12-letter words containing r, e, v, o, l, i
- overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overexplicit — excessively explicit
- overfamiliar — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- overflow bit — (architecture) A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
- overidealize — to idealize excessively
- overinclined — extremely or excessively inclined (to)
- overinvolved — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- overliterary — excessively literary
- overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- overmultiply — to increase too much or too often
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- overplotting — the provision of an excessively elaborate plot
- overreliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- oversimplify — make too simple
- overutilized — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- overwithhold — to withhold too much.
- parma violet — a variety of the sweet violet, Viola odorata, that is the source of an essential oil used in perfumery.
- parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
- pelvic floor — muscles beneath the pelvis
- postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
- poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- ravioli code — (jargon, humour) Object-oriented code consisting of a number of small and loosely-coupled software components. Presumably, the term is a compliment, contrasting the code with spaghetti code.
- reevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- revelational — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
- ring-a-levio — a children's game in which members of one group try to find and capture hiding members of another group: a captured player is kept in a circle drawn on the ground and is set free when tagged by a teammate
- river nelson — a river in central Canada, in N central Manitoba, flowing from Lake Winnipeg northeast to Hudson Bay. Length: about 650 km (400 miles)
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- servile work — work of a physical nature that is forbidden on Sundays and on certain holidays
- silver frost — glaze (def 17).
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
- silver spoon — spoon (def 16).
- silver trout — a variety of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki henshawi, having silvery coloration, inhabiting Lake Tahoe.
- strongsville — a town in N Ohio.
- triple voile — a lightweight, sheer voile of silk or synthetic fibers constructed in plain or novelty weaves.
- ultraviolent — characterized by or pertaining to extreme acts of violence
- uncoercively — in an uncoercive manner