16-letter words containing n, a, l, o, r
- non-extraditable — capable of being extradited; subject to extradition: an extraditable person.
- non-geographical — of or relating to geography.
- non-hierarchical — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hierarchy.
- non-inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- 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-naturalistic — imitating nature or the usual natural surroundings.
- non-reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.
- 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.
- nonbiodegradable — Not biodegradable.
- noncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- nondurable goods — goods that remain usable for, or must be replaced within, a relatively short period of time, as food, apparel, or fabrics
- nonprofessionals — Plural form of nonprofessional.
- nonproliferation — the action or practice of curbing or controlling an excessive, rapid spread: nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
- nonrecourse loan — a loan for which the borrower cannot be held responsible for any amount in excess of the security for the loan, even if the value of such security falls below the level it had or that had been anticipated for it at the time of the loan.
- nontransmissible — Not transmissible.
- nontransmittable — Not transmittable.
- north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
- north carolinian — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 52,586 sq. mi. (136,198 sq. km). Capital: Raleigh. Abbreviation: NC (for use with zip code), N.C.
- 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.
- 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.
- nuclear emulsion — a photographic emulsion in the form of a thick block, used to record the tracks of elementary particles.
- nuclear envelope — the double membrane surrounding the nucleus within a cell.
- 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).
- nusslein-volhard — Christiane [kris-tee-ah-nuh,, kris-tyah-] /ˌkrɪs tiˈɑ nə,, krɪsˈtyɑ-/ (Show IPA), born 1942, German biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
- 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.
- occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
- oil storage tank — a very large industrial container where petroleum is stored
- oligodendroglial — Of or pertaining to the oligodendroglia.
- on a trial basis — for the purpose of assessment
- on a world scale — in a way that involves the whole world
- on the breadline — impoverished; living at subsistence level
- once and for all — former; having at one time been: the once and future king.
- 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.
- open scholarship — a scholarship which anyone can apply for
- operating manual — a leaflet of instructions on how to use something (such as an electrical appliance, etc)
- operationalizing — Present participle of operationalize.
- optical rotation — the angle at which the plane of polarized light is rotated when passed through an optically active substance.
- orange marmalade — preserve made from oranges
- ordinary jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- organ transplant — an operation in which an organ is transplanted from a donor
- organ-pipe coral — an alcyonarian coral of the genus Tubipora, occurring in tropical waters, and forming a complex colony of brick-red, vertical tubules joined at intervals by transverse plates.