13-letter words containing a, v, o, t, r
- overexcitable — Excessively excitable.
- overexuberant — effusively and almost uninhibitedly enthusiastic; lavishly abundant: an exuberant welcome for the hero.
- overhand knot — a simple knot of various uses that slips easily.
- overhastiness — the condition of being overhasty
- overhead-shot — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
- overimitation — a result or product of imitating.
- overinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- overnight bag — a travel bag large enough to hold personal articles and clothing for an overnight trip.
- overpopulated — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- overpotential — overvoltage.
- oversaturated — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- overstability — the state of being excessively stable
- overstatement — to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
- overstimulate — to stimulate too much
- overtalkative — characterized by a tendency to talk excessively
- overtreatment — the act or instance of giving too much medical treatment
- overvaluation — to value too highly; put too high a value on: They should be careful not to overvalue the property.
- ovoviviparity — producing eggs that are hatched within the body, so that the young are born alive but without placental attachment, as certain reptiles or fishes.
- perseveration — the act or process of perseverating.
- pervaporation — Pervaporation is a separation process in which a substance permeates through a membrane and then evaporates.
- petropavlovsk — a city in N Kazakhstan on the Ishim River. Pop: 190 000 (2005 est)
- pivot grammar — a loose grammar said to govern two-word utterances by children
- plural voting — right to vote more than once
- postoperative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
- potomac fever — the determination or fervor to share in the power and prestige of the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., especially by being appointed or elected to a government position.
- potomac river — a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
- prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
- preservations — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
- privatization — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- prove a point — If you prove a point, you show other people that you know something or can do something, although your action may have no other purpose.
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provocational — the act of provoking.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- provost guard — a detachment of soldiers assigned to police duties under the provost marshal.
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- radioactivate — to make (a substance) radioactive.
- radioactivity — the phenomenon, exhibited by and being a property of certain elements, of spontaneously emitting radiation resulting from changes in the nuclei of atoms of the element.
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- ratiocinative — the process of logical reasoning.
- re-activation — to render active again; revive.
- re-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.