12-letter words containing n, e, d, l, s
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- milliseconds — Plural form of millisecond.
- mindlessness — without intelligence; senseless: a mindless creature.
- miner's dial — dial (def 6).
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- misleadingly — In a misleading manner.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- molybdenosis — a disease of ruminants, especially cattle, caused by dietary intake of excessive molybdenum with resultant copper deficiency, characterized by persistent diarrhea and, especially around the eyes, a fading of coat pigment.
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- moneylenders — Plural form of moneylender.
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- nasal demons — Recognised shorthand on the Usenet group comp.std.c for any unexpected behaviour of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct. During a discussion on that group in early 1992, a regular remarked "When the compiler encounters [a given undefined construct] it is legal for it to make demons fly out of your nose" (the implication is that the compiler may choose any arbitrarily bizarre way to interpret the code without violating the ANSI C standard). Someone else followed up with a reference to "nasal demons", which quickly became established.
- nationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of nationalise.
- neanderthals — Plural form of neanderthal.
- near islands — a group of islands of SW Alaska, the smallest and westernmost of the Aleutian Islands, including Attu.
- needle-sharp — very sharp
- needlefishes — Plural form of needlefish.
- needlepoints — Plural form of needlepoint.
- needlessness — unnecessary; not needed or wanted: a needless waste of food.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- nested class — (Java) In Java, a class defined within an enclosing class definition. A static nested class has no direct access to the members of its enclosing class whereas a non-static nested class, known as an "inner class", is associated with an instance of the enclosing class and an instance of the inner class has direct access to the members of its enclosing instance.
- netherworlds — Plural form of netherworld.
- nickelodeons — Plural form of nickelodeon.
- noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
- non-disabled — physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated.
- non-residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- non-selected — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- nonsteroidal — of or relating to a substance that is not a steroid but has certain similar physiological effects.
- nordenskjold — Baron Nils Adolf Erik [nils ah-dawlf ey-rik] /nɪls ˈɑ dɔlf ˈeɪ rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1832–1901, Swedish arctic explorer, geographer, and geologist; born in Finland.
- nosebleeding — bleeding emanating from the nose
- 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
- nun's fiddle — trumpet marine.
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
- outside lane — the lane on a motorway where overtaking of other vehicles is permitted and vehicles can travel fastest
- outside line — an external telephone connection
- overboldness — The state or fact of being too bold; audacity.
- pale-skinned — having pale skin
- pasture land — grassland used for grazing
- personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalized — customized
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- pink-slipped — (of an employee) given notice of redundancy
- 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.
- pollutedness — the state of being polluted
- polysyndeton — the use of a number of conjunctions in close succession.