11-letter words containing v, i, p
- presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- preteritive — (of verbs) limited to past tenses.
- 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
- prevaricate — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- prevenience — the act or state of being prevenient
- previous to — before, prior to
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- prime mover — Mechanics. the initial agent, as wind or electricity, that puts a machine in motion. a machine, as a water wheel or steam engine, that receives and modifies energy as supplied by some natural source.
- primitively — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- primitivism — a recurrent theory or belief, as in philosophy or art, that the qualities of primitive or chronologically early cultures are superior to those of contemporary civilization.
- primitivity — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- privacy act — an act that protects a person against the unauthorized use of personal data by any government agency
- 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
- privileging — a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most: the privileges of the very rich.
- privy purse — a sum from the public revenues allotted to the sovereign for personal expenses.
- 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.
- proactivity — 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).
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- progenitive — capable of having offspring; reproductive.
- progressive — 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.
- prohibitive — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- promo video — a video or short film that promotes or advertises something
- propagative — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- protractive — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- provenience — provenance; origin; source.
- provide for — support financially
- providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
- providently — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- provisional — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- provisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- provisioner — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- provocation — the act of provoking.
- provocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- provostship — the office of a provost
- pulp cavity — the entire space occupied by pulp, composed of the root canal and pulp chamber.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- punctuative — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
- pyrovanadic — of or relating to an acid of vanadium
- receptively — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- receptivity — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- replicative — characterized by or capable of replication, especially of an experiment.