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14-letter words containing e, v, a, n

  • overaccentuate — to accentuate too much
  • overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
  • overallocation — Excess allocation.
  • overallotments — Plural form of overallotment.
  • overanalytical — too analytical
  • overcentralize — to centralize excessively
  • overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overcompliance — excessive compliance
  • overdecoration — excessive decoration
  • overenthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
  • overestimating — Present participle of overestimate.
  • overestimation — An excessive estimation.
  • overevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
  • overextraction — excessive extraction
  • overgeneralize — to draw an overly general conclusion from (something)
  • overland stage — a stagecoach used in the western U.S. during the middle of the 19th century.
  • overland trail — any of various routes traveled by settlers from the Missouri River to Oregon and California beginning in the 1840s.
  • overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
  • overmodulation — excessive amplitude modulation, resulting in distortion of a signal.
  • overnight stay — in hospital or hotel
  • overpersuasion — the act or instance of overpersuading someone
  • overpopulation — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • overregulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • oversaturating — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
  • oversaturation — the act or process of saturating.
  • panoramic view — wide vista or landscape
  • parental leave — a leave of absence from a job for a parent to care for a new baby.
  • passive reason — the reasoning faculty existing only within an individual mind, limited in scope and perishing with the body.
  • pavement light — a windowlike structure set in a pavement or the like to illuminate areas beneath, consisting of thick glass blocks set in a metal frame.
  • pay television — a commercial service that broadcasts or provides television programs to viewers who pay a monthly charge or a per-program fee.
  • peace dividend — money cut by a government from its defense budget as a result of the cessation of hostilities with other countries.
  • peace movement — a movement seeking to end wars and reduce nuclear weapons
  • permanent wave — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
  • persian violet — any of several plants belonging to the genus Exacum, native to the Old World, as E. affine, having glossy, ovate leaves, and fragrant, bluish flowers: cultivated as a houseplant.
  • persuasiveness — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • peso boliviano — a nickel-clad steel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the boliviano in 1963.
  • photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
  • pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
  • positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
  • pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • pre-invitation — the act of inviting.
  • predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • preserving pan — a pan specially designed for preserving fruit
  • preventive law — consultation, as between lawyer and client, to prevent future litigation by dispensing legal advice, clarifying the terms of a contract, etc.
  • preventive war — an attack against a possible enemy to prevent an attack by that enemy at a later time.
  • private income — econ: from outside employment
  • proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
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