15-letter words containing s, c, i
- nonconservative — Not conservative.
- nonconsolidated — (financial) Including the financial data of only the parent company.
- nonconstruction — an activity not involving construction, esp in building
- nonconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- nondiscriminate — Not discriminate.
- noninsecticidal — absent or free of insecticide
- nonintersecting — Not intersecting.
- nonintersection — Lack of intersection; failure to intersect.
- nonmonotheistic — Not monotheistic.
- nonmucilaginous — Not mucilaginous.
- nonprescription — (of drugs, medication, etc.) legally available for purchase without a doctor's prescription; over-the-counter.
- nonprescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- nonpsychiatrist — a person who is not a psychiatrist
- nonpsychoactive — Not psychoactive.
- nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
- nonsensicalness — Nonsensicality.
- nonsolicitation — Being or pertaining to a particular kind of noncompetition agreement that forbids a former employee from attempting to recruit the employer's colleagues or customers.
- nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
- nonstereoscopic — Not stereoscopic.
- north caucasian — a language family including all the Caucasian languages north of the Caucasian divide, as Kabardian and the Circassian language proper, and a few between the divide and the Black Sea, as Abkhazian.
- not necessarily — If you reply 'Not necessarily', you mean that what has just been said or suggested may not be true.
- nova scotia lox — a kind of brine-cured salmon, having either a salt cure (Scandinavian lox) or a sugar cure (Nova Scotia lox) often eaten with cream cheese on a bagel.
- nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
- nuclear physics — the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure, and component parts of atomic nuclei.
- nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
- nucleosynthesis — the formation of new atomic nuclei by nuclear reactions, thought to occur in the interiors of stars and in the early stages of development of the universe.
- nucleosynthetic — Of or pertaining to nucleosynthesis.
- nuisance caller — someone who makes an unsolicited telephone call such as a prank call or a call for telemarketing purposes
- nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
- object distance — the distance between the lens of a camera and an object being photographed.
- objective prism — a large prism placed in front of the objective lens or mirror of a telescope, allowing the simultaneous acquisition of the spectra of many stars.
- oblique section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane that is other than parallel or perpendicular to its longest axis.
- observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
- obsidional coin — siege piece.
- obstructionists — Plural form of obstructionist.
- obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
- occipitomastoid — (anatomy) Relating to, or connecting the occipital and mastoid bones.
- oedipus complex — the unresolved desire of a child for sexual gratification through the parent of the opposite sex, especially the desire of a son for his mother. This involves, first, identification with and, later, hatred for the parent of the same sex, who is considered by the child as a rival.
- of one's choice — The thing or person of your choice is the one that you choose.
- office politics — power play in the workplace
- officer of arms — an officer with the duties of a herald, especially one charged with the devising, granting, or confirming of armorial bearings.
- official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
- oil of the sick — holy oil used in the sacrament of extreme unction.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- on prescription — If a medicine is available on prescription, you can only get it from a chemist or pharmacist if a doctor gives you a prescription for it.
- on short notice — with little warning
- on the increase — growing, increasing
- oneirocriticism — the art of interpreting dreams.
- onomasiological — the study of the means of expressing a given concept.