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12-letter words containing a, r, n, g, i

  • organisation — the act or process of organizing.
  • organization — the act or process of organizing.
  • organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
  • organotropic — designating or of a substance or virus that travels predominantly to a specific organ
  • oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
  • original gum — See o.g (def 1).
  • original sin — Theology. a depravity, or tendency to evil, held to be innate in humankind and transmitted from Adam to all humans in consequence of his sin. inclination to evil, inherent in human nature.
  • originations — Plural form of origination.
  • ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
  • orthognathic — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
  • outmigration — to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory: People are no longer out-migrating from the South in such large numbers.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • oversanguine — too optimistic
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
  • 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.
  • pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
  • palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
  • panty girdle — women's control pants
  • paperhanging — the activity or business of a paperhanger.
  • paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • parallelling — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
  • paralysingly — in a manner that paralyses
  • 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.
  • paraphrasing — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
  • parascending — parasailing
  • paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
  • paring knife — a short-bladed kitchen knife for paring fruits and vegetables.
  • parking fine — penalty fee for an offence
  • parking ramp — apron (def 6).
  • parmigianino — (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) 1503–40, Italian painter.
  • part-writing — the aspect of composition concerned with the writing of parts, esp counterpoint
  • partializing — to bias.
  • parting line — the line at which two closed dies or two halves of a mold meet.
  • parting shot — a threat, insult, condemnation, sarcastic retort, or the like, uttered upon leaving.
  • partitioning — Partitioning is when a solute is distributed between two phases in a separation process.
  • 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.
  • pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
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