13-letter words containing i, n, t, r, s, c
- necessitarian — a person who advocates or supports necessitarianism (distinguished from libertarian).
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- nectarivorous — feeding on nectar
- nephrectomies — Plural form of nephrectomy.
- 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.
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- non-christian — (of a person, country, etc) not adhering to the Christian faith
- non-obstetric — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
- non-realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- non-sectarian — not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination.
- nonconformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
- nonhistorical — Not based on or drawn from history.
- nonhysterical — not hysterical or funny
- nonpractising — of or relating to a person who no longer observes or pursues his or her religious faith
- nonresistance — the policy or practice of not resisting violence or established authority, even when tyrannical, by force.
- nonrestricted — confined; limited.
- nutrigenetics — the branch of science concerned with the effect of heredity on diet and nutrition
- nutrigenomics — the study of how individual genetic makeup interacts with diet, especially the effects of this interaction on a person's health.
- obstetricians — Plural form of obstetrician.
- oceanic crust — the brown, hard outer portion or surface of a loaf or slice of bread (distinguished from crumb).
- octogenarians — Plural form of octogenarian.
- oneiroscopist — a person who specialises in studying and interpreting dreams
- opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
- opportunistic — adhering to a policy of opportunism; practicing opportunism.
- orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
- orchestration — (uncountable) the arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
- ornithischian — any herbivorous dinosaur of the order Ornithischia, having a pelvis resembling that of a bird. Compare saurischian.
- ostracisation — Alternative form of ostracization.
- ostracization — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- oversecretion — (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- pantisocratic — relating to pantisocracy
- para-centesis — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- parasynthetic — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
- paternalistic — the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children: The employees objected to the paternalism of the old president.
- pencil stripe — a stripe of varying widths, especially a dark stripe on a light ground.
- percussionist — a musician who plays percussion instruments.
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
- perscrutation — a very careful exploration or inspection
- personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- pet insurance — health insurance for a pet
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
- pococurantist — a person who demonstrates a tendency toward indifference
- polycistronic — of or relating to the transcription of two or more adjacent cistrons into a single messenger RNA molecule.
- pontificators — the office or term of office of a pontiff.