10-letter words containing a, v
- over-abuse — to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.
- over-alert — abnormally alert
- over-break — earth or rock excavated outside of neat lines.
- over-happy — delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.
- over-react — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- overabound — (intransitive) To be too abundant or plentiful.
- overacting — Present participle of overact.
- overaction — Excessive action (as of a muscle of the body).
- overactive — exceptionally or excessively active; too active.
- overaffect — To have too great an effect on.
- overarched — Simple past tense and past participle of overarch.
- overarches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overarch.
- overassert — to assert too much or too strongly
- overassess — To assess too often.
- overbanked — Furnished with too many banks (financial institutions).
- overbarren — Excessively barren.
- overbeaten — beaten too much or too many times
- overbleach — (transitive) To bleach too much.
- overbrutal — excessively brutal
- overcalled — (poker) Simple past tense and past participle of overcall.
- overcanopy — to cover like a canopy
- overcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of overcast.
- overcharge — to charge (a purchaser) too high a price: When the manager realized we'd been overcharged, she gave us a credit for the difference.
- overdosage — Excessive dosage; taking too much of a pharmaceutical drug.
- overdrafts — Plural form of overdraft.
- overdrawer — a person who overdraws something, especially a bank account.
- overeating — Gluttony, the act of eating to excess (either to discomfort or more than required for proper health).
- overexpand — to expand excessively
- overfacile — excessively facile
- overfavour — to favour too much
- overglance — to glance over
- overgrazed — to graze (land) to excess.
- overhandle — to handle, or mention, too much
- overheated — Someone who is overheated is very angry about something.
- overlabour — excessive toil
- overlapped — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
- overlavish — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- overlaying — to lay or place (one thing) over or upon another.
- overlearnt — relating to repetitive practice or learning
- overleaven — to leaven too much; to spoil
- overloaded — to load to excess; overburden: Don't overload the raft or it will sink.
- overmanage — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- overmanned — overstaffed
- overmantel — situated above a mantelpiece.
- overmaster — to gain mastery over; conquer; overpower: The sudden impulse had quite overmastered me.
- overmatter — overset (def 6).
- overmature — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- overparted — (of a performer) having been cast in a role that is beyond his or her abilities
- overplaced — placed above