9-letter words containing v, a, p
- plainview — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- plan view — plan (def 4).
- plasma tv — a television set with a flat-panel screen containing many gas-filled cells that are converted into a plasma when subjected to an electric current, forming the pixels of the display.
- plekhanov — Georgi (or Georgy) Valentinovich [gyi-awr-gyee-vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi və lyɪnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1918, Russian philosopher and leader of the Mensheviks.
- port vila — the capital of Vanuatu, on the island of Efate. Pop: 44 040 (2009)
- portative — capable of being carried; portable.
- preactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- pretravel — occurring prior to travel
- prevacate — to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
- prevailed — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- prevailer — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- prevalent — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- preverbal — of or relating to words: verbal ability.
- previable — occurring before a fetus has developed enough to survive outside the uterus
- primaeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- primavera — a central American tree, Cybistax donnell-smithii, of the bignonia family, having showy, tubular yellow flowers.
- privacies — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- privateer — an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
- privately — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- privatism — concern with or pursuit of one's personal or family interests, welfare, or ideals to the exclusion of broader social issues or relationships.
- privatist — a person who exhibits a lack of concern for public life
- privative — causing, or tending to cause, deprivation.
- privatize — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- privocrat — (esp in neo-conservative thought) a person who is not in favour of relinquishing individual freedoms in order to give the state more powers to combat terrorism
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- progravid — progestational (def 1).
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- protoavis — a fossil bird of the genus Protoavis, from the Triassic Period, having a birdlike, partly toothless jaw structure, a tail and hind legs resembling those of the dinosaur, and the hollow bones and keellike breast that are characteristic of modern birds: the oldest known avian type, preceding the archaeopteryx by an estimated 75 million years.
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- provocant — a person who deliberately behaves controversially to provoke argument or other strong reactions
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- pulvillar — of or relating to a pulvillus
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- reapprove — to approve (something) again
- reprieval — reprieve; respite.
- revamping — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- rivalship — rivalry
- sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
- spin wave — a magnetic wave propagated through a crystal lattice by a collective excitation of the spin angular momentum of electrons.
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).
- super vga — Super Video Graphics Array
- supernova — the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star's luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star's mass is blown away at very high velocity, sometimes leaving behind an extremely dense core.
- superwave — an exceptionally large wave
- top-heavy — having the top disproportionately heavy; liable to fall from too great weight above.
- vampirish — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vampirism — belief in the existence of vampires.