Overlie is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 133 anagrams from letters in overlie (eeilorv).
First recorded in 1125-75, overlie is from the Middle English word overlien, overliggen. See over-, lie2
The rocks that overlie the coal measures contain fossils of these gigantic animals.
These rocks have suffered thrusting and the shales are thus made in places to overlie the sandstones.
Nothing could overlie such a fellow; a kind of base success was written on his brow.
The older deposits often occupy very elevated districts, which they overlie throughout a large extent of surface.
The feathers which overlie the whole body and bear the color pattern are called contour-feathers.
Yet something like this confusion seems to overlie the discussion of economics in connection with war.
Thick Tertiary deposits, probably Miocene, overlie the middle portions of the west coast.
These mountains are believed to overlie vast store of subterranean wealth in the form of petroleum.
Usually they enfeeble the sympathies, and often overlie and smother them.
The pineal process grows forwards so as to overlie the parapineal process.
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