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14-letter words containing t, r, i, a, l

  • nondirectional — functioning equally well in all directions; omnidirectional.
  • nonforfeitable — a fine; penalty.
  • nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
  • nongeometrical — not geometrical
  • nongrammatical — (of a sentence or expression) not conforming to the grammatical rules of a given language.
  • noninheritable — Not inheritable.
  • nonobstetrical — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
  • nonoperational — able to function or be used; functional: How soon will the new factory be operational?
  • nonparticulate — Not particulate.
  • nonpredictable — Not predictable.
  • nonresidential — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
  • nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
  • nontheoretical — not confined to the theoretical realm; actual
  • nontraditional — of or relating to tradition.
  • nonutilitarian — Not utilitarian.
  • north atlantic — relating to the North Atlantic and, often, the countries bordering it
  • north carolina — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 52,586 sq. mi. (136,198 sq. km). Capital: Raleigh. Abbreviation: NC (for use with zip code), N.C.
  • 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 option — the use of or power to use nuclear weapons
  • nuclear winter — the general devastation of life, along with worldwide darkness and extreme cold, that some scientists believe would result from a global dust cloud screening out sunlight following large-scale nuclear detonations.
  • nuclearization — to equip with nuclear weapons; give nuclear capability to: a fear that armed forces on both sides would become nuclearized.
  • nutraceuticals — Plural form of nutraceutical.
  • obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
  • ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
  • old-line party — either the Liberal Party or the Conservative Party
  • omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
  • oneirocritical — an interpreter of dreams.
  • 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
  • operationalize — Put into operation or use.
  • optical isomer — any of two or more isomers exhibiting optical isomerism.
  • oracle toolkit — Adaptable User Interface
  • oral eroticism — libidinal pleasure derived from the lips and mouth, for example by kissing
  • oral tradition — a community's cultural and historical traditions passed down by word of mouth or example from one generation to another without written instruction.
  • 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.
  • organisational — (British) alternative spelling of organizational.
  • organizability — The suitability or potential for organization.
  • organizational — the act or process of organizing.
  • organometallic — pertaining to or noting an organic compound containing a metal or a metalloid linked to carbon.
  • oriental poppy — a poppy, Papaver orientale, of Asia, having bristly stems and leaves and showy scarlet, pink, or white flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
  • oriental topaz — a variety of corundum resembling topaz in colour and used as a gemstone
  • ornithological — the branch of zoology that deals with birds.
  • orthographical — Of, or relating to orthography; spelled correctly.
  • orthonormalize — (mathematics) To make a set of vectors both orthogonal and normalized.
  • osmoregulation — the process by which cells and simple organisms maintain fluid and electrolyte balance with their surroundings.
  • outer mongolia — a region in Asia including Inner Mongolia of China and the Mongolian People's Republic.
  • outgeneralling — Present participle of outgeneral.
  • over-stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • overallocation — Excess allocation.
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