9-letter words containing a, v, o, t, r, e
- overpaint — to cover over with paint
- overplant — to plant more than is necessary or possible to sustain
- overrated — to rate or appraise too highly; overestimate: I think you overrate their political influence.
- overreact — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- overroast — to roast for too long so as to spoil
- overstaff — to provide an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- overstain — to stain too much
- overstand — overreach (def 13).
- overstare — to outstare
- overstate — to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
- overtaxed — taxed too heavily
- overteach — to teach too much
- overtrade — to trade in excess of one's capital or the requirements of the market.
- overtrain — to train excessively
- overtreat — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- overwatch — to watch over.
- overwater — to give too much water to
- patercove — a fraudulent priest
- portative — capable of being carried; portable.
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- ravigotte — a cold French sauce or dressing for salad containing mixed chopped herbs such as tarragon and chives
- revelator — a person who makes a revelation.
- reviolate — to violate again
- riverboat — any shallow-draft boat used on rivers.
- salvatore — a male given name.
- shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- stay over — spend the night
- take over — the act of taking.
- talk over — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tsavorite — a green variety of grossularite, found in Kenya in 1975 and used as a gem.
- uvarovite — Mineralogy. a variety of garnet colored emerald-green by the presence of chromium.
- vaporetto — a motorboat used as a passenger bus along a canal in Venice, Italy.
- variolate — resembling smallpox, as a lesion.
- variolite — a rock embedded with varioles; a variolitic rock.
- vectorial — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- venerator — to regard or treat with reverence; revere.
- vernation — the arrangement of the foliage leaves within the bud.
- video art — an art form involving the creative exploitation of video technology to produce videotapes for viewing on a television screen.
- wavefront — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.