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12-letter words containing g, r, o, s, a

  • nonstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
  • old guardism — political conservatism.
  • oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
  • opera singer — a professional singer of opera
  • opisthograph — a manuscript, parchment, or book having writing on both sides of the leaves.
  • oral surgery — the branch of dentistry or of surgery dealing with the surgical treatment or repair of various conditions of the mouth or jaws.
  • 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.
  • organ screen — an ornamental screen closing off an organ chamber in a church.
  • organisation — the act or process of organizing.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • outrageously — In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • 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.
  • oversanguine — too optimistic
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • paraglossate — having paraglossae
  • paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • parasitology — the branch of biology dealing with parasites and the effects of parasitism.
  • parting shot — a threat, insult, condemnation, sarcastic retort, or the like, uttered upon leaving.
  • pass through — an act of passing.
  • pass-through — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
  • passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • perez galdos — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Spanish be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Spanish bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1843–1920, Spanish journalist, dramatist, and novelist.
  • 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).
  • phraseograph — a phrase for which there is a phraseogram.
  • physiography — the science of physical geography.
  • physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • pogson ratio — the brightness ratio of two celestial objects that differ by one magnitude. On the Pogson scale a difference of 5 magnitudes is defined as a difference of 100 in the intensities of two stars; therefore a difference of 1 magnitude is equal to the fifth root of 100, i.e. 2.512
  • polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • ponta grossa — a city in S Brazil.
  • popular song — a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard (def 12).
  • pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
  • port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • postorgasmic — of or relating to the period after an orgasm
  • postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
  • 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
  • prestigiator — someone who practises sorcery or prestidigitation
  • prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
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