9-letter words containing a, v, o, t, r
- operative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- outbraved — Simple past tense and past participle of outbrave.
- outsavour — to exceed in savouring
- outtravel — (transitive) To exceed in speed or distance travelled.
- over-talk — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- overacted — Simple past tense and past participle of overact.
- overactor — Someone who overacts.
- overacute — excessively acute
- overcasts — Plural form of overcast.
- overcatch — to overtake
- overcoats — Plural form of overcoat.
- overdated — outdated
- overdraft — an act or instance of overdrawing a checking account.
- overeaten — Past participle of overeat.
- overeater — One who eats too much; particularly one who does so regularly.
- overexact — Too exact; overscrupulous; pedantic.
- overgreat — too great
- overhaste — excessive haste
- overhasty — excessively hasty; rash: overhasty judgment.
- overmatch — to be more than a match for; surpass; defeat: an assignment that clearly overmatched his abilities; an able task force that overmatched the enemy fleet.
- 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
- oviparity — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
- oviraptor — a bipedal dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period, having a toothless jaw and long forelimbs with clawed fingers
- ovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- patercove — a fraudulent priest
- pavarotti — Luciano [loo-chee-ah-noh;; Italian loo-chah-naw] /ˌlu tʃiˈɑ noʊ;; Italian luˈtʃɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1935–2007, Italian operatic tenor.
- port vila — the capital of Vanuatu, on the island of Efate. Pop: 44 040 (2009)
- portative — capable of being carried; portable.
- privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
- privocrat — (esp in neo-conservative thought) a person who is not in favour of relinquishing individual freedoms in order to give the state more powers to combat terrorism
- 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
- protoavis — a fossil bird of the genus Protoavis, from the Triassic Period, having a birdlike, partly toothless jaw structure, a tail and hind legs resembling those of the dinosaur, and the hollow bones and keellike breast that are characteristic of modern birds: the oldest known avian type, preceding the archaeopteryx by an estimated 75 million years.