| approver | (noun) an authority with power to approve | - |
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| bedcover | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedspread, counterpane, spread |
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| booklover | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: bibliophile, book lover |
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| changeover | (noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: conversion, transition |
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| clover | (noun) a plant of the genus Trifolium | Synonyms: trefoil |
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| cloverleaf | (noun) an interchange that does not require left-hand turns | - |
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| cloveroot | (noun) hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: clover-root, Geum urbanum, herb bennet, wood avens |
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| controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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| controversy | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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| cover | (noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: covering, masking, screening |
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| (noun) fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations | Synonyms: covering fire |
| (noun) a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent) | - |
| (noun) a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else | Synonyms: cover song, cover version |
| (noun) bedding that keeps a person warm in bed | Synonyms: blanket |
| (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, covert, screen |
| (noun) covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container) | Synonyms: top |
| (noun) the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book | Synonyms: back, binding, book binding |
| (noun) a natural object that covers or envelops | Synonyms: covering, natural covering |
| (noun) a fixed charge by a restaurant or nightclub over and above the charge for food and drink | Synonyms: cover charge |
| coverage | (noun) the extent to which something is covered | - |
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| (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: reportage, reporting |
| (noun) the total amount and type of insurance carried | Synonyms: insurance coverage |
| coverall | (noun) a loose-fitting protective garment that is worn over other clothing | - |
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| covering | (noun) the act of protecting something by covering it | - |
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| (noun) the work of applying something | Synonyms: application, coating |
| (noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: cover, masking, screening |
| (noun) an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it) | - |
| (noun) a natural object that covers or envelops | Synonyms: cover, natural covering |
| coverlet | (noun) a decorative bedspread (usually quilted) | - |
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| covert | (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, cover, screen |
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| (noun) a flock of coots | - |
| covertness | (noun) the state of being covert and hidden | Synonyms: hiddenness |
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| crossover | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crosswalk |
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| (noun) the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience | - |
| (noun) a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party | Synonyms: crossover voter |
| (noun) the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: crossing over |
| discoverer | (noun) someone who is the first to observe something | Synonyms: finder, spotter |
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| (noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: artificer, inventor |
| discovery | (noun) the act of discovering something | Synonyms: find, uncovering |
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| (noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: breakthrough, find |
| (noun) something that is discovered | - |
| (noun) (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case | - |
| disprover | (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, rebutter, refuter |
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| drover | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: herder, herdsman |
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| extroversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extraversion |
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| extrovert | (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extravert |
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| flashover | (noun) an unintended electric discharge (as over or around an insulator) | - |
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| flyover | (noun) a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground | Synonyms: fly-by, flypast |
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| (noun) bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels | Synonyms: overpass |
| governance | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governing, government, government activity |
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| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governing body, organisation, organization |
| governed | (noun) the body of people who are citizens of a particular government | - |
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| governess | (noun) a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home) | - |
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| governing | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, government, government activity |
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| government | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, governing, government activity |
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| (noun) (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed | - |
| (noun) the study of government of states and other political units | Synonyms: political science, politics |
| (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, regime |
| governor | (noun) a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) | Synonyms: regulator |
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| (noun) the head of a state government | - |
| governorship | (noun) the office of governor | - |
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| groover | (noun) a device that makes grooves by cutting or punching | - |
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| groundcover | (noun) small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor | Synonyms: ground cover |
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| (noun) low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow | Synonyms: ground cover |
| handover | (noun) act of relinquishing property or authority etc | - |
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| hangover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: holdover |
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| (noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: holdover |
| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: katzenjammer |
| hardcover | (noun) a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers | Synonyms: hardback |
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| holdover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: hangover |
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| (noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: hangover |
| hoverboard | (noun) A device resembling a skateboard without wheels that can hover above the ground | - |
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| hovercraft | (noun) a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines | Synonyms: ground-effect machine |
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| impoverishment | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: pauperisation, pauperization |
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| (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: poorness, poverty |
| improver | (noun) a component that is added to something to improve it | Synonyms: add-on, addition |
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| (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, humanitarian |
| incontrovertibility | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibleness, positiveness, positivity |
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| incontrovertibleness | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, positiveness, positivity |
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| introversion | (noun) (psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, intussusception, invagination |
| (noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: invagination |
| introvert | (noun) (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts | - |
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| landrover | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: jeep |
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| layover | (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: stop, stopover |
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| leftover | (noun) a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists | Synonyms: remnant |
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| leftovers | (noun) food remaining from a previous meal | - |
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| lover | (noun) a person who loves someone or is loved by someone | - |
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| (noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, devotee, fan |
| (noun) a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage | - |
| makeover | (noun) an overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance | - |
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| (noun) a complete reconstruction and renovation of something | - |
| misgovernment | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misrule |
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| mover | (noun) a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another | Synonyms: moving company, public mover, removal company, removal firm |
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| (noun) someone who moves | - |
| (noun) (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion | Synonyms: proposer |
| (noun) workman employed by a moving company | - |
| over | (noun) (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch | - |
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| overabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance |
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| (noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, surfeit |
| overachievement | (noun) better than expected performance (better than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) | - |
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| overachiever | (noun) a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated | - |
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| overacting | (noun) poor acting by a ham actor | Synonyms: hamming |
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| overactivity | (noun) excessive activity | - |
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| overage | (noun) a surplus or excess of money or merchandise that is actually on hand and that exceeds expectations | - |
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| overall | (noun) (usually plural) work clothing consisting of denim trousers (usually with a bib and shoulder straps) | - |
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| (noun) a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work | Synonyms: boilers suit, boilersuit |
| overanxiety | (noun) excessive anxiety | - |
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| overappraisal | (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overestimation, overvaluation |
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| overbearingness | (noun) the trait of being imperious and overbearing | Synonyms: domineeringness, imperiousness |
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| overbid | (noun) a bid that is higher than preceding bids | - |
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| (noun) (bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand) | Synonyms: overcall |
| overbite | (noun) (dentistry) malocclusion in which the upper teeth extend abnormally far over the lower teeth | - |
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| overburden | (noun) an excessive burden | Synonyms: overload |
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| (noun) the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits | - |
| overcall | (noun) (bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand) | Synonyms: overbid |
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| overcapitalisation | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalization |
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| overcapitalization | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalisation |
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| overcast | (noun) a cast that falls beyond the intended spot | - |
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| (noun) a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling | Synonyms: overcasting |
| (noun) the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds | Synonyms: cloud cover, cloudiness |
| (noun) gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover | Synonyms: cloudiness |
| overcasting | (noun) a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling | Synonyms: overcast |
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| overcharge | (noun) a price that is too high | - |
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| overclothes | (noun) clothing for use outdoors | Synonyms: outerwear |
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| overcoat | (noun) a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter | Synonyms: greatcoat, topcoat |
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| (noun) an additional protective coating (as of paint or varnish) | Synonyms: overcoating |
| overcoating | (noun) an additional protective coating (as of paint or varnish) | Synonyms: overcoat |
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| overcomer | (noun) someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion | Synonyms: subduer, surmounter |
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| overcompensation | (noun) excessive compensation | - |
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| (noun) (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite | - |
| overconfidence | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: certitude, cocksureness |
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| overcredulity | (noun) too much credulity | - |
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| overcrossing | (noun) a bridge designed for pedestrians | Synonyms: footbridge, pedestrian bridge |
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| overdraft | (noun) a draft in excess of the credit balance | - |
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| overdrive | (noun) a high gear used at high speeds to maintain the driving speed with less output power | - |
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| (noun) the state of high or excessive activity or productivity or concentration | - |
| overeating | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gluttony, gula |
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| overemphasis | (noun) too much emphasis | - |
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| overestimate | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimation, overrating, overreckoning |
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| (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overappraisal, overestimation, overvaluation |
| overestimation | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overrating, overreckoning |
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| (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overappraisal, overestimate, overvaluation |
| overexertion | (noun) excessive exertion; so much exertion that discomfort or injury results | - |
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| overexploitation | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overuse, overutilisation, overutilization |
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| overexposure | (noun) the act of exposing film to too much light or for too long a time | - |
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| (noun) the act of exposing someone excessively to an influencing experience | - |
| overfamiliarity | (noun) The state of being common or repeated to the point of being unnoticed or annoying. | - |
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| overfeeding | (noun) excessive feeding | - |
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| overflight | (noun) a flight by an aircraft over a particular area (especially over an area in foreign territory) | - |
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| overflow | (noun) a large flow | Synonyms: flood, outpouring |
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| (noun) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity | Synonyms: overspill, runoff |
| overgarment | (noun) a garment worn over other garments | Synonyms: outer garment |
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| overgrowth | (noun) a profusion of growth on or over something else | - |
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| (noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: giantism, gigantism |
| overhang | (noun) projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else | - |
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| overhaul | (noun) periodic maintenance on a car or machine | Synonyms: inspection and repair, service |
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| (noun) the act of improving by renewing and restoring | Synonyms: redevelopment, renovation |
| overhead | (noun) a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head | Synonyms: smash |
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| (noun) (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship | - |
| (noun) a transparency for use with an overhead projector | Synonyms: viewgraph |
| (noun) (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing | Synonyms: disk overhead |
| (noun) the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes | Synonyms: budget items, operating cost, operating expense |
| (noun) (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command | Synonyms: command overhead, command processing overhead, command processing overhead time |