15-letter words containing o, n, c, a, s, i
- non-carnivorous — flesh-eating: A dog is a carnivorous animal.
- non-charismatic — of, having, or characteristic of charisma.
- non-contrastive — not contrastive.
- non-crystalline — of or like crystal; clear; transparent.
- non-efficacious — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
- non-egotistical — pertaining to or characterized by egotism.
- non-mechanistic — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
- non-speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- non-syncopation — Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.
- nonacquiescence — the act or condition of acquiescing or giving tacit assent; agreement or consent by silence or without objection; compliance (usually followed by to or in): acquiescence to his boss's demands.
- nonantagonistic — acting in opposition; opposing, especially mutually.
- nonaristocratic — lacking aristocratic qualities, not refined or polished
- nonastronomical — not astronomical
- noncatastrophic — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
- nonclassicality — The condition of being nonclassical.
- nonconservation — A failure to conserve.
- nonconservative — Not conservative.
- nonconsolidated — (financial) Including the financial data of only the parent company.
- nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- nondiscriminate — Not discriminate.
- noninsecticidal — absent or free of insecticide
- nonmucilaginous — Not mucilaginous.
- nonpsychiatrist — a person who is not a psychiatrist
- nonpsychoactive — Not psychoactive.
- nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
- nonsensicalness — Nonsensicality.
- nonsolicitation — Being or pertaining to a particular kind of noncompetition agreement that forbids a former employee from attempting to recruit the employer's colleagues or customers.
- nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
- north caucasian — a language family including all the Caucasian languages north of the Caucasian divide, as Kabardian and the Circassian language proper, and a few between the divide and the Black Sea, as Abkhazian.
- not necessarily — If you reply 'Not necessarily', you mean that what has just been said or suggested may not be true.
- nova scotia lox — a kind of brine-cured salmon, having either a salt cure (Scandinavian lox) or a sugar cure (Nova Scotia lox) often eaten with cream cheese on a bagel.
- nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
- nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
- object distance — the distance between the lens of a camera and an object being photographed.
- observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
- obsidional coin — siege piece.
- on the increase — growing, increasing
- onomasiological — the study of the means of expressing a given concept.
- opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
- optical scanner — the process of interpreting data in printed, handwritten, bar-code, or other visual form by a device (optical scanner or reader) that scans and identifies the data.
- opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
- orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
- organic disease — a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).
- organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
- organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
- oval of cassini — the locus of a point such that the product of the distances from the point to two fixed points is constant.
- overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- painter's colic — Pathology. lead poisoning causing intense intestinal pain.
- pairs champions — competitors in or winners of a pairs championship
- panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.