10-letter words containing e, v, r, g
- overmanage — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- overmighty — too forceful
- overriding — taking precedence over all other considerations.
- overruling — the act or instance of ruling over another
- overseeing — to direct (work or workers); supervise; manage: He was hired to oversee the construction crews.
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- overstring — Music. to arrange the strings of (a piano) so that the bass strings cross over the treble.
- overstrong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- overstrung — overly tense or sensitive; strained; on edge: Their nerves were badly overstrung.
- overtaking — passing the vehicle in front
- overtaught — taught to excess
- overweight — weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.
- palavering — a conference or discussion.
- palm grove — small forest of palm trees
- perceiving — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
- pine grove — a group of pine trees that are close together
- prevailing — predominant: prevailing winds.
- privileged — belonging to a class that enjoys special privileges; favored: the privileged few.
- privileges — a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most: the privileges of the very rich.
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- quiver leg — a round, tapered chair leg used in the Louis Quinze style and similar styles.
- ravagement — to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
- re-engrave — to engrave again
- recovering — returning to health after illness or debility, such as alcohol or drug addiction
- redividing — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
- regressive — regressing or tending to regress; retrogressive.
- regulative — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- releveling — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- retrieving — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- revegetate — to cause vegetation to grow again on: to revegetate eroded lands.
- revengeful — determined to have revenge; vindictive.
- revilingly — in a reviling manner
- river edge — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- rivetingly — in a riveting manner
- rogue wave — a random, enormous ocean wave that sometimes travels at an angle to prevailing seas.
- scavengers — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- scrivening — writing
- sergius iv — died 1012, pope 1009–12.
- silver age — Classical Mythology. the second of the four ages of humankind, inferior to the golden age but superior to the bronze age that followed: characterized by an increase of impiety and of human weakness.
- silverberg — Robert, born 1935, U.S. science-fiction writer.
- silverling — a shekel or small silver coin
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
- stravaiger — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- subaverage — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- the virgin — the constellation Virgo, the sixth sign of the zodiac
- travelling — to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure.
- travelogue — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
- traversing — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- undergrove — a covered grove
- unforgiven — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.