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16-letter words containing a, c, l, e, n

  • nassella tussock — type of tussock grass
  • national charter — the principles or movement of a party of political reformers, chiefly workingmen, in England from 1838 to 1848: so called from the document (People's Charter or National Charter) that contained a statement of their principles and demands.
  • national costume — traditional dress
  • national service — National service is service in the armed forces, which young people in certain countries have to do by law.
  • natural resource — a naturally occurring source of wealth, as land or water.
  • nature-identical — manufactured to be identical to a natural substance
  • near the knuckle — risqué
  • necklace killing — an instance in which someone is killed by a burning tyre that has been placed around his or her neck.
  • nephrocalcinosis — (medicine) The deposition of calcium salts in the renal parenchyma due to hyperparathyroidism.
  • neurasthenically — In a neurasthenic way.
  • nevado de colima — a volcano in SW Mexico, in Jalisco state. Height: 4339 m (14 235 ft)
  • nevado de toluca — a volcano in central Mexico, in Mexico state near Toluca: crater partly filled by a lake. Height: 4577 m (15 017 ft)
  • new commonwealth — a term used esp in the latter part of the 20th century in Britain to describe countries in the British Commonwealth that became independent after World War II
  • new haven colony — a settlement founded in 1638 by John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton at Quinnipiac (now New Haven, Conn.).
  • nicoya peninsula — a peninsula in NW Costa Rica, on the Pacific Ocean.
  • nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
  • no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
  • nominal sentence — a sentence consisting of a subject and complement without a linking verb, as Very interesting, those books.
  • non-accumulative — tending to accumulate or arising from accumulation; cumulative.
  • non-alphabetical — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
  • non-coincidental — happening by or resulting from coincidence; by chance: a coincidental meeting.
  • non-confidential — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • non-conventional — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
  • non-genealogical — the study of family ancestries and histories.
  • non-geographical — of or relating to geography.
  • non-hierarchical — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hierarchy.
  • non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • non-reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.
  • nonarchitectural — Not architectural.
  • noncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
  • nonrecourse loan — a loan for which the borrower cannot be held responsible for any amount in excess of the security for the loan, even if the value of such security falls below the level it had or that had been anticipated for it at the time of the loan.
  • north charleston — a city in SE South Carolina.
  • north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
  • nubuck (leather) — tanned leather similar to suede, but with the nap on the grain side
  • nuclear emulsion — a photographic emulsion in the form of a thick block, used to record the tracks of elementary particles.
  • nuclear envelope — the double membrane surrounding the nucleus within a cell.
  • nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
  • nuclear magneton — a unit of magnetic moment, used to measure proton spin and approximately equal to 1/1836 Bohr magneton.
  • nuclear medicine — diagnostic and therapeutic medical techniques using radionuclides or radioisotopes.
  • nuclear membrane — the double membrane surrounding the nucleus within a cell.
  • nuclear reaction — reaction (def 8).
  • nuclear transfer — the procedure used to produce the first cloned mammals, in which the nucleus of a somatic cell is transferred into an egg cell whose own nucleus has been removed. This cell is then stimulated by an electric shock to divide and form an embryo
  • nuclear umbrella — a guarantee from a country or state that possesses nuclear weapons to a country that does not that they will defend them
  • nucleating agent — a substance used to seed clouds to control rainfall and fog formation
  • nucleophilically — In a nucleophilic manner.
  • nuncupative will — a will made by the oral and unwritten declaration of the testator, valid only in special circumstances.
  • occasional table — a small table with no regular use
  • occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
  • on a world scale — in a way that involves the whole world
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