11-letter words containing v, o, s, t
- overballast — (transitive) To load with too much ballast.
- overcasting — Meteorology. the condition of the sky when more than 95 percent covered by clouds.
- overclothes — clothing worn outside other garments.
- overearnest — Excessively earnest.
- overexcites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overexcite.
- overharvest — the harvesting of plants or animals in an unsustainable manner
- overhastily — in such a way as to be excessively hasty or done without enough consideration
- overintense — too intense
- overstaffed — If you say that a place is overstaffed, you think there are more people working there than is necessary.
- overstocked — containing too many fish
- overstretch — to stretch excessively.
- overstuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- oversweeten — to sweeten too much
- overtedious — extremely tedious
- overtension — the act of stretching or straining.
- overwrestle — to overpower by wrestling
- oviposition — to deposit or lay eggs, especially by means of an ovipositor.
- passivation — the process of passivating a material
- post-larval — of, relating to, or in the form of a larva.
- postal vote — a voting slip that can be filled in at home and sent by post
- postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- posttussive — of or relating to a cough.
- postvocalic — immediately following a vowel.
- 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.
- previous to — before, prior to
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- provostship — the office of a provost
- reservation — the act of keeping back, withholding, or setting apart.
- reservatory — any place where reserves or stores are kept, esp of food and/or water; esp, a reservoir
- restorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
- resveratrol — a compound found in red grapes, mulberries, peanuts, and certain plants, used medicinally as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory
- revelations — the last book of the New Testament, containing visionary descriptions of heaven, of conflicts between good and evil, and of the end of the world
- reverse out — a font or type that is defined by its background or border, allowing the underlying colour of the paper or the background colour to show the shape of the characters
- revisionist — an advocate of revision, especially of some political or religious doctrine.
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- rostovtzeff — Michael Ivanovich [mahy-kuh l i-vah-nuh-vich] /ˈmaɪ kəl ɪˈvɑ nə vɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1952, U.S. historian, born in Russia.
- salvational — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
- sao vicente — an island city in SE Brazil.
- seroconvert — (of an individual) to produce antibodies specific to, and in response to the presence in the blood of, a particular antigen, such as a virus or vaccine
- servanthood — the condition of being a servant
- servitorial — of or pertaining to a servitor
- seventy-one — a cardinal number, 70 plus 1.
- seventy-two — a cardinal number, 70 plus 2.
- short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
- short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
- silent vote — the vote of persons who have not previously expressed or made evident a preference.
- silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
- sino-soviet — of or relating to both China and the Soviet Union