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14-letter words containing e

  • nonthreatening — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
  • 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.
  • norbert wiener — Norbert, 1894–1964, U.S. mathematician: pioneer in cybernetics.
  • norepinephrine — Also called noradrenaline. Physiology. a neurotransmitter, released by adrenergic nerve terminals in the autonomic and possibly the central nervous system, that has such effects as constricting blood vessels, raising blood pressure, and dilating bronchi.
  • norethisterone — 19-nor-17\u03b1-ethynyltestosterone, a progestogen used in some combined oral contraceptives.
  • norfolk jacket — a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.
  • normal balance — The normal balance of an account is the side of the account that is positive or increasing.
  • normal pentane — pentane (def 2).
  • normal-pentane — a hydrocarbon of the methane series, existing in three liquid isomeric forms.
  • norman english — the dialect of English used by the Norman conquerors of England
  • normoglycaemia — the condition of having a normal blood sugar level
  • normoglycaemic — Alt form normoglycemic.
  • norteamericano — a citizen or inhabitant of the U.S., especially as distinguished from the peoples of Spanish-speaking America.
  • north american — the northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending from Central America to the Arctic Ocean. Highest point, Mt. McKinley, 20,300 feet (6187 meters); lowest, Death Valley, 276 feet (84 meters) below sea level. About 9,360,000 sq. mi. (24,242,400 sq. km).
  • 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 bellmore — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • north cascades — a national park in NW Washington: site of glaciers and mountain lakes. 789 sq. mi. (2043 sq. km).
  • north germanic — the subbranch of Germanic that includes the languages of Scandinavia and Iceland.
  • north somerset — a unitary authority of SW England, in Somerset: formerly (1974–96) part of the county of Avon. Pop: 191 400 (2003 est). Area: 375 sq km (145 sq miles)
  • north tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 190 800 (2003 est). Area: 84 sq km (32 sq miles)
  • north-easterly — A north-easterly point, area, or direction is to the north-east or towards the north-east.
  • north-westerly — A north-westerly point, area, or direction is to the north-west or towards the north-west.
  • northeasterner — a native or inhabitant of the northeast.
  • northeastwards — northeastward.
  • northern canoe — a large, heavy canoe used to transport supplies.
  • northern cross — six stars in the constellation Cygnus, arranged in the form of a cross.
  • northern crown — the constellation Corona Borealis.
  • northern dvina — Also called Western Dvina. Latvian Daugava. a river rising in the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation, flowing W through Byelorussia (Belarus) and Latvia to the Baltic Sea at Riga. About 640 miles (1030) long.
  • northern irish — from or characteristic of Northern Ireland
  • northern isles — Orkney and Shetland
  • northern porgy — a common sparid fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of American coastal regions of the Atlantic
  • northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
  • northwesterner — a native or inhabitant of the northwest.
  • northwestwards — northwestward.
  • norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
  • not bat an eye — to blink; wink; flutter.
  • not forgetting — You say not forgetting a particular thing or person when you want to include them in something that you have already talked about.
  • not merely sth — You use not merely before the less important of two contrasting statements, as a way of emphasizing the more important statement.
  • not sb's style — If you say that something is not someone 's style, you mean that it is not the way in which they usually do things, or it is different from the sort of thing they usually like.
  • not to mention — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
  • notched collar — a collar forming a notch with the lapels of a garment at the seam where collar and lapels join.
  • notes inégales — (esp in French baroque music) notes written down evenly but executed as if they were divided into pairs of long and short notes
  • noteworthiness — The quality or state of being noteworthy.
  • noticeableness — The quality of being noticeable.
  • nouveau pauvre — a newly poor person.
  • nouvelle vague — a new wave, trend, movement, phase, etc., especially in an art form.
  • novelistically — In a novelistic way.
  • novell netware — (operating system, networking)   Novell, Inc.'s proprietary networking operating system for the IBM PC. NetWare uses the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI or TCP/IP network protocols. It supports MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macintosh and Unix clients. NetWare for Unix lets users access Unix hosts. NetWare 2.2 is a 16-bit operating system, versions 4.x and 3.x are 32-bit operating systems.
  • novemdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 60 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 114 zeros.
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