13-letter words containing y, e, n
- necktie party — a lynching or other execution by hanging.
- needle biopsy — the removal of a small amount of tissue or cellular material with a long hollow surgical needle, performed for diagnostic purposes.
- negligibility — so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may safely be neglected or disregarded: The extra expenses were negligible.
- negotiability — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- neo-orthodoxy — a movement in Protestant theology, beginning after World War I, stressing the absolute sovereignty of God and chiefly characterized by a reaction against liberal theology and a reaffirmation of certain doctrines of the Reformation.
- nettle family — the plant family Urticaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs, sometimes covered with stinging hairs, having alternate or opposite simple leaves, clusters of small flowers, and small, dry, seedlike fruit, and including baby's-tears, clearweed, nettles of the genus Urtica, and ramie.
- network layer — (networking) (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
- neuroatypical — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
- neuroethology — the study of the role of the nervous system in animal behaviour
- neuromyelitis — (pathology) inflammation of both the spinal cord and nerves.
- neurosyphilis — Syphilis that involves the central nervous system.
- neurotoxicity — the degree to which a substance is poisonous to nerve tissue.
- never say die — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- new jerseyite — of New Jersey
- new york city — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
- new york fern — a shield fern, Thelypteris noveboracenis, of eastern North America, having yellowish-green fronds.
- newbery award — an annual award for the most distinguished book for juveniles.
- nice-nellyism — excessive modesty; prudishness.
- night journey — the journey in which Muhammad was carried from Mecca to Jerusalem and ascended into heaven.
- nincompoopery — a fool or simpleton.
- ninety-eighth — next after the ninety-seventh; being the ordinal number for 98.
- ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
- ninety-second — next after the ninety-first; being the ordinal number for 92.
- nithiocyamine — Amoscanate.
- nitroglycerin — a colorless, thick, oily, flammable, highly explosive, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 5 N 3 O 9 , prepared from glycerol with nitric and sulfuric acids: used chiefly as a constituent of dynamite and other explosives, in rocket propellants, and in medicine as a vasodilator in the treatment of angina pectoris.
- no entry sign — a sign, esp a traffic sign, that prohibits entry into a place
- non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
- non-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- non-emergency — a sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence or occasion requiring immediate action.
- non-necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- non-repayable — to pay back or refund, as money.
- non-sedentary — accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise.
- noncreativity — a lack of creativity
- nondefamatory — Not defamatory.
- nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
- nondialyzable — not dialyzable or capable of undergoing dialysis
- nonelementary — relating to a complexity class in computational complexity theory
- nonemployment — Unemployment.
- nonhaemolytic — relating to a transfusion reaction in which the red blood cells survive
- nonhereditary — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- nonhysterical — not hysterical or funny
- noninvasively — In a noninvasive manner.
- nonmyelinated — (of nerve fibres) lacking a myelin sheath
- nonrecyclable — Not recyclable.
- nonsensically — (of words or language) having little or no meaning; making little or no sense: A baby's babbling is appealingly nonsensical.
- nonsensuality — The state or condition of being nonsensual.
- nonsystematic — Not systematic.
- nonuniversity — distinct from university, not university-based
- norethynodrel — a progestin, C 2 0 H 2 6 O 2 , used in combination with an estrogen in some oral contraceptives.
- normally-open — Normally-open switch contacts are in an open state at rest.