12-letter words containing o, g, m
- home posting — an appointment to a position within one's own country
- home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- hominy grits — grits (def 1).
- homo-zygotic — having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
- homogenising — Present participle of homogenise.
- homogenizing — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- homologation — to approve; confirm or ratify.
- homologizing — Present participle of homologize.
- homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
- homozygosity — having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- honeymooning — (of a married couple) On a honeymoon.
- hood molding — a molding or dripstone over a door or window.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- human genome — genetic code of human beings
- hydroforming — the production of high-octane aromatic compounds for motor fuels by catalytic reforming of naphthas in the presence of hydrogen.
- hygrothermal — (physics) Of or pertaining to both humidity and temperature.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- hypoglycemia — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
- hypoglycemic — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- immigrations — Plural form of immigration.
- immobilising — Present participle of immobilise.
- immobilizing — Present participle of immobilize.
- immunoglobin — (immunology, protein) Any protein that functions as an antibody.
- immunologist — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- imogene coca — Imogene, 1908–2001, U.S. comic actress.
- impassioning — Present participle of impassion.
- impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
- implantology — the branch of dentistry dealing with the permanent implantation or attachment of artificial teeth in the jaw.
- imposingness — The quality of being imposing.
- impregnation — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- in good form — fit, healthy
- in good time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- in-migration — to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory.
- income group — a group in a given population having incomes within a certain range
- incompassing — Present participle of incompass.
- infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
- ingemination — Repetition; reduplication; reiteration.
- intromitting — Present participle of intromit.
- ironmonger's — a shop where articles for the house and garden such as tools, nails, and pans are sold
- john gilmore — (person) A noted Unix hacker who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with Brian Reid. He also worked on GDB. E-mail: John Gilmore <[email protected]>.
- karyomapping — a technique for determining whether an embryo has inherited a genetic defect by analysing DNA taken from it and its close relatives
- kashmir goat — one of a long-haired breed of goat raised in Tibet and the higher elevations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and Turkey for its meat, milk, and cashmere wool.
- keeping room — hall (def 11).
- kigoma-ujiji — a city composed of two merged towns in W Tanzania, on Lake Tanganyika: Stanley found Livingstone in Ujiji 1871.
- king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.