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12-letter words containing a, n, t, e, g, r

  • nonregulated — Alternative spelling of non-regulated.
  • nonstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
  • obliterating — Present participle of obliterate.
  • octagenarian — One who is between the ages of 80 and 89, inclusive.
  • octogenarian — of the age of 80 years.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
  • oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
  • outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
  • overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • page printer — Computers. a high-speed, high-resolution printer that uses a light source, as a laser beam or electrically charged ions, to print a full page of text or graphics at a time.
  • paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • panty girdle — women's control pants
  • paramagnetic — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
  • parent group — a large organization that owns a number of smaller separate commercial or industrial firms
  • parting line — the line at which two closed dies or two halves of a mold meet.
  • pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • patent right — the exclusive right granted by a patent, as on an invention.
  • pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
  • patrilineage — lineal descent traced through the male line.
  • perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
  • permanganate — a salt of permanganic acid, as potassium permanganate.
  • perpetrating — to commit: to perpetrate a crime.
  • perpetuating — to make perpetual.
  • photoengrave — to make a photoengraving of.
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
  • port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • pre-teaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • predesignate — to designate beforehand.
  • pregenerated — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
  • premarketing — before the development of a market
  • premigration — occurring before migration
  • prenegotiate — to discuss before a formal negotiation
  • primogenital — relating to primogeniture
  • privateering — an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
  • program note — A program note is an article written in a program for a play or concert that gives information about the performance or production.
  • proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
  • pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
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