14-letter words containing t, r, e, s, n, a
- native speaker — sb: language is their mother tongue
- natural causes — If someone dies of or from natural causes, they die because they are ill or old rather than because of an accident or violence.
- natural person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- nature reserve — protected area for wildlife
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- necessitarians — Plural form of necessitarian.
- nectareousness — the state or quality of being nectareous
- neil armstrong — (Daniel) Louis ("Satchmo") 1900–71, U.S. jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
- nematodiriasis — the condition, esp in sheep, of having parasitic nematode worms of the genus Nematodirus in the small intestine
- neoromanticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) Fine Arts. a style of painting developed in the 20th century, chiefly characterized by forms or images that project a sense of nostalgia and fantasy.
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- neuroanatomist — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
- neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
- neutral monism — the theory that mind and matter consist of different relations between entities that are themselves neither mental nor physical.
- neutralisation — The act of neutralising.
- new australian — an immigrant to Australia, esp one whose native tongue is not English
- 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-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-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.
- noncontrastive — not contrastive.
- noncrystalline — of or like crystal; clear; transparent.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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-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