9-letter words containing c, o, r, v
- overfocus — to focus too much
- 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.
- overperch — to fly up to perch on
- overpitch — to bowl (a ball) so that it pitches too close to the stumps
- overprice — to price excessively high; set too high a price on.
- overquick — too quick: Let's not be overquick to criticize.
- overreach — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- overreact — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- oversauce — to put too much sauce on
- overscale — larger or more extensive than normal or usual; outsize; oversize.
- overscore — to score over, as with strokes or lines.
- overspice — to add too much spice to
- overstock — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- overteach — to teach too much
- overthick — too thick
- overtrick — a trick won by declarer in excess of the number of tricks necessary to make the contract.
- overwatch — to watch over.
- patercove — a fraudulent priest
- pick over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- piscivore — an animal that feeds on fish
- 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.
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- provocant — a person who deliberately behaves controversially to provoke argument or other strong reactions
- reconvene — to come together or assemble, usually for some public purpose.
- reconvert — to convert again.
- reconvict — to convict (someone) again
- recovered — to get back or regain (something lost or taken away): to recover a stolen watch.
- recoveree — a person found against in a recovery case, from whom costs or property are recovered
- recoverer — to get back or regain (something lost or taken away): to recover a stolen watch.
- recoveror — a person who is successful in a recovery case, for whom costs or property are recovered
- redivorce — to divorce again
- revocable — that may be revoked.
- revocably — that may be revoked.
- revoicing — to voice again or in return; echo.
- rock dove — a European pigeon, Columba livia, from which most domestic pigeons have been developed.
- rockville — a city in central Maryland.
- rounceval — a variety of large pea
- sky cover — the amount of the sky that is covered by clouds, fog, haze, smoke, or the like, usually expressed in tenths of the total sky.
- slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
- slipcover — a cover of cloth or other material for a piece of furniture, as an upholstered chair or sofa, made so as to be easily removable.
- softcover — paperback edition of a book
- tick over — If an engine is ticking over, it is running at a low speed or rate, for example when it is switched on but you are not actually using it.
- tovarisch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- uncovered — having no cover or covering.
- vancouver — George, 1758–98, English explorer.
- vaporific — producing vapor; tending to form vapor.
- varicosis — the formation of a varix or varices.
- varifocal — having a focus that can vary
- 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.