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12-letter words containing v, e

  • 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.
  • perivisceral — surrounding or situated about the viscera.
  • permissively — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
  • permissivism — lenience toward or indulgence of a wide variety of social behavior.
  • 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.
  • perseverance — steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
  • perseverator — a person who perseverates
  • perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
  • persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
  • perverseness — willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
  • pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
  • petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
  • petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
  • petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
  • phoenixville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
  • photoengrave — to make a photoengraving of.
  • photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
  • phrasal verb — a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.
  • piet-my-vrou — a cuckoo, Notococcyx solitarius, having a red breast
  • pig receiver — A pig receiver is a device to get a pig out of a pipeline without interrupting flow.
  • plano-convex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
  • planoconcave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
  • 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.
  • polar vortex — a whirling mass of very cold air that sits over the North or South Pole: A displaced polar vortex is causing Arctic temperatures across the United States.
  • pole vaulter — A pole vaulter is an athlete who performs the pole vault.
  • poppet valve — A poppet valve is a disk-shaped intake or exhaust valve in an internal combustion engine.
  • popular vote — the vote for a U.S. presidential candidate made by the qualified voters, as opposed to that made by the electoral college. Compare electoral vote.
  • 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.
  • possessively — jealously opposed to the personal independence of, or to any influence other than one's own upon, a child, spouse, etc.
  • post-harvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
  • 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.
  • poverty trap — If someone is in a poverty trap, they are very poor but cannot improve their income because the money they get from the government decreases as the money they earn increases.
  • power shovel — any self-propelled shovel for excavating earth, ore, or coal with a dipper that is powered by a diesel engine or electric motor. Compare shovel (def 2).
  • power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
  • power-driven — powered by an electric motor
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