12-letter words containing r, e, l, i, c
- non-reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- nonbacterial — Not bacterial.
- noncelebrity — a person who is not a celebrity
- noncollinear — lying in the same straight line.
- nonempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
- nonmercurial — not composed of, resembling, or containing mercury
- nonnumerical — not containing or involving numbers
- nonrealistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- nonspherical — not spherical
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- ochlocracies — Plural form of ochlocracy.
- officeholder — a person filling a governmental position; public official.
- oil producer — a country with reserves of oil
- olericulture — the cultivation of vegetables for the home or market.
- oligophrenic — less than normal mental development.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- on principle — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
- operatically — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- optical grep — vgrep
- 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.
- oral society — a society that has not developed literacy
- organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
- orichalceous — relating to or resembling orichalc
- orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.
- oscillometer — an instrument for measuring oscillations, especially those of the arterial pulse.
- oscillometry — an instrument for measuring oscillations, especially those of the arterial pulse.
- otosclerosis — formation of new bone about the stapes or cochlea, resulting in hearing loss.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overclocking — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overexplicit — excessively explicit
- overinclined — extremely or excessively inclined (to)
- overreliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- papier colle — collage.
- para-medical — related to the medical profession in a secondary or supplementary capacity.
- parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
- parochialise — to make parochial.
- parochialize — to make parochial.
- participable — capable of being shared.
- particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
- pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
- pectoriloquy — vocalization through the chest wall, indicating a cavity or consolidation of the lung
- pedicellaria — one of the minute pincerlike structures common to starfish and sea urchins, used for cleaning and to capture tiny prey.
- 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
- pelvic floor — muscles beneath the pelvis
- pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.