16-letter words containing ne
- interpenetrative — (mathematics, physics) Mutually penetrative (overlapping each other in space).
- interrelatedness — reciprocally or mutually related: an interrelated series of experiments.
- intrapreneurship — The practice of applying entrepreneurial skills and approaches within an established company.
- invulnerableness — The quality of being invulnerable.
- irrefragableness — The quality or degree of being irrefragable.
- irremediableness — The state or quality of being irremediable.
- irresistibleness — The quality of being irresistible.
- irresolvableness — The state or quality of being irresolvable.
- irreversibleness — The state or quality of being irreversible.
- isopropylbenzene — cumene.
- janet ip service — (networking) (JIPS) Joint Academic NETwork Internet Protocol. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- japanese anemone — an eastern Asian plant, Anemone hupehensis, of the buttercup family, having purplish or reddish flowers and grown widely in gardens.
- japanese bobtail — any of a breed of domestic cat, originating in Japan, with a very short, fluffy tail, and a soft, silky coat often in three colors, white, black, and red
- japanese gelatin — agar (def 1).
- japanese lacquer — lacquer (def 2).
- japanese lantern — Chinese lantern.
- japanese spaniel — former name of Japanese Chin.
- jawaharlal nehru — Jawaharlal [juh-wah-her-lahl] /dʒəˈwɑ hər lɑl/ (Show IPA), 1889–1964, Hindu political leader in India: first prime minister of the republic of India 1947–64 (father of Indira Gandhi).
- john von neumann — John, 1903–57, U.S. mathematician, born in Hungary.
- johnny foreigner — a person from a country other than those which make up the United Kingdom
- journeyman baker — a baker who is qualified to work in the employment of another
- juvenile hormone — any of a class of insect and plant hormones acting to inhibit the molting of a juvenile insect into its adult form.
- kamerlingh onnes — Heike [hahy-kuh] /ˈhaɪ kə/ (Show IPA), 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.
- kamerlingh-onnes — Heike (ˈhaɪkə). 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: a pioneer of the physics of low-temperature materials and discoverer (1911) of superconductivity. Nobel prize for physics 1913
- karyokinetically — In a karyokinetic manner; by means of karyokinesis.
- keep one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- kellner eyepiece — a Ramsden eyepiece having an achromatic lens, used in binoculars.
- kick one's heels — If you are kicking your heels, you are having to wait around with nothing to do, so that you get bored or impatient.
- kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
- knitting machine — machine that knits yarn into fabric
- know one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- know one's stuff — If you say that someone knows their stuff, you mean that they are good at doing something because they know a lot about it.
- law of exponents — the theorem stating the elementary properties of exponents, as the property that the product of the same bases, each raised to an exponent, is equal to the base raised to the sum of the exponents: xa ⋅ xb = xa + b .
- lay oneself open — to make oneself vulnerable (to criticism, attack, etc)
- lean-burn engine — an engine designed to use a lean mixture of fuel and air in order to reduce petrol consumption and exhaust emissions
- learner's permit — A learner's permit is a license that allows you to drive a vehicle before you have passed your driving test.
- leave well alone — to refrain from interfering with something that is satisfactory
- leisure sickness — a medical condition in which people who have been working become ill with symptoms such as fatigue or muscular pains at a weekend or while on holiday
- lesser celandine — a Eurasian plant, Ranunculus ficaria, of the buttercup family, having heart-shaped leaves and glossy yellow flowers, naturalized in North America.
- lick one's chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
- lightheartedness — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- lincoln reckoner — An interactive mathematics program including matrix operations, written about 1965. It ran on the TX-2.
- line composition — type produced on a linecaster
- line of business — profession, trade: field
- line of latitude — an imaginary line on a globe, map, etc, indicating latitude
- line of position — a line connecting all the possible positions of a ship or aircraft, as determined by a single observation. Abbreviation: LOP.
- lines per minute — (unit) (lpm) A unit used to measure line printer throughput.
- lobe-finned fish — any fish that has rounded scales and lobed fins, as the coelacanth.
- lodgepole (pine) — a Rocky Mountain pine (Pinus contorta) used for lumber, poles, etc.
- lonely hearts ad — an advertisement placed by someone who is trying to find a lover or a friend