14-letter words containing n, s, h
- mother shipton — a day-flying noctuid moth, Callistege mi, mottled brown in colour and named from a fancied resemblance between its darker marking and a haggish profile
- motherlessness — The state or condition of being motherless.
- mount rushmore — Mount, a peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota that is a memorial (Mount Rushmore National Memorial) having 60-foot (18-meter) busts of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, carved into its face between 1927 and 1941, from a design by and under the direction of Gutzon Borglum. 5600 feet (1707 meters).
- mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- nabuchodonosor — Nebuchadnezzar (def 1).
- name and shame — If something such as a newspaper or an official body names and shames people who have performed badly or who have done something wrong, it identifies those people by name.
- nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
- narcocatharsis — a technique in narcoanalysis in which the patient is encouraged to reveal suppressed emotions or memories with the aid of narcotic drugs
- narcosynthesis — a treatment for psychiatric disturbances that uses narcotics.
- nasopharyngeal — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
- natural rights — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- naval hospital — a hospital that provides treatment for people in the Navy
- neighborliness — having or showing qualities befitting a neighbor; friendly.
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- nether regions — the lower part of a place, esp when unpleasant or frightening
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- neurochemistry — the branch of science that is concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.
- neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
- never mind sth — You use never mind after a statement, often a negative one, to indicate that the statement is even more true of the person, thing, or situation that you are going to mention next.
- new haven stem — a straight stem for flatbottomed boats in which the ends of the side planking are mitered and covered with a sheet of metal, the stem piece being wholly inside.
- news gathering — the work of collecting news for publication or broadcast
- news headlines — a short news broadcast briefly outlining the main news stories of the day
- newsworthiness — The characteristic of being newsworthy.
- nietzscheanism — the philosophy of Nietzsche, emphasizing the will to power as the chief motivating force of both the individual and society.
- nihilistically — of or believing in nihilism, or the total rejection of established laws and institutions: An exhibition of nihilistic art—now there's an oxymoron!
- ninety-seventh — next after the ninety-sixth; being the ordinal number for 97.
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- no sooner…than — immediately after or when
- non perishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- non-exhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- non-harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- non-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- non-homogenous — Biology. corresponding in structure because of a common origin.
- non-humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- non-malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- non-scholastic — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
- noncharismatic — a person or group not involved in the Christian charismatic movement
- nonchromosomal — any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order: the human species has 23 pairs, designated 1 to 22 in order of decreasing size and X and Y for the female and male sex chromosomes respectively.
- nonestablished — without the official support of the government
- nonhomogeneous — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
- nonhygroscopic — Not hygroscopic.
- nonmechanistic — Not mechanistic.
- nonphilosopher — a person who is not a philosopher
- nonphysiologic — of or relating to physiology.
- nonpsychiatric — not psychiatric