13-letter words containing v, e, a
- pavement café — part of a café which is outdoors or on the pavement or sidewalk
- 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)
- photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
- piss all over — to be far superior to
- plano-concave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
- platonic love — Platonism. love of the Idea of beauty, seen as terminating an evolution from the desire for an individual and the love of physical beauty to the love and contemplation of spiritual or ideal beauty.
- pleasantville — a city in SE New Jersey.
- pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
- postoperative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- postvasectomy — of or occurring in the period after a vasectomy
- postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
- potomac fever — the determination or fervor to share in the power and prestige of the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., especially by being appointed or elected to a government position.
- potomac river — a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
- precipitative — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- prejudicative — tending to prejudge
- prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
- present value — current monetary worth
- preservations — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
- prevaricative — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- private brand — a product marketed under a private label.
- private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
- private label — the label of a product, or the product itself, sold under the name of a wholesaler or retailer, by special arrangement with the manufacturer or producer.
- private parts — genitalia
- private press — a printing establishment primarily run as a pastime
- private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
- private trust — a trust designed for the benefit of a designated or known individual (opposed to charitable trust).
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- proces-verbal — a report of proceedings, as of an assembly.
- prove a point — If you prove a point, you show other people that you know something or can do something, although your action may have no other purpose.
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- proverbialize — to use in a proverbial way
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.