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15-letter words containing d, o, v

  • over-confidence — too confident.
  • over-controlled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • over-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
  • over-distention — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
  • over-engineered — unnecessarily complicated
  • over-privileged — having too many advantages or opportunities compared to others.
  • over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • over-structured — excessively structured or organized.
  • overcapitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of overcapitalize.
  • overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
  • overcrowdedness — filled to excess; packed.
  • overdevelopment — Excessive development; the state or quality of being overdeveloped.
  • overdraft limit — a limit on the amount of money allowed to be withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
  • overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
  • overentertained — entertained to excess
  • overexaggerated — Simple past tense and past participle of overexaggerate.
  • overexpenditure — the act of expending something, especially funds; disbursement; consumption.
  • overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
  • overhead locker — a locker situated above someone's seat for storing luggage, etc
  • overopinionated — too opinionated
  • overrepresented — represented disproportionately or in too large a number (corresponding to the number in the population, etc)
  • oxford movement — the movement toward High Church principles within the Church of England, originating at Oxford University in 1833 in opposition to liberalizing, rationalizing, and evangelical tendencies and emphasizing the principles of primitive and patristic Christianity as well as the historic and catholic character of the church.
  • panzer division — an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.
  • photoconductive — of, relating to, or exhibiting photoconductivity.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • pointing device — an input device, as a mouse, stylus, or joystick, used to control movement of a cursor or pointer.
  • postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
  • postdivestiture — taking place after divestiture
  • povidone-iodine — a complex of iodine and polyvinylpyrrolidone that has broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity: used as an antiseptic.
  • power save mode — (architecture)   A feature of a component or subsystem designed to actively reduce its power consumption when not in use. Almost any electronic device might benefit from having a power save mode but the most common application is for portable computers which attempt to conserve battery life by incorporating power saving modes in the CPU, display, disks, printer, or other units.
  • pre-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • primo de rivera — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), Marqués de Estella [mahr-kes th e es-te-lyah] /mɑrˈkɛs ðɛ ɛsˈtɛ lyɑ/ (Show IPA), (Miguel Prima de Rivera y Orbaneja) 1870–1930, Spanish general and political leader: dictator of Spain 1923–29.
  • private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
  • quickie divorce — the formal ending of a marriage by law, carried out in a faster manner than usual, esp online
  • radial velocity — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
  • radioprotective — giving protection against the effects of radiation
  • random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
  • receiving order — court order
  • reserved memory — (storage)   The address range 640-1024 kilobytes on an IBM PC, reserved for BIOS, video cards, and add-on cards. Depending on the configuration some of the address space may be unused in which case it can be used by EMS or UMB.
  • reverend mother — a title of respect or form of address for the Mother Superior of a convent
  • revised version — a recension of the Authorized Version, prepared by British and American scholars, the Old Testament being published in 1885, and the New Testament in 1881.
  • riviere-du-loup — a city in SE Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
  • saturated vapor — a vapor whose temperature and pressure are such that any compression of its volume at constant temperature causes it to condense to liquid at a rate sufficient to maintain a constant pressure.
  • second division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the poorest records at a particular time.
  • semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
  • shield of david — a hexagram used as a symbol of Judaism.
  • shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
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