10-letter words containing v, a, p
- provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- provitamin — a substance that an organism can transform into a vitamin, as carotene, which is converted to vitamin A in the liver.
- provokable — able to be provoked
- pulverable — capable of being pulverized; pulverizable.
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
- purveyance — the act of purveying.
- putatively — commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed: the putative boss of the mob.
- re-approve — to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably: to approve the policies of the administration.
- reapproval — the act of approving; approbation.
- reparative — tending to repair; repairing; mending.
- reprovable — deserving of reproof.
- reputative — reputed, putative, regarded as such
- revampment — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- riverscape — a view, painting, etc., of a river and the land surrounding or adjacent to it.
- sand viper — hognose snake.
- savoy alps — a range of the Alps in SE France. Highest peak: Mont Blanc, 4807 m (15 772 ft)
- separative — tending to separate.
- sevastopol — a fortified seaport in the S Crimea, in S Ukraine: famous for its heroic resistance during sieges of 349 days in 1854–55, and 245 days in 1941–42.
- slave ship — a ship for transporting slaves from their native homes to places of bondage.
- slavophile — a person who greatly admires the Slavs and Slavic ways.
- slavophobe — a person who fears or hates the Slavs, their influence, or things Slavic.
- splenative — relating to the spleen or spleenful
- spokeshave — a cutting tool having a blade set between two handles, originally for shaping spokes, but now in general use for dressing curved edges of wood and forming round bars and shapes.
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- superheavy — Chemistry, Physics. pertaining to any of a series of elements having an atomic number greater than 103.
- supersaver — a specially reduced fare, as for passengers reserving tickets in advance or traveling during off-peak periods.
- supravital — pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells.
- tape drive — a program-controlled device that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic tape which moves past a read-write head.
- tapis vert — an unbroken expanse of lawn used as a major element of a landscape design.
- travel rep — A travel rep is the same as a holiday rep.
- unadaptive — serving or able to adapt; showing or contributing to adaptation: the adaptive coloring of a chameleon.
- unapproved — to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably: to approve the policies of the administration.
- undepraved — not corrupted
- unplausive — not applauding; disapproving
- unprovable — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- vacuum pan — a vessel equipped with a vacuum pump used for rapid evaporation by boiling a substance at a low temperature under reduced pressure.
- vagotropic — affecting the vagus nerve.
- valledupar — a city in N Colombia.
- valparaiso — Spanish Valparaíso [bahl-pah-rah-ee-saw] /ˌbɑl pɑ rɑˈi sɔ/ (Show IPA). a seaport in central Chile.
- van rompuy — Herman. born 1947, Belgian politician; prime minister of Belgium (2008–09); president of the European Council (2009–14)
- vanpooling — the sharing of a van to commute to work
- vapor load — A vapor load is the amount of a vapor which goes into or comes out of a stage in a distillation process.
- vapor lock — an obstruction to the flow of fuel to a gasoline engine, caused by the formation of bubbles in the gasoline as a result of overheating.
- vaporiform — in the form or state of vapour
- vapourware — new computer software that has not yet been produced and which is likely never to be released or not to work as promised
- vapulation — the act of beating or whipping
- vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
- venography — x-ray examination of a vein or veins following injection of a radiopaque substance.
- verb. sap. — verbum sapienti sat est