14-letter words containing a, s, t, r, n
- natural person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- natural rights — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
- naturalisation — Alternative spelling of naturalization.
- nature reserve — protected area for wildlife
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- necessitarians — Plural form of necessitarian.
- nectareousness — the state or quality of being nectareous
- neil armstrong — (Daniel) Louis ("Satchmo") 1900–71, U.S. jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
- nematodiriasis — the condition, esp in sheep, of having parasitic nematode worms of the genus Nematodirus in the small intestine
- neoromanticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) Fine Arts. a style of painting developed in the 20th century, chiefly characterized by forms or images that project a sense of nostalgia and fantasy.
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- neuroanatomist — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
- neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
- neutral monism — the theory that mind and matter consist of different relations between entities that are themselves neither mental nor physical.
- neutralisation — The act of neutralising.
- new australian — an immigrant to Australia, esp one whose native tongue is not English
- new jersey tea — a North American shrub, Ceanothus americanus, of the buckthorn family, the leaves of which were used as a substitute for tea during the American Revolution.
- new york state — New York (def 1).
- news broadcast — TV, radio: current affairs item
- news gathering — the work of collecting news for publication or broadcast
- nielsen rating — an estimate of the total number of viewers for a particular television program, expressed as a percentage of the total number of viewers whose television sets are on at the time and based on a monitoring of the sets of a preselected sample of viewers.
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- no easy matter — If something is no easy matter, it is difficult to do it.
- no sooner…than — immediately after or when
- non-altruistic — unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others (opposed to egoistic).
- non-astringent — Medicine/Medical. contracting; constrictive; styptic.
- non-conversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- non-extraneous — introduced or coming from without; not belonging or proper to a thing; external; foreign: extraneous substances in our water.
- non-gratuitous — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
- non-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- non-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- non-naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.
- non-resistance — the policy or practice of not resisting violence or established authority, even when tyrannical, by force.
- non-separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
- non-stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- nonassertively — In a nonassertive way.
- noncharismatic — a person or group not involved in the Christian charismatic movement
- noncontrastive — not contrastive.
- noncrystalline — of or like crystal; clear; transparent.
- nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
- nonobstetrical — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
- nonparasitized — Not having been parasitized.
- nonpsychiatric — not psychiatric
- nonresidential — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
- nonrestorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
- nonsegregation — the quality or condition of being nonsegregated
- nonspectacular — not spectacular
- nonsuppurative — Not suppurative.
- nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
- nontranslucent — Not translucent.