12-letter words containing n, o, r, e, l, a
- metropolitan — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
- michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
- microbalance — a balance for weighing minute quantities of material.
- microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
- millionaires — Plural form of millionaire.
- millionnaire — a person whose wealth amounts to a million or more in some unit of currency, as dollars.
- mineral wool — a woollike material for heat and sound insulation, made by blowing steam or air through molten slag or rock.
- mineralogies — Plural form of mineralogy.
- mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
- mineralogize — (intransitive) To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
- minor league — professional non-premier sports association
- minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
- minor-league — of or relating to a minor league.
- modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
- money player — a person who performs best under pressure, especially in a competitive situation.
- monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- motoneuronal — of or pertaining to a motoneuron
- mount carmel — a mountain ridge in NW Israel, extending from the Samarian Hills to the Mediterranean. Highest point: about 540 m (1800 ft)
- myoneuralgia — myalgia.
- nailer joist — a steel joist having a permanently attached nailing strip, as for securing wooden flooring.
- nanomaterial — A material having particles or constituents of nanoscale dimensions, or one that is produced by nanotechnology.
- nanoparticle — a microscopic particle of matter that is measured on the nanoscale, usually one that measures less than 100 nanometers.
- nasotracheal — (anatomy) Of or relating to the nose and trachea.
- natal orange — a spiny shrub, Strychnos spinosa, of the logania family, of central and southern Africa, having yellowish-white flowers and edible, berrylike, yellow fruit.
- nationalizer — One who, or that which, nationalizes.
- nature lover — someone who likes plants, birds and other natural phenomena
- naval stores — supplies for warships.
- navel orange — a seedless variety of orange having at the apex a navellike formation containing a small secondary fruit.
- necrological — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- necrophiliac — an erotic attraction to corpses.
- neoliberally — In a neoliberal manner.
- neorealistic — Of or pertaining to neorealism.
- neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
- neurilemmoma — A schwannoma.
- neurohumoral — of or pertaining to a neurohumour
- neurological — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- neurotically — of, relating to, or characteristic of neurosis.
- neurotypical — relating to or showing typical neurological behavior and development: She has one dyslexic and one neurotypical child.
- neutral zone — the area of a rink between the two blue lines. Compare end zone (def 2).
- nitroaniline — (organic chemistry) Any nitro derivative of aniline.
- nitrogelatin — gelatin dynamite.
- nomenclators — Plural form of nomenclator.
- nomenclature — a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.
- nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
- non-arguable — susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable: Whether this is the best plan of action or not is arguable.
- non-clerical — of, pertaining to, appropriate for, or assigned to an office clerk or clerks: a clerical job.
- 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-erasable — to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- non-literary — pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature: literary history.