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14-letter words containing v, e, n

  • perfectiveness — the state or quality of being perfective
  • permanent wave — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
  • permissiveness — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
  • persian violet — any of several plants belonging to the genus Exacum, native to the Old World, as E. affine, having glossy, ovate leaves, and fragrant, bluish flowers: cultivated as a houseplant.
  • persuasiveness — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • peso boliviano — a nickel-clad steel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the boliviano in 1963.
  • photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
  • photoinductive — of, relating to, or being able to undergo photoinduction
  • photosensitive — sensitive to light or similar radiation.
  • pierre vernier — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1580–1637, French mathematician and inventor.
  • pigeon-livered — meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
  • pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
  • plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
  • polyvinylidene — pertaining to or derived from a polymer of a vinylidene compound.
  • positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
  • possessiveness — jealously opposed to the personal independence of, or to any influence other than one's own upon, a child, spouse, etc.
  • postconvention — taking place after a convention
  • pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • pre-investment — the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
  • pre-invitation — the act of inviting.
  • pre-university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
  • predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • predevelopment — advance development; the action of developing in advance
  • predictiveness — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
  • prerevisionist — preceding revisionism
  • presentiveness — (of a word) the state of being presentive
  • preserving pan — a pan specially designed for preserving fruit
  • preventive law — consultation, as between lawyer and client, to prevent future litigation by dispensing legal advice, clarifying the terms of a contract, etc.
  • preventive war — an attack against a possible enemy to prevent an attack by that enemy at a later time.
  • private income — econ: from outside employment
  • pro-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
  • 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.
  • productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • protectiveness — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
  • proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
  • put it over on — to deceive; trick
  • quantitatively — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
  • quasi-negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
  • quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
  • rabies vaccine — substance that inoculates against rabies
  • radiosensitive — (of certain tissues or organisms) sensitive to or destructible by various types of radiant energy, as x-rays, rays from radioactive material, or the like.
  • re-investigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
  • receiving line — a row formed by the hosts, guests of honor, or the like, for receiving guests formally at a ball, reception, etc.
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