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14-letter words containing o, v, e, r, a, d

  • over and above — above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
  • over sb's head — If someone does something over another person's head, they do it without asking them or discussing it with them, especially when they should do so because the other person is in a position of authority.
  • over-abundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • over-advertise — to advertise too much
  • over-demanding — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
  • over-dramatize — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
  • over-organized — to stress formal structure, status, rules, and details excessively.
  • overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
  • overdecoration — excessive decoration
  • overdramatized — Simple past tense and past participle of overdramatize.
  • overemphasised — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasise.
  • overemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasize.
  • overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • overhead light — a light which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
  • overhead valve — a valve in a type of internal-combustion engine in which the inlet and exhaust valves are in the cylinder head above the pistons
  • overland stage — a stagecoach used in the western U.S. during the middle of the 19th century.
  • overland trail — any of various routes traveled by settlers from the Missouri River to Oregon and California beginning in the 1840s.
  • overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
  • overmodulation — excessive amplitude modulation, resulting in distortion of a signal.
  • overprogrammed — characterized by overprogramming
  • oversocialized — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • radio receiver — an apparatus that receives incoming modulated radio waves and converts them into sound
  • radiosensitive — (of certain tissues or organisms) sensitive to or destructible by various types of radiant energy, as x-rays, rays from radioactive material, or the like.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • 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.
  • sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
  • shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
  • 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
  • tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
  • vantage ground — a position or place that gives one an advantage, as for action, view, or defense.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • wood engraving — the art or process of engraving designs in relief with a burin on the end grain of wood, for printing.
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