9-letter words containing k, o, v
- novellike — a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes.
- oak grove — a small group or orchard of oak trees
- okovanggo — river in SW Africa, flowing from central Angola southeast into a marshy basin (Okovanggo Basin) in N Botswana: c. 1,000 mi (1,609 km)
- ostrovsky — Aleksandr Nikolayevich. 1823–86, Russian dramatist, noted for his satirical comedies about the bourgeoisie. His plays include The Bankrupt (1849) and The Storm (1859), a tragedy
- over-talk — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- overbaked — to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
- overbooks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbook.
- overbrake — to brake (a wheel, vehicle, etc.) excessively.
- overbreak — earth or rock excavated outside of neat lines.
- overcheck — a textile pattern having one checked design superimposed on another so that both are visible.
- overclock — 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.
- overcooks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcook.
- overdrink — Drink too much alcohol.
- overfrank — too frank
- overinked — printed using too much ink
- overquick — too quick: Let's not be overquick to criticize.
- overskirt — an outer skirt.
- oversmoke — to smoke (something) too much
- overstink — to stink more than (something else)
- overstock — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- overthick — too thick
- overthink — If you overthink, or if you overthink a problem, you spend too much time thinking about something.
- overtrick — a trick won by declarer in excess of the number of tricks necessary to make the contract.
- perovskia — a member of the Perovskia genus of aromatic plant native to central Asia, esp Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia
- pick over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- plekhanov — Georgi (or Georgy) Valentinovich [gyi-awr-gyee-vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi və lyɪnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1918, Russian philosopher and leader of the Mensheviks.
- prokhorov — Aleksandr Mikhailovich [al-ig-zan-der mi-kahy-luh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1916–2002, Russian physicist: Nobel prize 1964.
- prokofiev — Sergei Sergeevich [syir-gyey syir-gye-yi-vyich] /syɪrˈgyeɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1953, Russian composer.
- provoking — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
- rake over — If you say that someone is raking over something that has been said, done, or written in the past, you mean that they are examining and discussing it in detail, in a way that you do not think is very pleasant.
- rave hook — a hooklike tool for reaming old oakum out of seams in planking.
- revokable — that may be revoked.
- rock dove — a European pigeon, Columba livia, from which most domestic pigeons have been developed.
- rockville — a city in central Maryland.
- rubtsovsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia.
- ruvo kale — broccoli rabe.
- serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- shockwave — (tool) A program from Macromedia for viewing files created with Macromedia Director. Shockwave is freely available as a plug-in for the Netscape Navigator web browser. "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director can usually only be enjoyed by users with an ISDN or faster connection.
- sholokhov — Mikhail [mee-hahy-eel;; Russian myi-khuh-yeel] /ˌmi haɪˈil;; Russian myɪ xʌˈyil/ (Show IPA), 1905–84, Russian novelist: Nobel prize 1965.
- sky cover — the amount of the sky that is covered by clouds, fog, haze, smoke, or the like, usually expressed in tenths of the total sky.
- slovakian — a republic in central Europe: formerly a part of Czechoslovakia; under German protection 1939–45; independent since 1993. 18,931 sq. mi. (49,035 sq. km). Capital: Bratislava.
- slovensko — Slovakia
- souvlakia — a dish similar to shish kebab made with lamb.
- sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
- stakhanov — a city in E Ukraine, W of Lugnask.
- take over — the act of taking.
- take vows — to enter a religious order and commit oneself to its rule of life by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which may be taken for a limited period as simple vows or as a perpetual and still more solemn commitment as solemn vows
- talk over — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- tick over — If an engine is ticking over, it is running at a low speed or rate, for example when it is switched on but you are not actually using it.