12-letter words containing r, u, n, o
- nonregulated — Alternative spelling of non-regulated.
- nonreligious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- nonspiritual — Not spiritual.
- nonstatutory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
- nonturbulent — Not turbulent.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- nonvoluntary — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- 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.
- normal fault — gravity fault.
- northborough — a town in central Massachusetts.
- northumbrian — of or relating to Northumbria, Northumberland, or the inhabitants or dialect of either.
- norton sound — an arm of the Bering Sea on the W coast of Alaska, S of the Seward Peninsula. About 150 miles (240 km) long and 125 miles (200 km) wide.
- 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.
- np-hilarious — (humour) An algorithm whose complexity is a joke, either literally, as in BogoSort, or metaphorically.
- 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.
- nutritionist — a person who is trained or expert in the science of nutrition.
- nutritiously — In a way that provides nutrition; nourishment; food.
- 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.
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
- obstructions — Plural form of obstruction.
- odd-man rush — an attacking move when the defence is outnumbered by the opposing team
- offscourings — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- oil industry — petroleum-processing business
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- oleoresinous — pertaining to, characteristic of, or containing oleoresin.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
- on all fours — all four limbs or extremities; the four legs or feet of an animal or both arms and both legs or both hands and both feet of a person: The cat rolled off the ledge but landed on all fours.
- on the outer — excluded or neglected
- on your bike — away you go
- on your feet — position: standing
- on your mark — a command given to runners in a race to prepare themselves at the starting line
- on your mind — If something is on your mind, you are worried or concerned about it and think about it a lot.