12-letter words containing v, i, r
- oversimplify — make too simple
- overspending — the act or an instance of spending in excess of one's desires or what one can afford or is allocated
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- overstrained — exerted, taxed, or used to an excessive extent
- overtaxation — to tax too heavily.
- overtime ban — a refusal by employees to work overtime
- overtime pay — a higher than normal rate of pay, for work done as overtime
- overutilized — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- overweighted — weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.
- overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- overwithhold — to withhold too much.
- ovolactarian — lacto-ovo-vegetarian.
- owner-driver — a person who owns the vehicle he drives
- parma violet — a variety of the sweet violet, Viola odorata, that is the source of an essential oil used in perfumery.
- parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
- pay-per-view — a system requiring that a subscriber pay for each program viewed: championship games seen only on pay-per-view.
- pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
- pelvic floor — muscles beneath the pelvis
- perceptively — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- 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.
- 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.
- pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
- petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
- picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
- 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.
- pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
- polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
- pons varolii — pons (def 1).
- postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
- posteruptive — occurring after a volcanic eruption
- poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
- power-driven — powered by an electric motor
- 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.