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12-letter words containing n, o, m, i

  • 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.
  • original gum — See o.g (def 1).
  • ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
  • ornithomancy — Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc.
  • ornithomimid — (zoology) Any member of the Ornithomimidae.
  • ornithomorph — the artistic representation of a bird
  • osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
  • other income — Other income is income that does not come from a company's main business, such as interest.
  • outcompeting — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • oxidant smog — photochemical smog.
  • palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • panchromatic — sensitive to all visible colors, as a photographic film.
  • parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
  • paralipomena — Chronicles.
  • paramorphine — thebaine.
  • parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
  • parmigianino — (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) 1503–40, Italian painter.
  • paronomastic — the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning; punning.
  • parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
  • 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.
  • phaeomelanin — a variety of melanin that gives rise to a red-coloured pigment
  • 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).
  • phantom limb — a phenomenon characterized by the experience of pain, discomfort, or other sensation in the area of a missing limb or other body part, as a breast.
  • phentolamine — an alpha blocker, C 1 7 H 1 9 N 3 O, used to reduce hypertensive states caused by a catecholamine excess, as in the treatment of pheochromocytoma.
  • philharmonic — fond of or devoted to music; music-loving: used especially in the name of certain musical societies that sponsor symphony orchestras (Philharmonic Societies) and hence applied to their concerts (philharmonic concerts)
  • phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
  • phonesthemic — (of a speech sound) shared by a set of echoic or symbolic words, as the sn- of sneer, snarl, snatch, snide, snitch, snoop, etc.
  • phonocamptic — possessing the property of reflecting sound or producing an echo
  • phosphamidon — a systemic and contact insecticide, C 1 0 H 1 9 ClNO 5 P, used against beetles, aphids, mites, and other crop pests.
  • photodynamic — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • photomachine — a machine that prints copies of digital photographs
  • physiognomic — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
  • picrocarmine — a red powder containing carmine and picric acid which is used in staining processes
  • pigmentation — coloration, especially of the skin.
  • piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
  • pinchcommons — a person who is frugal with food
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