12-letter words containing e, n, v, l, o
- oven cleaner — a liquid, often foam in an aerosol container, designed to clean ovens
- over-analyze — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- over-reliant — having or showing dependence: reliant on money from home.
- overanalysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
- overanalyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of overanalyze.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- overboldness — The state or fact of being too bold; audacity.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overclocking — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- overenrolled — For which too many people have enrolled.
- overfullness — The state of being excessively or abnormally full.
- overinclined — extremely or excessively inclined (to)
- overinvolved — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- overlengthen — to extend excessively
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- overplotting — the provision of an excessively elaborate plot
- overreliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- pay envelope — an envelope containing a paycheck or wages.
- peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
- phoenixville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- plano-convex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
- planoconcave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
- poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- provableness — the quality of being provable
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- reconvalesce — to convalesce again
- reevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- revelational — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
- ring-a-levio — a children's game in which members of one group try to find and capture hiding members of another group: a captured player is kept in a circle drawn on the ground and is set free when tagged by a teammate
- river nelson — a river in central Canada, in N central Manitoba, flowing from Lake Winnipeg northeast to Hudson Bay. Length: about 650 km (400 miles)
- roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
- roncesvalles — a village in N Spain, in the Pyrenees: defeat of part of Charlemagne's army and the death of Roland a.d.
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- servocontrol — control by means of a servomechanism.
- shovel-nosed — having the head, snout, or beak broad and flat like the blade of a shovel.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
- silver spoon — spoon (def 16).
- sleeve notes — the printed information on a record sleeve
- slovenliness — untidy or unclean in appearance or habits.