13-letter words containing u, n, s
- natural slope — the maximum angle at which soil will lie in a bank without slipping
- nature's call — call of nature.
- ne plus ultra — the highest point; acme.
- necessitously — In a necessitous way.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- nectarivorous — feeding on nectar
- nefariousness — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- neosurrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
- nerve impulse — a progressive wave of electric and chemical activity along a nerve fiber that stimulates or inhibits the action of a muscle, gland, or other nerve cell.
- nervomuscular — (physiology) Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles.
- nervous wreck — sb anxious
- neuraminidase — An enzyme, present in many pathogenic or symbiotic microorganisms, that catalyzes the breakdown of glycosides containing neuraminic acid.
- neurilemmomas — Plural form of neurilemmoma.
- neuroblastoma — a malignant tumor of immature nerve cells that usually starts in the autonomic nervous system or adrenal gland and spreads quickly, most often affecting young children.
- neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
- neurohormones — Plural form of neurohormone.
- neurolinguist — One who studies neurolinguistics.
- neuromuscular — pertaining to or affecting both nerves and muscles.
- neuromyelitis — (pathology) inflammation of both the spinal cord and nerves.
- neuropeptides — Plural form of neuropeptide.
- neurosciences — Plural form of neuroscience.
- neurosurgeons — Plural form of neurosurgeon.
- neurosurgical — Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
- neurosyphilis — Syphilis that involves the central nervous system.
- neurovascular — of, relating to, or involving the nerves and blood vessels.
- new age music — a type of gentle melodic popular music originating in the US in the late 1980s, which takes in elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and is played largely on synthesizers and acoustic instruments
- new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
- new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
- new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
- new jerusalem — heaven regarded as the prototype of the earthly Jerusalem; the heavenly city
- newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- news bulletin — a usually short news broadcast
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- nitroprusside — (inorganic chemistry) Any salt, of the hypothetical nitroprussic acid, that contains a pentacyanonitrosylferrate anion.
- nitroso group — the univalent group O=N–.
- nitrous ether — ethyl nitrite.
- nitrous oxide — a colorless, sweet-smelling, sweet-tasting, nonflammable, slightly water-soluble gas, N 2 O, that sometimes produces a feeling of exhilaration when inhaled: used chiefly as an anesthetic in dentistry and surgery, in the manufacture of chemicals, and as an aerosol.
- no such thing — You can say there is no such thing as something to emphasize that it does not exist or is not possible.
- nomenclatures — Plural form of nomenclature.
- non-causative — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- non-collusion — a secret agreement, especially for fraudulent or treacherous purposes; conspiracy: Some of his employees were acting in collusion to rob him.
- non-communist — not following, belonging to, or associated with the Communist Party or Communism.
- non-congruous — exhibiting harmony of parts.
- non-credulous — marked by or arising from credulity: a credulous rumor.
- non-custodial — of or relating to custody.
- non-customary — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- non-dangerous — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.