12-letter words containing e, u, n, i
- nonconducive — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
- nondeductive — not related to deduction or subtraction
- noneducation — not involving education
- nonexclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
- nonexecution — Failure to execute or perform.
- nonexecutive — a person or group of persons having administrative or supervisory authority in an organization.
- nonfluencies — spoken or written with ease: fluent French.
- nonincumbent — a candidate or party in an election that does not already hold the position
- noninducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- noninductive — not inductive: a noninductive resistance.
- noninfluence — a lack of influence, failure to influence
- noninsurance — the condition or state of not having insurance
- nonintrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- nonintuitive — perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind.
- nonmercurial — not composed of, resembling, or containing mercury
- nonnumerical — not containing or involving numbers
- nonnutritive — serving to nourish; providing nutriment; nutritious.
- nonocclusive — occluding or tending to occlude.
- nonpurposive — lacking purpose
- nonqualified — unqualified (def 1).
- nonrecurring — not occurring or happening again, especially often or periodically.
- nonreligious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- nonunionised — Alternative spelling of nonunionized.
- nonunionized — Not belonging to or recognizing a labor union.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
- nourishments — Plural form of nourishment.
- nucleic acid — any of a group of long, linear macromolecules, either DNA or various types of RNA, that carry genetic information directing all cellular functions: composed of linked nucleotides.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
- nucleophilic — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
- nuisance tax — a tax paid in small but frequent amounts, usually by consumers.
- nullipotence — Quality of being nullipotent.
- numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
- numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
- numinousness — The state or quality of being numinous.
- nun's fiddle — trumpet marine.
- nurse's aide — a person who assists professional nurses, as in a hospital, by performing such routine tasks as making beds and serving meals.
- nurserymaids — Plural form of nurserymaid.
- nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- old mine cut — a brilliant cut, common in the 19th century, retaining a relatively high proportion of the original stone and having a large culet and small table compared to modern brilliants.
- oleaginously — In an oleaginous manner.
- oleoresinous — pertaining to, characteristic of, or containing oleoresin.
- on the quiet — If something is done on the quiet, it is done secretly or in such a way that people do not notice it.
- on your bike — away you go