11-letter words containing p, o, v
- overoperate — to operate on (a patient) unnecessarily
- overpackage — to package excessively
- overpayment — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- overperform — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- overpicture — to describe or portray with exaggeration
- overplaided — (of a garment) covered with a design consisting of an overplaid
- overplanned — resulting from overplanning
- overplotted — relating to an excessively elaborate plot
- overprecise — excessively precise
- overprepare — to prepare more than necessary
- overprocess — to process too much
- overproduce — to produce more of (a product or commodity) than is required
- overprogram — to program (something) with unnecessary details or instructions
- overpromise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- overpromote — to promote to a level that cannot be fulfilled
- overprotect — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- overrespond — to respond too dramatically
- overspender — someone who overspends
- overtopping — to rise over or above the top of: a skyscraper that overtops all the other buildings.
- oviposition — to deposit or lay eggs, especially by means of an ovipositor.
- papovavirus — any of a group of DNA-containing human and animal viruses, including polyoma viruses and some papillomaviruses, most of which produce tumors.
- passivation — the process of passivating a material
- peace envoy — someone sent on a mission to end conflict or bring peace
- peano curve — a curve that passes through every point of a two-dimensional region.
- peoplemover — any of various forms of mass transit, as moving sidewalks or automated driverless vehicles, used for transporting people along limited, fixed routes, as around airports or congested urban areas.
- perforative — that perforates readily
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- photoactive — the activation or control of a chemical, chemical reaction, or organism by light, as the activation of chlorophyll by sunlight during photosynthesis.
- picked over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pico rivera — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- pillow lava — lava in the form of an agglomeration of rounded, pillow-shaped masses, the result of subaqueous or subglacial volcanic eruption.
- piscivorous — adapted to feeding on fish; fish-eating.
- pivot joint — a freely moving joint that moves by rotating
- pivot tooth — Dentistry. (formerly) an artificial crown attached to the root of a tooth by pivoting.
- planoconvex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
- pluviometer — rain gauge.
- pocket veto — the action of the President in retaining unsigned a bill passed by Congress within the last ten days of a session and thus causing it to die
- pocket-veto — to veto (a bill) by exercising a pocket veto.
- polyvalence — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
- polyvoltine — multivoltine.
- pore volume — The pore volume is the total volume of very small openings in a bed of adsorbent particles.
- port lavaca — a town in S Texas.
- portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
- porterville — a town in central California.
- porto velho — a state in W Brazil. 93,815 sq. mi. (242,980 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Velho.
- post-larval — of, relating to, or in the form of a larva.
- postal vote — a voting slip that can be filled in at home and sent by post
- postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- posttussive — of or relating to a cough.