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16-letter words containing l, a, t, i, n, e

  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • multidimensional — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
  • multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
  • multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
  • multilinear form — a function or functional of several variables such that when all variables but one are held fixed, the function is linear in the remaining variable.
  • multimillionaire — a person who possesses a fortune that amounts to many millions of dollars, francs, etc.
  • mutual exclusion — (parallel, operating system)   (Or "mutex", plural: "mutexes") A collection of techniques for sharing resources so that different uses do not conflict and cause unwanted interactions. One of the most commonly used techniques for mutual exclusion is the semaphore.
  • mutual impedance — the ratio of the potential difference between either of two pairs of terminals to the current applied at the other pair of terminals when the circuit is open.
  • mutual insurance — insurance in which those insured become members of a company who reciprocally engage, by payment of certain amounts into a common fund, to indemnify one another against loss.
  • mutual recursion — recursion
  • nanotechnologies — Plural form of nanotechnology.
  • nanotechnologist — Someone who does research into nanotechnology; someone studying things on the scale of nanometers.
  • national charter — the principles or movement of a party of political reformers, chiefly workingmen, in England from 1838 to 1848: so called from the document (People's Charter or National Charter) that contained a statement of their principles and demands.
  • national costume — traditional dress
  • national gallery — a major art gallery in London, in Trafalgar Square. Founded in 1824, it contains the largest collection of paintings in Britain
  • national lottery — the largest UK lottery organization
  • national service — National service is service in the armed forces, which young people in certain countries have to do by law.
  • natural disaster — meteorological or geological catastrophe
  • natural religion — religion based on principles derived solely from reason and the study of nature.
  • nature-identical — manufactured to be identical to a natural substance
  • neapolitan sixth — (in musical harmony) a chord composed of the subdominant of the key, plus a minor third and a minor sixth. Harmonically it is equivalent to the first inversion of a major chord built upon the flattened supertonic
  • network analysis — a mathematical method of analyzing complex problems, as in transportation or project scheduling, by representing the problem as a network of lines and nodes.
  • neurasthenically — In a neurasthenic way.
  • neuroepithelioma — Neurocytoma.
  • neuropathologies — the pathology of the nervous system.
  • neuropathologist — A specialist who practices neuropathology.
  • nightingale ward — a long hospital ward with beds on either side and the nurses' station in the middle
  • nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
  • no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
  • nominal sentence — a sentence consisting of a subject and complement without a linking verb, as Very interesting, those books.
  • non-accumulative — tending to accumulate or arising from accumulation; cumulative.
  • non-alphabetical — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
  • non-attributable — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • non-coincidental — happening by or resulting from coincidence; by chance: a coincidental meeting.
  • non-confidential — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • non-conventional — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
  • non-debilitating — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
  • non-experiential — pertaining to or derived from experience.
  • non-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
  • non-extraditable — capable of being extradited; subject to extradition: an extraditable person.
  • non-instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
  • non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • non-metropolitan — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
  • non-quantifiable — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
  • non-transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
  • nonarchitectural — Not architectural.
  • noncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
  • nonproliferation — the action or practice of curbing or controlling an excessive, rapid spread: nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
  • nontransmissible — Not transmissible.
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