12-letter words containing m, o, v, e, r
- overoptimism — a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- overoptimist — someone who is too optimistic
- overornament — to decorate excessively
- overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- oversimplify — make too simple
- overtime ban — a refusal by employees to work overtime
- overtime pay — a higher than normal rate of pay, for work done as overtime
- overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- parma violet — a variety of the sweet violet, Viola odorata, that is the source of an essential oil used in perfumery.
- people mover — any of various forms of mass transit, as moving sidewalks or automated driverless vehicles, used for transporting people along limited, fixed routes, as around airports or congested urban areas.
- performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
- piet-my-vrou — a cuckoo, Notococcyx solitarius, having a red breast
- power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
- preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
- recover-from — to get back or regain (something lost or taken away): to recover a stolen watch.
- remotivation — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
- roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
- room divider — a partition, as a screen or freestanding bookcase, that separates one part of a room from another.
- room service — the serving of food, drinks, etc., to a guest in his or her room, as at a hotel.
- samuel lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
- seminivorous — feeding on seeds: seminivorous birds.
- semivitreous — partially vitreous.
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- servo system — a system using a servomechanism.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- smother-love — a relationship between a parent and child in which the parent is over-protective to the extent that the child's normal psychological development is inhibited
- spot remover — a concentrated cleaning fluid used to remove small areas of staining, such as on a carpet
- thermomotive — pertaining to motion produced by heat.
- vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
- ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle
- verumontanum — an elevation in the wall of the urethra
- very much so — The expression very much so is an emphatic way of answering 'yes' to something or saying that it is true or correct.
- vesper mouse — white-footed mouse.
- video camera — a handheld or mounted portable camera intended for recording moving images in digital memory or on videotape.
- video memory — computer memory used for the processing and displaying of images
- villahermosa — a state in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche. 9783 sq. mi. (25,338 sq. km). Capital: Villahermosa.
- visceromotor — of or relating to the normal movements of the viscera, especially the digestive tract.
- vision mixer — the person who selects and manipulates the television signals from cameras, film, and other sources, to make the composite programme
- volunteerism — voluntarism (def 2).
- von stroheim — Erich [er-ik;; German ey-rikh] /ˈɛr ɪk;; German ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1885–1957, U.S. actor and director, born in Austria.
- woman driver — a female driver