14-letter words containing s, i, n, a, l
- non-insulating — to cover, line, or separate with a material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, or leakage of heat, electricity, or sound: to insulate an electric wire with a rubber sheath; to insulate a coat with down.
- non-liberalism — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- non-logistical — of or relating to logistics.
- non-malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- non-naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.
- non-respirable — capable of being respired.
- non-scholastic — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
- nonassertively — In a nonassertive way.
- noncausatively — In a noncausative manner.
- nonclandestine — not clandestine or secret; open
- noncrystalline — of or like crystal; clear; transparent.
- nondimensional — Not dimensional.
- nonestablished — without the official support of the government
- nonexistential — not existential
- nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- nonfissionable — not able to undergo fission
- nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
- nonjusticiable — capable of being settled by law or by the action of a court: a justiciable dispute.
- nonlegislative — Not of a legislative character; not involved with or related to legislating.
- nonobstetrical — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
- nonresidential — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
- nonsensational — not sensational or sensationalist
- nonsensicality — (of words or language) having little or no meaning; making little or no sense: A baby's babbling is appealingly nonsensical.
- nonspeculative — not speculative
- nonstatistical — of, pertaining to, consisting of, or based on statistics.
- nonsustainable — Not sustainable.
- nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
- norfolk island — an island in the S Pacific between New Caledonia and New Zealand: a territory of Australia. 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
- normal divisor — a normal subgroup.
- norman english — the dialect of English used by the Norman conquerors of England
- notes inégales — (esp in French baroque music) notes written down evenly but executed as if they were divided into pairs of long and short notes
- noticeableness — The quality of being noticeable.
- novelistically — In a novelistic way.
- nsa line eater — (messaging, tool) The National Security Agency trawling program sometimes assumed to be reading the net for the US Government's spooks. Most hackers describe it as a mythical beast, but some believe it actually exists, more aren't sure, and many believe in acting as though it exists just in case. Some netters put loaded phrases like "KGB", "Uzi", "nuclear materials", "Palestine", "cocaine", and "assassination" in their sig blocks to confuse and overload the creature. The GNU version of Emacs actually has a command that randomly inserts a bunch of insidious anarcho-verbiage into your edited text. There is a mainstream variant of this myth involving a "Trunk Line Monitor", which supposedly used speech recognition to extract words from telephone trunks. This one was making the rounds in the late 1970s, spread by people who had no idea of then-current technology or the storage, signal-processing, or speech recognition needs of such a project. On the basis of mass-storage costs alone it would have been cheaper to hire 50 high-school students and just let them listen in. Speech-recognition technology can't do this job even now (1993), and almost certainly won't in this millennium, either. The peak of silliness came with a letter to an alternative paper in New Haven, Connecticut, laying out the factoids of this Big Brotherly affair. The letter writer then revealed his actual agenda by offering - at an amazing low price, just this once, we take VISA and MasterCard - a scrambler guaranteed to daunt the Trunk Trawler and presumably allowing the would-be Baader-Meinhof gangs of the world to get on with their business.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- nuclear isomer — isomer (def 2).
- nuisance value — the usefulness of a person's or thing's capacity to cause difficulties or irritation
- numa pompilius — died 673? b.c, 2nd legendary Sabine king of Rome 715–673?
- numismatically — Of or relating to coins or currency.
- nutraceuticals — Plural form of nutraceutical.
- obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
- ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
- old line state — Maryland (used as a nickname).
- oleaginousness — The state or condition of being oleaginous; oiliness, unctuousness.
- omnibus clause — a clause, especially in an automobile liability policy, extending coverage to persons other than the insured named in the policy.
- one-liner wars — (games, programming) A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see write-only language and line noise). The objective is to see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly hairy primitive set. A similar amusement was practiced among TECO hackers and is now popular among Perl aficionados. (2 = 0 +.= T o.| T) / T <- iN where "o" is the APL null character, the assignment arrow is a single character, and "i" represents the APL iota.
- operationalise — Alternative spelling of operationalize.
- operationalism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
- operationalist — a person who adheres to operationalism
- oppositionally — In terms of, or by means of, opposition.