11-letter words containing n, e, s, t, c
- metternichs — Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von [kley-mens ven-tsuh l ney-paw-moo k loh-tahr fuh n,, loh-tahr] /ˈkleɪ mɛns ˈvɛn tsəl ˈneɪ pɔ mʊk ˈloʊ tɑr fən,, loʊˈtɑr/ (Show IPA), 1773–1859, Austrian statesman and diplomat.
- middlescent — the middle-age period of life, especially when considered a difficult time of self-doubt and readjustment.
- midsections — Plural form of midsection.
- midsentence — Occurring in the middle of a sentence.
- miscegenate — (US) to mix or blend.
- miscegenist — advocating miscegenation
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- miscreation — miscreated.
- misoneistic — hatred or dislike of what is new or represents change.
- misteaching — Present participle of misteach.
- mit license — (legal, software) A popular open source software license. The MIT License is very permissive, allowing "any person ... to deal in the Software without restriction" as long as they preserve the copyright notice and the license itself. It also includes the usual disclaimers.
- modernistic — modern.
- monergistic — the doctrine that the Holy Ghost acts independently of the human will in the work of regeneration. Compare synergism (def 3).
- monstrances — Plural form of monstrance.
- most-centum — belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or [kh] /x/ (Show IPA) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian.
- multiscreen — Having multiple screens.
- narco-state — a country in which the illegal trade in narcotic drugs forms a substantial part of the economy
- natterjacks — Plural form of natterjack.
- 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.
- necrologist — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- 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-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.
- 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).
- 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.
- nociceptors — Plural form of nociceptor.
- 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.
- noncustomer — a person who is not the customer of a particular establishment, or a person who does not buy a product or service
- 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
- nonsecretor — a person of blood group A, B, or AB, whose saliva does not contain the antigens of their blood group
- nonselected — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- nonsemantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- nonsentence — (sometimes used in a derogatory way) a string of words that is not a sentence