microorganisms
nounHow to pronounce microorganisms:
Definition of microorganisms:
- microorganisms (noun):
- any microscopic organism, esp. a disease-causing bacterium
- an organism (such as a bacterium or protozoan) of microscopic or ultramicroscopic size
Synonyms for microorganisms:
bacillus
bacterium
bug
germ
micro-organism
microbe
microorganism
virus
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- compartmentalize
- alternatively
- irretractable
- habitually
- imperturbable
- pseudopodia
- obliviously
- Machiavellian
- perspicacious
- ineffectual
- juxtaposition
- deliberately
- secretariat
- particularly
- pulchritudinous
- occasionally
- accommodation
- inescapable
- sophisticated
- infidelity
- unconquerable
- irrefutable
- extermination
- ingenuity
- frenetically
- irreparable
- equivocally
- paediatrician
- omnifarious
- denominator
- invariably
- traditionally
- inhabitable
- prodigiously
- grandiloquence
- idolization
- modernization
- inexpressible
- comparatively
- circumlocution
- apprehensible
- autological
- magniloquent
- cephalisation
- animadversion
- congratulations
- anniversary
- conglomeration
- infrequently
- unmeasurable
- … more
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