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13-letter words containing a, r, o, s, e

  • ovariectomies — Plural form of ovariectomy.
  • over-abstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
  • over-cautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
  • over-estimate — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
  • over-standing — overreach (def 13).
  • overachievers — Plural form of overachiever.
  • overacuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
  • overambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • overappraisal — An appraisal that overvalues something.
  • overassertion — assertion of something to an excessive or unnecessary degree
  • overassertive — excessively assertive, esp in an unpleasant way
  • overcast seam — a hem with long stitches passing successively over the edge
  • overdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdiagnose.
  • overdiagnosis — excessive diagnosis of a disease
  • overdramatise — Alternative spelling of overdramatize.
  • overeagerness — The quality of being overeager; excessive readiness or enthusiasm.
  • overemphasise — (British) alternative spelling of overemphasize.
  • overemphasize — to emphasize excessively.
  • overestimated — Simple past tense and past participle of overestimate.
  • overestimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overestimate.
  • overexpansion — the act or process of expanding.
  • overhastiness — the condition of being overhasty
  • overhead-shot — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
  • overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
  • overlay glass — case glass.
  • oversaturated — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
  • oversocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • overstability — the state of being excessively stable
  • overstatement — to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
  • overstimulate — to stimulate too much
  • overzealously — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
  • oystercatcher — any of several long-billed wading birds of the genus Haematopus that have chiefly black-and-white plumage and that feed on oysters, clams, mussels, etc.
  • package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
  • paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
  • painted horse — paint (def 6).
  • palaeocrystic — consisting of former glacial formation
  • paleosiberian — a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
  • pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
  • papaveraceous — belonging to the Papaveraceae, the poppy family of plants.
  • paper profits — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
  • paradise lost — an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.
  • parasyntheton — a word formed by parasynthesis; for example, kind-hearted
  • paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
  • parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
  • parnell shout — a social occasion where each person in a group pays for his or her own entertainment or meal
  • parson's nose — pope's nose.
  • parsons table — a square or rectangular table, often of lightweight material, with straight legs that are square in cross section and of the same thickness as the top extending from the corners flush with the top so as to appear jointless.
  • parthenopaeus — a son of Hippomenes and Atalanta, and one of the Seven against Thebes.
  • parthenospore — a spore developed without fertilization.
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