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14-letter words containing i, r, t, s

  • non-conformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
  • non-depository — a place where something is deposited or stored, as for safekeeping: the night depository of a bank.
  • non-disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
  • non-gratuitous — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
  • non-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • non-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • non-iridescent — displaying a play of lustrous colors like those of the rainbow.
  • non-naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.
  • non-nutritious — providing nourishment, especially to a high degree; nourishing; healthful: a good, nutritious meal.
  • non-resistance — the policy or practice of not resisting violence or established authority, even when tyrannical, by force.
  • non-resolution — a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
  • non-separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
  • non-stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
  • non-supporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
  • nonassertively — In a nonassertive way.
  • noncharismatic — a person or group not involved in the Christian charismatic movement
  • nonconformists — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
  • noncontrastive — not contrastive.
  • noncrystalline — of or like crystal; clear; transparent.
  • nondescription — Absence of description; failure to describe something.
  • nondescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • nondestructive — Not involving damage or destruction, especially of an object or material that is being tested.
  • nondeterminism — (computing) Dependence on factors other than initial state and input.
  • nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
  • nonintercourse — suspension of interchange in relations, especially commercial or political relations.
  • nonnitrogenous — containing no nitrogen.
  • nonobstetrical — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
  • nonobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
  • nonparasitized — Not having been parasitized.
  • nonprosecution — (legal) Of or pertaining to a decision not to prosecute.
  • nonpsychiatric — not psychiatric
  • nonresidential — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
  • nonrestorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
  • nonrestrictive — not restrictive or limiting.
  • nonsegregation — the quality or condition of being nonsegregated
  • nonsuppurative — Not suppurative.
  • nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
  • norethisterone — 19-nor-17\u03b1-ethynyltestosterone, a progestogen used in some combined oral contraceptives.
  • north ayrshire — a council area of W central Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde: comprises the N part of the historical county of Ayrshire, including the Isle of Arran; formerly part of Strathclyde Region (1975–96): chiefly agricultural, with fishing and tourism. Administrative centre: Irvine. Pop: 136 030 (2003 est). Area: 884 sq km (341 sq miles)
  • north tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 190 800 (2003 est). Area: 84 sq km (32 sq miles)
  • northern irish — from or characteristic of Northern Ireland
  • northern isles — Orkney and Shetland
  • noteworthiness — The quality or state of being noteworthy.
  • nsa line eater — (messaging, tool)   The National Security Agency trawling program sometimes assumed to be reading the net for the US Government's spooks. Most hackers describe it as a mythical beast, but some believe it actually exists, more aren't sure, and many believe in acting as though it exists just in case. Some netters put loaded phrases like "KGB", "Uzi", "nuclear materials", "Palestine", "cocaine", and "assassination" in their sig blocks to confuse and overload the creature. The GNU version of Emacs actually has a command that randomly inserts a bunch of insidious anarcho-verbiage into your edited text. There is a mainstream variant of this myth involving a "Trunk Line Monitor", which supposedly used speech recognition to extract words from telephone trunks. This one was making the rounds in the late 1970s, spread by people who had no idea of then-current technology or the storage, signal-processing, or speech recognition needs of such a project. On the basis of mass-storage costs alone it would have been cheaper to hire 50 high-school students and just let them listen in. Speech-recognition technology can't do this job even now (1993), and almost certainly won't in this millennium, either. The peak of silliness came with a letter to an alternative paper in New Haven, Connecticut, laying out the factoids of this Big Brotherly affair. The letter writer then revealed his actual agenda by offering - at an amazing low price, just this once, we take VISA and MasterCard - a scrambler guaranteed to daunt the Trunk Trawler and presumably allowing the would-be Baader-Meinhof gangs of the world to get on with their business.
  • nucleoproteins — Plural form of nucleoprotein.
  • nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
  • nursing mother — a mother who is breast-feeding her baby
  • nursing sister — a female nurse, sometimes of a high grade
  • nutraceuticals — Plural form of nutraceutical.
  • nutrient-dense — (of food) relatively rich in nutrients for the number of calories contained: A potato is a nutrient-dense carbohydrate.
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