12-letter words containing g, o, r, n, s
- laryngospasm — An uncontrolled, spasmodic closure of the larynx.
- legionnaires — Plural form of legionnaire.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
- loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
- logocentrism — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
- long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
- longirostral — (of birds) having a long beak
- longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- longshoremen — Plural form of longshoreman.
- lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
- macrosegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
- magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- melanogaster — Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.
- microsegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by juncture.
- microsurgeon — a person who performs microsurgery
- migrationist — a person who considers it important for species of animals and plants to migrate for the purposes of distribution and evolution
- mineralogies — Plural form of mineralogy.
- mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
- miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
- misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
- misgoverning — Present participle of misgovern.
- misinforming — Present participle of misinform.
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
- misrecognize — (psychology, computing) To recognize in error.
- mockingbirds — Plural form of mockingbird.
- moisturising — Present participle of moisturise.
- moisturizing — Present participle of moisturize.
- monsignorial — having the ecclesiastical title of a Monsignor
- monsterizing — Present participle of monsterize.
- mooring mast — the mast or tower to which a dirigible is moored.
- morning star — a bright planet, especially Venus, seen in the east immediately before sunrise.
- myringoscope — an instrument for examining the eardrum
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- neurogenesis — The growth and development of nervous tissue.
- neurologists — Plural form of neurologist.
- neurosurgeon — surgery of the brain or other nerve tissue.
- neurosurgery — surgery of the brain or other nerve tissue.
- night person — a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.
- noise margin — (electronics) The voltage difference between the guaranteed output level and the required input voltage level of a logic gate.
- nonabsorbing — That does not absorb (sound, radiation, fluid etc.).
- nonglamorous — not glamorous
- nonpassenger — One who is not a passenger.
- nonreligious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- nonresisting — Unresisting; without resistance.