12-letter words containing r, i, g, o, s
- king's crown — a tropical American shrub, Justicia carnea, of the acanthus family, bearing clusters of tubular reddish flowers.
- 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.
- labor-saving — A labor-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- legionnaires — Plural form of legionnaire.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
- loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
- logocentrism — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
- long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
- long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
- longirostral — (of birds) having a long beak
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- lugubriously — In a lugubrious manner.
- macroglossia — Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.
- magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- mastigophora — a phylum of protozoans comprising nonphotosynthetic, chiefly free-living flagellates: some species are important pathogens of humans and other animals.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
- meterologist — Misspelling of meteorologist.
- microgrooves — Plural form of microgroove.
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- microsegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by juncture.
- microsurgeon — a person who performs microsurgery
- microsurgery — any of various surgical procedures performed under magnification and with small specialized instruments, permitting very delicate operations, as the reconnection of severed blood vessels and nerves.
- migrationist — a person who considers it important for species of animals and plants to migrate for the purposes of distribution and evolution
- mineralogies — Plural form of mineralogy.
- mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
- miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
- misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
- misgoverning — Present participle of misgovern.
- misinforming — Present participle of misinform.
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
- misrecognize — (psychology, computing) To recognize in error.
- mockingbirds — Plural form of mockingbird.
- moisturising — Present participle of moisturise.
- moisturizing — Present participle of moisturize.
- monsignorial — having the ecclesiastical title of a Monsignor
- monsterizing — Present participle of monsterize.
- mooring mast — the mast or tower to which a dirigible is moored.
- morning star — a bright planet, especially Venus, seen in the east immediately before sunrise.
- morphologies — Plural form of morphology.
- morphologist — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
- myringoscope — an instrument for examining the eardrum
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- neurogenesis — The growth and development of nervous tissue.
- neurologists — Plural form of neurologist.
- night person — a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.