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13-letter words containing v, a, p

  • nonprovincial — Not restricted to a small region; not done in isolation.
  • old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
  • open interval — (mathematics)   A type of interval (range of numbers) that does not include either of its endpoints. For example, when mixing red and blue paint, the proportion of red lies in the interval 0% to 100% but can't be exactly 0% or 100% or it wouldn't be a mixture.
  • operativeness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being operative.
  • optical drive — optical disk drive
  • over-pampered — to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.
  • over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • over-populate — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • overappraisal — An appraisal that overvalues something.
  • overemphasise — (British) alternative spelling of overemphasize.
  • overemphasize — to emphasize excessively.
  • overexpansion — the act or process of expanding.
  • overland park — a town in E Kansas, near Kansas City.
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • overpopulated — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • overpotential — overvoltage.
  • overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • ovipositional — pertaining to the laying of eggs through an ovipositor
  • ovoviviparity — producing eggs that are hatched within the body, so that the young are born alive but without placental attachment, as certain reptiles or fishes.
  • ovoviviparous — producing eggs that are hatched within the body, so that the young are born alive but without placental attachment, as certain reptiles or fishes.
  • pacific grove — a city in W California, at S end of Monterey Bay.
  • packet driver — (networking)   IBM PC local area network software that divides data into packets which it routes to the network. It also handles incoming data, reassembling the packets so that application programs can read the data as a continuous stream. Packet drivers provide a simple, common programming interface that allows multiple applications to share a network interface at the data link layer. Packet drivers demultiplex incoming packets among the applications by using the network media's standard packet type or service access point field(s). The packet driver provides calls to initiate access to a specific packet type, to end access to it, to send a packet, to get statistics on the network interface and to get information about the interface. Protocol implementations that use the packet driver can coexist and can make use of one another's services, whereas multiple applications which do not use the driver do not coexist on one machine properly. Through use of the packet driver, a user could run TCP/IP, XNS and a proprietary protocol implementation such as DECnet, Banyan's, LifeNet's, Novell's or 3Com's without the difficulties associated with pre-empting the network interface. Applications which use the packet driver can also run on new network hardware of the same class without being modified; only a new packet driver need be supplied. There are several levels of packet driver. The first is the basic packet driver, which provides minimal functionality but should be simple to implement and which uses very few host resources. The basic driver provides operations to broadcast and receive packets. The second driver is the extended packet driver, which is a superset of the basic driver. The extended driver supports less commonly used functions of the network interface such as multicast, and also gathers statistics on use of the interface and makes these available to the application. The third level, the high-performance functions, support performance improvements and tuning.
  • papaveraceous — belonging to the Papaveraceae, the poppy family of plants.
  • paper advance — the feeding of paper through a printer
  • paramyxovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses that are similar to but larger than the myxoviruses, including the viruses that cause mumps, measles, parainfluenza, and Newcastle disease.
  • pareira brava — pareira.
  • participative — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
  • pas de cheval — a step in which the dancer hops on one foot and paws the ground with the other.
  • passage grave — a megalithic tomb of the Neolithic and Copper or early Bronze ages found in the British Isles and Europe, consisting of a roofed burial chamber and narrow entrance passage covered by a round mound and containing human remains and funerary offerings.
  • passive voice — grammar: verb form takes when subject acted upon
  • pate de verre — French. a decorative glass made in a mold in which powdered glass of various hues is mixed, blended, and fused.
  • paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
  • pavement café — part of a café which is outdoors or on the pavement or sidewalk
  • pavilion roof — a pyramidal hip roof.
  • peanut heaven — peanut gallery (def 1).
  • penetratively — in a penetrative manner
  • pennsylvanian — of or relating to the state of Pennsylvania.
  • perseveration — the act or process of perseverating.
  • perseverative — to repeat something insistently or redundantly: to perseverate in reminding children of their responsibilities.
  • peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • pervaporation — Pervaporation is a separation process in which a substance permeates through a membrane and then evaporates.
  • pervasiveness — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
  • petropavlovsk — a city in N Kazakhstan on the Ishim River. Pop: 190 000 (2005 est)
  • pham van dong — 1906–2000, Vietnamese political leader: prime minister of North Vietnam 1955–76 and of unified Vietnam 1976–86.
  • photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
  • photovoltaics — (used with a singular verb) a field of semiconductor technology involving the direct conversion of electromagnetic radiation as sunlight, into electricity.
  • pigouvian tax — a tax levied to counter an economic negative externality, for example taxing producers of industrial pollution in order to encourage pollution control
  • piss all over — to be far superior to
  • pivot grammar — a loose grammar said to govern two-word utterances by children
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