10-letter words containing o, v, i
- overpraise — to praise excessively or unduly.
- overpriced — to price excessively high; set too high a price on.
- overrefine — to refine excessively, as with oversubtle distinctions.
- overridden — to prevail or have dominance over; have final authority or say over; overrule: to override one's advisers.
- overriding — taking precedence over all other considerations.
- overruling — the act or instance of ruling over another
- overseeing — to direct (work or workers); supervise; manage: He was hired to oversee the construction crews.
- oversimple — excessively simple
- oversimply — in an oversimple manner
- overstitch — a stitch made with a sewing machine, for binding or finishing a raw edge or hem.
- overstrain — to exert, tax, or use (resources) to an excessive extent
- overstride — to surpass: to overstride one's competitors.
- overstrike — to stamp a new device, value, or inscription on (a coin).
- overstring — Music. to arrange the strings of (a piano) so that the bass strings cross over the treble.
- overtaking — passing the vehicle in front
- overtimely — untimely
- overweight — weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.
- overwinter — to pass, spend, or survive the winter: to overwinter on the Riviera.
- overwisely — in a pretentiously wise manner
- ovipositor — (in certain female insects) an organ at the end of the abdomen, by which eggs are deposited.
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- parvovirus — Veterinary Pathology. a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease of dogs, characterized by vomiting, severe diarrhea, and depression and accompanied by high fever and loss of appetite.
- pejorative — having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force: the pejorative affix -ling in princeling.
- perovskite — a naturally occurring titanate of calcium, CaTiO 3 , found as yellow, brown, or black cubic crystals, usually in metamorphic rocks.
- perversion — the act of perverting.
- phomvihane — Kaysone (ˈkaɪsɒn). 1920–92, Laotian Communist statesman; prime minister of Laos (1975–91); president (1991–92)
- pin clover — alfilaria.
- pine grove — a group of pine trees that are close together
- pizza oven — an oven, traditionally round in shape and wood-fired, for cooking pizza
- pluviosity — of or relating to rain; rainy.
- poison ivy — a vine or shrub, Rhus radicans, having trifoliate leaves and whitish berries and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to it.
- poliovirus — any of three picornaviruses of the genus Enterovirus, having a spherical capsid, infectious to humans and the cause of poliomyelitis.
- portoviejo — a city in W Ecuador, on the Portoviejo River.
- positively — with certainty; absolutely: The statement is positively true.
- positivism — the state or quality of being positive; definiteness; assurance.
- positivist — the state or quality of being positive; definiteness; assurance.
- positivity — the state or character of being positive: a positivity that accepts the world as it is.
- possessive — jealously opposed to the personal independence of, or to any influence other than one's own upon, a child, spouse, etc.
- pottsville — a city in E Pennsylvania.
- power dive — a steep dive by an aircraft with its engines at high power
- power-dive — a dive, especially a steep dive, by an aircraft in which the engine or engines are delivering thrust at or near full power.
- prevail on — to persuade; induce
- prevention — the act of preventing; effectual hindrance.
- preversion — a particular account of some matter, as from one person or source, contrasted with some other account: two different versions of the accident.
- previously — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.
- prison van — vehicle to transfer prisoners
- privy coat — a mail shirt worn under ordinary clothing as a defense against swords or daggers.
- pro-active — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- pro-soviet — (before the revolution) any governmental council. (after the revolution) a local council, originally elected only by manual workers, with certain powers of local administration. (after the revolution) a higher council elected by a local council, being part of a hierarchy of soviets culminating in the Supreme Soviet.