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12-letter words containing v, e

  • pre-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
  • preconceived — to form a conception or opinion of beforehand, as before seeing evidence or as a result of previously held prejudice.
  • predictively — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
  • prediscovery — a previous discovery
  • preemptively — of or relating to preemption.
  • preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
  • preinterview — a preparatory meeting held before an interview
  • preinventive — apt at inventing, devising, or contriving.
  • preoperative — occurring or related to the period or preparations before a surgical operation.
  • preovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
  • prerogatived — possessing a prerogative
  • prescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
  • presentative — (of an image, idea, etc.) presented, known, or capable of being known directly.
  • preservation — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
  • preservative — something that preserves or tends to preserve.
  • preservatory — a preservative
  • prevaricator — a person who speaks falsely; liar.
  • preventative — Medicine/Medical. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic.
  • preventively — Medicine/Medical. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic.
  • previsionary — having foresight
  • primary verb — one of the three verbs, be, do, and have, that can function both as a main verb and an auxiliary verb.
  • primary wave — Seismology. P wave.
  • print server — (printer)   A server device that is set up on a network to route print requests and status information between computers and printers connected by a network. A typical print server routes print requests for multiple computers and printers on a network. For example, a networked workstation user submits a print command that includes a print file and information about the printer to be used, usually a nearby printer for convenience. The print server sends the print file to the requested printer. The printer spools the print file and provides job status. The print server relays the status of the printer back to the workstation and makes this status information available to other devices on the network.
  • prison fever — typhus.
  • privatdocent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
  • privatdozent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
  • private bill — a congressional or parliamentary bill involving the private interests of a particular individual, corporation, or local unit.
  • private joke — a joke that is understood only by a certain social group
  • private life — the social or family life or personal relationships of an individual, esp of a person in the public eye, such as a politician or celebrity
  • private view — a preview, esp of an art exhibition, for specially invited guests
  • privateering — an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
  • prize-giving — A prize-giving is a ceremony where prizes are awarded to people who have produced a very high standard of work.
  • proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
  • productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • projectivity — of or relating to projection.
  • proper value — characteristic root.
  • proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
  • protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
  • protensively — in the manner of duration
  • protest vote — a ballot cast for a candidate with a minimal chance of winning, to register dislike for the other candidates.
  • provableness — the quality of being provable
  • proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
  • providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincetown — a town at the tip of Cape Cod, in SE Massachusetts: resort.
  • provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
  • proxy server — (software, security)   (Capitalised) Microsoft's proxy server and proxy gateway, designed to provide extensible firewall and network security. Proxy Server is part of BackOffice.
  • pseudo-event — an event that is staged primarily so that it can be reported in the media.
  • pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
  • psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
  • puff sleeves — the sleeves of a women's garment that are gathered at the shoulders and caught in at the cuff to create an inflated, puffy effect
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