12-letter words containing g, i, n, l
- navel-gazing — excessive absorption in self-analysis or focus on a single issue.
- navigability — deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships: a navigable channel.
- navigational — the act or process of navigating.
- necrological — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- neglectingly — in a neglecting manner
- nematologist — One who studies nematology.
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- nettle sting — a skin wound caused by a nettle
- neurobiology — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- 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.
- 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-laid egg — an egg that has been freshly laid by a chicken
- nice-looking — Someone who is nice-looking is physically attractive.
- night letter — former name of overnight telegram. Abbreviation: NL.
- night lizard — any of several nocturnal lizards of the family Xantusiidae, of southwestern North America and Cuba, which bear live young.
- night people — a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.
- night school — a school held in the evening, especially for working adults and others who are unable to attend school during the day.
- nightclothes — Clothes worn to bed.
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- nightingales — Plural form of nightingale.
- nitrogelatin — gelatin dynamite.
- nizhni tagil — a city in the Russian Federation in Asia, on the E slope of the Ural Mountains.
- non-diagonal — Mathematics. connecting two nonadjacent angles or vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, as a straight line. extending from one edge of a solid figure to an opposite edge, as a plane.
- non-eligible — fit or proper to be chosen; worthy of choice; desirable: to marry an eligible bachelor. Synonyms: suitable, fitting. Antonyms: ineligible, unsuitable, unacceptable.
- non-fungible — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
- non-tangible — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
- non-yielding — inclined to give in; submissive; compliant: a timid, yielding man.
- nonalignment — the state or condition of being nonaligned.
- nonbelieving — Not a believer; in particular, not a member of a specific religious group.
- nonbiologist — a person who is not a biologist
- noncomplying — the failure to comply; non-compliance
- nondepleting — not depleting
- nonflowering — (biology) Of a plant, not flowering; reproducing by means other than pollination from flowers.
- nonladdering — (of garments made of knitted material) designed so that the interconnected stitches will not come undone if snagged
- nonmalignant — Not malignant, without malice.
- nonnegligent — not negligent; wilful
- nonpolluting — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- nonreligious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- nonyellowing — that does not become yellow, esp with age
- nosebleeding — bleeding emanating from the nose
- nothing like — totally dissimilar to, completely unlike
- nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
- numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
- obligational — obligatory.
- obligingness — The quality of being obliging; the tendency to cater for the desires of others.
- obliterating — Present participle of obliterate.