12-letter words containing o, n, v, i
- nonversation — A meaningless conversation.
- nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
- nonviability — The state or condition of being nonviable; impracticality.
- nonviolently — In a nonviolent manner.
- nonvitrified — Not converted into glass.
- normotensive — characterized by normal arterial tension or blood pressure.
- nova scotian — a peninsula and province in SE Canada: once a part of the French province of Acadia. 21,068 sq. mi. (54,565 sq. km). Capital: Halifax.
- novelisation — Alternative spelling of novelization.
- novelization — The writing of a novel based on fact; fictionalization.
- novell, inc. — (company, networking) A software development company specialising in networking and workgroup applications. The company has diversified in recent years, with the acquisition of several mainstream applications, including Wordperfect and Quattro Pro. Other products include UnixWare, AppWare, Personal NetWare, Groupwise and Novell Dos 7. (21 Sept 1995)
- novorossiysk — a seaport in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Black Sea.
- oblivescence — the process of forgetting.
- obliviscence — the condition or fact of failing to remember or having failed to remember or of being absent-minded
- observations — Plural form of observation.
- old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
- oncornavirus — any of various RNA viruses that cause tumors in humans and other animals.
- open verdict — law: coroner's jury finding
- opinionative — of, relating to, or of the nature of opinion.
- orange-river — a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.
- order-driven — denoting an electronic market system, esp for stock exchanges, in which prices are determined by the publication of orders to buy or sell
- orthovanadic — relating to orthovanadates
- over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- over-indexes — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- over-reliant — having or showing dependence: reliant on money from home.
- over-running — to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
- overanalysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
- overbrimming — Present participle of overbrim.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
- 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.
- overcramming — excessive cramming
- overcropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
- overcrowding — Fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable.
- overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overdominant — excessively dominant
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- overdressing — Present participle of overdress.
- overdrinking — Present participle of overdrink.
- overengineer — to engineer to excess
- overexertion — to exert excessively.
- overfineness — excessive fineness
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- overidentify — to identify with someone else to an excessive degree