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

  • 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.
  • psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
  • shavano peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the S Sawatch Range, in the Rocky Mountains. 14,229 feet (4337 meters).
  • shaving soap — a special soap for lathering the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving, capable of producing a thick lather due to its high fat content and low alkalinity.
  • spotsylvania — a village in NE Virginia: the scene of Civil War battles between the armies of Grant and Lee, May 8–21, 1864.
  • spotted cavy — paca.
  • 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.
  • unpavilioned — not provided with a pavilion
  • unreprovable — not able to be reproved, reproached, or criticized
  • vacation pay — salary paid during holidays
  • valpolicella — a dry, red table wine from the Veneto region of northern Italy.
  • 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.
  • vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.
  • velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
  • 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
  • visuospatial — pertaining to perception of the spatial relationships among objects within the field of vision.
  • vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
  • vituperatory — abusive or blaming
  • voltaic pile — an early battery cell, consisting of several metal disks, each made of one of two dissimilar metals, arranged in an alternating series, and separated by pads moistened with an electrolyte.
  • voting paper — a ballot.
  • water vapour — steam
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