15-letter words containing n, o, s, p

non-a hepatitis — a form of viral hepatitis, not caused by the agents responsible for hepatitis A and hepatitis B, that is commonly transmitted by infected blood transfusions. The causative virus has been isolated
non-compensable — eligible for or subject to compensation, especially for a bodily injury.
non-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
non-compression — the act of compressing.
non-compromised — unable to function optimally, especially with regard to immune response, owing to underlying disease, harmful environmental exposure, or the side effects of a course of treatment.
non-consumptive — tending to consume; destructive; wasteful.
non-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
non-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
non-putrescible — liable to become putrid.
non-responsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
non-specificity — the quality or state of being specific.
non-speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
non-spontaneous — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
non-suppurative — suppurating; characterized by suppuration.
non-susceptible — admitting or capable of some specified treatment: susceptible of a high polish; susceptible to various interpretations.
non-syncopation — Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.
noncatastrophic — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
noncompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
noncompressible — not able to be compressed
nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
nonencapsulated — not encapsulated
nonhospitalized — not hospitalized
nonpartisanship — The quality of not being partisan, of remaining politically independent.
nonprescription — (of drugs, medication, etc.) legally available for purchase without a doctor's prescription; over-the-counter.
nonprescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
nonprofessional — not a member of or trained in a specific profession.
nonprofessorial — not professorial
nonpsychiatrist — a person who is not a psychiatrist
nonpsychoactive — Not psychoactive.
nonsaponifiable — not capable of being saponified
nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
nonstereoscopic — Not stereoscopic.
not to speak of — You can use not to speak of when adding something which your previous statement also applies to, or applies to even more than other things.
null hypothesis — (in the statistical testing of a hypothesis) the hypothesis to be tested.
nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
off one's chump — insane; crazy
offset printing — offset (def 6).
oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
on one's uppers — higher, as in place, position, pitch, or in a scale: the upper stories of a house; the upper register of a singer's voice.
on prescription — If a medicine is available on prescription, you can only get it from a chemist or pharmacist if a doctor gives you a prescription for it.
ones complement — A system used in some computers to represent negative numbers. To negate a number, each bit of the number is inverted (zeros are replaced with ones and vice versa). This has the consequence that there are two reperesentations for zero, either all zeros or all ones. ... 000...00011 = +3 000...00010 = +2 000...00001 = +1 000...00000 = +0 111...11111 = -0 111...11110 = -1 111...11101 = -2 111...11100 = -3 ... Naive logic for ones complement addition might easily conclude that -0 + 1 = +0. The twos complement avoids this by using all ones to represent -1.
onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
onychocryptosis — a form of nail disease in which nails are ingrown
open admissions — a policy of admitting applicants to an institution, especially a university, regardless of previous academic record or grades.
open one's eyes — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
open university — higher education by correspondence
opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
openmouthedness — the state or condition of being filled with amazement and wonder

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