18-letter words containing r, e, i, n, s, t
- minister of health — a person appointed to head the government department of health
- minority president — (in the US) a president who has been elected by the largest number of votes cast but not by a majority of the electorate
- misinterpretations — Plural form of misinterpretation.
- misrepresentations — Plural form of misrepresentation.
- mission controller — a person who works as part of a mission control
- misunderestimation — (nonstandard) An inaccurate underestimation, or an act of misunderestimating.
- moccasin telegraph — the transmission of rumour or secret information; the grapevine
- molecular genetics — a subdivision of genetics concerned with the structure and function of genes at the molecular level.
- moog (synthesizer) — an early musical synthesizer
- mortgage insurance — policy to compensate for property loan payments
- mosquito repellent — a chemical substance, such as a spray or lotion, applied to the body to prevent mosquitoes biting
- multi-user dungeon — Multi-User Dimension
- multiple ownership — ownership by several people or organizations
- musical instrument — music
- national insurance — In Britain, national insurance is the state system of paying money to people who are ill, unemployed, or retired. It is financed by money that the government collects from people who work, or from their employers.
- native advertising — advertising content on a website that conforms to the design and format of the site and is integrated into the site’s usual content: native advertising that is almost indistinguishable from the paper’s news stories.
- natural resistance — natural immunity.
- nebular hypothesis — the theory that the solar system evolved from a mass of nebular matter: prominent in the 19th century following its precise formulation by Laplace.
- necrotic enteritis — an infectious disease of calves, lambs, foals, and piglets, characterized by acute diarrhoea and death, caused by the toxin of the organism Clostridium perfringens type C
- needlestick injury — an injury that is caused by accidentally pricking the skin with a hypodermic needle
- neo-pythagoreanism — a philosophical system, established in Alexandria and Rome in the second century b.c., consisting mainly of revived Pythagorean doctrines with elements of Platonism and Stoicism.
- neovascularization — the development of new blood vessels, especially in tissues where circulation has been impaired by trauma or disease.
- nervous exhaustion — extreme mental and physical fatigue caused by excessive emotional stress; neurasthenia.
- netherlands guiana — a former name of Suriname.
- netscape navigator — (networking, tool, product) /Mozilla/ (Often called just "Netscape") A web browser from Netscape Communications Corporation. The first beta-test version was released free to the Internet on 13 October 1994. Netscape evolved from NCSA Mosaic (with which it shares at least one author) and runs on the X Window System under various versions of Unix, on Microsoft Windows and on the Apple Macintosh. It features integrated support for sending electronic mail and reading Usenet news, as well as RSA encryption to allow secure communications for commercial applications such as exchanging credit card numbers with net retailers. It provides multiple simultaneous interruptible text and image loading; native inline JPEG image display; display and interaction with documents as they load; multiple independent windows. Netscape was designed with 14.4 kbps modem links in mind. You can download Netscape Navigator for evaluation, or for unlimited use in academic or not-for-profit environments. You can also pay for it. Version: 1.0N. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- neuroleptanalgesia — a semiconscious nonreactive state induced by certain drug combinations, as fentanyl with droperidol.
- neutrino astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the detection and measurement of neutrinos emitted by the sun and other celestial objects.
- neutrosophic logic — (logic) (Or "Smarandache logic") A generalisation of fuzzy logic based on Neutrosophy. A proposition is t true, i indeterminate, and f false, where t, i, and f are real values from the ranges T, I, F, with no restriction on T, I, F, or the sum n=t+i+f. Neutrosophic logic thus generalises: - intuitionistic logic, which supports incomplete theories (for 0
- new forest disease — an infectious eye disease causing acute eye pain in cattle
- nightmare scenario — If you describe a situation or event as a nightmare scenario, you mean that it is the worst possible thing that could happen.
- nike of samothrace — a Greek marble statue (c200 b.c.) of Nike found at Samothrace and now in the Louvre, Paris.
- no-fault insurance — Also called no-fault insurance. a form of automobile insurance designed to enable the policyholder in case of an accident to collect a certain basic compensation promptly for economic loss from his or her own insurance company without determination of liability.
- nocturnal emission — the release of semen during sleep, often during a sexual dream.
- nominative-address — a noun naming the person to whom one is speaking.
- non-characteristic — Also, characteristical. pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.
- non-conversational — able or ready to converse; given to conversation.
- non-discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
- non-representation — the act of representing.
- non-responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- nonaggression pact — an agreement between two nations not to attack each other, usually for a specified period of years
- nondestructiveness — The quality of not being destructive.
- nonintercourse act — the act of Congress (1809) prohibiting all shipping and trade between the United States and British- or French-controlled ports.
- noninterventionism — A policy of non-intervention.
- noninterventionist — A proponent of non-intervention.
- nonpartisan league — a political organization of farmers, founded in North Dakota in 1915, and extending to many states west of the Mississippi, with the aim of influencing agricultural legislation in state legislatures.
- nonpreferentialism — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
- nonstriated muscle — smooth muscle
- normally aspirated — A normally aspirated or naturally aspirated engine breathes air at atmospheric pressure.
- north bedfordshire — a city in Bedfordshire, in central England.
- north lincolnshire — a unitary authority of NE England, in Lincolnshire: formerly (1975–96) part of the county of Humberside. Pop: 155 000 (2003 est). Area: 1497 sq km (578 sq miles)