12-letter words containing n, o, r, m, c
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- normothermic — (medicine) Having a normal body temperature.
- nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
- nychthemeron — a twenty-four hour span that includes a night and a day
- nyctitropism — tending to assume at or just before nightfall positions unlike those maintained during the day, as the leaves or flowers of certain plants.
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- omnipresence — present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.
- on the march — If a group of soldiers are on the march, they are marching somewhere.
- once removed — relative: one generation older
- onward march — the continuing, advancing or improving movement (of situation, etc)
- orange march — a parade on Orangemen's day
- orchidomania — an obsession with or passion for orchids
- 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.
- ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
- ornithomancy — Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc.
- 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.
- overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
- overcramming — excessive cramming
- overdocument — to document excessively
- panchromatic — sensitive to all visible colors, as a photographic film.
- panpharmacon — a remedy or panacea
- parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
- 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.
- part company — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- 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
- pen computer — a computer, as a personal digital assistant, having pattern-recognition software enabling it to read handwritten text or drawings input on the screen by means of a stylus.
- perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- 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).
- 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)
- 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.
- postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- postromantic — of or relating to the period after Romanticism
- pre-ceremony — the formal activities conducted on some solemn or important public or state occasion: the coronation ceremony.
- 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.
- pro-american — in favour of or supporting America, its people, culture, etc
- pro-monarchy — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- prochain ami — a next friend or next of kin
- prochein ami — next friend.
- proclamation — something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.
- protactinium — a radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Pa; atomic number: 91.
- pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
- pyromaniacal — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- race norming — the process of statistically adjusting the scores of minority job applicants on job-qualification tests by rating each test-taker's score against the results of others in his or her racial or ethnic group.