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

  • nonrecurring — not occurring or happening again, especially often or periodically.
  • nonstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • objecteering — (programming, tool)   An object-oriented design tool from Softeam, based on the Class Relation Methodology, with C++ code generation.
  • 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.
  • oligophrenic — less than normal mental development.
  • optical grep — vgrep
  • orange juice — fruit drink: nectar of orange
  • orange march — a parade on Orangemen's day
  • 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.
  • orthogenetic — pertaining to or exhibiting orthogenesis.
  • overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
  • overclocking — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
  • overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
  • overcramming — excessive cramming
  • overcropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
  • overcrowding — Fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable.
  • overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
  • overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
  • 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
  • petrogenetic — relating to petrogenesis
  • petroglyphic — relating to or having the characteristics of a petroglyph or carving made in rock
  • 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.
  • precognition — knowledge of a future event or situation, especially through extrasensory means.
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • preschooling — the education of preschool children.
  • producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
  • protectingly — in a protective manner
  • proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
  • pyrogenicity — the characteristic of causing fever
  • 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
  • re-recording — to record (something) another time.
  • 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.
  • recommending — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
  • reconceiving — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
  • reconnecting — to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.
  • reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
  • reg-symbolic — An early system on the IBM 704.
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