12-letter words containing v, i, r
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- primigravida — a woman pregnant for the first time.
- 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.
- pro-activity — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivity — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- projectivity — of or relating to projection.
- proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
- protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- 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
- provincially — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- provisionary — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- provisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- provitamin a — carotene.
- pulverizable — that can be pulverized
- pulvilliform — resembling a pulvillus
- putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- pyruvic acid — a water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 4 O 3 , important in many metabolic and fermentative processes, having an odor resembling that of acetic acid, prepared by the dehydration of tartaric acid: used chiefly in biochemical research.
- quadrivalent — having a valence of four; tetravalent.
- quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
- quill driver — a person who does a great deal of writing.
- quote-driven — denoting an electronic market system, esp for stock exchanges, in which prices are determined by quotations made by market makers or dealers