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12-letter words containing e, u, r, o, m

  • neuroanatomy — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
  • neurochemist — A researcher or other professional in the field of neurochemistry.
  • neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
  • neurohormone — any of various substances, as antidiuretic hormone, formed in the nervous system and delivered to an effector organ through blood circulation.
  • neurohumoral — of or pertaining to a neurohumour
  • neuroimaging — (neurology) The generation of images showing brain activity (or activity in other parts of the nervous system). (from 20th c.).
  • neurosarcoma — A malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, a form of cancer of the connective tissue surrounding nerves.
  • neurotropism — the quality of being neurotropic.
  • neutron bomb — a nuclear bomb designed to release radiation consisting mainly of neutrons, thus causing extensive loss of life but relatively little damage to buildings and property and only brief radioactive contamination.
  • nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
  • nomenclature — a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.
  • nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
  • non-computer — a programmable electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations. Mainframes, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and smartphones are some of the different types of computers. Compare analog computer, digital computer.
  • non-consumer — a person or thing that consumes.
  • nonclemature — Misspelling of nomenclature.
  • nonmercurial — not composed of, resembling, or containing mercury
  • nonmolecular — not molecular, not made up of or relating to molecules
  • nonnumerical — not containing or involving numbers
  • nonpetroleum — not containing any petroleum based substance
  • normal curve — a bell-shaped curve showing a particular distribution of probability over the values of a random variable. Also called Gaussian curve, probability curve.
  • not-a-number — (mathematics)   (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
  • nourishments — Plural form of nourishment.
  • nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
  • number opera — an opera in which the arias, ensembles, recitatives, and other sections are clearly separated from one another.
  • numbers pool — 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.
  • numerousness — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
  • nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
  • nurserywomen — Plural form of nurserywoman.
  • nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
  • nuxi problem — (data, architecture)   /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
  • oamaru stone — a kind of limestone, of building quality, found at Oamaru on South Island, New Zealand
  • oberammergau — a village in S Germany, SW of Munich: famous for the passion play performed there every ten years.
  • 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.
  • ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
  • order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
  • out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
  • outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
  • outmanoeuvre — British. outmaneuver.
  • outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
  • outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
  • outperformer — One who outperforms.
  • overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
  • overdocument — to document excessively
  • overmaturity — (of a tree or forest) the state of having ceased to grow or have commercial value
  • overmultiply — to increase too much or too often
  • pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • parlour game — A parlour game is a game that is played indoors by families or at parties, for example a guessing game.
  • pen computer — a computer, as a personal digital assistant, having pattern-recognition software enabling it to read handwritten text or drawings input on the screen by means of a stylus.
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
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