoinductive — of, relating to, or being able to undergo photoinduction
- photooxidative — of or relating to photooxidation
- photoreceptive — of or relating to photoreception
- photoresistive — photoconductive
- photosensitive — sensitive to light or similar radiation.
- pitch invasion — If there is a pitch invasion during or after a football, rugby, or cricket match, fans run on to the pitch.
- pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
- positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
- post operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-victorian — of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- postconvention — taking place after a convention
- potbelly stove — a usually cast-iron wood- or coal-burning stove having a large, rounded chamber.
- pre-invitation — the act of inviting.
- precompetitive — in marketing, designating or occurring during the stage prior to the completion of development of a product, when companies collaborate rather than compete
- predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
- predevelopment — advance development; the action of developing in advance
- preoperatively — in a preoperative context
- prerevisionist — preceding revisionism
- prison visitor — a person who volunteers to pay regular visits to prison inmates
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
- pro-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- progressivists — the principles and practices of progressives.
- proof positive — To be proof positive of a particular fact or quality means to be evidence that it is true or that it exists.
- proprioceptive — pertaining to proprioceptors, the stimuli acting upon them, or the nerve impulses initiated by them.
- 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.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- put it over on — to deceive; trick
- radiosensitive — (of certain tissues or organisms) sensitive to or destructible by various types of radiant energy, as x-rays, rays from radioactive material, or the like.
- reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.