11-letter words containing a, t, r, o
- ottava rima — an Italian stanza of eight lines, each of eleven syllables (or, in the English adaptation, of ten or eleven syllables), the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet with a different rhyme: used in Keats' Isabella and Byron's Don Juan.
- otter board — one of a pair of large, heavy, square or rectangular plates or boards of metal or weighted wood attached to the trawl lines on each side of the mouth of a trawl net to maintain lateral spread during trawling.
- otter trawl — a trawl net equipped with otter boards.
- out of gear — out of order; not functioning properly
- out-migrant — a person who out-migrates.
- out-migrate — to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory: People are no longer out-migrating from the South in such large numbers.
- outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
- outdoorsman — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- outer space — space beyond the atmosphere of the earth.
- outerplanar — (mathematics) Describing a graph having a planar embedding such that the vertices lie on a circle and the edges lie inside that circle.
- outgenerals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgeneral.
- outmaneuver — to outwit, defeat, or frustrate by maneuvering.
- outorganize — to overcome by organization
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- outsmarting — Present participle of outsmart.
- outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
- outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
- ovariectomy — the operation of removing one or both ovaries; oophorectomy.
- overanxiety — Excessive anxiety.
- overballast — (transitive) To load with too much ballast.
- overblanket — a blanket that is placed on a bed on top of the other bedding
- overcasting — Meteorology. the condition of the sky when more than 95 percent covered by clouds.
- overcaution — excessive caution
- overcoating — a coat worn over the ordinary indoor clothing, as in cold weather.
- overdeviate — to cause (a frequency-modulated radio transmitter) to exceed its specified frequency excursion from the rest frequency
- overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
- overearnest — Excessively earnest.
- overeducate — to educate too much
- overfatigue — excessive tiredness from which recuperation is difficult.
- overfraught — too fraught
- overgarment — an outer garment.
- overharvest — the harvesting of plants or animals in an unsustainable manner
- overhastily — in such a way as to be excessively hasty or done without enough consideration
- overheating — heating (something) excessively
- overinflate — to inflate to an excessive degree
- overleather — the upper part of a shoe
- overliteral — literal to a fault
- overoperate — to operate on (a patient) unnecessarily
- overpayment — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- overreacted — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- overstaffed — If you say that a place is overstaffed, you think there are more people working there than is necessary.
- overvoltage — Electricity. excess voltage.
- overweather — to expose too long to harsh weather
- oxenstierna — Count Axel [ahk-suh l] /ˈɑk səl/ (Show IPA), 1583–1654, Swedish statesman.
- oyster crab — a pea crab, Pinnotheres ostreum, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of oysters.
- oyster farm — a place where oyster beds are kept.
- oyster rake — a rake with a long handle and curved teeth for gathering in oysters from shallow waters
- oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- p.p. factor — nicotinic acid or its amide, nicotinamide, being the vitamin-B-complex members that serve to prevent pellagra.