Assignment to a placement requiring greater talent than the person has.
Extreme overconfidence.
Placement over or above others.
overpolemical
overpolemical
adj
Excessively polemical.
overpolemically
overpolemicalness
overprominence
overprominence
noun
Excessive prominence.
overromanticize
overromanticize
verb
(transitive) To romanticize too much.
overromanticized
overromanticized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overromanticize
overromanticizing
overromanticizing
verb
present participle of overromanticize
overscepticism
overscream
oversimplicity
oversimplicity
noun
Excessive simplicity.
oversimplification
oversimplification
noun
An explanation that excludes important information for the sake of brevity, or of making the explanation or presentation easy to understand.
The process of making such an explanation.
oversimplifications
oversimplifications
noun
plural of oversimplification
overskeptticism
oversystematic
oversystematic
adj
Excessively systematic.
oversystematically
oversystematically
adv
In an oversystematic manner.
oversystematicalness
overvehemence
overvehemence
noun
Excessive vehemence.
ovispermiduct
pelvimetric
pelvimetric
adj
Relating to pelvimetry.
perspectivism
perspectivism
noun
The philosophical view that all perception always takes place from a specific perspective.
pluviometric
pluviometric
adj
Related to pluviometry.
pluviometrical
pluviometrical
adj
Of or pertaining to a pluviometer.
pluviometrically
pluviometrically
adv
By means of, or in terms of, pluviometry.
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
noun
(nonce word) A disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from the eruption of a volcano.
pneumoventriculography
pneumoventriculography
noun
ventriculography of the ventricles of the larynx
preadvancement
precomprehensive
precomprehensively
precomprehensiveness
predivorcement
prescriptivism
prescriptivism
noun
(linguistics) The practice of prescribing idealistic norms, as opposed to describing realistic forms, of linguistic usage.
procollectivism
prostatovesiculectomy
prostatovesiculectomy
noun
(surgery) Removal of prostate and seminal vesicles
psychogalvanometer
psychogalvanometer
noun
A device that makes psychogalvanic measurements (typically of the skin)
quindecemvir
quindecemvir
noun
(historical) Any member of an official group of fifteen people, especially a member of the 15-man college of priests who cared for the Sibylline Books in ancient Rome.
quindecemvirate
quindecemvirate
noun
Alternative form of quindecimvirate.
quindecemviri
quindecimvir
quindecimvir
noun
(historical, Ancient Rome) Any member of a group of fifteen officials.
reachievement
reachievement
noun
The act of achieving something again.
readvancement
readvancement
noun
advancement again
recidivism
recidivism
noun
(by extension) Returning to a negative behavior after having stopped it for a period of time.
(psychology, psychiatry) Chronic repetition of criminal or other antisocial behavior.
Committing new offenses after a crime committed in the past.
recidivisms
recidivisms
noun
plural of recidivism
recommendative
recommendative
noun
(obsolete) That which recommends; a recommendation.
recompensive
recompensive
adj
Serving to recompense.
recriminative
recriminative
adj
recriminatory
redivorcement
reductivism
reductivism
noun
(art) A minimalist movement in abstract painting and sculpture from the 1950s onwards.
(music) A minimalist school of music with similar aims.
(philosophy of mind) The view that mental states can be reduced to physical phenomena.
Extreme simplification; reduction to a minimum; use of the fewest essentials
revanchism
revanchism
noun
Metaphorical endeavouring to regain lost political or cultural territory.
The political policy of endeavouring to regain lost territory.