12-letter words containing e, r, g, i, o
- 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.
- 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.
- objecteering — (programming, tool) An object-oriented design tool from Softeam, based on the Class Relation Methodology, with C++ code generation.
- obliterating — Present participle of obliterate.
- octagenarian — One who is between the ages of 80 and 89, inclusive.
- octogenarian — of the age of 80 years.
- off the grid — not using any of the services, such as bank accounts, public utilites, etc, that allow a person's activities to be monitored by the authorities
- oligophrenia — less than normal mental development.
- oligophrenic — less than normal mental development.
- oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
- opera singer — a professional singer of opera
- optical grep — vgrep
- 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.
- orange juice — fruit drink: nectar of orange
- 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.
- orange-river — a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.
- ore dressing — Metallurgy. the mechanical processes by which valuable minerals are separated from ore.
- oregon trail — a route used during the U.S. westward migrations, especially in the period from 1840 to 1860, starting in Missouri and ending in Oregon. About 2000 miles (3200 km) long.
- 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.
- organigramme — (British, management) An organisation chart.
- organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
- oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
- orienteering — a competitive sport, originating in Sweden, that tests the skills of map reading and cross-country running, in which competitors race through an unknown area to find various checkpoints by using only a compass and topographical map, the winner being the finisher with the lowest elapsed time.
- 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.
- orthogenetic — pertaining to or exhibiting orthogenesis.
- out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
- over-running — to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
- overbrimming — Present participle of overbrim.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- 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.
- 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.
- overdressing — Present participle of overdress.
- overdrinking — Present participle of overdrink.
- overengineer — to engineer to excess
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overnighting — for or during the night: to stay overnight.
- overorganize — to stress formal structure, status, rules, and details excessively.