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

  • oregon cedar — Port Orford cedar.
  • oregon grape — an evergreen shrub, Mahonia aquifolium, of the barberry family, of the western coast of the U.S., having small blue berries and yellow flowers that are the state flower of Oregon.
  • oregon trail — a route used during the U.S. westward migrations, especially in the period from 1840 to 1860, starting in Missouri and ending in Oregon. About 2000 miles (3200 km) long.
  • organ screen — an ornamental screen closing off an organ chamber in a church.
  • organic farm — a farm where organic methods are used for agriculture and animal husbandry
  • 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.
  • organisation — the act or process of organizing.
  • organization — the act or process of organizing.
  • organography — the description or visual depiction of organs.
  • organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
  • organotropic — designating or of a substance or virus that travels predominantly to a specific organ
  • oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
  • original gum — See o.g (def 1).
  • 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.
  • ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
  • orthognathic — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
  • orthogonally — Mathematics. Also, orthographic. pertaining to or involving right angles or perpendiculars: an orthogonal projection. (of a system of real functions) defined so that the integral of the product of any two different functions is zero. (of a system of complex functions) defined so that the integral of the product of a function times the complex conjugate of any other function equals zero. (of two vectors) having an inner product equal to zero. (of a linear transformation) defined so that the length of a vector under the transformation equals the length of the original vector. (of a square matrix) defined so that its product with its transpose results in the identity matrix.
  • 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.
  • oto-manguean — a family of American Indian languages spoken in central and southern Mexico, including Mixtec, Zapotec, and Otomi.
  • outbalancing — Present participle of outbalance.
  • outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
  • outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
  • outmigration — to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory: People are no longer out-migrating from the South in such large numbers.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • outstandings — Outstanding amounts; unpaid debts.
  • 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)
  • oxidant smog — photochemical smog.
  • oxygen lance — a tube for conveying oxygen, used in various thermal cutting or steelmaking operations.
  • pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • paedogenesis — sexual reproduction in an animal that retains its larval features
  • paleontology — the science of the forms of life existing in former geologic periods, as represented by their fossils.
  • palynologist — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
  • panning shot — pan3 (def 6).
  • pantophagist — an omnivore
  • pantophagous — characterized by pantophagy
  • paracyanogen — a polymer of cyanogen
  • paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • parahydrogen — the form of molecular hydrogen in which the nuclei of the two hydrogen atoms contained in the molecule have spins in opposite directions.
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