12-letter words containing i, n, m, e, o, r
- normokalemia — The state of having a normal concentration of potassium in one's blood.
- normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- normotension — normal blood pressure
- normotensive — characterized by normal arterial tension or blood pressure.
- normothermia — (medicine) The condition of having a normal body temperature.
- normothermic — (medicine) Having a normal body temperature.
- northern min — Foochow (def 2).
- nourishments — Plural form of nourishment.
- 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.
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- oil minister — a government official responsible for the oil industry in their country
- oil terminal — a large industrial complex where oil is stored and from which oil is transported elsewhere; an oil depot
- omnipresence — present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.
- open primary — a direct primary election in which voters need not meet a test of party membership.
- operationism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
- 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.
- 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.
- other income — Other income is income that does not come from a company's main business, such as interest.
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- overbrimming — Present participle of overbrim.
- overcramming — excessive cramming
- overdominant — excessively dominant
- overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- overtime ban — a refusal by employees to work overtime
- overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- paralipomena — Chronicles.
- paramorphine — thebaine.
- pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
- pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
- periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- perispomenon — (of a Greek word) bearing a circumflex accent on the last syllable
- permissioned — authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.
- 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).
- picrocarmine — a red powder containing carmine and picric acid which is used in staining processes
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
- polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
- pompeian red — a dull, grayish red.
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
- precisionism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
- predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
- preformation — previous formation.
- premigration — occurring before migration
- premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
- premium loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company in order that a policyholder may pay the due premium, the cash value on the policy serving as security.
- prenominally — before a noun