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Definition: Provera |
ProveraNoun1. A progestin compound (trade name Provera) used to treat menstrual disorders. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Provera" is a common misspelling or typo for: proverb. |
Synonym: ProveraSynonym: medroxyprogesterone (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Provera |
| English words defined with "Provera": medroxyprogesterone. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Provera" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Serbo-Croatian (audit, check, checkout, checkup, crosscheck, vidimus). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Health | A progesterone-like hormone called Provera can be given to suppress the menstrual bleeding, but does not appear to slow the rapid rates of growth and bone development, and may have unwanted effects on adrenal functioning. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Provera" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Provera" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Provera": Depo-provera. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: vaporer. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-o-p-r-r-v" | |
-1 letter: prover. | |
-2 letters: opera, pareo, parer, parve, parvo, paver, prove, raper, raver, repro, roper, rover, vapor. | |
-3 letters: aero, aper, arvo, aver, orra, over, pare, parr, pave, pear, pore, prao, proa, rape, rare, rave, reap, rear, repo, roar, rope, rove, vera. | |
-4 letters: ape, are, ave, avo, ear, era, err, oar, ope, ora, ore, ova, par, pea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-o-p-r-r-v" | |
+1 letter: approver, reproval, vaporers, vapourer. | |
+2 letters: approvers, reapprove, reprovals, vaporizer, vaporware, vapourers. | |
+3 letters: evaporator, overpraise, overspread, preapprove, proverbial, reapproved, reapproves, vaporizers, vaporwares. | |
+4 letters: corporative, disapprover, evaporators, overoperate, overpraised, overpraises, overprogram, overspreads, preapproved, preapproves, prerogative, procreative, protractive, provocateur, reapproving, reprobative, vasopressor, vituperator. | |
+5 letters: disapprovers, eavesdropper, overoperated, overoperates, overpersuade, overpraising, overprograms, parvoviruses, performative, photogravure, preapproving, preoperative, preovulatory, prerogatived, prerogatives, preservation, prevaricator, previsionary, proverbially, provocateurs, vasopressors, velociraptor, videographer, vituperators, vituperatory. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 6F 76 65 72 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. --- ...- . .-. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r o v e r a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 006F 0076 0065 0072 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50848188718467 |
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