15-letter words containing v, a, p
- preservationism — a person who advocates or promotes preservation, especially of wildlife, natural areas, or historical places.
- preservationist — a person who advocates or promotes preservation, especially of wildlife, natural areas, or historical places.
- press of canvas — the most sail a vessel can carry under given conditions
- preverification — the state of being verified.
- primo de rivera — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), Marqués de Estella [mahr-kes th e es-te-lyah] /mɑrˈkɛs ðɛ ɛsˈtɛ lyɑ/ (Show IPA), (Miguel Prima de Rivera y Orbaneja) 1870–1930, Spanish general and political leader: dictator of Spain 1923–29.
- principal value — a value selected at a point in the domain of a multiple-valued function, chosen so that the function has a single value at the point.
- private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
- private hearing — a formal or official trial that is not open to the public
- private patient — a patient receiving medical treatment not paid for by the National Health Service
- private pay bed — (in Britain) a bed in a National Health Service hospital, reserved for private patients who pay a consultant acting privately for treatment and who are charged by the health service for use of hospital facilities
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- private tuition — instruction, esp that received in a small group or individually, that is arranged and paid for by an individual rather than by the state
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
- provost marshal — Army. an officer on the staff of a commander, charged with the maintaining of order and with other police functions within a command.
- pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- puerperal fever — a systemic bacterial infection of the endometrium characterized by fever, rapid heartbeat, uterine tenderness, and malodorous discharge, chiefly occurring in women after childbirth, usually as the result of unsterile obstetric procedures.
- puerto vallarta — a city in W Mexico.
- pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
- radioprotective — giving protection against the effects of radiation
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- refinery revamp — A refinery revamp is a change in the technology or processes used in a refinery.
- relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
- representatives — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- reprivatization — the action or process of reprivatizing, or an instance thereof
- reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
- retro-operative — affecting or operating on past events; retroactive
- riverbank grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis riparia, of eastern North America, having fragrant flowers and nearly black fruit.
- s'il vous plait — if you please; please
- saturated vapor — a vapor whose temperature and pressure are such that any compression of its volume at constant temperature causes it to condense to liquid at a rate sufficient to maintain a constant pressure.
- sensitive plant — Also called humble plant. a tropical American plant, Mimosa pudica, cultivated in greenhouses, having bipinnate leaves whose leaflets fold together when touched.
- shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- simple interval — an interval of an octave or less.
- slow-wave sleep — a recurrent period of deep sleep, typically totaling five or six hours a night, distinguished by the presence of slow brain waves and by very little dreaming.
- souvanna phouma — Prince, 1901–84, Laotian statesman: premier 1951–54, 1956–58, 1960, and 1962–75.
- steak au poivre — pepper steak (def 2).
- superindividual — greater than the individual
- total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
- tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
- trivial pursuit — a board game that is based the ability to answer questions on popular culture and general knowledge
- truth-value gap — the possibility in certain semantic systems of a statement being neither true nor false while also not being determinately of any third truth-value, as all my children are asleep uttered by a childless person
- twelve apostles — the twelve disciples chosen by Jesus to go forth to teach the gospel
- u-shaped valley — a steep-sided valley caused by glacial erosion
- uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
- university park — a city in N Texas.
- unparticipative — 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.
- vanishing point — a point of disappearance, cessation, or extinction: His patience had reached the vanishing point.
- vanishing spray — a substance that disperses without trace shortly after it is sprayed onto a surface, used in football to mark a temporary line behind which defenders must stand when a free kick is taken