13-letter words containing v, e, r
- poverty level — poverty line.
- pre-contrived — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
- pre-developed — to bring out the capabilities or possibilities of; bring to a more advanced or effective state: to develop natural resources; to develop one's musical talent.
- pre-interview — a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.
- pre-inventory — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
- pre-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- precipitative — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- preconvention — taking place immediately prior to a convention
- preconviction — a conviction or assurance formed beforehand; a preconceived conviction
- prejudicative — tending to prejudge
- prerevolution — of the period before a revolution
- prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
- present value — current monetary worth
- preservations — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- presumptively — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- pretelevision — occurring before the arrival of television
- preuniversity — of the period before attending university
- prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
- prevaricative — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- primitive gut — archenteron.
- primitiveness — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- private brand — a product marketed under a private label.
- private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
- private label — the label of a product, or the product itself, sold under the name of a wholesaler or retailer, by special arrangement with the manufacturer or producer.
- private parts — genitalia
- private press — a printing establishment primarily run as a pastime
- private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
- private trust — a trust designed for the benefit of a designated or known individual (opposed to charitable trust).
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- 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.
- problem-solve — find solutions
- proces-verbal — a report of proceedings, as of an assembly.
- profit motive — the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
- progovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- progressively — 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.
- progressivism — the principles and practices of progressives.
- progressivist — the principles and practices of progressives.
- progressivity — 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.
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- projection tv — a system made up of lenses, mirrors, and a cathode-ray tube, for projecting video images onto a large screen
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- prove a point — If you prove a point, you show other people that you know something or can do something, although your action may have no other purpose.
- provence rose — an erect Eurasian shrub, Rosa gallica, of the rose family, having a creeping rootstock, densely prickly and bristly stems, and large, solitary, pink or crimson flowers.
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- proverbialize — to use in a proverbial way
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.