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12-letter words containing v, a, p, o, r

  • photoengrave — to make a photoengraving of.
  • photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
  • picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
  • polar vortex — a whirling mass of very cold air that sits over the North or South Pole: A displaced polar vortex is causing Arctic temperatures across the United States.
  • pole vaulter — A pole vaulter is an athlete who performs the pole vault.
  • polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
  • pons varolii — pons (def 1).
  • popular vote — the vote for a U.S. presidential candidate made by the qualified voters, as opposed to that made by the electoral college. Compare electoral vote.
  • post-harvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
  • poverty trap — If someone is in a poverty trap, they are very poor but cannot improve their income because the money they get from the government decreases as the money they earn increases.
  • power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
  • preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
  • preoperative — occurring or related to the period or preparations before a surgical operation.
  • preovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
  • prerogatived — possessing a prerogative
  • preservation — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
  • preservatory — a preservative
  • prevaricator — a person who speaks falsely; liar.
  • previsionary — having foresight
  • privatdocent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
  • privatdozent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
  • private joke — a joke that is understood only by a certain social group
  • pro-activity — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • proper value — characteristic root.
  • provableness — the quality of being provable
  • proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
  • providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincially — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
  • provisionary — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • provitamin a — carotene.
  • superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
  • unapprovable — capable of being approved.
  • unreprovable — not able to be reproved, reproached, or criticized
  • van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
  • vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
  • vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
  • vaporization — the act of vaporizing.
  • vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
  • variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
  • vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
  • velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
  • video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
  • video player — VCR: videotape recorder
  • videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
  • viola player — someone who plays the viola
  • vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
  • vituperatory — abusive or blaming
  • voting paper — a ballot.
  • water vapour — steam
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