English Words: O

15,494 words · Page 274 of 310

overprovideverb

To provide too much.

overprovidentadj

Excessively provident.

overprovisionnoun

Excessive provision.

overprovocationnoun

Excessive provocation.

overprovokeverb

To provoke excessively.

To prune too much.

overpsychologizeverb

To psychologize excessively.

Excessively public.

overpublicationnoun

excessive publication

overpublicitynoun

Excessive publicity.

overpublicizeverb

To publicize excessively.

overpublishverb

To publish excessively.

The amount of force that must be exerted on a pipe to pull it upward, above and beyond its own weight, due to drag and other forces.

An electric pulse that spikes above normal operating levels.

To pump excessively.

To punch (some value or pattern) over an existing pattern on paper tape.

overpunctiliousadj

Excessively punctilious.

overpunctuateverb

To punctuate excessively.

overpunctuationnoun

Excessive punctuation.

Excessively pungent.

To punish excessively; to issue a punishment that is harsher than necessary.

overpunishmentnoun

Excessive punishment.

overpurchaseverb

To buy too much of something.

To pursue too far.

A push of the upper part of an object, thereby generating a shearing or turning force

To overthrow; subdue.

overqualificationnoun

The quality of being overqualified.

overqualifiedadj

Having too many qualifications to be deemed appropriate for a (usually unskilled) job.

overqualifyverb

To give excessive academic qualifications to.

overquantificationnoun

Excessive quantification.

overquantifyverb

To quantify too much; to interpret with too great a focus on numbers, quotas, etc.

overquantitynoun

An excessive quantity; surplus.

A superior or supreme queen; a female overking.

To quell or subdue completely; gain or have power over.

To ask too many questions.

Too quick; overly quick.

In an overquick manner; too quickly.

Excessively quiet.

overquietnessnoun

Excessive quietness.

overquotationnoun

excessive quotation

To give a quotation (price estimate) that is too high.

To race too often.

To torture beyond bearing.

Excessively racked; placed under too much strain or duress.

To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves break over a vessel anchored with its head to the sea.

To seat (a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge) too far into the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking excessively.

simple past of overrun

Input to an instrument beyond the range of values it is designed to handle.

overrangingnoun

The act of scanning beyond the boundaries of what is being imaged, usually in order to accurately reconstruct the edges of that region.

Too rank or luxuriant.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter O contains 15,494 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 310 pages, and you are currently viewing page 274. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.

For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "O" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.