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11-letter words containing t, r, e, v, i

  • overexcited — to excite too much.
  • overexcites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overexcite.
  • overexploit — to use (natural resources etc) excessively, causing a reduction
  • overfatigue — excessive tiredness from which recuperation is difficult.
  • overfreight — to load too heavily
  • overhastily — in such a way as to be excessively hasty or done without enough consideration
  • overheating — heating (something) excessively
  • overhunting — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
  • overinflate — to inflate to an excessive degree
  • overintense — too intense
  • overliteral — literal to a fault
  • overnetting — unsustainable net fishing
  • overnighted — for or during the night: to stay overnight.
  • overnighter — an overnight stay or trip.
  • overpicture — to describe or portray with exaggeration
  • overtedious — extremely tedious
  • overtension — the act of stretching or straining.
  • overtighten — to tighten too much
  • overtopping — to rise over or above the top of: a skyscraper that overtops all the other buildings.
  • overutilize — to use unsustainably
  • overviolent — excessively violent
  • overwritten — to write in too elaborate, burdensome, diffuse, or prolix a style: He overwrites his essays to the point of absurdity.
  • party-giver — a person who gives a party
  • penetrative — tending to penetrate; piercing.
  • perforative — that perforates readily
  • persecutive — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
  • perspective — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
  • pitt-rivers — Augustus (Henry Lane Fox).1827–1900, British archaeologist; first inspector of ancient monuments (1882): assembled a major anthropological collection of tools and weapons (now in the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford)
  • pluviometer — rain gauge.
  • 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.
  • postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
  • pre-emptive — of or relating to preemption.
  • preadaptive — tending to preadapt, causing preadaptation
  • predicative — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
  • premonitive — of, or relating to, a premonition
  • preparative — preparatory.
  • prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
  • prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
  • presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
  • preteritive — (of verbs) limited to past tenses.
  • prevacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
  • prevailment — the action of prevailing
  • prevaricate — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
  • previous to — before, prior to
  • primitively — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
  • private bar — the saloon or lounge bar of a public house
  • private eye — a private detective.
  • private key — (cryptography)   A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
  • private law — a branch of law dealing with the legal relationships of private individuals. Compare public law (def 2).
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