12-letter words containing g, o, s, i
- 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.
- obligingness — The quality of being obliging; the tendency to cater for the desires of others.
- oceanologist — the practical application of oceanography.
- odd-sounding — sounding or seeming strange or unusual
- odontologist — the science dealing with the study of the teeth and their surrounding tissues and with the prevention and cure of their diseases.
- oesophagitis — Alternative spelling of esophagitis.
- offscourings — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- oleaginously — In an oleaginous manner.
- olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
- oligochaetes — Plural form of oligochaete.
- oligophagous — (especially of insects) eating only a few types of food.
- oligopolists — Plural form of oligopolist.
- oligopsonies — Plural form of oligopsony.
- oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
- on soundings — in waters less than 100 fathoms in depth
- one's pigeon — one's special concern, or business
- onomasiology — the study of the means of expressing a given concept.
- opera singer — a professional singer of opera
- ophiophagous — eating snakes.
- opisthograph — a manuscript, parchment, or book having writing on both sides of the leaves.
- optogenetics — (genetics) A science that combines optics and genetics to probe neural circuits.
- 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.
- ore dressing — Metallurgy. the mechanical processes by which valuable minerals are separated from ore.
- organisation — the act or process of organizing.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- oscillograms — Plural form of oscillogram.
- oscillograph — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
- osteogenesis — the formation of bone.
- osteogenetic — (physiology) Connected with osteogenesis, or the formation of bone.
- osteological — Of or relating to osteology.
- out of sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- out-of-sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- outcroppings — Plural form of outcropping.
- outgoingness — The state or condition of being outgoing; gregariousness, extroversion.
- outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- outstandings — Outstanding amounts; unpaid debts.
- outstripping — to outdo; surpass; excel.
- outthrusting — Present participle of outthrust.
- over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
- overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
- overdressing — Present participle of overdress.
- oversanguine — too optimistic