10-letter words containing n, e, c, s
- nictitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nictitate.
- nightscape — a scene viewed at night, especially as represented in art.
- nightscope — An optical instrument that provides night vision.
- nigrescent — tending toward black; blackish.
- nitpickers — Plural form of nitpicker.
- no contest — nolo contendere.
- nomarchies — Plural form of nomarchy.
- non-secure — of or relating to a channel of communication, esp on the internet, that is not restricted to authorized users and is not therefore guaranteed to be private and confidential
- nonascetic — a person who is not an ascetic
- nonconsent — Lack of consent.
- nonelastic — capable of returning to its original length, shape, etc., after being stretched, deformed, compressed, or expanded: an elastic waistband; elastic fiber.
- nonobscene — not obscene
- nonscience — that which is not science or scientific
- nonsecular — of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
- nonspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- nonsubject — (in education) a subject of study not considered to be academically rigorous
- nonsuccess — Absence of success; failure.
- normalcies — the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality: After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.
- nose candy — cocaine.
- nosepieces — Plural form of nosepiece.
- novelistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of novels.
- noviceship — The state or position of being a novice.
- nuciferous — (of a tree or bush) bearing nuts.
- nuclearism — a political philosophy maintaining that nuclear weapons are the best means of assuring peace and of attaining political goals.
- nucleobase — (biochemistry) The base of a nucleic acid, such as thymine, uracil, adenine, cytosine and guanine.
- nucleonics — the branch of science that deals with nuclear phenomena, as radioactivity, fission, or fusion, especially practical applications, as in industrial engineering.
- nucleoside — any of the class of compounds derived by the hydrolysis of nucleic acids or nucleotides, consisting typically of deoxyribose or ribose combined with adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil, or thymine.
- nucleosome — any of the repeating subunits of chromatin occurring at intervals along a strand of DNA, consisting of DNA coiled around histone.
- null-space — the set of elements of a vector space that a given linear transformation maps to zero.
- nurse crop — a crop planted in the same field with another crop, especially to minimize the growth of weeds.
- nuthatches — Plural form of nuthatch.
- obeisances — Plural form of obeisance.
- obesogenic — Tending to cause obesity.
- objections — Plural form of objection.
- objectness — The state of being an object.
- obsequence — willingness or eagerness to comply, please, serve, etc.; obsequiousness.
- observance — an act or instance of following, obeying, or conforming to: the observance of traffic laws.
- obstinance — The characteristic of being obstinate.
- occasioned — a particular time, especially as marked by certain circumstances or occurrences: They met on three occasions.
- occasioner — a person who or that which generates or precipitates something
- oceanwards — Oceanward.
- octonaries — Plural form of octonary.
- off screen — cinema: not on film
- off-screen — You use off-screen to refer to the real lives of film or television actors, in contrast with the lives of the characters they play.
- ohnosecond — (unit, humour) (Presumably a play on "nanosecond") The miniscule time it takes to realize that you've just made a BIG mistake like typing rm -rf * in the wrong directory. Seen in Elizabeth P. Crowe's book, "The Electronic Traveller."
- olecranons — Plural form of olecranon.
- omniscient — having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.
- opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- open space — Ecology. undeveloped land that is protected from development by legislation.