English Words: O

15,494 words · Page 279 of 310

overscribbleverb

To scribble over.

overscrollnoun

A feature where content being scrolled goes beyond its end point and bounces back, giving the user visual feedback that the end has been reached.

overscrubverb

To scrub excessively.

overscrupulositynoun

overscrupulousness

overscrupulousadj

Excessively scrupulous.

overscrupulouslyadv

In an overscrupulous manner.

overscrupulousnessnoun

The quality of being overscrupulous.

overseaadj

Alternative form of overseas.

oversealverb

To close with a seal at the top.

overseamnoun

A seam in which the thread is at each stitch passed over the edges sewn together.

overseamernoun

A machine for overseaming.

oversearchverb

To search all over.

overseasadj

Abroad, especially across the sea.

overseas Chinesenoun

A person or people of Chinese ethnicity, living in a non-Chinese country; a member of the ethnic Chinese expatriate or immigrant community; Huaqiao

overseasonverb

To season (flavour) too much.

oversecreteverb

to secrete excessively

oversecretionnoun

Excessive secretion.

oversecureadj

Secure beyond necessity.

oversecuritynoun

The quality of being oversecure.

oversedateverb

To sedate excessively.

oversedationnoun

Excessive sedation

overseeverb

To survey, look at something in a wide angle.

overseeableadj

That can easily be looked over.

overseedverb

To replenish (a pasture, lawn, or field) by adding more seeds over top of the existing vegetation (as opposed to tilling and replanting the land).

overseenverb

past participle of oversee

overseernoun

One who oversees or supervises.

overseeressnoun

A female overseer.

overseerismnoun

An arrangement in which one person or organization acts as an overseer over another.

overseershipnoun

The role or office of overseer.

overseesverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of oversee

oversegmentverb

To produce oversegmentation

oversegmentationnoun

A division into too many segments, as when attempting to recognize parts of an image.

overselectverb

To select (something) more than would be expected.

overselectedadj

Excessively selected

overselectionnoun

The selection of something more often or by more people than would be expected.

overselfishadj

Excessively selfish.

oversellverb

To agree to sell more of something than one can supply.

oversellernoun

One who oversells.

oversendverb

To send an amount greater than what is required; to oversupply.

oversensationaladj

excessively sensational

oversensationalizeverb

To sensationalize too much.

oversensationallyadv

In an excessively sensational manner.

oversenseverb

To sense or detect too much, or more than is actually present.

oversensibleadj

Excessively sensible.

oversensingnoun

The sensing of signals, by a pacemaker, that come from muscle activity other than that of the heart

oversensitiveadj

Having excessive sensitivity; reacting to stimuli too readily; thin-skinned.

oversensitivelyadv

In an oversensitive manner.

oversensitivenessnoun

The characteristic of being oversensitive.

oversensitivitynoun

The state or quality of being excessively sensitive.

oversensitizedadj

Excessively sensitized.

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 279. 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.