| overture | (noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: advance, approach, feeler |
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| (noun) orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio | - |
| (noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: preliminary, prelude |
| overturn | (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: turnover, upset |
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| (noun) an improbable and unexpected victory | Synonyms: upset |
| overuse | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overexploitation, overutilisation, overutilization |
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| overutilisation | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overexploitation, overuse, overutilization |
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| overutilization | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overexploitation, overuse, overutilisation |
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| overvaluation | (noun) too high a value or price assigned to something | - |
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| (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overappraisal, overestimate, overestimation |
| overview | (noun) a general summary of a subject | - |
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| overwatch | (noun) surveillence by a unit within a video game which would cause the unit to make an action in response to an enemy unit's action | - |
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| overweight | (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, corpulence, stoutness |
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| overwork | (noun) the act of working too much or too long | Synonyms: overworking |
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| overworking | (noun) the act of working too much or too long | Synonyms: overwork |
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| overzeal | (noun) The quality of being excessively zealous. | Synonyms: overzealousness |
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| overzealousness | (noun) The quality of being excessively zealous. | Synonyms: overzeal |
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| paloverde | (noun) a thorny shrub of the genus Cercidium that grows in dry parts of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico; has smooth light green bark and racemes of yellow flowers and small leaves | - |
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| papulovesicle | (noun) a papule that changes into a blister | Synonyms: vesicopapule |
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| parafovea | (noun) area of the retina immediately surrounding the fovea | - |
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| perijove | (noun) periapsis in orbit around Jupiter | - |
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| plover | (noun) any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers | - |
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| poove | (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, pouf, queen, queer |
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| popover | (noun) light hollow muffin made of a puff batter (individual Yorkshire pudding) baked in a deep muffin cup | - |
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| poverty | (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: impoverishment, poorness |
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| provenance | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenience |
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| provender | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provisions, viands, victuals |
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| (noun) food for domestic livestock | Synonyms: feed |
| provenience | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance |
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| proverb | (noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: adage, byword, saw |
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| pullover | (noun) a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | Synonyms: slipover |
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| pushover | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, snap, walkover |
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| (noun) someone who is easily taken advantage of | - |
| recoverer | (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: rescuer, saver |
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| recovery | (noun) the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) | Synonyms: retrieval |
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| (noun) return to an original state | - |
| (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: convalescence, recuperation |
| rediscovery | (noun) the act of discovering again | - |
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| remove | (noun) degree of figurative distance or separation | - |
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| remover | (noun) someone who works for a company that moves furniture | - |
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| (noun) a solvent that removes a substance (usually from a surface) | - |
| reprover | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reproacher, upbraider |
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| retroversion | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, reversion |
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| (noun) translation back into the original language | - |
| (noun) a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part | Synonyms: retroflection, retroflexion |
| ringdove | (noun) greyish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck; often caged | Synonyms: Streptopelia risoria |
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| (noun) Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck | Synonyms: Columba palumbus, cushat, wood pigeon |
| rollover | (noun) the act of changing the institution that invests your pension plan without incurring a tax penalty | - |
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| rover | (noun) someone who leads a wandering unsettled life | Synonyms: bird of passage, roamer, wanderer |
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| (noun) an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement | Synonyms: scouter |
| shove | (noun) the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something) | - |
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| shovel | (noun) a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle | - |
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| (noun) a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace | - |
| (noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: digger, excavator, power shovel |
| (noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovelful, spadeful |
| shovelboard | (noun) a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface | Synonyms: shuffleboard |
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| shoveler | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveller |
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| (noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveller |
| shovelful | (noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovel, spadeful |
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| shovelhead | (noun) small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries | Synonyms: bonnet shark, bonnethead, Sphyrna tiburo |
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| shoveller | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveler |
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| (noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveler |
| shover | (noun) someone who pushes | Synonyms: pusher |
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| sleepover | (noun) an occasion of spending a night away from home or having a guest spend the night in your home (especially as a party for children) | - |
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| slipcover | (noun) a removable fitted cloth covering for upholstered furniture | - |
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| slipover | (noun) a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | Synonyms: pullover |
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| sloven | (noun) a coarse obnoxious person | Synonyms: pig, slob, slovenly person |
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| slovenliness | (noun) habitual uncleanliness | - |
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| (noun) a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for | Synonyms: sloppiness, unkemptness |
| sovereign | (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, monarch |
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| sovereignty | (noun) the authority of a state to govern another state | - |
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| (noun) government free from external control | - |
| (noun) royal authority; the dominion of a monarch | Synonyms: reign |
| spillover | (noun) (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure | - |
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| stopover | (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: layover, stop |
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| (noun) a stopping place on a journey | Synonyms: way station |
| stove | (noun) any heating apparatus | - |
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| (noun) a kitchen appliance used for cooking food | Synonyms: cooking stove, kitchen range, kitchen stove, range |
| stovepipe | (noun) chimney consisting of a metal pipe of large diameter that is used to connect a stove to a flue | - |
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| (noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: beaver, dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, top hat, topper |
| stovepiping | (noun) retrieval of information from unconnected databases; the situation that exists when it is necessary to climb out of one database in order to climb down into another; sometimes used for protection against wandering hackers | - |
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| stover | (noun) the dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested | - |
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| takeover | (noun) a change by sale or merger in the controlling interest of a corporation | - |
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| (noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup, coup d'etat, putsch |
| trove | (noun) treasure of unknown ownership found hidden (usually in the earth) | Synonyms: treasure trove |
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| truelove | (noun) a person loved by another person | Synonyms: steady, sweetheart, sweetie |
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| turnover | (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: overturn, upset |
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| (noun) the volume measured in dollars | Synonyms: dollar volume |
| (noun) a dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling | - |
| (noun) the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers | Synonyms: employee turnover, turnover rate |
| turtledove | (noun) any of several Old World wild doves | - |
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| (noun) small Australian dove | Synonyms: Australian turtledove, Stictopelia cuneata |
| uncovering | (noun) the act of discovering something | Synonyms: discovery, find |
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| (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, husking, stripping |
| vasovesiculitis | (noun) inflammation of the vas deferens and seminal vesicles; usually occurring with prostatitis | - |
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| walkover | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap |
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| (noun) backbends combined with handstands | - |