15-letter words containing n, a, o, t
- neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
- new south wales — a state in SE Australia. 309,433 sq. mi. (801,430 sq. km). Capital: Sydney.
- newark-on-trent — a town in N central England, in Nottinghamshire. Pop: 35 454 (2001)
- newton's cradle — an ornamental puzzle consisting of a frame in which five metal balls are suspended in such a way that when one is moved it sets all the others in motion in turn
- newtonian fluid — any fluid exhibiting a linear relation between the applied shear stress and the rate of deformation.
- nicholas, saint — Saint ("Nicholas the Great") died a.d. 867, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 858–867.
- nightwatchwoman — (rare) The female equivalent of a nightwatchman.
- nitramino group — the univalent group –NHNO 2 .
- no great shakes — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- no-cut contract — a professional athlete's contract guaranteeing that he or she will remain on the team's roster for a specified time.
- noise abatement — a set of strategies or techniques to reduce and control annoying or harmful noise in an environment
- noise generator — a device used in synthesizers to produce high-frequency sound effects
- noli me tangere — a person or thing that must not be touched or interfered with.
- noli-me-tangere — a person or thing that must not be touched or interfered with.
- nominalizations — Plural form of nominalization.
- non-a hepatitis — a form of viral hepatitis, not caused by the agents responsible for hepatitis A and hepatitis B, that is commonly transmitted by infected blood transfusions. The causative virus has been isolated
- non-accountable — subject to the obligation to report, explain, or justify something; responsible; answerable.
- non-achievement — lack of achievement
- non-acquisitive — tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
- non-adjudicated — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
- non-alliterated — to show alliteration: In “Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran,” the “r” alliterates.
- non-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- non-association — an organization of people with a common purpose and having a formal structure.
- non-capitalized — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- non-charismatic — of, having, or characteristic of charisma.
- non-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- non-contractual — of, relating to, or secured by a contract.
- non-contrastive — not contrastive.
- non-cooperative — failure or refusal to cooperate.
- non-correlation — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
- non-crystalline — of or like crystal; clear; transparent.
- non-culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- non-declarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- non-determinant — a determining agent or factor.
- non-detrimental — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
- non-dialectical — dialectic.
- non-documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- non-educational — pertaining to education.
- non-egotistical — pertaining to or characterized by egotism.
- non-exculpatory — tending to clear from a charge of fault or guilt.
- non-exhaustible — to drain of strength or energy, wear out, or fatigue greatly, as a person: I have exhausted myself working.
- non-feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- non-fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- non-grammatical — (of a sentence or expression) not conforming to the grammatical rules of a given language.
- non-informative — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- non-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- non-manufacture — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- non-mechanistic — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
- non-ministerial — pertaining to the ministry of religion, or to a minister or other member of the clergy.