14-letter words containing s, t, a, e, l
- nielsen rating — an estimate of the total number of viewers for a particular television program, expressed as a percentage of the total number of viewers whose television sets are on at the time and based on a monitoring of the sets of a preselected sample of viewers.
- non-adjustable — capable of being adjusted: adjustable seat belts.
- nonassertively — In a nonassertive way.
- noncausatively — In a noncausative manner.
- nonclandestine — not clandestine or secret; open
- noncrystalline — of or like crystal; clear; transparent.
- nonestablished — without the official support of the government
- nonexistential — not existential
- nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- 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.
- nonspectacular — not spectacular
- nonspeculative — not speculative
- nonsustainable — Not sustainable.
- nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
- nontranslucent — Not translucent.
- north-easterly — A north-easterly point, area, or direction is to the north-east or towards the north-east.
- norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
- 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.
- numeral system — any notation for the representation of numerals or numbers.
- 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).
- omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
- on one's plate — waiting to be done or dealt with
- 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
- ophthalmoscope — an instrument for viewing the interior of the eye or examining the retina.
- opt-out clause — a clause that permits signatories to a contract to opt out of particular provisions, or to terminate the contract early
- optical isomer — any of two or more isomers exhibiting optical isomerism.
- oral eroticism — libidinal pleasure derived from the lips and mouth, for example by kissing
- orbital sander — a sander that uses a section of sandpaper clamped to a metal pad that moves at high speed in a very narrow orbit, driven by an electric motor.
- osmoregulation — the process by which cells and simple organisms maintain fluid and electrolyte balance with their surroundings.
- osmoregulatory — Of or pertaining to osmoregulation.
- ostentatiously — characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others: an ostentatious dresser.
- osteogenically — By osteogenesis.
- osteologically — Concerning only the osteological aspects.
- outlandishness — The quality of being outlandish.
- over-stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- overallotments — Plural form of overallotment.
- overcautiously — in such a way as to be too cautious, wary, or careful