12-letter words containing v, i, r
- nonversation — A meaningless conversation.
- nonvitrified — Not converted into glass.
- normotensive — characterized by normal arterial tension or blood pressure.
- novorossiysk — a seaport in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Black Sea.
- nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
- obliterative — Tending or serving to obliterate.
- observations — Plural form of observation.
- observership — someone or something that observes.
- old believer — Raskolnik.
- old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- olivary body — one of two oval bodies or prominences composed of nerve tissue, one on each side of the anterior surface of the medulla oblongata.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- oliver twist — a novel (1838) by Dickens.
- omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
- oncornavirus — any of various RNA viruses that cause tumors in humans and other animals.
- open verdict — law: coroner's jury finding
- oppressively — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- orange-river — a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.
- order-driven — denoting an electronic market system, esp for stock exchanges, in which prices are determined by the publication of orders to buy or sell
- orthovanadic — relating to orthovanadates
- ovariotomies — Plural form of ovariotomy.
- ovariotomist — a surgeon who performs ovariotomies
- over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- over-excited — If you say that someone is over-excited, you mean that they are more excited than you think is desirable.
- over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- over-indexes — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- over-precise — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- over-promise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- over-reliant — having or showing dependence: reliant on money from home.
- over-running — to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
- over-the-air — of or relating to any means of broadcast transmission.
- overachieved — Simple past tense and past participle of overachieve.
- overachiever — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- overactivate — to make active; cause to function or act.
- overactivity — Excessive activity.
- overanalysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
- overbrimming — Present participle of overbrim.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overcapacity — capacity beyond what is normal, allowed, or desirable.
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overclocking — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- overcramming — excessive cramming
- overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
- overcropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.