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.