12-letter words containing a, p, n
- newspapermen — a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
- nickel plate — thin coating of nickel
- nickel-plate — to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.
- night prayer — the last of the seven canonical hours; compline
- nip and tuck — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
- non-adoption — the act of adopting: the adoption of a new amendment.
- non-apparent — readily seen; exposed to sight; open to view; visible: The crack in the wall was readily apparent.
- non-atrophic — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- non-culpable — deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
- non-empathic — of, relating to, or characterized by empathy, the psychological identification with the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of others: a sensitive, empathetic school counselor.
- non-hispanic — Spanish.
- non-occupant — a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something: the occupant of a taxicab; the occupants of the building.
- non-operable — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
- non-partisan — A person or group that is non-partisan does not support or help a particular political party or group.
- non-riparian — of, relating to, or situated or dwelling on the bank of a river or other body of water: riparian villas.
- nonapostolic — Not apostolic.
- noncompliant — failure or refusal to comply, as with a law, regulation, or term of a contract.
- noncorporate — Not corporate.
- noncorporeal — Not corporeal.
- nonempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
- nonexpansile — Not expansile.
- nonhappening — an event that fails to occur
- nonimportant — Not important.
- nonmunicipal — Not municipal.
- nonoperating — Not operating.
- nonoperative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- nonparasitic — Not parasitic.
- nonpassenger — One who is not a passenger.
- nonpasserine — (of a bird) not belonging or relating to the Passeriformes
- nonpermanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- nonpermeable — capable of being permeated.
- nonphosphate — lacking or absent of a phosphate or phosphate compound
- nonphysician — a person who is not a physician
- nonpolemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- nonpolitical — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- nonpractical — Not practical.
- nonrepayable — that does not need to be or cannot be repaid
- nonrepentant — Not repentant.
- nonspherical — not spherical
- nonspiritual — Not spiritual.
- nontyphoidal — of, relating to, or resembling typhoid.
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
- normal pitch — relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- north platte — a river flowing from N Colorado through SE Wyoming and W Nebraska into the Platte. 618 miles (995 sq. km) long.
- norway maple — a European maple, Acer platanoides, having bright-green leaves, grown as a shade tree in the U.S.
- nosey parker — a persistently nosy, prying person; busybody.
- note payable — A note payable is a written legal obligation to repay an amount of borrowed money at a particular future date.
- np-hilarious — (humour) An algorithm whose complexity is a joke, either literally, as in BogoSort, or metaphorically.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.