9-letter words containing c, r, o, t, n
- neglector — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- neocortex — the largest and evolutionarily most recent portion of the cerebral cortex, composed of complex, layered tissue, the site of most of the higher brain functions.
- nephrotic — Pertaining to, resembling or caused by nephrosis.
- neurotics — Plural form of neurotic.
- neutronic — (physics) Involving neutrons.
- nictheroy — Niterói.
- nocturnal — of or relating to the night (opposed to diurnal).
- nocturnes — Plural form of nocturne.
- non-actor — a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.
- noncredit — (of academic courses) carrying or conferring no official academic credit in a particular program or toward a particular degree or diploma.
- nondirect — Not direct.
- nondoctor — a person who is not a medical doctor
- nonerotic — Not erotic.
- nonfactor — Something which is not a factor, or does not play a significant role.
- nonmetric — not metric
- nonracist — One who is not a racist.
- nonrhotic — denoting or speaking a dialect of English in which preconsonantal rs are not pronounced
- nonsecret — not secret
- nontragic — not tragic
- nonvector — a quantity without size and direction
- nootropic — (medicine) Any substance purported to increase cognitive abilities.
- normocyte — an erythrocyte of normal size.
- northwich — a town in NW England, in Cheshire: salt and chemical industries. Pop: 39 568 (2001)
- nostratic — designating or of a proposed language superfamily that includes the Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Uralic, and Altaic families
- notecards — An ambitious hypertext system developed at Xerox PARC, "designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections".
- notochord — a rodlike cord of cells that forms the chief axial supporting structure of the body of the lower chordates, as amphioxus and the cyclostomes, and of the embryos of the vertebrates.
- nucleator — having a nucleus.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- occurrent — the action, fact, or instance of occurring.
- octonarii — lines with eight feet
- octothorn — Alternative form of octothorpe, the symbol #.
- on credit — with payment to be made at a future date
- oncometer — an instrument for measuring the size of body organs
- one-acter — a short play consisting of one act.
- one-track — having only one track.
- optronics — Optoelectronics.
- ostracean — a member of the family formerly called Ostracea
- outcrying — Present participle of outcry.
- outreckon — to surpass in reckoning
- overcount — To count more of something than are actually present, or to count one thing disproportionately more than another.
- pantropic — (especially of viruses) attracted to or affecting many types of body tissues.
- paratonic — (of a plant movement) occurring in response to an external stimulus
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- precentor — a person who leads a church choir or congregation in singing.
- princeton — a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.
- proaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- procident — relating to a prolapse
- procreant — procreating or generating: a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
- prolactin — an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- proteinic — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.