12-letter words containing v, e, i, t
- overoptimist — someone who is too optimistic
- overplotting — the provision of an excessively elaborate plot
- overreaction — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- overreactive — tending to react.
- oversedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- overstrained — exerted, taxed, or used to an excessive extent
- overtaxation — to tax too heavily.
- overtime ban — a refusal by employees to work overtime
- overtime pay — a higher than normal rate of pay, for work done as overtime
- overutilized — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- overweighted — weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.
- overwithhold — to withhold too much.
- parma violet — a variety of the sweet violet, Viola odorata, that is the source of an essential oil used in perfumery.
- parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
- paving stone — slab used to lay a path
- perceptively — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- perceptivity — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- perfectively — in a perfective manner; thoroughly
- perfectivity — the state or quality of being (a) perfective
- perfectivize — to make perfective.
- performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
- permissivist — lenience toward or indulgence of a wide variety of social behavior.
- permittivity — Electricity. the ratio of the flux density produced by an electric field in a given dielectric to the flux density produced by that field in a vacuum.
- perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
- petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
- petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
- piet-my-vrou — a cuckoo, Notococcyx solitarius, having a red breast
- pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
- point-device — completely; perfectly; exactly.
- positive ion — an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
- positiveness — explicitly stated, stipulated, or expressed: a positive acceptance of the agreement.
- positivities — the state or character of being positive: a positivity that accepts the world as it is.
- post-tussive — of or relating to a cough.
- postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
- posteruptive — occurring after a volcanic eruption
- postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
- postpositive — (of a word, particle, or affix) placed after a word to modify it or to show its relation to other elements of a sentence.
- poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
- predictively — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- preemptively — of or relating to preemption.
- preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
- preinterview — a preparatory meeting held before an interview
- preinventive — apt at inventing, devising, or contriving.
- preoperative — occurring or related to the period or preparations before a surgical operation.
- prerogatived — possessing a prerogative