7-letter words containing v, a
- overeat — to eat too much: If you overeat, you're bound to get fat.
- overfar — too far
- overfat — Having too much fat as a proportion of body mass.
- overlap — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overlax — too lax
- overlay — to lie over or upon, as a covering or stratum.
- overlea — a town in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- overman — a foreman, supervisor, or overseer.
- overpay — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- overran — simple past tense of overrun.
- oversad — sadder than necessary
- oversaw — to direct (work or workers); supervise; manage: He was hired to oversee the construction crews.
- oversea — over, across, or beyond the sea; abroad: to be sent overseas.
- overtax — to tax too heavily.
- ovidian — (Publius Ovidius Naso) 43 b.c.–a.d. 17? Roman poet.
- ovipara — oviparous animals considered collectively
- ovoidal — something that is egg-shaped
- ovulary — the part of a plant's anatomy where ovules develop
- ovulate — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- p value — (statistics) The probability that the opposite of some hypothesis is true, based on some set of results; a way of expressing the significance of a statistical observation. The lower the P value, the more significant the result. For example, if the hypothesis was "This vaccine prevents flu" then the opposite hypothesis (the "null hypothesis") would be "This vaccine has no effect on flu". If the occurence of flu was measured in a sample of people taking the vaccine then one might say that the hypothesis was confirmed with a p value of 5%. That would mean there was a 5% chance of obtaining the same results or better from a similar sample of the whole population even if the vaccine had no effect.
- pahlavi — the Indo-European, Iranian language of the Zoroastrian literature of the 3rd to the 10th centuries.
- palaver — a conference or discussion.
- papaver — a genus of poppies including over 120 species
- parvati — the wife of Shiva and the benevolent form of the Mother Goddess.
- parvenu — a person who has recently or suddenly acquired wealth, importance, position, or the like, but has not yet developed the conventionally appropriate manners, dress, surroundings, etc.
- passive — not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.
- paul iv — (Gian Pietro Caraffa) 1476–1559, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1555–59.
- paul vi — (Giovanni Batista Montini) 1897–1978, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1963–78.
- paviour — a person that paves; paver.
- paviser — a soldier bearing or using a pavise
- pavlova — Anna [ah-nuh] /ˈɑ nə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1931, Russian ballet dancer.
- peccavi — a confession of guilt or sin.
- pervade — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- pivotal — of, relating to, or serving as a pivot.
- pluvial — of or relating to rain, especially much rain; rainy.
- pluvian — a crocodile bird
- poltava — a city in E Ukraine, SW of Kharkov: Russian defeat of Swedes 1709.
- pranava — the word “Om.”.
- pravity — depravity, moral degeneracy, perversion
- preaver — to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
- precava — See under vena cava.
- prepave — to plan a journey (esp spiritual) in advance
- prevail — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- privacy — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- privado — a close friend
- private — privacy
- provand — food; provisions
- provant — supplied with provisions
- pv-wave — (graphics, tool) (Precision Visuals' Workstation Analysis and Visualization Environment) Interactive scientific visualisation software originally from Precision Visuals, Inc., but now owned by Visual Numerics, Inc. (VNI).
- quavers — (of a person's voice) Shake or tremble in speaking, typically through nervousness or emotion.