12-letter words containing r, u, n, o, e

nonrecurring — not occurring or happening again, especially often or periodically.
nonredundant — not redundant
nonregulated — Alternative spelling of non-regulated.
nonreligious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
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.
not-a-number — (mathematics) (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
nourishments — Plural form of nourishment.
nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
nueva gerona — a town on the Isle of Pines, S of Cuba.
nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
number opera — an opera in which the arias, ensembles, recitatives, and other sections are clearly separated from one another.
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.
numerousness — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
nurserywomen — Plural form of nurserywoman.
nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
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.
oamaru stone — a kind of limestone, of building quality, found at Oamaru on South Island, New Zealand
obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
oleoresinous — pertaining to, characteristic of, or containing oleoresin.
ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
on the outer — excluded or neglected
on your bike — away you go
on your feet — position: standing
on your side — If something is on your side or if you have it on your side, it helps you when you are trying to achieve something.
open circuit — a discontinuous circuit through which no current can flow.
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.
open texture — the failure of natural languages to determine future usage, particularly the ability of predicates to permit the construction of borderline cases
oracularness — the state of being oracular
orange juice — fruit drink: nectar of orange
order around — be bossy towards
order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
orion nebula — a luminous nebula in the constellation Orion, in the center of Orion's sword.
orthodonture — orthodontia (def 2).
outer london — the group of London Boroughs that form a ring around the city of London in the UK
outer planet — any of the four planets with orbits outside the orbit of Mars, namely, the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
outmanoeuvre — British. outmaneuver.
outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
outsiderness — The state or condition of being an outsider.
outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
over-anxious — excessively anxious.

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