12-letter words containing n, a, s, l, c
- noctambulist — somnambulism.
- noctambulous — of, relating to, or given to sleepwalking.
- nomenclators — Plural form of nomenclator.
- nominalistic — (philosophy) Having a nominalist character.
- non-vascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- nonapostolic — Not apostolic.
- nonclassical — not classical or contrary to classical precepts.
- nonclassroom — not located in the traditional classroom
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- noncustodial — Not having custody of one’s children after a divorce.
- nondualistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- nonrealistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- nonsocialist — a person who is not a socialist
- nonspherical — not spherical
- nuclear test — a test carried out on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- numismatical — Alternative form of numismatic.
- occasionally — at times; from time to time; now and then.
- oceanologist — the practical application of oceanography.
- old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.
- olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
- opalescently — In an opalescent manner.
- oracle bones — animal bones used for divination
- oracularness — the state of being oracular
- oscillations — Plural form of oscillation.
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
- pascal-linda — Ian Flockhart, U Edinburgh, 1991. Under development.
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- peacefulness — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- pearlescence — a pearly lustre or sheen
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- planck's law — the law that energy associated with electromagnetic radiation, as light, is composed of discrete quanta of energy, each quantum equal to Planck's constant times the corresponding frequency of the radiation: the fundamental law of quantum mechanics.
- plastocyanin — a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria
- platanaceous — relating to the family Platanaceae
- plug casting — bait casting in which a plug is used as the lure.
- poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
- polysynaptic — having or involving more than one synapse.
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- porcelaneous — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- postcolonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
- postvaccinal — occurring after a vaccine