12-letter words containing i, n, s, g
- nonambiguous — not ambiguous, clear
- nonbiologist — a person who is not a biologist
- nonconsuming — not consuming a resource, product, or service
- nonreligious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- nonresisting — Unresisting; without resistance.
- nonsovereign — Not sovereign.
- nonstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- nonvanishing — (mathematics) (of a quantity) that is nonzero at all points in a space.
- nosebleeding — bleeding emanating from the nose
- nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
- 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.
- offscourings — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- oleaginously — In an oleaginous manner.
- olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
- oligopsonies — Plural form of oligopsony.
- 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
- 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.
- osteogenesis — the formation of bone.
- osteogenetic — (physiology) Connected with osteogenesis, or the formation of bone.
- 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
- overspending — the act or an instance of spending in excess of one's desires or what one can afford or is allocated
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.