14-letter words containing s, t, r, a
- new jersey tea — a North American shrub, Ceanothus americanus, of the buckthorn family, the leaves of which were used as a substitute for tea during the American Revolution.
- new york state — New York (def 1).
- news broadcast — TV, radio: current affairs item
- news gathering — the work of collecting news for publication or broadcast
- 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.
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- no easy matter — If something is no easy matter, it is difficult to do it.
- no sooner…than — immediately after or when
- non-altruistic — unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others (opposed to egoistic).
- non-astringent — Medicine/Medical. contracting; constrictive; styptic.
- non-conversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- non-extraneous — introduced or coming from without; not belonging or proper to a thing; external; foreign: extraneous substances in our water.
- non-gratuitous — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
- non-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- non-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- 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-resistance — the policy or practice of not resisting violence or established authority, even when tyrannical, by force.
- non-separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
- non-stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- nonassertively — In a nonassertive way.
- noncharismatic — a person or group not involved in the Christian charismatic movement
- noncontrastive — not contrastive.
- noncrystalline — of or like crystal; clear; transparent.
- nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
- nonobstetrical — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
- nonparasitized — Not having been parasitized.
- nonpsychiatric — not psychiatric
- nonresidential — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
- nonrestorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
- nonsegregation — the quality or condition of being nonsegregated
- nonspectacular — not spectacular
- nonsuppurative — Not suppurative.
- nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
- nontranslucent — Not translucent.
- nontransparent — having the property of transmitting rays of light through its substance so that bodies situated beyond or behind can be distinctly seen.
- norman dynasty — a succession of English kings founded by Duke William of the duchy of Normandy in northern France, who conquered England in 1066 and whose successors ruled the country to 1154.
- north ayrshire — a council area of W central Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde: comprises the N part of the historical county of Ayrshire, including the Isle of Arran; formerly part of Strathclyde Region (1975–96): chiefly agricultural, with fishing and tourism. Administrative centre: Irvine. Pop: 136 030 (2003 est). Area: 884 sq km (341 sq miles)
- north cascades — a national park in NW Washington: site of glaciers and mountain lakes. 789 sq. mi. (2043 sq. km).
- north caucasus — a region in the S Russian Federation in Europe, E of the Black Sea.
- north st. paul — a town in E Minnesota.
- north-easterly — A north-easterly point, area, or direction is to the north-east or towards the north-east.
- northeasterner — a native or inhabitant of the northeast.
- northeastwards — northeastward.
- northwestwards — northwestward.
- norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
- nostro account — a bank account conducted by a British bank with a foreign bank, usually in the foreign currency
- 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.
- nursery stakes — a race for two-year-old horses
- nutraceuticals — Plural form of nutraceutical.