13-letter words containing g, o, v
- 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.
- pham van dong — 1906–2000, Vietnamese political leader: prime minister of North Vietnam 1955–76 and of unified Vietnam 1976–86.
- photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
- pigouvian tax — a tax levied to counter an economic negative externality, for example taxing producers of industrial pollution in order to encourage pollution control
- pivot grammar — a loose grammar said to govern two-word utterances by children
- plural voting — right to vote more than once
- point shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
- point-shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
- pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- positive sign — the sign (+) used to indicate a positive quantity
- prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
- progovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- progressively — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- progressivism — the principles and practices of progressives.
- progressivist — the principles and practices of progressives.
- progressivity — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- provost guard — a detachment of soldiers assigned to police duties under the provost marshal.
- reconvergence — an act or instance of converging.
- recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
- reinvigorated — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- reinvigorator — something that gives new life and energy (to something)
- rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- retrogressive — characterized by retrogression; degenerating.
- ring-a-lievio — a game played usually between two teams in which the members of one team attempt to find, capture, and imprison the members of the other, who can be freed only by a teammate not yet captured.
- ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- rubber gloves — gloves made of rubber, worn to protect the hands while washing up, gardening, etc
- salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
- savings ratio — the ratio of personal savings to disposable income, esp using the difference between national figures for disposable income and consumer spending as a measure of savings
- savoy cabbage — a variety of cabbage having a compact head of crinkled, blistered leaves.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe