11-letter words containing v, e, r, a
- pico rivera — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- placerville — a town in central California; 19th-century gold-mining center.
- portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- preadaptive — tending to preadapt, causing preadaptation
- preapproval — the act of approving; approbation.
- preapproved — to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably: to approve the policies of the administration.
- predicative — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
- preinvasive — of or relating to a stage preceding invasion of the tissues; in situ.
- premedieval — prior to the Middle Ages.
- preparative — preparatory.
- prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
- preservable — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- 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
- prevalently — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- prevaricate — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- preventable — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- 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
- pro-slavery — favoring slavery.
- pro-vaccine — any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
- 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).
- propagative — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- protractive — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- provocateur — a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator.
- provocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- quacksalver — a quack doctor.
- quaver rest — a musical rest or silence that lasts for the equivalent of a quaver or eighth note
- quaveringly — In a quavering manner; tremulously.
- radio waves — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
- radioactive — of, pertaining to, exhibiting, or caused by radioactivity.
- rave review — extremely favourable critique
- re-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
- re-evaluate — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- reactivated — to render active again; revive.
- readvertise — to advertise (something) again
- reaggravate — to make worse or more severe; intensify, as anything evil, disorderly, or troublesome: to aggravate a grievance; to aggravate an illness.
- rear vassal — (in feudal society) a man who entered into a personal relationship with a great vassal to whom he paid homage and fealty in return for protection and often a fief.
- rebarbative — causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent.
- receivables — the part of the assets of a business represented by accounts due for payment
- recoverable — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.