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13-letter words containing g, o, r

  • over-cropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
  • over-designed — having too many design features; fussy
  • over-exerting — to exert excessively.
  • over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • over-standing — overreach (def 13).
  • over-trusting — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
  • overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
  • overanalyzing — Present participle of overanalyze.
  • overbalancing — Present participle of overbalance.
  • overbearingly — domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant.
  • overborrowing — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
  • overbreathing — hyperventilation
  • overburdening — Present participle of overburden.
  • overdemanding — excessively demanding
  • overdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdiagnose.
  • overdiagnosis — excessive diagnosis of a disease
  • overeagerness — The quality of being overeager; excessive readiness or enthusiasm.
  • overencourage — to encourage too much
  • overenergetic — excessively energetic
  • overflow flag — overflow bit
  • overflowingly — to an excessive degree
  • overglamorize — to glamorize excessively
  • overingenious — ingenious to a fault
  • overingenuity — the state of being ingenious to a fault
  • overlay glass — case glass.
  • overleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively high ratio of debt capital to equity capital
  • overnight bag — a travel bag large enough to hold personal articles and clothing for an overnight trip.
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • overreporting — an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient.
  • overwintering — to pass, spend, or survive the winter: to overwinter on the Riviera.
  • pacific grove — a city in W California, at S end of Monterey Bay.
  • package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
  • pangola grass — a grass, Digitaria decumbens, native to southern Africa, cultivated for hay and forage in the southeastern U.S.
  • parade ground — A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
  • parallelogram — a quadrilateral having both pairs of opposite sides parallel to each other.
  • parking orbit — a temporary orbit in which a spacecraft awaits the next phase of its mission.
  • parotid gland — Also called parotid gland. a salivary gland situated at the base of each ear.
  • pastel orange — suntan (def 3).
  • patronizingly — displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner: a patronizing greeting, accompanied by a gentle pat on the pack.
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
  • peregrination — travel from one place to another, especially on foot.
  • peregrinatory — tending to peregrinate; relating to or characteristic of a traveller
  • persona grata — an acceptable person, especially a diplomatic representative acceptable to the government to which he or she is accredited.
  • pertaining to — having to do with
  • petrol engine — an internal-combustion engine that uses petrol as fuel
  • phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
  • pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
  • pharmacologic — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
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