11-letter words containing g, i, o, r
- overdriving — Present participle of overdrive.
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
- overemoting — Present participle of overemote.
- overfatigue — excessive tiredness from which recuperation is difficult.
- overfeeding — the act of feeding too much
- overfishing — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- overflowing — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- overfreight — to load too heavily
- overfunding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- overgrainer — someone who overgrains
- overgrazing — to graze (land) to excess.
- overhanging — extending or dangling
- overheating — heating (something) excessively
- overhunting — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- overindulge — eat, do to excess
- overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overloading — (language) (Or "Operator overloading"). Use of a single symbol to represent operators with different argument types, e.g. "-", used either, as a monadic operator to negate an expression, or as a dyadic operator to return the difference between two expressions. Another example is "+" used to add either integers or floating-point numbers. Overloading is also known as ad-hoc polymorphism. User-defined operator overloading is provided by several modern programming languages, e.g. C++'s class system and the functional programming language Haskell's type classes. Ad-hoc polymorphism (better described as overloading) is the ability to use the same syntax for objects of different types, e.g. "+" for addition of reals and integers or "-" for unary negation or diadic subtraction. Parametric polymorphism allows the same object code for a function to handle arguments of many types but overloading only reuses syntax and requires different code to handle different types.
- overlocking — the act of oversewing a hem or fabric edge to prevent fraying
- overlooking — to fail to notice, perceive, or consider: to overlook a misspelled word.
- overmanning — overstaffing
- overnetting — unsustainable net fishing
- overnighted — for or during the night: to stay overnight.
- overnighter — an overnight stay or trip.
- overtighten — to tighten too much
- overtopping — to rise over or above the top of: a skyscraper that overtops all the other buildings.
- overweening — presumptuously conceited, overconfident, or proud: a brash, insolent, overweening fellow.
- panegyricon — a collection of sermons
- panicmonger — a person who spreads panic
- parking lot — an area, usually divided into individual spaces, intended for parking motor vehicles.
- patrologist — a student of patrology.
- patronising — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patronizing — displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner: a patronizing greeting, accompanied by a gentle pat on the pack.
- pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
- pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
- perigordian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an Upper Paleolithic cultural epoch in southern France, especially of the Périgord region.
- perissology — the use of a superfluity of words; an expression of something using more words than necessary
- pettifogger — a lawyer of inferior status who conducts unimportant cases, esp one who is unscrupulous or resorts to trickery
- philography — the collecting of autographs, especially those of famous persons.
- piano organ — a mechanical piano that is built like a barrel organ
- piatigorsky — Gregor [greg-er] /ˈgrɛg ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–76, U.S. cellist, born in Russia.
- pictography — the use of pictographs; picture writing.
- picturegoer — a person who goes to the cinema, esp frequently
- pigeon drop — a confidence game or sleight-of-hand swindle whereby cash is extracted from the victim as collateral for a supposed share in a large sum of discovered money, dishonest profits, or gambling winnings, which in fact are nonexistent.
- pigeonholer — someone who likes to pigeonhole people or things
- pignoration — the act or process of pledging or pawning
- piping cord — Cord that is covered in fabric and used to decorate a seam
- pirouetting — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
- pistol grip — a handle or grip, as of a rifle or saw, shaped like the butt of a pistol.
- piston ring — a metallic ring, usually one of a series, and split so as to be expansible, placed around a piston in order to maintain a tight fit, as inside the cylinder of an engine.
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst