19-letter words containing i, r, a, t, o

music to one's ears — something that is very pleasant to hear
mutual masturbation — the act of two or more people masturbating each other
napierian logarithm — natural logarithm.
narcotics anonymous — an organization that helps drug users recover from drug addiction
nasty piece of work — malicious person
nathaniel hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
national book award — any of several awards given annually, 1949–79, to an author whose book was judged the best in its category: administered by the Association of American Publishers. Abbreviation: NBA, N.B.A.
national characters — (character) Characters with accents and other diacritical marks that are used in certain written languages (that are based on the Roman alphabet) but not in others, particularly not in English. A standard list is ISO Latin 1.
national coal board — a statutory corporation set up to run Britain's nationalised coal mining industry between 1947 and 1994, at which time the industry was privatized
national curriculum — The National Curriculum is the course of study that most school pupils in England and Wales are meant to follow between the ages of 5 and 16.
national government — A national government is a government with members from more than one political party, especially one that is formed during a crisis.
national serviceman — a soldier undertaking compulsory military service
necessary condition — prerequisite
negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
neighbourhood watch — a scheme under which members of a community agree together to take responsibility for keeping an eye on each other's property, as a way of preventing crime
network termination — (NT, NT1) A device connecting the customer's data or telephone equipment to the local ISDN exchange carrier's line. The NT device provides a connection for terminal equipment (TE) and terminal adaptor (TA) equipment to the local loop.
neuropathologically — In a neuropathologic way.
neurotransmissional — Relating to neurotransmission.
new year resolution — a promise to yourself or decision to do something, especially to improve one's behaviour or lifestyle in some way, during the year ahead
niagara-on-the-lake — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Niagara River, on the border between Canada and New York.
nine plus two array — the arrangement of microtubules in a flagellum or cilium, consisting of a ring of nine evenly spaced couplets surrounding two central singlets. Symbol: 9 + 2.
no strings attached — without conditions
no-write allocation — (memory management) A cache policy where only processor reads are cached, thus avoiding the need for write-back or write-through.
non-confrontational — tending toward or ready for confrontation: They came to the meeting with a confrontational attitude.
non-standardization — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
non-transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
non-volatile memory — non-volatile storage
nonforfeiture value — any benefit, as cash or other form of insurance, available to a life-insurance policyholder who discontinues premium payments on the policy.
nonmaterial culture — the aggregate of values, mores, norms, etc., of a society; the ideational structure of a culture that provides the values and meanings by which it functions.
nonproprietary drug — A nonproprietary drug is a generic drug that is essentially similar to a drug with a brand name.
nonrepresentational — not resembling or portraying any object in physical nature: a nonrepresentational painting.
nordrhein-westfalen — German name of North Rhine-Westphalia.
normal distribution — a theoretical frequency distribution represented by a normal curve.
north pacific ocean — the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, extending from the equator to the Arctic Ocean.
northwest ordinance — the act of Congress in 1787 providing for the government of the Northwest Territory and setting forth the steps by which its subdivisions might become states.
not care/give a fig — If you say that someone doesn't care a fig or doesn't give a fig about something, you are emphasizing that they think it is unimportant or that they are not interested in it.
notre-dame-de-paris — Also called Notre Dame de Paris [French naw-truh dam duh pa-ree] /French nɔ trə dam də paˈri/ (Show IPA). a famous early gothic cathedral in Paris (started 1163).
nuits-saint-georges — a fine red wine produced near the town of Nuits-Saint-Georges in Burgundy
observation balloon — a balloon that is used for gathering information and reconnaissance purposes and spotting aircraft
occupation grouping — a category in a system of classifying people according to occupation, based originally on information obtained by government census and subsequently developed by market research. The classifications are used by the advertising industry to identify potential markets. The groups are A, B, C1, C2, D, and E
occupational hazard — a danger or hazard to workers that is inherent in a particular occupation: Silicosis is an occupational hazard of miners.
oil-catalyst slurry — Oil-catalyst slurry is a heavy aromatic by-product of a refinery's fluid catalytic cracking unit, that forms a small part of global fuel oil supply.
old english pattern — a spoon pattern having a stem curving backward at the end.
olive-backed thrush — Swainson's thrush.
on first name terms — If two people are on first-name terms, they know each other well enough to call each other by their first names, rather than having to use a more formal title.
on no consideration — for no reason whatsoever; never
on the baker's list — in good health
on-the-job training — apprenticeship, learning by doing
operational testing — (testing) A US DoD term for testing performed by the end-user on software in its normal operating environment.
operations director — a director or senior manager who oversees the efficiency of business operations

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