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13-letter words containing o, r, v, a, l

  • overpopulated — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • overpotential — overvoltage.
  • overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
  • oversocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • overstability — the state of being excessively stable
  • overstimulate — to stimulate too much
  • overtalkative — characterized by a tendency to talk excessively
  • overvaluation — to value too highly; put too high a value on: They should be careful not to overvalue the property.
  • overzealously — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
  • pavilion roof — a pyramidal hip roof.
  • petropavlovsk — a city in N Kazakhstan on the Ishim River. Pop: 190 000 (2005 est)
  • piss all over — to be far superior to
  • plural voting — right to vote more than once
  • polyoma virus — a small DNA-containing virus, of the papovavirus group, that can produce a variety of tumors in mice, hamsters, rabbits, and rats.
  • postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
  • prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
  • prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
  • prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
  • private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
  • proces-verbal — a report of proceedings, as of an assembly.
  • proverbialism — a proverbial expression
  • proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
  • proverbialize — to use in a proverbial way
  • provincialise — to make provincial in character.
  • provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
  • provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
  • provinciality — provincial character.
  • provincialize — to make provincial in character.
  • provisionally — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • provocational — the act of provoking.
  • provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
  • re-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
  • recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • restoratively — in a restorative manner
  • retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
  • revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
  • revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • ring-a-lievio — a game played usually between two teams in which the members of one team attempt to find, capture, and imprison the members of the other, who can be freed only by a teammate not yet captured.
  • rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • role reversal — Role reversal is a situation in which two people have chosen or been forced to exchange their duties and responsibilities, so that each is now doing what the other used to do.
  • roll-over arm — an upholstered chair or sofa arm that curves outward and downward.
  • romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
  • roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
  • rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
  • russian olive — oleaster.
  • school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
  • self-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
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