14-letter words containing e, v, c, t, i, o
- objective-lens — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- ovariectomized — Simple past tense and past participle of ovariectomize.
- over-confident — too confident.
- over-criticize — to censure or find fault with.
- over-patriotic — of, like, suitable for, or characteristic of a patriot.
- overallocation — Excess allocation.
- overanalytical — too analytical
- overcapitalize — to fix the total amount of securities of a corporation in excess of the limits set by law or by sound financial policy.
- overcautiously — in such a way as to be too cautious, wary, or careful
- overcentralize — to centralize excessively
- overcommitment — to commit more than is feasible, desirable, or necessary.
- overcommitting — Present participle of overcommit.
- overcomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- overcorrection — correction beyond what is needed or customary, especially when leading to error; overadjustment: The pilot made an overcorrection for headwinds.
- overdecoration — excessive decoration
- overexcitement — The condition of being excessively excited.
- overextraction — excessive extraction
- overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
- overoptimistic — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- overparticular — precise beyond necessity
- overproduction — excessive production; production in excess of need or stipulated amount.
- overprotection — the act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm.
- overprotective — unduly protective.
- oversolicitous — too solicitous: oversolicitous concerning one's health.
- phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
- photoinductive — of, relating to, or being able to undergo photoinduction
- photoreceptive — of or relating to photoreception
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- postconvention — taking place after a convention
- precompetitive — in marketing, designating or occurring during the stage prior to the completion of development of a product, when companies collaborate rather than compete
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
- 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.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- proprioceptive — pertaining to proprioceptors, the stimuli acting upon them, or the nerve impulses initiated by them.
- protectiveness — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
- reconstitutive — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- retrodirective — (of a mirror, reflector, etc.) having three reflecting surfaces so oriented that a ray of light is reflected in a direction parallel but opposite to its original direction.
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.
- security video — a video recording taken by a security camera