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

  • moneygrubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • mongrelizing — Present participle of mongrelize.
  • monohydrogen — relating to a molecule in which there is a single hydrogen ion for each combining ion
  • monsterizing — Present participle of monsterize.
  • morigeration — (obsolete) obsequiousness; obedience.
  • morning line — a list of entries for a horse race with the probable betting odds as estimated by a bookmaker or track handicapper, usually issued the morning of the race, before wagering begins.
  • morphologies — Plural form of morphology.
  • morton grove — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • 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.
  • mother image — a person substituted in one's mind for one's mother and often the object of emotions felt toward the mother
  • moulin rouge — a dance hall in the Montmartre section of Paris, France, opened in 1889 and famous for its cancan dancers and the drawings of its performers and customers made there by Toulouse-Lautrec.
  • movie rating — a classification of a film as according to the age of viewers thought suitable to see it, and which can differ according to the level in the film of violent content, sexual content, etc
  • multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
  • munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
  • myoneuralgia — myalgia.
  • myringoscope — an instrument for examining the eardrum
  • myrmecophage — (biology) Anteaters, and other animals chiefly feeding on ants.
  • myrmecophagy — Ant-eating.
  • mythographer — a person who collects or records myths in writing.
  • mythologizer — One who, or that which, mythologizes.
  • nemorivagant — Lb rare wandering in the woods.
  • neuroimaging — (neurology) The generation of images showing brain activity (or activity in other parts of the nervous system). (from 20th c.).
  • noise margin — (electronics)   The voltage difference between the guaranteed output level and the required input voltage level of a logic gate.
  • non-emergent — coming into view or notice; issuing.
  • non-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • nonagreement — Absence of agreement; disagreement, discord.
  • nondeforming — not causing deformity
  • nonemergency — Not an emergency.
  • 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.
  • oberammergau — a village in S Germany, SW of Munich: famous for the passion play performed there every ten years.
  • oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
  • omega baryon — a negative baryon having a mass 3272 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of 8 X 10 -11 seconds.
  • 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 march — a parade on Orangemen's day
  • 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.
  • out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
  • outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
  • overbrimming — Present participle of overbrim.
  • overcramming — excessive cramming
  • overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
  • parlour game — A parlour game is a game that is played indoors by families or at parties, for example a guessing game.
  • paroemiology — the study of proverbs
  • 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).
  • phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
  • pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
  • premigration — occurring before migration
  • primogenital — relating to primogeniture
  • primogenitor — a first parent or earliest ancestor: Adam and Eve are the primogenitors of the human race.
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