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14-letter words containing n, i, t, r, o

  • north tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 190 800 (2003 est). Area: 84 sq km (32 sq miles)
  • northern dvina — Also called Western Dvina. Latvian Daugava. a river rising in the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation, flowing W through Byelorussia (Belarus) and Latvia to the Baltic Sea at Riga. About 640 miles (1030) long.
  • northern irish — from or characteristic of Northern Ireland
  • northern isles — Orkney and Shetland
  • not forgetting — You say not forgetting a particular thing or person when you want to include them in something that you have already talked about.
  • not-for-profit — nonprofit.
  • noteworthiness — The quality or state of being noteworthy.
  • nothing for it — no choice; no other course
  • nuclear option — the use of or power to use nuclear weapons
  • nuclearization — to equip with nuclear weapons; give nuclear capability to: a fear that armed forces on both sides would become nuclearized.
  • nucleoproteins — Plural form of nucleoprotein.
  • nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
  • nursing mother — a mother who is breast-feeding her baby
  • nutritiousness — providing nourishment, especially to a high degree; nourishing; healthful: a good, nutritious meal.
  • obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
  • obstructionism — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
  • obstructionist — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
  • oceanic trench — a long narrow steep-sided depression in the earth's oceanic crust, usually lying above a subduction zone
  • ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
  • of a certainty — without a doubt; certainly
  • of one's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
  • old-line party — either the Liberal Party or the Conservative Party
  • omnipercipient — Perceiving everything.
  • omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
  • on the horizon — between land and sky
  • on the improve — improving
  • on the viretot — in a rush
  • one's thirties — the ages between 30–39
  • one-hit wonder — a singer, composer or group that only ever has one successful piece
  • one-trick pony — a person or thing considered as being limited to only one single talent, capability, quality, etc
  • oneirocritical — an interpreter of dreams.
  • operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
  • operating cost — The operating cost of a business, or a piece of equipment or machinery is the amount of money that it costs to run it.
  • operating room — a specially equipped room, usually in a hospital, where surgical procedures are performed. Abbreviation: OR.
  • operation code — (programming)   (Always "op code" when spoken) The part or parts of a machine language instruction which determines what kind of action the computer should take, e.g. add, jump, load, store. In any particular instruction set certain fixed bit positions within the instruction word contain the op code, others give parameters such as the addresses or registers involved. For example, in a 32-bit instruction the most significant eight bits might be the op code giving 256 possible operations. For some instruction sets, certain values in the fixed bit positions may select a group of operations and the exact operation may depend on other bits within instruction word or subsequent words. When programming in assembly language, the op code is represented by a readable name called an instruction mnemonic.
  • operationalise — Alternative spelling of operationalize.
  • 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.
  • operationalist — a person who adheres to operationalism
  • operationalize — Put into operation or use.
  • opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
  • options market — a market in which options are traded
  • optoelectronic — the branch of electronics dealing with devices that generate, transform, transmit, or sense optical, infrared, or ultraviolet radiation, as cathode-ray tubes, electroluminescent and liquid crystal displays, lasers, and solar cells.
  • oral tradition — a community's cultural and historical traditions passed down by word of mouth or example from one generation to another without written instruction.
  • orbital sander — a sander that uses a section of sandpaper clamped to a metal pad that moves at high speed in a very narrow orbit, driven by an electric motor.
  • orchestrations — Plural form of orchestration.
  • ordinary point — Mathematics. a point in a domain in which a given function of a complex variable is analytic.
  • ordinary stock — British. common stock.
  • organ of corti — Anatomy, Zoology. a structure in the cochlea of a mammal, consisting of hair cells that serve as receptors for auditory stimuli.
  • organic matter — matter derived from organisms, esp decayed matter in soil
  • organisational — (British) alternative spelling of organizational.
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