14-letter words containing n, i, m, p
- mounted police — police who patrol on horseback
- moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- multicomponent — Having, or affecting, multiple components.
- multiplication — the act or process of multiplying or the state of being multiplied.
- multipotential — able to differentiate along several lines
- municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- munitions dump — a place where munitions are stored
- muscle spindle — Cell Biology. a proprioceptor in skeletal muscle, composed of striated muscle fibers and sensory nerve endings in a connective tissue sheath, that conveys information via the spinal nerves on the state of muscle stretch, important in the reflex mechanism that maintains body posture.
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- napalm bombing — the act of attacking with napalm bombs
- nephrectomized — to perform a nephrectomy upon.
- neurocomputing — computing that makes use of neural networks
- nitro compound — any one of a class of usually organic compounds that contain the monovalent group -NO2 (nitro group or radical), linked to a carbon atom. The commonest example is nitrobenzene, C6H5NO2
- non-assumptive — taken for granted.
- non-compatible — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
- non-completion — the act of completing.
- non-compliance — failure or refusal to comply, as with a law, regulation, or term of a contract.
- non-complicity — the state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrongdoing: complicity in a crime.
- non-impairment — to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
- non-imperative — of the nature of or expressing a command; commanding.
- non-optimistic — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- non-polynomial — (complexity) The set or property of problems for which no polynomial-time algorithm is known. This includes problems for which the only known algorithms require a number of steps which increases exponentially with the size of the problem, and those for which no algorithm at all is known. Within these two there are problems which are "provably difficult" and "provably unsolvable".
- noncompetition — relating to an agreement in which one party agrees not to compete with another party during a specific time period or in a specific area
- noncompetitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
- noncomplicated — (esp of a medical condition or procedure) not involving complications
- nonconsumption — the refusal to consume certain foods
- nonconsumptive — not consumptive of a resource, product, or service
- nonimplication — the fact of not being implicated
- nonimportation — failure or refusal to import.
- nonpalindromic — Not palindromic.
- nonsymptomatic — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- numa pompilius — died 673? b.c, 2nd legendary Sabine king of Rome 715–673?
- numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
- nymphomaniacal — a woman who has abnormally excessive and uncontrollable sexual desire.
- omnipercipient — Perceiving everything.
- omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
- on the improve — improving
- one-upsmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
- onium compound — type of chemical salt
- open communion — a communion service in which members of all denominations can participate.
- opening gambit — a preliminary or opening tactic
- openmindedness — Alternative form of open-mindedness.
- operating room — a specially equipped room, usually in a hospital, where surgical procedures are performed. Abbreviation: OR.
- operationalism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
- opinion former — Opinion formers are people who have a lot of influence over what the public thinks about things.
- options market — a market in which options are traded
- ornithomorphic — relating to an ornithomorph
- ottoman empire — a former Turkish empire that was founded about 1300 by Osman and reached its greatest territorial extent under Suleiman in the 16th century; collapsed after World War I. Capital: Constantinople.
- overcompliance — excessive compliance