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12-letter words containing g, i, o, r

  • nonoperating — Not operating.
  • nonproducing — that does not produce
  • nonrecurring — not occurring or happening again, especially often or periodically.
  • nonreligious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • nonresisting — Unresisting; without resistance.
  • nonsovereign — Not sovereign.
  • nonstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • north riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, in N England, now part of North Yorkshire, Cleveland, and Durham.
  • north-facing — facing towards the north
  • nothingarian — A person of no particular beliefs.
  • 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.
  • obligatorily — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
  • 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
  • offscourings — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
  • old guardism — political conservatism.
  • oligarchical — of, relating to, or having the form of an oligarchy.
  • oligophrenia — less than normal mental development.
  • oligophrenic — less than normal mental development.
  • oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
  • oligotrophic — (of a lake) characterized by a low accumulation of dissolved nutrient salts, supporting but a sparse growth of algae and other organisms, and having a high oxygen content owing to the low organic content.
  • opera singer — a professional singer of opera
  • opisthograph — a manuscript, parchment, or book having writing on both sides of the leaves.
  • 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 farm — a farm where organic methods are used for agriculture and animal husbandry
  • 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.
  • organisation — the act or process of organizing.
  • organization — the act or process of organizing.
  • organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
  • organotropic — designating or of a substance or virus that travels predominantly to a specific 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.
  • origin story — a backstory, or established background narrative, that informs the identity and motivations of heroes and villains in a comic book or similar fictional work: The superhero’s origin story begins with a tragic accident that left him scarred, but also resulted in his supernatural powers.
  • original gum — See o.g (def 1).
  • original sin — Theology. a depravity, or tendency to evil, held to be innate in humankind and transmitted from Adam to all humans in consequence of his sin. inclination to evil, inherent in human nature.
  • originations — Plural form of origination.
  • ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
  • orographical — relating to the study of mountains
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