12-letter words containing r, o, n, g
- mooring buoy — a buoy to which ships or boats can be moored.
- mooring mast — the mast or tower to which a dirigible is moored.
- mooring rack — a row of piles, connected at the tops, to which ships or boats can be moored.
- moralizingly — In a moralizing fashion.
- morigeration — (obsolete) obsequiousness; obedience.
- morning coat — a man's cutaway for wear as part of morning dress.
- morning line — a list of entries for a horse race with the probable betting odds as estimated by a bookmaker or track handicapper, usually issued the morning of the race, before wagering begins.
- morning room — In some large, old houses, the morning room is a living room which gets the sun in the morning.
- morning star — a bright planet, especially Venus, seen in the east immediately before sunrise.
- morphonology — morphophonemics (def 1).
- mortifyingly — In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.
- morton grove — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- mothproofing — Present participle of mothproof.
- motor racing — sport: competing in fast cars
- motorboating — a boat propelled by an inboard or outboard motor.
- motorcycling — Present participle of motorcycle.
- moulin rouge — a dance hall in the Montmartre section of Paris, France, opened in 1889 and famous for its cancan dancers and the drawings of its performers and customers made there by Toulouse-Lautrec.
- movie rating — a classification of a film as according to the age of viewers thought suitable to see it, and which can differ according to the level in the film of violent content, sexual content, etc
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
- myoneuralgia — myalgia.
- myringoscope — an instrument for examining the eardrum
- narcological — Relating to narcology.
- narrow gauge — a standard of measure or measurement.
- natal orange — a spiny shrub, Strychnos spinosa, of the logania family, of central and southern Africa, having yellowish-white flowers and edible, berrylike, yellow fruit.
- naughty word — a word that is considered to be rude
- navel orange — a seedless variety of orange having at the apex a navellike formation containing a small secondary fruit.
- necrographer — a person who writes obituaries
- necrological — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- neighborhood — the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.
- neighbouring — (British, Canada) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
- nemorivagant — Lb rare wandering in the woods.
- nephrography — Diagnostic imaging of the kidneys.
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- neurobiology — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neurogenesis — The growth and development of nervous tissue.
- neurogenetic — (medicine) Of or pertaining to neurogenetics, the study of the genetic basis of nerve and brain function.
- neuroimaging — (neurology) The generation of images showing brain activity (or activity in other parts of the nervous system). (from 20th c.).
- neurological — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
- neurologists — Plural form of neurologist.
- neurosurgeon — surgery of the brain or other nerve tissue.
- neurosurgery — surgery of the brain or other nerve tissue.
- new brighton — a town in E Minnesota.
- nigger brown — a dark brown colour
- night editor — an editor responsible for getting a morning newspaper to press, for the night operations of a wire service, or the like.
- night person — a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.
- night porter — A night porter is a person whose job is to be on duty at the main reception desk of a hotel throughout the night.
- night terror — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
- nitrogelatin — gelatin dynamite.