12-letter words containing e, g, r, s
- misdirecting — Present participle of misdirect.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- misgoverning — Present participle of misgovern.
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
- misrecognize — (psychology, computing) To recognize in error.
- monsterizing — Present participle of monsterize.
- morphologies — Plural form of morphology.
- mother goose — the fictitious author of a collection of nursery rhymes first published in London (about 1760) under the title of Mother Goose's Melody.
- myringoscope — an instrument for examining the eardrum
- nai register — (in Britain) a list of children deemed to be at risk of abuse or injury from their parents or guardians, compiled and held by a local authority, area health authority, or NSPCC Special Unit
- napier grass — a tall, leafy grass, Pennisetum purpureum, native to Africa, grown as a forage plant.
- narragansett — a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Algonquian family formerly located in Rhode Island but now almost extinct.
- near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- negev desert — the desert region of S Israel
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- net earnings — income after tax
- neurogenesis — The growth and development of nervous tissue.
- neurologists — Plural form of neurologist.
- neurosurgeon — surgery of the brain or other nerve tissue.
- neurosurgery — surgery of the brain or other nerve tissue.
- neutralising — Present participle of neutralise.
- newsgatherer — A person involved in newsgathering.
- newspapering — Present participle of newspaper.
- night person — a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.
- nightdresses — Plural form of nightdress.
- noise margin — (electronics) The voltage difference between the guaranteed output level and the required input voltage level of a logic gate.
- nonpassenger — One who is not a passenger.
- nonreligious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- nonresisting — Unresisting; without resistance.
- nonsovereign — Not sovereign.
- nonstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
- numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
- nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
- oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
- opera singer — a professional singer of opera
- or something — You use something in expressions such as 'or something' and 'or something like that' to indicate that you are referring to something similar to what you have just mentioned but you are not being exact.
- oral surgery — the branch of dentistry or of surgery dealing with the surgical treatment or repair of various conditions of the mouth or jaws.
- 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.
- ore dressing — Metallurgy. the mechanical processes by which valuable minerals are separated from ore.
- organ screen — an ornamental screen closing off an organ chamber in a church.
- orthogenesis — Biology. Also called orthoselection. evolution of a species proceeding by continuous structural changes in a single lineage without presenting a branching pattern of descent. a theory that the evolution of a species in a continuous, nonbranching manner is due to a predetermined series of alterations intrinsic to the species and not subject to natural selection.
- osage orange — Also called bois d'arc, bowwood. a tree, Maclura pomifera, of the mulberry family, native to the south-central U.S., having hard, yellowish wood and often cultivated for hedges.
- outrageously — In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
- overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
- overdressing — Present participle of overdress.