16-letter words containing p, e, n, r
- monterey cypress — a tree, Cupressus macrocarpa, of southern California, being pyramid-shaped in youth, but spreading in age: occurs naturally in only two groves on the coast of Monterey County, California, but is cultivated extensively.
- montpelier maple — a maple, Acer monspessulanum, that is native to southern Europe and Northwest Africa
- mortgage company — business providing loans to property buyers
- mortgage payment — instalment paid on a housebuyer's loan
- moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
- myelosuppression — (medicine) A reduction of bone marrow activity that leads to a lower concentration of platelets, red blood cells and white blood cells.
- neoimpressionism — the theory and practice of a group of post-impressionists of about the middle 1880s, characterized chiefly by a systematic juxtaposition of dots or points of pure color according to a concept of the optical mixture of hues.
- nephrocalcinosis — (medicine) The deposition of calcium salts in the renal parenchyma due to hyperparathyroidism.
- neptunium series — a radioactive series that starts with plutonium-241 and ends with bismuth-209. Neptunium-237 is the longest-lived member of the series. The series does not occur in nature
- network computer — a relatively inexpensive computer with minimal processing power, designed primarily to provide access to computer networks, as corporate intranets or the Internet. Abbreviation: NC.
- network operator — (job) A person who monitors and maintains the operation of a communications network. A network operator troubleshoots hardware (cables, routers, network switches, hubs, network adaptors), software, and transmission problems.
- network provider — a business or organization that provides customers with access to a telecommunications network (esp mobile phone networks) or to the internet
- network topology — (networking) The "shape" of a network, how the nodes are connected to each other. Common topologies are bus network, star network and ring network.
- neuroarthropathy — (medicine) Any disease of a joint that is associated with a disease of the nervous system.
- neurodevelopment — The development of the nervous system during the life of an organism.
- neuroepithelioma — Neurocytoma.
- neurohypophyseal — Relating to the neurohypophysis.
- neurohypophysial — Relating to the neurohypophysis.
- neuropathologies — the pathology of the nervous system.
- neuropathologist — A specialist who practices neuropathology.
- neuropsychiatric — Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; simultaneously neurological and psychiatric.
- neutrosophic set — (logic) A generalisation of the intuitionistic set, classical set, fuzzy set, paraconsistent set, dialetheist set, paradoxist set, tautological set based on Neutrosophy. An element x(T, I, F) belongs to the set in the following way: it is t true in the set, i indeterminate in the set, and f false, where t, i, and f are real numbers taken from the sets T, I, and F with no restriction on T, I, F, nor on their sum n=t+i+f. The neutrosophic set generalises: - the intuitionistic set, which supports incomplete set theories (for 0
- newspaper office — an office where the editorial and production staff of a newspaper work
- newspaper report — a report published in a newspaper
- noise prevention — the prevention of annoying or harmful noise in an environment
- noise suppressor — squelch (def 8).
- nomination paper — a document containing signatures guaranteeing the proposal of somebody as a candidate in an election
- non-apprehension — anticipation of adversity or misfortune; suspicion or fear of future trouble or evil.
- non-compressible — to press together; force into less space.
- non-contemporary — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- non-experiential — pertaining to or derived from experience.
- non-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
- non-geographical — of or relating to geography.
- non-incorporated — formed or constituted as a legal corporation.
- non-interpretive — serving to interpret; explanatory.
- non-metropolitan — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
- non-repatriation — to bring or send back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee, etc.) to his or her country or land of citizenship.
- non-reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- non-reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- non-reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- non-spuriousness — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
- noncorresponding — That does not correspond (to something else).
- nonprofessionals — Plural form of nonprofessional.
- nonproliferation — the action or practice of curbing or controlling an excessive, rapid spread: nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
- nonreciprocating — Not reciprocating; not responding in kind.
- north massapequa — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
- north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
- north providence — a town in NE Rhode Island.
- northamptonshire — a county in central England. 914 sq. mi. (2365 sq. km).