8-letter words containing v, e, a
- overpack — to pack or load too much into or onto
- overpaid — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- overpark — an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoyment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation.
- overpart — to give (an actor) too difficult a role
- overpass — a road, pedestrian walkway, railroad, bridge, etc., crossing over some barrier, as another road or walkway.
- overplan — to plan excessively
- overplay — to exaggerate or overemphasize (one's role in a play, an emotion, an effect, etc.): The young actor overplayed Hamlet shamelessly. The director of the movie had overplayed the pathos.
- overrack — to strain too much
- overrake — (of water) to break over the bow of (a ship) in a solid mass.
- overrank — to assign an unnecessarily high rank to
- overrash — too rash
- overrate — to rate or appraise too highly; overestimate: I think you overrate their political influence.
- overread — to read over or reread
- oversail — a projection
- oversale — the selling of more than is available
- oversalt — to put too much salt in
- oversave — to put (too much money) into savings
- overseas — over, across, or beyond the sea; abroad: to be sent overseas.
- oversman — an overseer
- oversoak — to soak too much
- overstay — to stay beyond the time, limit, or duration of; outstay: to overstay one's welcome.
- oversway — to overrule
- overtake — to catch up with in traveling or pursuit; draw even with: By taking a cab to the next town, we managed to overtake and board the train.
- overtalk — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- overtame — too tame
- overtart — too bitter
- overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
- overwarm — to make too warm
- overwary — excessively wary
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- overweak — too weak
- overwear — to use or wear excessively; wear out; exhaust; tax: needlessly overwearing her best workers; phrases overworn by repetition.
- overwrap — to cover with a wrapping
- overyear — to keep for a following year
- overzeal — an excess of zeal
- pageview — one viewing of a web page; a single visit: Tracking pageviews is a way of predicting the advertising potential of a website.
- palgrave — Francis Turner, 1824–97, English critic, poet, and anthologist.
- palstave — a bronze celt fitted into a split wooden handle.
- paravane — an underwater defensive device against mines, consisting of a pair of torpedo-shaped vanes towed at the bow of a ship, usually a minesweeper, by cables that can cut the cable of a moored mine, causing the mine to rise to the surface, where it can be destroyed or removed from the water.
- paravent — a screen against a draft or the wind.
- parvenue — a woman who, having risen socially or economically, is considered to be an upstart or to lack the appropriate refinement for her new position
- passover — Also called Pesach, Pesah. a Jewish festival that commemorates the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and is marked chiefly by the Seder ritual and the eating of matzoth. It begins on the 14th day of Nisan and is celebrated for eight days by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel and for seven days by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel.
- pavement — a paved road, highway, etc.
- pavonine — of or like a peacock.
- perceval — Spencer, 1762–1812, British statesman: prime minister 1809–12.
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- peruvian — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- perviate — to enter, bore into, or run through
- petavius — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 100 miles (160 km) in diameter from crest to crest.
- picowave — to irradiate (food) with gamma rays in order to retard spoilage.