11-letter words containing v, e, i, t
- potato vine — a tender, woody Brazilian vine, Solanum jasminoides, of the nightshade family, having starlike, blue-tinged white flowers in clusters, grown as an ornamental.
- pre-emptive — of or relating to preemption.
- preadaptive — tending to preadapt, causing preadaptation
- predicative — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- premonitive — of, or relating to, a premonition
- preparative — preparatory.
- prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
- prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
- presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- preteritive — (of verbs) limited to past tenses.
- prevacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- prevailment — the action of prevailing
- prevaricate — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- previous to — before, prior to
- primitively — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- private bar — the saloon or lounge bar of a public house
- private eye — a private detective.
- private key — (cryptography) A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
- private law — a branch of law dealing with the legal relationships of private individuals. Compare public law (def 2).
- privateness — the quality of being private
- privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
- proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- procreative — to beget or generate (offspring).
- progenitive — capable of having offspring; reproductive.
- prohibitive — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- propagative — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- protractive — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- providently — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- provocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- punctuative — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
- qualitative — pertaining to or concerned with quality or qualities.
- radioactive — of, pertaining to, exhibiting, or caused by radioactivity.
- reactivated — to render active again; revive.
- readvertise — to advertise (something) again
- rebarbative — causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent.
- receptively — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- receptivity — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recultivate — to plant, tend, harvest, or improve (plants) again
- reductively — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- reductivism — reductionism.
- reformative — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- reinnervate — to restore a lost nerve supply to (a muscle, nerve, etc) by surgery or regeneration
- reinterview — to interview or question again
- reinvention — to invent again or anew, especially without knowing that the invention already exists.
- reiterative — to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively.
- relative to — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- reluctivity — the tendency of a magnetic circuit to conduct magnetic flux, equal to the reciprocal of the permeability of the circuit.
- remotivated — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.