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11-letter words containing s, c, o, n

  • nephroscope — (surgery) An instrument used to examine the kidney through an inserted tube.
  • netherstock — a stocking
  • neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
  • neuroticism — the state of having traits or symptoms characteristic of neurosis.
  • nicholas ii — (Gérard de Bourgogne) died 1061, pope 1058–61.
  • nicholas iv — (Girolamo Masci) died 1292, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1288–92.
  • nicol prism — one of a pair of prisms used to produce and analyze plane-polarized light in a polarizing microscope. Also called Nicol. Compare polarizer (def 1).
  • nicostratus — a son of Menelaus and Helen who, with his illegitimate brother Megapenthes, expelled Helen from Sparta when Menelaus died.
  • nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
  • nimzowitsch — Aaron Isayevich (ɪˈzaɪjɛvɪtʃ) 1886–1935, Latvian chess player and theorist; influential in enunciating the principles of the hypermodern school, of which he was the main instigator
  • nincompoops — Plural form of nincompoop.
  • nitrostarch — an orange powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 8 O 2 6 , soluble in ethanol, used in explosives.
  • nociceptors — Plural form of nociceptor.
  • noctilucous — (obsolete) Shining in the night; luminescent.
  • non-clastic — Biology. breaking up into fragments or separate portions; dividing into parts.
  • non-closure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
  • non-cursive — (of handwriting) in flowing strokes with the letters joined together.
  • non-suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
  • non-vacuous — without contents; empty: the vacuous air.
  • non-viscous — inviscid.
  • nonabstract — Not abstract.
  • nonactivist — One who is not an activist.
  • nonartistic — not artistic
  • noncitizens — Plural form of noncitizen.
  • noncohesive — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
  • noncomposer — a person who is not a composer
  • nonconstant — not constant
  • nonconsumer — a person who refrains from using or purchasing certain resources, products, or services
  • noncustomer — a person who is not the customer of a particular establishment, or a person who does not buy a product or service
  • nondecision — the failure to make a decision
  • nondescript — of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind: a nondescript novel; a nondescript color.
  • nondiscount — not subject to a discount
  • nondisjunct — Not disjunct.
  • nondomestic — not domestic, esp not relating to the home or native country
  • nonfeasance — the omission of some act that ought to have been performed. Compare malfeasance, misfeasance (def 2).
  • nonmiscible — not capable of being mixed.
  • nonmusician — a person who is not a musician
  • nonmystical — not mystical
  • nonorgasmic — not involving or resulting in orgasm, not able to orgasm
  • nonphysical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • nonrecourse — (finance) Of or pertaining to a form of financing, typically debt financing, in which the lender's recourse to recovery in the event of default is limited to the collateral asset only.
  • nonsecretor — a person of blood group A, B, or AB, whose saliva does not contain the antigens of their blood group
  • nonselected — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
  • nonsemantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
  • nonsensical — (of words or language) having little or no meaning; making little or no sense: A baby's babbling is appealingly nonsensical.
  • nonsentence — (sometimes used in a derogatory way) a string of words that is not a sentence
  • nonsilicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
  • nonspecific — Not detailed or exact; general.
  • nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
  • nonsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
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