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16-letter words containing n, u, m, e, r, o

  • non-remunerative — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
  • north massapequa — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • nuclear emulsion — a photographic emulsion in the form of a thick block, used to record the tracks of elementary particles.
  • nuclear magneton — a unit of magnetic moment, used to measure proton spin and approximately equal to 1/1836 Bohr magneton.
  • numbered account — a bank account whose owner is identified by a number for the purpose of preserving anonymity.
  • obsequent stream — a stream flowing in a direction opposite to that of the dip of the local strata.
  • oculomotor nerve — either one of the third pair of cranial nerves, consisting chiefly of motor fibers that innervate most of the muscles of the eyeball.
  • onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
  • operating manual — a leaflet of instructions on how to use something (such as an electrical appliance, etc)
  • outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
  • over-communicate — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
  • over-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • over-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • overaccumulation — Accumulation of too much.
  • overnumerousness — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
  • oxidation number — the state of an element or ion in a compound with regard to the electrons gained or lost by the element or ion in the reaction that formed the compound, expressed as a positive or negative number indicating the ionic charge of the element or ion.
  • pairs tournament — an event in a sport such as tennis or darts open to pairs of competitors
  • perpetual motion — the motion of a theoretical mechanism that, without any losses due to friction or other forms of dissipation of energy, would continue to operate indefinitely at the same rate without any external energy being applied to it.
  • picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
  • pneumatic trough — a trough filled with liquid, especially water, for collecting gases in bell jars or the like by displacement.
  • portmanteau word — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
  • postremogeniture — a system of inheritance under which the estate of a deceased person goes to his youngest son. Also called ultimogeniture. Compare primogeniture (def 2).
  • presumptuousness — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
  • primary consumer — (in the food chain) an animal that feeds on plants; a herbivore.
  • prometheus bound — a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • proteus syndrome — a condition caused by malfunction in cell growth, in which bone and flesh tissue overgrow in localized areas of the body
  • proxima centauri — the nearest star to the sun at a distance of 4.3 light-years, part of the Alpha Centauri triple-star system located in the constellation Centaurus.
  • pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
  • pulmonary artery — an artery conveying venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs.
  • quantum computer — a computer that makes use of the quantum states of electrons or other particles to store and process information as quantum bits.
  • radium emanation — (formerly) radon.
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
  • redundancy money — a sum of money given by an employer to an employee who has been made redundant: usually calculated on the basis of the employee's rate of pay and length of service
  • romeo and juliet — a tragedy (produced between 1591 and 1596) by Shakespeare.
  • root mean square — the square root of the arithmetic mean of the squares of the numbers in a given set of numbers. Abbreviation: rms.
  • rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • rumour-mongering — the act of spreading rumours
  • run-time support — run-time system
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • sendero luminoso — Spanish. a Maoist guerrilla movement active in Peru since 1980.
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
  • sports equipment — gear used to play sport
  • studio apartment — an apartment consisting of one main room, a kitchen or kitchenette, and a bathroom. Compare efficiency apartment.
  • summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
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