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16-letter words containing l, o, r, e, t

  • no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
  • no/little wonder — If you say 'no wonder', 'little wonder', or 'small wonder', you mean that something is not surprising.
  • 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-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-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-transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • 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.
  • nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
  • nonproliferation — the action or practice of curbing or controlling an excessive, rapid spread: nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
  • nontransmissible — Not transmissible.
  • nontransmittable — Not transmittable.
  • north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
  • north charleston — a city in SE South Carolina.
  • north lauderdale — a city in SE Florida.
  • north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
  • north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • north ridgeville — a town in N Ohio.
  • northern ireland — a political division of the United Kingdom, in the NE part of the island of Ireland. 5238 sq. mi. (13,565 sq. km). Capital: Belfast.
  • not on your life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
  • nuclear magneton — a unit of magnetic moment, used to measure proton spin and approximately equal to 1/1836 Bohr magneton.
  • nuclear reaction — reaction (def 8).
  • oak leaf cluster — a U.S. military decoration in the form of a small bronze twig bearing four oak leaves and three acorns, worn on the ribbon of another decoration for valor, wounds, or distinguished service to signify a second award of the same medal.
  • oblique triangle — any triangle that does not have a right angle (contrasted with right triangle).
  • observationalist — One who relies on empirical observations.
  • observationality — The property of being observational.
  • occipitotemporal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the occiput and temporal lobe.
  • occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
  • ocellated turkey — a wild turkey, Agriocharis ocellata, of Yucatán, Belize, and Guatemala, typically having green, blue, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and eyelike spots on the tail.
  • oculomotor nerve — either one of the third pair of cranial nerves, consisting chiefly of motor fibers that innervate most of the muscles of the eyeball.
  • off-the-shoulder — not covering the shoulder
  • oil storage tank — a very large industrial container where petroleum is stored
  • old north french — the dialect of Old French spoken in northern France. Abbreviation: ONF.
  • old-girl network — an association among women that is comparable to or modeled on an old-boy network.
  • on the breadline — impoverished; living at subsistence level
  • online thesaurus — a thesaurus or dictionary of words with the same or nearly the same meanings, or synonyms, and their opposites, or antonyms, such as Thesaurus.com, available on the Internet or the World Wide Web, accessed through a web browser, and used by entering a query term into a search box on the site. An online thesaurus provides immediate electronic access to lists of alternate terms for the queried word, covering its various shades of meaning: This online thesaurus showed me that smart, as an adjective, not only means intelligent, but also stylish, or lively, and gave long lists of other words for each meaning.
  • operating manual — a leaflet of instructions on how to use something (such as an electrical appliance, etc)
  • operationalizing — Present participle of operationalize.
  • ophthalmoparesis — (medicine) A partial or complete paralysis of the extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements.
  • optical computer — an experimental computer that uses photons rather than electrical impulses to process data a thousand times faster than with conventional integrated circuits.
  • optical tweezers — a laser device used to study, manipulate, or trap a microscopic object, as a microorganism or cell, with nanometer precision.
  • orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
  • organoleptically — In an organoleptic manner.
  • oriental emerald — a green variety of corundum used as a gemstone
  • osteoarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the study of bones found at archaeological sites
  • otherworldliness — The quality of being otherworldly.
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