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12-letter words containing d, o, r, m

  • monorchidism — a prenatal or postnatal condition in which one testis is absent or has not descended into the scrotum.
  • mooch around — If you mooch around or mooch about a place, you move around there slowly with no particular purpose.
  • moorish idol — a black, white, and yellow fish, Zanclus cornutus (or canescens), inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans, having a long snout and an elongated dorsal fin.
  • moral hazard — Insurance. an insurance company's risk as to the insured's trustworthiness and honesty.
  • 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.
  • mortar board — A mortar board is a stiff black cap which has a flat square top with a bunch of threads attached to it. In Britain, mortar boards are sometimes worn on formal occasions by university students and teachers. In the United States, mortar boards are worn by students at graduation ceremonies at high schools, colleges, and universities.
  • mortarboards — Plural form of mortarboard.
  • mother's day — a day, usually the second Sunday in May, set aside in honor of mothers.
  • mother-naked — stark naked; as naked as when born.
  • motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
  • motor-driven — propelled or made to function by means of a motor
  • motor-minded — disposed to perceive one's environment in terms of mechanical or muscular activity.
  • motormouthed — (of a person) Being a motor mouth; inclined to talk too much.
  • mount desert — island off the S coast of Me.: resort: c. 100 sq mi (259 sq km)
  • mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
  • mouse around — To explore public portions of a large system, especially a network such as Internet via FTP or TELNET, looking for interesting stuff to snarf.
  • mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
  • mouthbreeder — any of several fishes of the genera Tilapia and Haplochromis, that hatch and care for their young in the mouth.
  • mouthbrooder — A freshwater cichlid fish that protects its eggs (and in some cases its young) by carrying them in its mouth.
  • multicolored — of several or many colors.
  • multinodular — of, relating to, or characterized by nodules.
  • multiproduct — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
  • multistoried — Multi-storey.
  • multitowered — comprising several towers
  • muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
  • muzzleloader — a firearm that is loaded through the muzzle.
  • name-dropper — a person who indulges in name-dropping.
  • narrowminded — Alternative spelling of narrow-minded.
  • newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
  • no harm done — If you say that there is no harm done, you are telling someone not to worry about something that has happened because it has not caused any serious injury or damage.
  • non-remedial — affording remedy; tending to remedy something.
  • nondeforming — not causing deformity
  • nonmandatory — Not mandatory.
  • nonmotorized — not equipped with a motor
  • normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
  • obcompressed — compressed or flattened in a way opposite to the usual, as back to front instead of side to side.
  • oboe d'amore — a type of oboe pitched a minor third lower than the oboe itself. It is used chiefly in the performance of baroque music
  • oboe d'amour — an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.
  • odd-man rush — an attacking move when the defence is outnumbered by the opposing team
  • old guardism — political conservatism.
  • ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
  • on your mind — If something is on your mind, you are worried or concerned about it and think about it a lot.
  • once removed — relative: one generation older
  • onward march — the continuing, advancing or improving movement (of situation, etc)
  • orchidectomy — orchiectomy.
  • orchidomania — an obsession with or passion for orchids
  • order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
  • orderly room — the administrative office of a small military unit.
  • 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.
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