8-Letter Words Starting With OV

Here's the list of all the 311 8-Letter Words Starting With OV in the English Language.

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overview
1. a general summary of a subject
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overseas
1. in a foreign country
2. being or passing over or across the sea
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overcome
1. win a victory over
2. get on top of; deal with successfully
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overhead
1. 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
2. (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
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overtime
1. work done in addition to regular working hours
2. playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie
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overflow
1. flow or run over (a limit or brim)
2. overflow with a certain feeling
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override
1. rule against
2. prevail over
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overland
1. traveling or passing over land
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overload
1. become overloaded
2. fill to excess so that function is impaired
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overdose
1. dose too heavily
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overture
1. orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio
2. something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
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overcast
1. the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds
2. gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover
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overhaul
1. travel past
2. make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to
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overlook
1. look past, fail to notice
2. be oriented in a certain direction
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oversize
1. larger than normal for its kind
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overkill
1. the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required
2. any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal
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overfull
1. exceeding demand
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overturn
1. turn from an upright or normal position
2. cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
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overcame
1. win a victory over
2. get on top of; deal with successfully
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overtake
1. catch up with and possibly overtake
2. travel past
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overseen
1. watch and direct
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overlord
1. a person who has general authority over others
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overlaid
1. put something on top of something else
2. kill by lying on
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overseer
1. a person who directs and manages an organization
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overpass
1. bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels
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overhang
1. project over
2. be suspended over or hang over
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overpaid
1. pay too much
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overcoat
1. a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter
2. an additional protective coating (as of paint or varnish)
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overheat
1. get excessively and undesirably hot
2. make excessively or undesirably hot
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overplay
1. exaggerate one's acting
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overtook
1. catch up with and possibly overtake
2. travel past
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overrule
1. rule against
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overdone
1. do something to an excessive degree
2. represented as greater than is true or reasonable
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overleaf
1. on or to the other side of a page
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overtone
1. (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality
2. a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
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overwork
1. the act of working too much or too long
2. use too much
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8-Letter Words Starting With OV