13-letter words containing i, n, s, c
- narrowcasting — Present participle of narrowcast.
- nationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
- necessariness — being essential, indispensable, or requisite: a necessary part of the motor.
- necessitarian — a person who advocates or supports necessitarianism (distinguished from libertarian).
- necessitating — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
- necessitation — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
- necessitative — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
- necessitously — In a necessitous way.
- necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- nectarivorous — feeding on nectar
- neo-classical — (sometimes initial capital letter) belonging or pertaining to a revival of classic styles or something that is held to resemble classic styles, as in art, literature, music, or architecture.
- neocapitalism — a politico-economic theory combining elements of capitalism and socialism
- neocapitalist — a person who advocates neocapitalism
- neoclassicism — (often initial capital letter) Architecture. the trend or movement prevailing in the architecture of Europe, America, and various European colonies at various periods during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, characterized by the introduction and widespread use of Greek orders and decorative motifs, the subordination of detail to simple, strongly geometric overall compositions, the presence of light colors or shades, frequent shallowness of relief in ornamental treatment of façades, and the absence of textural effects.
- neoclassicist — (sometimes initial capital letter) belonging or pertaining to a revival of classic styles or something that is held to resemble classic styles, as in art, literature, music, or architecture.
- neoplasticism — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- nephrectomies — Plural form of nephrectomy.
- neurosciences — Plural form of neuroscience.
- neurosurgical — Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
- new age music — a type of gentle melodic popular music originating in the US in the late 1980s, which takes in elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and is played largely on synthesizers and acoustic instruments
- new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
- new criticism — (often initial capital letters) an approach to the critical study of literature that concentrates on textual explication and rejects historical and biographical study as irrelevant to an understanding of the total formal organization of a work.
- new economics — Keynesianism.
- nice-nellyism — excessive modesty; prudishness.
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- nickel silver — German silver.
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- nicoise olive — a small variety of olive with a rich, nutty flavor.
- niçoise salad — salade niçoise
- niedersachsen — German name of Lower Saxony.
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
- ninety-second — next after the ninety-first; being the ordinal number for 92.
- nits-and-lice — a yellow-flowered plant, Hypericum drummondii, of the central U.S.
- no such thing — You can say there is no such thing as something to emphasize that it does not exist or is not possible.
- nominal scale — a discrete classification of data, in which data are neither measured nor ordered but subjects are merely allocated to distinct categories: for example, a record of students' course choices constitutes nominal data which could be correlated with school results
- non-accession — the act of coming into the possession of a right, title, office, etc.: accession to the throne.
- non-aesthetic — relating to the philosophy of aesthetics; concerned with notions such as the beautiful and the ugly.
- non-causative — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- non-christian — (of a person, country, etc) not adhering to the Christian faith
- non-collusion — a secret agreement, especially for fraudulent or treacherous purposes; conspiracy: Some of his employees were acting in collusion to rob him.
- non-communist — not following, belonging to, or associated with the Communist Party or Communism.
- non-composite — Nautical. noting a vessel having frames of one material and shells and decking of another, especially one having iron or steel frames with shells and decks planked.
- non-corrosive — having the quality of corroding or eating away; erosive.
- non-custodial — of or relating to custody.
- non-deciduous — shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs.
- non-episcopal — of or relating to a bishop: episcopal authority.
- non-exclusion — an act or instance of excluding.
- non-exclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.