14-letter words containing o, v, e
- oversaturation — the act or process of saturating.
- overscrupulous — excessively scrupulous.
- oversensitized — to render sensitive.
- overshot wheel — a water wheel in which the water enters the buckets tangentially near the top of the wheel.
- oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
- oversocialized — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- oversolicitous — too solicitous: oversolicitous concerning one's health.
- overspecialize — to specialize to an excessive degree
- overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
- overstructured — excessively structured or organized.
- oversubscribed — If something such as an event or a service is oversubscribed, too many people apply to attend the event or use the service.
- oversuspicious — too suspicious
- overwhelmingly — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- palacio valdes — Armando [ahr-mahn-daw] /ɑrˈmɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1938, Spanish novelist and critic.
- panoramic view — wide vista or landscape
- passive reason — the reasoning faculty existing only within an individual mind, limited in scope and perishing with the body.
- pay television — a commercial service that broadcasts or provides television programs to viewers who pay a monthly charge or a per-program fee.
- peace movement — a movement seeking to end wars and reduce nuclear weapons
- persian violet — any of several plants belonging to the genus Exacum, native to the Old World, as E. affine, having glossy, ovate leaves, and fragrant, bluish flowers: cultivated as a houseplant.
- peso boliviano — a nickel-clad steel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the boliviano in 1963.
- phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
- photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
- photoinductive — of, relating to, or being able to undergo photoinduction
- photooxidative — of or relating to photooxidation
- photoreceptive — of or relating to photoreception
- photoresistive — photoconductive
- photosensitive — sensitive to light or similar radiation.
- pigeon-livered — meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
- pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
- plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
- police village — a village lacking corporate status as a municipality, its affairs being administered by an elected board of trustees.
- policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- polyvinylidene — pertaining to or derived from a polymer of a vinylidene compound.
- positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
- possessiveness — jealously opposed to the personal independence of, or to any influence other than one's own upon, a child, spouse, etc.
- post operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- postconvention — taking place after a convention
- potbelly stove — a usually cast-iron wood- or coal-burning stove having a large, rounded chamber.
- 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.
- pre-invitation — the act of inviting.
- precompetitive — in marketing, designating or occurring during the stage prior to the completion of development of a product, when companies collaborate rather than compete
- predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
- predevelopment — advance development; the action of developing in advance
- preoperatively — in a preoperative context
- prerevisionist — preceding revisionism
- 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.