| overshielding | (noun) excessive protection | Synonyms: momism, overprotection |
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| overshoe | (noun) footwear that protects your shoes from water or snow or cold | - |
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| overshoot | (noun) an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt | Synonyms: go-around, wave-off |
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| (verb) aim too high | - |
| (verb) shoot beyond or over (a target) | - |
| overshot | (adjective) having an upper part projecting beyond the lower | - |
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| overside | (adverb) over the side of a boat | - |
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| oversight | (noun) a mistake resulting from inattention | Synonyms: lapse |
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| (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: superintendence, supervising, supervision |
| (noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something | Synonyms: inadvertence |
| oversimplification | (noun) an act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is | Synonyms: simplism |
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| (noun) an explanation that simplifies too far to the point of misrepresentation | Synonyms: simplism |
| oversimplify | (verb) simplify to an excessive degree | - |
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| oversize | (adjective) larger than normal for its kind | Synonyms: outsize, outsized, oversized |
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| oversized | (adjective) larger than normal for its kind | Synonyms: outsize, outsized, oversize |
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| overskirt | (noun) an outer skirt worn over another skirt | - |
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| oversleep | (verb) sleep longer than intended | - |
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| oversolicitous | (adjective) excessively solicitous | - |
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| overspecialise | (verb) become overly specialized | Synonyms: overspecialize |
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| overspecialize | (verb) become overly specialized | Synonyms: overspecialise |
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| overspend | (verb) spend at a high rate | - |
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| (verb) spend more than available of (a budget) | - |
| overspill | (noun) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity | Synonyms: overflow, runoff |
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| (noun) the relocation of people from overcrowded cities; they are accommodated in new houses or apartments in smaller towns | - |
| overspread | (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: spread |
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| overstate | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw |
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| overstated | (adjective) represented as greater than is true or reasonable | Synonyms: exaggerated, overdone |
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| overstatement | (noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: exaggeration, magnification |
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| overstay | (verb) stay too long | Synonyms: outstay |
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| oversteer | (noun) when a car turns (steers) by more than (over) the amount commanded by the driver. | - |
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| overstep | (verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: transgress, trespass |
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| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, pass, top, transcend |
| overstock | (verb) stock excessively | - |
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| overstrain | (noun) too much strain | - |
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| (verb) strain excessively | Synonyms: overextend |
| overstress | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overemphasize |
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| overstretch | (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: pull |
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| overstrung | (adjective) too tightly strung | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, restive, uptight |
| overstuff | (verb) stuff too much | - |
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| overstuffed | (adjective) upholstered thickly and deeply | - |
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| oversubscribed | (adjective) sold in excess of available supply especially season tickets | - |
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| oversupply | (noun) the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall | Synonyms: glut, surfeit |
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| (verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: flood, glut |
| oversuspicious | (adjective) unduly suspicious | - |
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| overt | (adjective) open and observable; not secret or hidden | Synonyms: open |
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| overtake | (verb) catch up with and possibly overtake | Synonyms: catch, catch up with |
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| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overpower, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overhaul, pass |
| overtaking | (noun) going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it | Synonyms: passing |
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| overtax | (verb) tax excessively | - |
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| overthink | (verb) to spend to much time considering something and thus reach the wrong conclusion | - |
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| overthrow | (noun) the termination of a ruler or institution (especially by force) | - |
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| (noun) the act of disturbing the mind or body | Synonyms: derangement, upset |
| (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overturn, reverse |
| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overturn, subvert |
| overtime | (noun) playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie | Synonyms: extra time |
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| (noun) work done in addition to regular working hours | - |
| (adverb) beyond the regular time | - |
| overtire | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overfatigue, overweary |
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| overtly | (adverb) in an overt manner | - |
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| overtolerance | (noun) too much permissiveness | - |
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| overtone | (noun) a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency | Synonyms: partial, partial tone |
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| (noun) (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality | - |
| overtop | (verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, dominate, overlook |
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| overtrump | (verb) play a trump higher than (one previously played) to the trick | - |
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| 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 |
| (verb) change radically | Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize |
| (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, reverse |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| (verb) turn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: tip over, tump over, turn over |
| (verb) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: bowl over, knock over, tip over, tump over, turn over, upset |
| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, subvert |
| overturned | (adjective) having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom | Synonyms: upset, upturned |
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| overuse | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overexploitation, overutilisation, overutilization |
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| (verb) make use of too often or too extensively | Synonyms: overdrive |
| 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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| overvaliant | (adjective) having or showing undue valor or boldness | - |
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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 |
| overvalue | (verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overestimate |
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| 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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| overweary | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overfatigue, overtire |
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| overweening | (adjective) presumptuously arrogant | Synonyms: uppity |
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| (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: excessive, extravagant, exuberant |
| overweight | (adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | Synonyms: fleshy, heavy |
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| (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, corpulence, stoutness |
| overwhelm | (verb) charge someone with too many tasks | Synonyms: deluge, flood out |
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| (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overmaster, overpower |
| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: drown, submerge |
| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overpower, overtake, sweep over, whelm |
| overwhelming | (adjective) very strong; urgently felt | Synonyms: consuming |
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| (adjective) so strong as to be irresistible | Synonyms: overpowering |
| overwhelmingly | (adverb) incapable of being resisted | Synonyms: irresistibly, overpoweringly |
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| overwinter | (verb) spend the winter | Synonyms: winter |
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| overwork | (noun) the act of working too much or too long | Synonyms: overworking |
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| (verb) use too much | - |
| (verb) work excessively hard | Synonyms: exploit |
| overworking | (noun) the act of working too much or too long | Synonyms: overwork |
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| overwrite | (verb) write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data | - |
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| overwrought | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: distraught |
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| overzeal | (noun) The quality of being excessively zealous. | Synonyms: overzealousness |
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| overzealous | (adjective) marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea | Synonyms: fanatic, fanatical, rabid |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| proverbial | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or expressed in a proverb | - |
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| (adjective) widely known and spoken of | - |
| proverbially | (adverb) in the manner of something that has become a byword | - |
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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 | - |
| recover | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: convalesce, recuperate |
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| (verb) regain a former condition after a financial loss | Synonyms: go back, recuperate |
| (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, regain, retrieve |
| (verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recoup, recuperate |
| (verb) reuse (materials from waste products) | Synonyms: reclaim |
| (verb) cover anew | - |
| recoverable | (adjective) capable of being recovered or regained | - |
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| recovered | (adjective) found after being lost | - |
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| (adjective) freed from illness or injury | Synonyms: cured, healed |
| recoverer | (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: rescuer, saver |
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| recovering | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: convalescent |
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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 |
| rediscover | (verb) discover again | - |
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| rediscovery | (noun) the act of discovering again | - |
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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 |
| retrovert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, return, revert, turn back |
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| 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 |
| 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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| sovereign | (adjective) greatest in status or authority or power | Synonyms: supreme |
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| (adjective) (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: autonomous, independent, self-governing |
| (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, monarch |