12-letter words containing o, u, l, e
- nonclemature — Misspelling of nomenclature.
- noncollusive — involving collusion; fraudulently contrived by agreement: a collusive agreement to increase prices.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- nonexclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
- nonfluencies — spoken or written with ease: fluent French.
- noninducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- noninfluence — a lack of influence, failure to influence
- nonmercurial — not composed of, resembling, or containing mercury
- nonmolecular — not molecular, not made up of or relating to molecules
- nonnucleated — having no nucleus
- nonnumerical — not containing or involving numbers
- nonocclusive — occluding or tending to occlude.
- nonpetroleum — not containing any petroleum based substance
- nonqualified — unqualified (def 1).
- nonregulated — Alternative spelling of non-regulated.
- nonreligious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- nontextually — In a nontextual manner.
- nonturbulent — Not turbulent.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- norfullerene — (chemistry) Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by the removal of one or more carbon atoms, and the optional addition of several hydrogen atoms.
- normal curve — a bell-shaped curve showing a particular distribution of probability over the values of a random variable. Also called Gaussian curve, probability curve.
- notoungulate — one of the herbivorous, hoofed mammals of the extinct order Notoungulata, best known from the Paleocene to the Pleistocene Epochs of South America.
- nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
- nucleophilic — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
- nullipotence — Quality of being nullipotent.
- numbers pool — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
- nutmeg melon — netted melon.
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- obsequiously — characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
- obtuse angle — an angle greater than 90° but less than 180°.
- ochroleucous — having an off-white colour or a white colour tinted with yellow
- octopetalous — containing or consisting of eight petals
- octosepalous — having or consisting of eight sepals
- oil pressure — force that keeps engine lubricated
- oil producer — a country with reserves of oil
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- old mine cut — a brilliant cut, common in the 19th century, retaining a relatively high proportion of the original stone and having a large culet and small table compared to modern brilliants.
- oleaginously — In an oleaginous manner.
- oleoresinous — pertaining to, characteristic of, or containing oleoresin.
- olericulture — the cultivation of vegetables for the home or market.
- open cluster — a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies.