12-letter words containing n, e, r, v
- nerve centre — The nerve centre of an organization is the place from where its activities are controlled and where its leaders meet.
- nerve ending — Your nerve endings are the millions of points on the surface of your body and inside it which send messages to your brain when you feel sensations such as heat, cold, and pain.
- neurodiverse — Exhibiting neurodiversity; varying in mental configuration.
- never-ending — having or likely to have no end: never-ending worry.
- nevertheless — nonetheless; notwithstanding; however; in spite of that: a small but nevertheless important change.
- news service — an agency that gathers news stories for its members or subscribers. Compare news agency (def 1), press association, wire service.
- non-achiever — a person who consistently fails to achieve, esp academically
- non-curative — serving to cure or heal; pertaining to curing or remedial treatment; remedial.
- non-drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- non-reactive — tending to react.
- non-variable — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- non-virulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
- nonassertive — Not assertive.
- nonbelievers — Plural form of nonbeliever.
- noncorrosive — That does not cause corrosion.
- noncrossover — a chromosome that has not crossed over during meiosis
- nondirective — Not directive.
- nonintrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- nonnarrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- nonnormative — Not normative.
- nonnutritive — serving to nourish; providing nutriment; nutritious.
- nonobservant — Not observant; not religious; not participating in the observance of religion.
- nonoperative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- nonpurposive — lacking purpose
- nonreflexive — (of a relation) neither reflexive nor irreflexive; holding between some members of its domain and themselves, and failing to hold between others
- nonremovable — that may be removed.
- nonrevocable — Not revocable.
- nonsovereign — Not sovereign.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- nonversation — A meaningless conversation.
- nonvitrified — Not converted into glass.
- normal curve — a bell-shaped curve showing a particular distribution of probability over the values of a random variable. Also called Gaussian curve, probability curve.
- normotensive — characterized by normal arterial tension or blood pressure.
- note verbale — a diplomatic communication prepared in the third person and unsigned: less formal than a note but more formal than an aide-mémoire.
- nueva gerona — a town on the Isle of Pines, S of Cuba.
- nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
- observations — Plural form of observation.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- once removed — relative: one generation older
- open verdict — law: coroner's jury finding
- orange grove — small orchard of orange trees
- orange-river — a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.
- order-driven — denoting an electronic market system, esp for stock exchanges, in which prices are determined by the publication of orders to buy or sell
- outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
- outmanoeuvre — British. outmaneuver.
- oven cleaner — a liquid, often foam in an aerosol container, designed to clean ovens
- over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
- over-analyze — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.