14-letter words containing c, n, u
- nonacquisitive — not acquisitive
- noncausatively — In a noncausative manner.
- nonchurchgoing — Not attending church.
- noncirculating — not circulating
- noncombustible — not flammable.
- noncommunicant — a person who is not a communicant.
- noncommutative — of or relating to commutation, exchange, substitution, or interchange.
- nonconcurrence — refusal or failure to concur.
- nonconsecutive — following one another in uninterrupted succession or order; successive: six consecutive numbers, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
- nonconstituent — Not constituent.
- nonconsumption — the refusal to consume certain foods
- nonconsumptive — not consumptive of a resource, product, or service
- noncontractual — relating to obligations not expressed in a contract
- noncultivation — the state of not cultivating
- nondestructive — Not involving damage or destruction, especially of an object or material that is being tested.
- nondisjunction — the failure of chromosomes to separate and segregate into daughter cells at division.
- nondocumentary — a film or television programme not reflecting real life
- noneducational — not educational or related to education
- nonequivalence — the state or fact of being equivalent; equality in value, force, significance, etc.
- nonfluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- nonfunctioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- nonimmunologic — Not immunologic.
- nonintercourse — suspension of interchange in relations, especially commercial or political relations.
- nonjusticiable — capable of being settled by law or by the action of a court: a justiciable dispute.
- nonobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- nonparticulate — Not particulate.
- nonprejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- nonprosecution — (legal) Of or pertaining to a decision not to prosecute.
- nonspectacular — not spectacular
- nonspeculative — not speculative
- nonsuch palace — a former royal palace in Cuddington in London: built in 1538 for Henry VIII; later visited by Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II; demolished (1682–1702)
- nonsynchronous — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
- nontherapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- nontranslucent — Not translucent.
- north caucasus — a region in the S Russian Federation in Europe, E of the Black Sea.
- nostro account — a bank account conducted by a British bank with a foreign bank, usually in the foreign currency
- not up to much — If you say that something is not up to much, you mean that it is of poor quality.
- nuclear energy — energy released by reactions within atomic nuclei, as in nuclear fission or fusion.
- nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- nuclear isomer — isomer (def 2).
- nuclear option — the use of or power to use nuclear weapons
- nuclear weapon — an explosive device whose destructive potential derives from the release of energy that accompanies the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei.
- nuclear winter — the general devastation of life, along with worldwide darkness and extreme cold, that some scientists believe would result from a global dust cloud screening out sunlight following large-scale nuclear detonations.
- nuclearization — to equip with nuclear weapons; give nuclear capability to: a fear that armed forces on both sides would become nuclearized.
- nucleoproteins — Plural form of nucleoprotein.
- nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
- nuisance value — the usefulness of a person's or thing's capacity to cause difficulties or irritation
- null character — Computers. a control character representing nothing, with the value of binary zero, but having special meaning when interpreted as text, as in marking the end of character strings.
- nulli secundus — second to none