13-letter words containing v, r, o, t
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
- privatization — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- profit motive — the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
- progovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- progressivist — the principles and practices of progressives.
- progressivity — 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.
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- projection tv — a system made up of lenses, mirrors, and a cathode-ray tube, for projecting video images onto a large screen
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- prove a point — If you prove a point, you show other people that you know something or can do something, although your action may have no other purpose.
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provocational — the act of provoking.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- provost court — a military court convened in occupied territory under military government, usually composed of one officer and empowered to try military personnel and civilians for minor offenses.
- provost guard — a detachment of soldiers assigned to police duties under the provost marshal.
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- radioactivate — to make (a substance) radioactive.
- radioactivity — the phenomenon, exhibited by and being a property of certain elements, of spontaneously emitting radiation resulting from changes in the nuclei of atoms of the element.
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- ratiocinative — the process of logical reasoning.
- re-activation — to render active again; revive.
- re-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- reciprocative — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- recovery team — a team engaged in locating and retrieving bodies, cargo, etc, esp following a crash, explosion or natural disaster
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
- reinnervation — the restoration of a nerve supply by surgery or by regeneration
- reinvigorated — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- reinvigorator — something that gives new life and energy (to something)
- reinvolvement — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- restoratively — in a restorative manner
- retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- retrogressive — characterized by retrogression; degenerating.
- retrospective — directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
- revaccination — the act or practice of vaccinating; inoculation with vaccine.
- revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
- revendication — the process or act of revendicating
- reverberation — a reechoed sound.
- reverberatory — characterized or produced by reverberation.
- revindication — the act of vindicating.
- revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- revolutionise — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
- revolutionist — a person who advocates or takes part in a revolution.