12-letter words containing a, g, r, o, e, c
- 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.
- oregon cedar — Port Orford cedar.
- 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.
- organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
- overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
- overcramming — excessive cramming
- overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
- paracyanogen — a polymer of cyanogen
- phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
- precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
- pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
- race norming — the process of statistically adjusting the scores of minority job applicants on job-qualification tests by rating each test-taker's score against the results of others in his or her racial or ethnic group.
- racing homer — a kind of homing pigeon used for racing
- radioecology — the branch of ecology concerned with the effects of radioactivity on the environment
- recategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- recognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recognizance — Law. a bond or obligation of record entered into before a court of record or a magistrate, binding a person to do a particular act. the sum pledged as surety on such a bond.
- reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
- retrocognate — being or pertaining to memory or extrasensory perception of past events.
- rock glacier — a mass of rock resembling a valley glacier that moves or is moved down a slope by its own weight or by the action of frost and interstitial ice.
- rocket range — a firing range for rockets
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- sea crossing — a journey by sea from one coast to another
- second grade — school year: age 7-8
- secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
- semi-organic — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- speech organ — any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech.
- stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- storage cell — a cell whose energy can be renewed by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to that of the flow of current generated by the cell.
- sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
- superorganic — of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.
- swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
- technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
- tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
- turbo-charge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- turbocharger — a supercharger that is driven by a turbine turned by exhaust gases from the engine.
- uncourageous — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- undercoating — a coat or jacket worn under another.