15-letter words containing v, e, p
- preverification — the state of being verified.
- preview monitor — (in a television studio control room) a picture monitor used for inspecting a picture source before it is switched to transmission
- price-sensitive — likely to affect the price of property, esp shares and securities
- primo de rivera — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), Marqués de Estella [mahr-kes th e es-te-lyah] /mɑrˈkɛs ðɛ ɛsˈtɛ lyɑ/ (Show IPA), (Miguel Prima de Rivera y Orbaneja) 1870–1930, Spanish general and political leader: dictator of Spain 1923–29.
- principal value — a value selected at a point in the domain of a multiple-valued function, chosen so that the function has a single value at the point.
- printer's devil — devil (def 5).
- prison governor — the senior administrator or head of a prison
- private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
- private hearing — a formal or official trial that is not open to the public
- private patient — a patient receiving medical treatment not paid for by the National Health Service
- private pay bed — (in Britain) a bed in a National Health Service hospital, reserved for private patients who pay a consultant acting privately for treatment and who are charged by the health service for use of hospital facilities
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- private tuition — instruction, esp that received in a small group or individually, that is arranged and paid for by an individual rather than by the state
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
- procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
- progressiveness — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- progressivistic — characteristic of a progressivist
- projective test — any psychological test, such as the Rorschach test, in which the subject is asked to respond to vague material. It is thought that unconscious ideas are thus projected, which, when the responses are interpreted, reveal hidden aspects of the subject's personality
- prospectiveness — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
- puerperal fever — a systemic bacterial infection of the endometrium characterized by fever, rapid heartbeat, uterine tenderness, and malodorous discharge, chiefly occurring in women after childbirth, usually as the result of unsterile obstetric procedures.
- puerto vallarta — a city in W Mexico.
- pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
- purple foxglove — a medicinal plant, Digitalis purpurea, of western Europe, having finger-shaped, spotted, purple flowers and leaves from which digitalis is obtained.
- put one over on — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
- radioprotective — giving protection against the effects of radiation
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- refinery revamp — A refinery revamp is a change in the technology or processes used in a refinery.
- relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
- representatives — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- reprivatization — the action or process of reprivatizing, or an instance thereof
- reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
- resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
- retro-operative — affecting or operating on past events; retroactive
- retrospectively — with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively.
- rhesus positive — relating to blood containing Rhesus antigen D
- riverbank grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis riparia, of eastern North America, having fragrant flowers and nearly black fruit.
- riviere-du-loup — a city in SE Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
- roving reporter — a reporter who travels around, rather than staying in a fixed place
- russell's viper — a large venomous snake, Vipera russelli, common in India and southeastern Asia, having three rows of large, black-edged brown spots on a light-brown body.
- saturated vapor — a vapor whose temperature and pressure are such that any compression of its volume at constant temperature causes it to condense to liquid at a rate sufficient to maintain a constant pressure.
- self-expressive — the expression or assertion of one's own personality, as in conversation, behavior, poetry, or painting.
- self-preserving — preservation of oneself from harm or destruction.
- sensitive plant — Also called humble plant. a tropical American plant, Mimosa pudica, cultivated in greenhouses, having bipinnate leaves whose leaflets fold together when touched.
- shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- simple division — a type of division to find out how many times the smaller number is contained in the larger one
- simple interval — an interval of an octave or less.