10-letter words containing v, o, a
- overdosage — Excessive dosage; taking too much of a pharmaceutical drug.
- overdrafts — Plural form of overdraft.
- overdrawer — a person who overdraws something, especially a bank account.
- overeating — Gluttony, the act of eating to excess (either to discomfort or more than required for proper health).
- overexpand — to expand excessively
- overfacile — excessively facile
- overfavour — to favour too much
- overglance — to glance over
- overgrazed — to graze (land) to excess.
- overhandle — to handle, or mention, too much
- overheated — Someone who is overheated is very angry about something.
- overlabour — excessive toil
- overlapped — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
- overlavish — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- overlaying — to lay or place (one thing) over or upon another.
- overlearnt — relating to repetitive practice or learning
- overleaven — to leaven too much; to spoil
- overloaded — to load to excess; overburden: Don't overload the raft or it will sink.
- overmanage — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- overmanned — overstaffed
- overmantel — situated above a mantelpiece.
- overmaster — to gain mastery over; conquer; overpower: The sudden impulse had quite overmastered me.
- overmatter — overset (def 6).
- overmature — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- overparted — (of a performer) having been cast in a role that is beyond his or her abilities
- overplaced — placed above
- overpraise — to praise excessively or unduly.
- overrashly — in an overrash manner
- overscaled — on an excessive scale
- overshadow — to be more important or significant by comparison: For years he overshadowed his brother.
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- overspread — to spread or diffuse over: A blush of embarrassment overspread his face.
- overstated — If an account or a figure on an account is overstated, the amount that is reported on the financial statement is more than it should be.
- overstayer — a person who illegally remains in a country after the period of the permitted visit has expired
- overstrain — to exert, tax, or use (resources) to an excessive extent
- overtaking — passing the vehicle in front
- overtaught — taught to excess
- overthwart — to lie across
- overwarmed — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- palm grove — small forest of palm trees
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- paper over — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- parvovirus — Veterinary Pathology. a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease of dogs, characterized by vomiting, severe diarrhea, and depression and accompanied by high fever and loss of appetite.
- peace dove — dove1 (def 5).
- pejorative — having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force: the pejorative affix -ling in princeling.
- phomvihane — Kaysone (ˈkaɪsɒn). 1920–92, Laotian Communist statesman; prime minister of Laos (1975–91); president (1991–92)
- pizza oven — an oven, traditionally round in shape and wood-fired, for cooking pizza
- play havoc — to cause a great deal of damage, distress, or confusion (to)