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12-letter words containing o, l, i, v

  • old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
  • old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.
  • olivary body — one of two oval bodies or prominences composed of nerve tissue, one on each side of the anterior surface of the medulla oblongata.
  • olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
  • olive family — the plant family Oleaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having opposite, simple or pinnately compound leaves, usually small and sometimes showy flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or winged seed, and including the ash, forsythia, lilac, olive, and privet.
  • oliver twist — a novel (1838) by Dickens.
  • omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
  • oppressively — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
  • over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
  • over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
  • over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
  • over-reliant — having or showing dependence: reliant on money from home.
  • overanalysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
  • overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
  • overclassify — to classify to excess
  • overclocking — 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.
  • overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
  • overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
  • overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
  • overexplicit — excessively explicit
  • overfamiliar — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
  • overflourish — to flourish excessively
  • overflow bit — (architecture)   A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
  • overidealize — to idealize excessively
  • overinclined — extremely or excessively inclined (to)
  • overinvolved — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
  • overliterary — excessively literary
  • overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
  • overmultiply — to increase too much or too often
  • overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
  • overplotting — the provision of an excessively elaborate plot
  • overreliance — confident or trustful dependence.
  • oversimplify — make too simple
  • overutilized — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
  • overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
  • overwithhold — to withhold too much.
  • ovolactarian — lacto-ovo-vegetarian.
  • pancho-villa — Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Doroteo Arango"Pancho Villa") 1877–1923, Mexican general and revolutionist.
  • parma violet — a variety of the sweet violet, Viola odorata, that is the source of an essential oil used in perfumery.
  • parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
  • peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
  • pelvic floor — muscles beneath the pelvis
  • phoenixville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
  • photovoltaic — of or relating to the photovoltaic effect.
  • polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
  • pons varolii — pons (def 1).
  • positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
  • possessively — jealously opposed to the personal independence of, or to any influence other than one's own upon, a child, spouse, etc.
  • postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
  • postdiluvial — existing or occurring after the biblical Flood
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