12-letter words containing e, v, c
- oven cleaner — a liquid, often foam in an aerosol container, designed to clean ovens
- over-complex — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
- over-excited — If you say that someone is over-excited, you mean that they are more excited than you think is desirable.
- over-precise — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- overabstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
- overachieved — Simple past tense and past participle of overachieve.
- overachiever — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- overactivate — to make active; cause to function or act.
- overactivity — Excessive activity.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- overbearance — (rare, or, obsolete) Overbearing behaviour; arrogance; imperiousness.
- overcapacity — capacity beyond what is normal, allowed, or desirable.
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- 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.
- overcoloured — excessively coloured
- overcompress — to compress, squeeze or condense excessively
- overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
- overcramming — excessive cramming
- overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
- overcropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
- overcrowding — Fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable.
- overdecorate — To decorate or embellish to an excessive degree.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overdocument — to document excessively
- overdramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- overeducated — Having been educated to a higher academic level than is necessary.
- overemphatic — excessive or undue emphasis.
- overexercise — to exercise excessively
- overexplicit — excessively explicit
- overfocussed — too focussed
- overinclined — extremely or excessively inclined (to)
- overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
- overmedicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- overniceness — the quality of being overnice
- overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- overreaction — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- overreactive — tending to react.
- overreliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- overscutched — overworked; worn out
- overseas cap — a soft, brimless military cap
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- owl's clover — any of several western American plants belonging to the genus Orthocarpus, of the figwort family, having dense spikes of flowers in a variety of colors with conspicuous bracts.
- owl's-clover — any of a genus (Orthocarpus) of plants of the figwort family of W North and South America; esp., a California species (O. purpurascens) with red or purple upper leaves
- peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.