14-letter words containing o, v, e, r, a, c
- ovariectomized — Simple past tense and past participle of ovariectomize.
- over-abundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- over-expectant — having expectations; expecting: an excited, expectant audience.
- over-patriotic — of, like, suitable for, or characteristic of a patriot.
- over-socialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- over-tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
- overaccentuate — to accentuate too much
- overallocation — Excess allocation.
- overanalytical — too analytical
- overcapitalize — to fix the total amount of securities of a corporation in excess of the limits set by law or by sound financial policy.
- overcautiously — in such a way as to be too cautious, wary, or careful
- overcentralize — to centralize excessively
- overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- overcompliance — excessive compliance
- overcomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- overdecoration — excessive decoration
- overextraction — excessive extraction
- overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
- overparticular — precise beyond necessity
- oversocialized — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- overspecialize — to specialize to an excessive degree
- panoramic view — wide vista or landscape
- policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- prairie clover — any plant belonging to the genus Petalostemon, of the legume family, common in western North America, having pinnately compound leaves and spikes of white, purple, or pink flowers.
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
- proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- radio receiver — an apparatus that receives incoming modulated radio waves and converts them into sound
- reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
- reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- service a room — If you service a room, you clean it and change the towels and bed linen in it.
- servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
- share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
- sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
- social service — organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.
- solvay process — a process for manufacturing sodium carbonate whereby a concentrated solution of sodium chloride is saturated with ammonia, carbon dioxide is passed through it, and the product is calcined.
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- to break cover — If you break cover, you leave a place where you have been hiding or sheltering from attack, usually in order to run to another place.
- tractive force — the force measured in the drawbar of a locomotive or tractor
- tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester