12-letter words containing g, o, r, m
- 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.
- nonglamorous — not glamorous
- nonimmigrant — A person who is not an immigrant.
- nonmigratory — Not migratory; that does not migrate.
- 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.
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- 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 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.
- original gum — See o.g (def 1).
- ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
- oscillograms — Plural form of oscillogram.
- out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
- outmigration — to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory: People are no longer out-migrating from the South in such large numbers.
- 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.
- parmigianino — (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) 1503–40, Italian painter.
- 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).
- pharmacology — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
- pharyngotomy — surgical incision into the pharynx
- phragmoplast — the cytoplasmic structure that forms at the equator of the spindle after the chromosomes have divided during the anaphase of plant mitosis, and that initiates cell division.
- phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
- pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
- postorgasmic — of or relating to the period after an orgasm
- pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
- 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.
- problem page — a feature in a newspaper, magazine, etc in which readers' problems are published and answers supplied
- program note — A program note is an article written in a program for a play or concert that gives information about the performance or production.
- programmable — capable of being programmed.
- programmatic — of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling program music.
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- prolegomenon — a preliminary discussion; introductory essay, as prefatory matter in a book; a prologue.
- promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda