11-letter words containing o, v, e, r, s
- overstretch — to stretch excessively.
- overstuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- oversweeten — to sweeten too much
- overswollen — too swollen
- overtedious — extremely tedious
- overtension — the act of stretching or straining.
- overwrestle — to overpower by wrestling
- overzealous — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
- ovuliferous — holding ovules
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
- prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
- previous to — before, prior to
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- pro-slavery — favoring slavery.
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- progressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- prokopyevsk — a city in the S central Russian Federation in Asia, NW of Novokuznetsk.
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
- provisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- provisioner — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- radio waves — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
- rediscovery — the act or an instance of discovering.
- reprovision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- reservation — the act of keeping back, withholding, or setting apart.
- reservatory — any place where reserves or stores are kept, esp of food and/or water; esp, a reservoir
- restorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
- resveratrol — a compound found in red grapes, mulberries, peanuts, and certain plants, used medicinally as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory
- revelations — the last book of the New Testament, containing visionary descriptions of heaven, of conflicts between good and evil, and of the end of the world
- reverse out — a font or type that is defined by its background or border, allowing the underlying colour of the paper or the background colour to show the shape of the characters
- reversioner — a person who possesses a reversion.
- revisionary — the act or work of revising.
- revisionism — advocacy or approval of revision.
- revisionist — an advocate of revision, especially of some political or religious doctrine.
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- river horse — a hippopotamus.
- rose weevil — Fuller rose beetle.
- rostovtzeff — Michael Ivanovich [mahy-kuh l i-vah-nuh-vich] /ˈmaɪ kəl ɪˈvɑ nə vɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1952, U.S. historian, born in Russia.
- seroconvert — (of an individual) to produce antibodies specific to, and in response to the presence in the blood of, a particular antigen, such as a virus or vaccine
- servanthood — the condition of being a servant
- service dog — a dog trained to assist a person with a disability that is not related to vision or hearing.
- servitorial — of or pertaining to a servitor
- severalfold — comprising several parts or members.
- sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- shore leave — permission to spend time ashore, usually 48 hours or more, granted a member of a ship's company.