12-letter words containing g, e, t, o, r
- natal orange — a spiny shrub, Strychnos spinosa, of the logania family, of central and southern Africa, having yellowish-white flowers and edible, berrylike, yellow fruit.
- nemorivagant — Lb rare wandering in the woods.
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- neurogenetic — (medicine) Of or pertaining to neurogenetics, the study of the genetic basis of nerve and brain function.
- neurologists — Plural form of neurologist.
- new brighton — a town in E Minnesota.
- night editor — an editor responsible for getting a morning newspaper to press, for the night operations of a wire service, or the like.
- night person — a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.
- night porter — A night porter is a person whose job is to be on duty at the main reception desk of a hotel throughout the night.
- night terror — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
- nitrogelatin — gelatin dynamite.
- nitrogenized — Treated with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound.
- non-emergent — coming into view or notice; issuing.
- non-graduate — a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
- nonagreement — Absence of agreement; disagreement, discord.
- nonbreathing — not breathing
- noncongruent — agreeing; accordant; congruous.
- nondetergent — That which is not detergent.
- nonirrigated — not irrigated; dry
- nonoperating — Not operating.
- nonregulated — Alternative spelling of non-regulated.
- nonresisting — Unresisting; without resistance.
- nonstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- north bergen — a township in NE New Jersey.
- nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
- numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
- 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
- on aggregate — If one team beats another on aggregate, it wins because it has a higher total score than the other team after a series of games.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- orthographer — a person versed in orthography or spelling.
- out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
- outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- 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.
- over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.