12-Letter Words Containing R

Overmatch

MATURITY the state of being {mature=adj}

MEDICATE to treat with medicine

Overmodest

OVERNIGHTER overnight

Overnight

OPERATED operate

Overoperate

Unrealistically high view of one's prospects

OPTIMIST one who exhibits optimism

""ORGANIZE to form into an organic whole, also ORGANISE""

ORNAMENT to {decorate=v}

PACKAGED package

Overpackage

Overpayment

Overpedal

PEDALLED pedal

PEOPLING people

To persuade or influence against one's inclination or judgment.

Overplan

Overplant

Overplot

Put too many people into (a region)

Fill with too many people

Oppressive

Irresistible

The act of praising unduly; excessive praise.

Excessive pressure or urging.

Overprint

PRODUCED produce

Overproduce

Overprogram

PROMISED promise

Overpromise

PROMOTED promote

Overpromote

Overprotect

REACHERS reacher

Aiming too high

Going too far.

Laying it on thick

Excessive response

Finish is about excitement and that's excessive for a comeback

REGULATE to control according to rule

RELIANCE confident or trustful dependence

Overreport

Overrespond

SANGUINE to stain with blood

To saturate to excess.

SERVICED service

Overservice

Was more important than

Remaining fish on slate, perhaps, put in the shade

Outshone

Overshoot

Fail to explain fully enough

Crudely dumb down

Make too easy

Overslaugh

Having 41 winks (wordplay)

11 pigs or bats rising late

Failing to get up on time

Overslip

SPENDERS spender

Cause of budget trouble.

Squandering money proves foolish with final settlement

Overstaff

Overstep

Overstir

Overstock

Too tense; exaggerated

Stretched to excess; exaggerated

*Ready to blow (wordplay)

Overstress

Overstrew

STRIDDEN stride

STRIDING stride

Overstuff

SUPPLIED supply

Oversupply

Oversweeten

Overswing

TAXATION the process of taxing

Overthink

Removing from power

Defeating husband in public argument

Overtighten

Public showering is going too far in preparation for contest

Overtreat

Overtrim

Overtrump

UTILIZED utilize

Overutilize

Overvoltage

Overwater

Overweigh

Overweight

Irresistible - huge

Completely overpowering

Completely defeating

Overwinter

Due a refund, in a way

WITHHOLD to hold back

Ozonosphere

Pachysandra

Pacificator

Paddleboard

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

Members of the figwort family

Artist's tools

What had P. Rubens at his disposal (wordplay)

One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

""The study and scholarly interpretation of earlier, especially ancient, writing and forms of writing.""

A writer of palindromes.

Paltriness

Pamphleteer

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited

Inflammation of the pancreas.

See cholecystokinin .

""A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.""

""PANTOGRAPH An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.""

Workers who have free range, perhaps

Wall-covering workers

Some interior decorating handypersons

Putting up wall covering

Paperiness

Papermaking

They help keep down correspondence

Papyrology

""Past the study of papyrus manuscripts. ; papyrologist , ; papyrological ,""

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.""

Fall Guys

""A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.""

""Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal; as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.""

""Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise; paradisaic.""

Paradrop

""Body, Human , Perception""

PARAGRAPHER A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.

When your carriage returned this normally indicated it

""The set of nonphonemic properties of speech, such as speaking tempo, vocal pitch, and intonational contours, that can be used to communicate attitudes or other shades of meaning.""

Paraldehyde

Parallelism

Parallel

""The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.""

Paralyzing

Weakly attracted by poles

Paramedical

""PARAMETER A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.""

PARAMETRIZE

Parametrize

Aim IRA partly devised for one of its members

(Member) of organised armed civilian combat group

Member of armed anti-government organisation

""PARANOIC one affected with paranoia, also PARANOID""

Paranormal

Paraphraser

""PARAPHRASE A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; opposed to metaphrase. metaphrase.""

PARAPHRAST A paraphraser.

Parasailing

Anything used to destroy parasites.

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

""PARATACTIC Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.""

English word

Parathyroid

Contenders for the high jump

Paratyphoid

Parenteral

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

Paresthesia

PARFOCALIZE

Parfocalize

Mass society (wordplay)

They mass for Mass

French city by Rhone is desperate for churchgoers

""Any of a group of nervous disorders similar to Parkinson's disease, marked by muscular rigidity, tremor, and impaired motor control and often having a specific cause, such as the use of certain drugs or frequent exposure to toxic chemicals. Also called Parkinson's syndrome .""

""A degenerative nervous disorder occurring mostly in persons older than 60 years, characterized in advanced stages by rhythmic muscular tremors, especially in the hands, and by rigidity of movement, a drooping posture, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression; the term designates a set of symptoms, and the underlying disease causing these symptoms is most commonly Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).""

Small-mindedness

Lamia's Orphic new version betrays narrow outlook

Paronomasia

Word play; punning.

Penny-pinching

Tight-fisted

Cheese-paring

Partiality

Sharers.

Joined in quietly and looked forward to knight becoming king

Takes part (in)

""One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.""

(In)temperate advice, part 3

Very careful with clay, oddly

In a marked way

Smoke, essentially

Factionalism making old weapons trendy

Favouring craft in mixed Spanish and Greek character heading west

PARTITIONER partition

Partition

An advocate of partitioning a country.

Some businesses

Businesses that go with the navy (wordplay)

Parturition

Parvovirus

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

Passagework

PASTEURISE

Pasteurizer

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

Pastoralism

Pastoralist

""PASTORALE A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 68 or 128 time.""

Regions suitable for grazing

Paternalism

Paternalist

Paternoster

Characterized by originality and innovation; pioneering.

""The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.""

Patriarchy

Pawnbroking

It's calm at most ends of the pitch, as they separate those causing trouble

Those calming things down in 21 across working in the zoo

Having a pearly luster or gloss.

A physician who specializes in pediatrics.

Pejorative

Pelargonium

Penetration

""A device for measuring the penetrating power of radiation, especially x-rays.""

An American can!

Intern a type I fancy, here (wordplay)

Correctional institution for criminals

Pennycress

Pensionary

Five-faced figures