15-letter words containing o, n, p, r, i
- non-improvement — an act of improving or the state of being improved.
- non-interrupted — having an irregular or discontinuous arrangement, as of leaflets along a stem.
- non-overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- non-penetrative — (of sexual activity) not involving penetration by the penis
- non-putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- non-repudiation — the act of repudiating.
- 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-suppurative — suppurating; characterized by suppuration.
- nonbiographical — not biographical, not relating to biography or events in a person's life
- noncatastrophic — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
- noncompressible — not able to be compressed
- noncomputerized — not computerized or controlled by computers
- nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- nonexperimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
- nonincorporated — Not incorporated.
- nonmetaphorical — not metaphorical; literal
- nonmetropolitan — Not metropolitan.
- nonpartisanship — The quality of not being partisan, of remaining politically independent.
- nonphotographic — not involving photographic equipment or techniques
- nonprecedential — Not precedential.
- 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
- nonproportional — having due proportion; corresponding.
- nonpsychiatrist — a person who is not a psychiatrist
- nonreproducible — Unable to be reproduced; not reproducible.
- nonreproductive — Not able to reproduce; sterile.
- nonstereoscopic — Not stereoscopic.
- northern paiute — a member of an American Indian people of Nevada, Oregon, and California, allied to the Paiute.
- nullarbor plain — a treeless, semiarid area of S Australia, contiguous to the Great Australian Bight.
- odd permutation — a permutation of a set of n elements, x 1 , x 2 , …, xn, which permutes the product of all differences of the form (xi – xj), where i is less than j, into the negative of the product.
- offset printing — offset (def 6).
- oil tanker pier — An oil tanker pier is a structure over water where oil tankers can stop and load or unload.
- 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.
- onychocryptosis — a form of nail disease in which nails are ingrown
- open university — higher education by correspondence
- operating cycle — the period of time between starting a business and making a profit
- operating table — table on which surgery is performed
- operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
- operationalized — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalize.
- operations room — a room from which all the operations of a military, police, or other disciplined activity are controlled
- opposite number — counterpart; equivalent: New members with an interest in folk art will find their opposite numbers in the association's directory.
- opprobriousness — The state or condition of being opprobrious.
- optical printer — a film printer used in making optical effects, consisting basically of a camera that photographs the image with special lenses to enlarge, reduce, distort, etc., and a projector that transfers the image to the print stock, as distinguished from a contact printer.
- 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.
- optoelectronics — the branch of electronics dealing with devices that generate, transform, transmit, or sense optical, infrared, or ultraviolet radiation, as cathode-ray tubes, electroluminescent and liquid crystal displays, lasers, and solar cells.
- oriental carpet — Oriental rug.
- ornithodelphian — of or relating to mammals of the class Ornithodelphia
- orphaned i-node — (operating system) /or'f*nd i:'nohd/ [Unix] 1. A file that retains storage but no longer appears in the directories of a file system.