12-letter words containing o, r, e, m
- numerousness — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
- nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
- nurserywomen — Plural form of nurserywoman.
- nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- nychthemeron — a twenty-four hour span that includes a night and a day
- oamaru stone — a kind of limestone, of building quality, found at Oamaru on South Island, New Zealand
- obcompressed — compressed or flattened in a way opposite to the usual, as back to front instead of side to side.
- oberammergau — a village in S Germany, SW of Munich: famous for the passion play performed there every ten years.
- oboe d'amore — a type of oboe pitched a minor third lower than the oboe itself. It is used chiefly in the performance of baroque music
- oboe d'amour — an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.
- oil minister — a government official responsible for the oil industry in their country
- oil terminal — a large industrial complex where oil is stored and from which oil is transported elsewhere; an oil depot
- olfactometer — a device for estimating the keenness of the sense of smell.
- olfactometry — The study and measurement of smells.
- oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- omega baryon — a negative baryon having a mass 3272 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of 8 X 10 -11 seconds.
- 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
- oophorectomy — the operation of removing one or both ovaries; ovariectomy.
- open primary — a direct primary election in which voters need not meet a test of party membership.
- operationism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
- optometrical — the practice or profession of examining the eyes, by means of suitable instruments or appliances, for defects in vision and eye disorders in order to prescribe corrective lenses or other appropriate treatment.
- optometrists — Plural form of optometrist.
- 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 march — a parade on Orangemen's day
- orchidectomy — orchiectomy.
- order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
- orderly room — the administrative office of a small military unit.
- 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.
- ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
- ornamentally — In an ornamental way.
- orthoformate — an ester of orthoformic acid.
- oscillometer — an instrument for measuring oscillations, especially those of the arterial pulse.
- oscillometry — an instrument for measuring oscillations, especially those of the arterial pulse.
- osmoreceptor — A sensory receptor, primarily found in the hypothalamus of most homeothermic organisms, that detects changes in osmotic pressure.
- osteosarcoma — a malignant tumor of the bone.
- other income — Other income is income that does not come from a company's main business, such as interest.
- out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
- outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
- outmanoeuvre — British. outmaneuver.
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
- outperformer — One who outperforms.
- ovariotomies — Plural form of ovariotomy.
- over-complex — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
- over-promise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.