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13-letter words containing a, g, e, n, s, i

  • night jasmine — Also called hursinghar, sad tree, tree of sadness. a jasminelike, Indian shrub or small tree, Nyctanthes arbor-tristis, of the verbena family, having fragrant, white and orange flowers that bloom at night.
  • nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
  • nitrogen base — Chemistry, Biochemistry. a nitrogen-containing organic compound that has the chemical properties of a base, especially a pyrimidine or purine: Four nitrogen bases are present in a DNA molecule.
  • noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
  • noise shaping — (communications)   Spectral noise transformation in a quantisation processes. Noise is "colourised" in the time domain an/or frequency domain by adding parts of the previous sample. The SNR bandwidth and SNR time integral stay the same, so some noise decreases, some increases, but overall noise always increases. An example of noise shaping in the frequency domain is quantisation of samples on a Compact Disc to reduce noise below -98 dB. The are different algorithms with slightly different filters, e.g. Super Bitmapping, 4D Recording. A time domain example is MPEG-4 AAC TNS, which is a method to enhance quality by temporal forming of the noise in a transform block.
  • nominal wages — minimum pay
  • non-designate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
  • nonagenarians — Plural form of nonagenarian.
  • nonaggression — abstention from aggression, especially by a nation.
  • nonaggressive — Not aggressive.
  • nonce-bashing — violent attacks against rapists, child molesters, or sexual offenders, esp inside a prison
  • nondecreasing — not decreasing.
  • nongregarious — (zoology) Not gregarious; solitary. Compare 'ungregarious'.
  • nonincreasing — not increasing.
  • norwegian sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, N and E of Iceland and between Greenland and Norway.
  • ocean springs — a town in SE Mississippi.
  • octogenarians — Plural form of octogenarian.
  • oligosiloxane — (organic chemistry) Any polysiloxane having a relatively small number of -Si-O- groups.
  • orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
  • organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
  • organoarsenic — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to arsenic bond.
  • organogenesis — Biology. the origin and development of an organ.
  • originalities — Plural form of originality.
  • orthogonalise — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
  • over-standing — overreach (def 13).
  • overdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdiagnose.
  • overdiagnosis — excessive diagnosis of a disease
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • palingenesist — a person who believes in a doctrine of rebirth or transmigration of souls.
  • pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
  • panic selling — widespread selling of a security or investment, causing sharp price declines. Usually caused by an unexpected event seen to devalue the security.
  • pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • paramagnetism — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • passing place — a wider place on a narrow road where vehicles can pass
  • pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
  • pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • place setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
  • place-setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
  • plane sailing — sailing on a course plotted without reference to the curvature of the earth.
  • planetologist — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
  • plasma engine — an engine that generates thrust by reaction to the emission of a jet of plasma
  • playing games — If you say that someone is playing games or playing silly games, you mean that they are not treating a situation seriously and you are annoyed with them.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
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