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9-letter words containing k, v

  • 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.
  • paasikivi — Juho Kusti [yoo -haw koo s-ti] /ˈyʊ hɔ ˈkʊs tɪ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1956, Finnish statesman: president 1946–56.
  • parkville — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
  • 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.
  • ravenlike — resembling a raven
  • reshevsky — Samuel, 1911–92, U.S. chess player, born in Poland.
  • revokable — that may be revoked.
  • reykjavik — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
  • riverbank — the slopes bordering a river.
  • riverlike — resembling a river
  • riverwalk — a paved walkway along the side of a river
  • 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.
  • sackville — Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1536–1608, English statesman and poet.
  • serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
  • sevenbark — wild hydrangea.
  • 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.
  • skin-dive — to engage in skin diving.
  • 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.
  • skydiving — the sport of jumping from an airplane at a moderate or high altitude and free-falling and using one's body to control direction or movements before opening one's parachute.
  • slavenska — Mia [mee-ah] /ˈmi ɑ/ (Show IPA), (Mia Corak) 1914?–2002, U.S. dancer and choreographer, born in Yugoslavia.
  • slavyansk — a city in E central Ukraine, NW of Donetsk.
  • 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.
  • syktyvkar — an autonomous republic in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. 145,221 sq. mi. (376,122 sq. km). Capital: Syktyvkar.
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