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12-letter words containing g, r, e, n, a, o

  • organ screen — an ornamental screen closing off an organ chamber in a church.
  • 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.
  • organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
  • oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
  • osage orange — Also called bois d'arc, bowwood. a tree, Maclura pomifera, of the mulberry family, native to the south-central U.S., having hard, yellowish wood and often cultivated for hedges.
  • outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
  • overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
  • overcramming — excessive cramming
  • overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
  • overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
  • overorganize — to stress formal structure, status, rules, and details excessively.
  • overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
  • overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
  • oversanguine — too optimistic
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • paracyanogen — a polymer of cyanogen
  • parahydrogen — the form of molecular hydrogen in which the nuclei of the two hydrogen atoms contained in the molecule have spins in opposite directions.
  • parent group — a large organization that owns a number of smaller separate commercial or industrial firms
  • paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
  • perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
  • 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).
  • photoengrave — to make a photoengraving of.
  • phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
  • pigeon grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis aestivalis, of the eastern U.S., having leaves that are dull above and rusty beneath, and bearing black, edible fruit.
  • pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
  • pollen grain — a single granule of pollen.
  • pornographer — a person who sells, produces, films, photographs, or writes pornography.
  • port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • premigration — occurring before migration
  • prenegotiate — to discuss before a formal negotiation
  • primogenital — relating to primogeniture
  • 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.
  • proofreading — correction of text
  • propagandize — to propagate or publicize (principles, dogma, etc.) by means of propaganda.
  • proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
  • pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
  • race norming — the process of statistically adjusting the scores of minority job applicants on job-qualification tests by rating each test-taker's score against the results of others in his or her racial or ethnic group.
  • racing homer — a kind of homing pigeon used for racing
  • ragged robin — a plant, Lychnis flos-cuculi, of the pink family, having pink or white flowers with dissected petals.
  • ranging pole — a pole for marking positions in surveying
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