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12-letter words containing a, g, e, r, o

  • nonstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • nueva gerona — a town on the Isle of Pines, S of Cuba.
  • nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
  • oberammergau — a village in S Germany, SW of Munich: famous for the passion play performed there every ten years.
  • obliterating — Present participle of obliterate.
  • oceanography — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
  • octagenarian — One who is between the ages of 80 and 89, inclusive.
  • octogenarian — of the age of 80 years.
  • oligophrenia — less than normal mental development.
  • oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
  • omega baryon — a negative baryon having a mass 3272 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of 8 X 10 -11 seconds.
  • on aggregate — If one team beats another on aggregate, it wins because it has a higher total score than the other team after a series of games.
  • opera singer — a professional singer of opera
  • optical grep — vgrep
  • oral surgery — the branch of dentistry or of surgery dealing with the surgical treatment or repair of various conditions of the mouth or jaws.
  • orange grove — small orchard of orange trees
  • orange juice — fruit drink: nectar of orange
  • orange lodge — a Protestant fraternal organization based mainly in Northern Ireland and Scotland with lodges throughout the English-speaking world where there are significant Irish populations
  • orange march — a parade on Orangemen's day
  • orange pekoe — a black tea composed of the smallest top leaves and grown in India and Ceylon.
  • orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
  • orange-river — a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.
  • oregon cedar — Port Orford cedar.
  • oregon grape — an evergreen shrub, Mahonia aquifolium, of the barberry family, of the western coast of the U.S., having small blue berries and yellow flowers that are the state flower of Oregon.
  • oregon trail — a route used during the U.S. westward migrations, especially in the period from 1840 to 1860, starting in Missouri and ending in Oregon. About 2000 miles (3200 km) long.
  • organ screen — an ornamental screen closing off an organ chamber in a church.
  • 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.
  • organigramme — (British, management) An organisation chart.
  • organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
  • oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
  • orthographer — a person versed in orthography or spelling.
  • osage orange — Also called bois d'arc, bowwood. a tree, Maclura pomifera, of the mulberry family, native to the south-central U.S., having hard, yellowish wood and often cultivated for hedges.
  • out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
  • outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
  • outrageously — In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
  • over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
  • overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
  • overcramming — excessive cramming
  • overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
  • overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
  • overfatigued — excessively fatigued
  • overorganize — to stress formal structure, status, rules, and details excessively.
  • overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
  • overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
  • overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
  • oversanguine — too optimistic
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
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