make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
"he is compensating for being a bad father"
make excessive corrections for fear of making an error
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overcompensatesin Scrabble®
The word overcompensates is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
overcompensates:
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overcompensatesin Words With Friends™
The word overcompensates is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
overcompensates:
acerose, acetone, actress, amerces, amperes, ancress, anomers, aptness, artsmen, ascents, aspects, asperse, atoners, campers, canoers, canters, cantors, captors, careens, carpets, cartons, cartoon, carvone, cassoon, casters, castors, cavemen, caverns, cavorts, cements, cenotes, censers, censors, centers, centres, cerates, coarsen, coaster, compare, compart, compass, compere, compete, comport, compose, compost, compote, consort, convert, corneas, cornets, coronas, coronet, corpses, corsets, costars, coverts, coveter, crampon, cratons, creases, creates, cremate, cresset, earnest, eastern, emerses, emoters, empress, enactor, enamors, encamps, encases, encores, ensears, entraps, entrees, escapee, escaper, escapes, escarps, escorts, essence, esteems, estrone, evenest, evocate, maestro, maroons, martens, mascots, masters, matrons, meanest, meeters, menaces, mentors, meronts, meteors, moaners, monster, moorpan, nearest, necrose, nectars, nesters, noosers, oarsmen, octamer, octanes, octaves, octenes, onestep, oosperm, openers, openest, operant, operate, operons, osteoma, osteons, overact, overate, overeat, overman, oversat, oversea, oversee, overset, overtop, pacemen, panters, parents, parsecs, parsons, pasters, pastors, patrons, pectens, pectose, peevers, pencase, pentose, percent, persona, persons, pesters, poetess, poorest, poromas, poroses, postern, posters, postman, postmen, poteens, prances, precast, precent, precoat, premeet, prenote, present, presets, pretans, preteen, prevent, process, promote, pronate, pronest, prosoma, protean, protons, provost, racemes, racoons, ransoms, reasons, recanes, recants, recasts, recoats, reenact, remates, remeets, remotes, removes, renames, renests, reopens, repaces, repaste, repasts, repaves, repeats, repents, repoman, reposes, reposts, resaves, rescans, rescope, reseats, resects, resents, resnaps, respace, respans, respect, respots, restamp, restems, resteps, retapes, reteams, revamps, revotes, romance, ropeman, ropemen, roseate, sateens, scamper, scanter, scapose, scarves, scenter, scepter, sceptre, scooper, scooter, scotoma, scrapes, screams, screens, seamers, seamost, seances, seaport, searoom, seaters, secants, secerns, secrete, secrets, sectors, senates, senator, sensate, serapes, sermons, serpent, servant, smarten, snooper, soapers, someone, sooners, soonest, soprano, spacers, sparest, specter, spectra, spectre, sponsor, sporont, stamens, stamper, stances, starves, steamer, steepen, steeper, stenose, stepson, sterane, stereos, stomper, stoners, stooper, streams, stroams, tampers, tampons, tapemen, taproom, taverns, tearoom, teasers, teemers, tempera, tempers, tempore, tensors, terpene, toecaps, tonearm, trances, treason, trepans, vamoose, varooms, vectors, veneers, vespers, veteran, vetoers, voteens
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