12-letter words containing g, i, e, r
- nemorivagant — Lb rare wandering in the woods.
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- nerve ending — Your nerve endings are the millions of points on the surface of your body and inside it which send messages to your brain when you feel sensations such as heat, cold, and pain.
- net earnings — income after tax
- neurobiology — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neurogenesis — The growth and development of nervous tissue.
- neurogenetic — (medicine) Of or pertaining to neurogenetics, the study of the genetic basis of nerve and brain function.
- neuroimaging — (neurology) The generation of images showing brain activity (or activity in other parts of the nervous system). (from 20th c.).
- neurological — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
- neurologists — Plural form of neurologist.
- neutralising — Present participle of neutralise.
- neutralizing — (American spelling) alternative spelling of neutralisingt; present participle of neutralize.
- never-ending — having or likely to have no end: never-ending worry.
- new brighton — a town in E Minnesota.
- new learning — the humanist revival of classical Greek and Latin studies and the development of Biblical scholarship in the 15th and 16th centuries in Europe.
- new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
- newspapering — Present participle of newspaper.
- nigger brown — a dark brown colour
- night dancer — (in Uganda) a person believed to employ the help of the dead in destroying other people
- night editor — an editor responsible for getting a morning newspaper to press, for the night operations of a wire service, or the like.
- night letter — former name of overnight telegram. Abbreviation: NL.
- night person — a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.
- night porter — A night porter is a person whose job is to be on duty at the main reception desk of a hotel throughout the night.
- night prayer — the last of the seven canonical hours; compline
- night terror — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- nightdresses — Plural form of nightdress.
- ninth-grader — a student in their ninth year at school
- nitrogelatin — gelatin dynamite.
- nitrogenized — Treated with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound.
- noise margin — (electronics) The voltage difference between the guaranteed output level and the required input voltage level of a logic gate.
- non-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- nonagenarian — of the age of 90 years, or between 90 and 100 years old.
- nonbreaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- nonbreathing — not breathing
- nondeforming — not causing deformity
- nonflowering — (biology) Of a plant, not flowering; reproducing by means other than pollination from flowers.
- nonirrigated — not irrigated; dry
- nonladdering — (of garments made of knitted material) designed so that the interconnected stitches will not come undone if snagged
- nonoperating — Not operating.
- nonrecurring — not occurring or happening again, especially often or periodically.
- nonreligious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- nonresisting — Unresisting; without resistance.
- nonsovereign — Not sovereign.
- nonstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
- numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
- nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
- objecteering — (programming, tool) An object-oriented design tool from Softeam, based on the Class Relation Methodology, with C++ code generation.