12-letter words containing e, g, c, r
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- neurogenetic — (medicine) Of or pertaining to neurogenetics, the study of the genetic basis of nerve and brain function.
- neurological — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
- night dancer — (in Uganda) a person believed to employ the help of the dead in destroying other people
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- nonbreaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- noncongruent — agreeing; accordant; congruous.
- nonemergency — Not an emergency.
- 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.
- palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
- paracyanogen — a polymer of cyanogen
- 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.
- parascending — parasailing
- percent sign — a symbol (%) for “percent”: a 10% drop in population.
- perfect game — a baseball game in which the same player pitches throughout the full game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base by a base hit, base on balls, error, or any other means. Compare no-hitter.
- 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).
- pickeringite — a mineral, magnesia alum, occurring usually in the form of white fibrous masses.
- piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
- piercingness — the quality or condition of being piercing
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- pig receiver — A pig receiver is a device to get a pig out of a pipeline without interrupting flow.
- point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
- pre-packaged — Pre-packaged foods have been prepared in advance and put in plastic or cardboard containers to be sold.