12-letter words containing a, d, c, o, r
- monodramatic — Relating to a monodrama.
- mooch around — If you mooch around or mooch about a place, you move around there slowly with no particular purpose.
- morris dance — a rural folk dance of north English origin, performed in costume traditionally by men who originally represented characters of the Robin Hood legend, especially in May Day festivities.
- narco-dollar — Usually, narcodollars. money obtained through illegal drug trafficking.
- narcodollars — Usually, narcodollars. money obtained through illegal drug trafficking.
- network card — network interface controller
- nitrous acid — an acid, HNO 2 , known only in solution.
- nonadherence — the quality of adhering; steady devotion, support, allegiance, or attachment: adherence to a party; rigid adherence to rules.
- nonbroadcast — not broadcast to a wide audience, supplied on a hidden or private network
- noncircadian — Not circadian.
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- octahedrally — in an octahedral manner
- on the cards — likely
- onward march — the continuing, advancing or improving movement (of situation, etc)
- orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
- orchestrated — Simple past tense and past participle of orchestrate.
- orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
- orchidomania — an obsession with or passion for orchids
- oregon cedar — Port Orford cedar.
- organic mode — (programming) A term used by COCOMO to describe a project that is developed in a familiar, stable environment. The product is similar to previously developed products. Most people connected with the project have extensive experience in working with related systems and have a thorough understanding of the project. The project contains a minimum of innovative data processing architectures or algorithms. The product requires little innovation and is relatively small, rarely greater than 50,000 DSIs.
- ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
- orthopaedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.
- orthovanadic — relating to orthovanadates
- overachieved — Simple past tense and past participle of overachieve.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overdecorate — To decorate or embellish to an excessive degree.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overdramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- overeducated — Having been educated to a higher academic level than is necessary.
- overmedicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- oxford comma — a comma between the final items in a list, often preceding the word 'and' or 'or', such as the final comma in the list newspapers, magazines, and books
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
- packet radio — (communications, radio) The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
- paedomorphic — showing signs of paedomorphism
- palo cortado — a rich, dry sherry
- panel doctor — a doctor within a given area available for consultation by patients insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
- particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- peace accord — an official agreement to come to peace or end conflict
- pedantocracy — rule by pedants; a system of government by pedants
- pentacrinoid — a larval crinoid resembling members of the genus Pentacrinus
- periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
- periodically — recurring at intervals of time: periodic revivals of an interest in handicrafts.
- pindaric ode — an ode consisting of several units, each of which is composed of a strophe and an antistrophe of identical form followed by a contrasting epode.
- place-holder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.