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

  • long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
  • megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
  • microlending — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
  • micromanaged — Simple past tense and past participle of micromanage.
  • mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.
  • mockingbirds — Plural form of mockingbird.
  • mockingboard — (hardware)   A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
  • modularizing — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
  • multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
  • neighborhood — the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.
  • night editor — an editor responsible for getting a morning newspaper to press, for the night operations of a wire service, or the like.
  • nitrogenized — Treated with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound.
  • noncorroding — That cannot be corroded.
  • nondeforming — not causing deformity
  • nonirrigated — not irrigated; dry
  • nonladdering — (of garments made of knitted material) designed so that the interconnected stitches will not come undone if snagged
  • nonproducing — that does not produce
  • north riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, in N England, now part of North Yorkshire, Cleveland, and Durham.
  • 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
  • old guardism — political conservatism.
  • ore dressing — Metallurgy. the mechanical processes by which valuable minerals are separated from ore.
  • 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.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
  • overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
  • overcrowding — Fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable.
  • 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.
  • overdressing — Present participle of overdress.
  • overdrinking — Present participle of overdrink.
  • overfatigued — excessively fatigued
  • overspending — the act or an instance of spending in excess of one's desires or what one can afford or is allocated
  • overweighted — weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.
  • plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
  • pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
  • 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.
  • predisposing — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
  • prerogatived — possessing a prerogative
  • prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
  • prodigiosity — the state or quality of being immense, extraordinary or astonishing
  • prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • progradation — seaward growth of a beach, delta, fan, etc., by progressive deposition of sediment by rivers or shoreline processes.
  • prolog-linda — 1. Prolog extended with Linda-style parallelism. Proc 4th Australian Conf on Artif Intell. 2. Neil MacDonald, U Edinburgh 1989. Another Prolog extended with Linda, implemented on a Computing Surface.
  • proofreading — correction of text
  • propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
  • propagandist — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
  • propagandize — to propagate or publicize (principles, dogma, etc.) by means of propaganda.
  • pyramidology — a belief system based on the supposed occult significance of the Egyptian pyramids
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