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15-letter words containing g, e, o, r, a

  • omnium gatherum — a miscellaneous collection.
  • omnium-gatherum — a miscellaneous collection.
  • on a razor edge — in an extremely precarious state
  • on a shoestring — If you do something or make something on a shoestring, you do it using very little money.
  • onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
  • operating cycle — the period of time between starting a business and making a profit
  • operating table — table on which surgery is performed
  • optical storage — optical disk drive
  • orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
  • orange hawkweed — a European composite plant, Hieracium aurantiacum, having orange, dandelionlike flowers, growing as a weed, especially in eastern North America.
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • orangeman's day — the 12th of July, celebrated by Protestants in Northern Ireland to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne (1690)
  • orangemen's day — July 12, an annual celebration in Northern Ireland and certain cities having a large Irish section, especially Liverpool, to mark both the victory of William III over James II at the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690, and the Battle of Augbrim, July 12, 1690.
  • ordinary degree — a university degree without honours
  • organic disease — a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).
  • organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
  • organized crime — illegal activities co-ordinated by groups
  • organized labor — all workers who are organized in labor unions.
  • organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
  • organomagnesium — pertaining to or noting an organic compound, especially an organic halide, containing magnesium linked to carbon.
  • organomercurial — an organic compound containing mercury
  • organophosphate — Biochemistry. any of a variety of organic compounds that contain phosphorus and often have intense neurotoxic activity: originally developed as nerve gases, now widely used as insecticides and fire retardants.
  • origination fee — a fee charged by a lender for evaluating and processing a loan application, usually a percentage of the face value of the loan.
  • ortega saavedra — (José) Daniel [haw-se dah-nyel] /hɔˈsɛ dɑˈnyɛl/ (Show IPA), born 1945, Nicaraguan political leader: president 1985–90.
  • ortega y gasset — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1883–1955, Spanish philosopher, journalist, and critic.
  • orthokeratology — a technique for correcting refractive errors in vision by changing the shape of the cornea with the temporary use of progressively flatter hard contact lenses.
  • otaheite orange — a small citrus bush, Citrus limonia otaitensis, having fragrant flowers and small orange fruit, often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • over-aggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • over-exaggerate — to magnify beyond the limits of truth; overstate; represent disproportionately: to exaggerate the difficulties of a situation.
  • over-irrigation — the artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops.
  • over-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
  • overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
  • overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
  • overexaggerated — Simple past tense and past participle of overexaggerate.
  • overextravagant — excessively extravagant
  • overimaginative — imaginative to a fault
  • overprogramming — the act or instance of programming unnecessary details
  • paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
  • palaeogeography — the study of geographical features of the geological past
  • palaeontography — the branch of palaeontology concerned with the description of fossils
  • parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
  • paroemiographer — a person who writes or collects proverbs
  • parthenogenesis — development of an egg without fertilization.
  • parthenogenetic — development of an egg without fertilization.
  • passenger coach — a carriage in which passengers sit
  • patagonian hare — a burrowing, gray, long-eared and long-legged cavy of the genus Dolichotis, native to South America.
  • pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
  • pectoral girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the forelimbs.
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