9-letter words containing r, e, v, t
- overtaxed — taxed too heavily
- overteach — to teach too much
- overthick — too thick
- overthink — If you overthink, or if you overthink a problem, you spend too much time thinking about something.
- overthrow — to depose, as from a position of power; overcome, defeat, or vanquish: to overthrow a tyrant.
- overtight — firmly or closely fixed in place; not easily moved; secure: a tight knot.
- overtimer — a person who works overtime
- overtimid — extremely timid
- overtired — If you are overtired, you are so tired that you feel unhappy or bad-tempered, or feel that you cannot do things properly.
- overtones — additional meanings or nuances
- overtower — to tower above
- overtrade — to trade in excess of one's capital or the requirements of the market.
- overtrain — to train excessively
- overtreat — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- overtrick — a trick won by declarer in excess of the number of tricks necessary to make the contract.
- overtrump — to play a trump higher than (one previously played to the trick)
- overtrust — to trust too much
- overwatch — to watch over.
- overwater — to give too much water to
- overwrest — to strain too much
- overwrite — to write in too elaborate, burdensome, diffuse, or prolix a style: He overwrites his essays to the point of absurdity.
- overwrote — to write in too elaborate, burdensome, diffuse, or prolix a style: He overwrites his essays to the point of absurdity.
- partitive — serving to divide into parts.
- patercove — a fraudulent priest
- perverted — Pathology. changed to or being of an unnatural or abnormal kind: a perverted interest in death.
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- pit river — a river in N California, flowing S and W from the Modoc Plateau to the Sacramento River. 200 miles (320 km) long.
- pit viper — any of numerous venomous snakes of the family Crotalidae, of the New World, Asia, and the Malay Archipelago, as the rattlesnake, water moccasin, and copperhead, having a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head between the eye and nostril.
- portative — capable of being carried; portable.
- portreeve — the reeve of a port
- preactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- predevote — predestined, predetermined
- preinvite — to invite (somebody) before others
- pretravel — occurring prior to travel
- prevacate — to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
- prevalent — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- prevented — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- preventer — a person or thing that prevents.
- primitive — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- privateer — an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
- privately — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- privative — causing, or tending to cause, deprivation.
- privatize — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- promotive — tending to promote.
- prove out — to show or be shown to be satisfactory, accurate, true, etc.
- provident — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.