10-letter words containing n, u, l
- nonfluency — a lack of fluency
- nonharmful — Not harmful.
- nonmusical — not belonging to or relating to music
- nonnatural — Not involving or manifesting natural means or processes.
- nonnuclear — not utilizing nuclear power, nuclear weapons, etc.: to fight a nonnuclear war.
- nonplusing — Present participle of nonplus.
- nonplussed — to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
- nonsecular — of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
- nonsensual — Not sensual.
- nonsoluble — capable of being dissolved or liquefied: a soluble powder.
- nonsulfide — (of minerals) not containing a sulfide.
- nontextual — of or relating to a text: textual errors.
- nonutility — A company, etc. that is not a utility.
- nose flute — (esp in the South Sea Islands) a type of flute blown through the nose
- novaculite — a very hard sedimentary rock, similar to chert, composed essentially of microcrystalline quartz.
- nuclearism — a political philosophy maintaining that nuclear weapons are the best means of assuring peace and of attaining political goals.
- nuclearize — to equip with nuclear weapons; give nuclear capability to: a fear that armed forces on both sides would become nuclearized.
- nucleating — Present participle of nucleate.
- nucleation — having a nucleus.
- nucleobase — (biochemistry) The base of a nucleic acid, such as thymine, uracil, adenine, cytosine and guanine.
- nucleolate — containing a nucleolus or nucleoli.
- nucleonics — the branch of science that deals with nuclear phenomena, as radioactivity, fission, or fusion, especially practical applications, as in industrial engineering.
- nucleoside — any of the class of compounds derived by the hydrolysis of nucleic acids or nucleotides, consisting typically of deoxyribose or ribose combined with adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil, or thymine.
- nucleosome — any of the repeating subunits of chromatin occurring at intervals along a strand of DNA, consisting of DNA coiled around histone.
- nucleotide — any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil.
- nuevo leon — a state in NE Mexico. 25,136 sq. mi. (65,102 sq. km). Capital: Monterrey.
- nuku'alofa — the capital of Tonga, a port on the N coast of Tongatapu Island. Pop: 36 000 (2005 est)
- null modem — (communications, hardware) A cable, especially an EIA-232 cable, for connecting serial ports on two computers directly, rather than via modems. Since, according to the specification, both computers should transmit on pin three of their EIA-232 connectors and receive on pin two, a null modem cable needs to connect one computer's pin two to the other's pin three and vice versa. It also needs to have male connectors at both ends (again, according to the specification).
- null-space — the set of elements of a vector space that a given linear transformation maps to zero.
- nullifiers — Plural form of nullifier.
- nullifying — Present participle of nullify.
- nulliparae — Plural form of nullipara.
- nulliparas — Plural form of nullipara.
- numberable — a numeral or group of numerals.
- numberless — innumerable; countless; myriad.
- numbskulls — Plural form of numbskull.
- numerology — the study of numbers, as the figures designating the year of one's birth, to determine their supposed influence on one's life, future, etc.
- numerously — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
- numinously — In a numinous manner.
- nummulated — relating to an expectorated combination of saliva and mucus in a circular, shallow form
- nummulites — Plural form of nummulite.
- nummulitic — Of or pertaining to nummulites.
- numskulled — Alternative form of numbskulled.
- nuptiality — The frequency or incidence of marriage within a population.
- nut weevil — any of several snout beetles of the genus Balaninus, the larvae of which live in and feed on nuts and acorns.
- nutational — Related to nutation.
- nuyts land — early name of a region on the southern coast in S Australia, discovered by the Dutch in 1626–27.
- obnubilate — to cloud over; becloud; obscure.
- occlusions — Plural form of occlusion.
- octangular — having eight angles.