11-letter words containing n, e, c, s
- necessarily — by or of necessity; as a matter of compulsion or requirement: You don't necessarily have to attend.
- necessitate — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
- necessities — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- necessitous — destitute or impoverished; needy; indigent: to aid a necessitous young mother.
- necessitude — necessity.
- necrobiosis — the death of cells or tissue caused by aging or disease.
- necrologies — Plural form of necrology.
- necrologist — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- necropoleis — Plural form of necropolis.
- necroscopic — of or relating to a necropsy or postmortem examination
- needcessity — a necessity; a thing that is needed
- needlestick — Puncture of the skin by a hypodermic needle or other sharp object.
- nematocides — Plural form of nematocide.
- nematocysts — A specialized cell in the tentacles of a jellyfish or other coelenterate, containing a barbed or venomous coiled thread that can be projected in self-defense or to capture prey.
- neo-fascism — a modern right-wing political movement that includes significant elements of fascism, esp inspired by fascist Italy
- neo-fascist — any of various political movements or beliefs inspired by or reminiscent of fascism or Nazism.
- neocortices — Plural form of neocortex.
- neofascists — Plural form of neofascist.
- neologistic — a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
- neosilicate — (chemistry) any simple silicate mineral in which the SiO4 tetrahedra are isolated and have metal ions as neighbours.
- nephoscopes — Plural form of nephoscope.
- nephroscope — (surgery) An instrument used to examine the kidney through an inserted tube.
- netherstock — a stocking
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- neuroticism — the state of having traits or symptoms characteristic of neurosis.
- new castile — a region in central Spain: formerly a province. 27,933 sq. mi. (72,346 sq. km).
- new cuisine — nouvelle cuisine.
- news agency — a business organization that gathers news for transmittal to its subscribers. Compare press association.
- newscasters — Plural form of newscaster.
- newscasting — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- nietzschean — the philosophy of Nietzsche, emphasizing the will to power as the chief motivating force of both the individual and society.
- nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
- nigrescence — tending toward black; blackish.
- nmr scanner — a diagnostic device employing nuclear magnetic resonance to display computer-generated sectional images of the body, consisting of a large, body-encircling magnet that generates a strong, uniform magnetic field which interacts with radio waves to excite the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, or other specific atoms, and a detection system that picks up the signals from the body and transforms them into a visual image.
- nociceptors — Plural form of nociceptor.
- non-closure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
- non-cursive — (of handwriting) in flowing strokes with the letters joined together.
- non-suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- noncitizens — Plural form of noncitizen.
- noncohesive — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- noncomposer — a person who is not a composer
- nonconsumer — a person who refrains from using or purchasing certain resources, products, or services
- noncustomer — a person who is not the customer of a particular establishment, or a person who does not buy a product or service
- nondecision — the failure to make a decision
- nondescript — of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind: a nondescript novel; a nondescript color.
- nondomestic — not domestic, esp not relating to the home or native country
- nonfeasance — the omission of some act that ought to have been performed. Compare malfeasance, misfeasance (def 2).
- nonmiscible — not capable of being mixed.
- nonrecourse — (finance) Of or pertaining to a form of financing, typically debt financing, in which the lender's recourse to recovery in the event of default is limited to the collateral asset only.
- nonsecretor — a person of blood group A, B, or AB, whose saliva does not contain the antigens of their blood group