11-letter words containing ner
- muleskinner — (slang)A mule driver.
- nappy liner — a disposable paper or fabric liner placed inside a baby's nappy to catch excrement
- nerve agent — A nerve agent is a chemical weapon that affects people's nervous systems.
- nerve block — an arrest of the passage of impulses through a nerve by means of pressure on the nerve or by injection of an anesthetic into or around the nerve.
- nerve fiber — a process, axon, or dendrite of a nerve cell.
- nerve fibre — a threadlike extension of a nerve cell; axon
- nerve trunk — the main stem of a nerve.
- nervelessly — In a nerveless manner.
- nervousness — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- nervuration — the arrangement of the veins in the wing of an insect.
- niersteiner — a white wine from the region around Nierstein, Germany
- nmr scanner — a diagnostic device employing nuclear magnetic resonance to display computer-generated sectional images of the body, consisting of a large, body-encircling magnet that generates a strong, uniform magnetic field which interacts with radio waves to excite the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, or other specific atoms, and a detection system that picks up the signals from the body and transforms them into a visual image.
- noisy miner — a honey-eater, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia, having a grey-white plumage and brown wings and noted for its raucous cries
- non-mineral — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
- nonlistener — One who does not listen.
- nonvenereal — arising from, connected with, or transmitted through sexual intercourse, as an infection.
- northerners — Plural form of northerner.
- ocean liner — an oceangoing passenger ship, operating either as one unit of a regular scheduled service or as a cruise ship.
- on a downer — If you are on a downer, you are feeling depressed and without hope.
- on retainer — hired, engaged, etc. by a retainer2 (sense 2)
- onerousness — The state or characteristic of of being onerous.
- optic nerve — either one of the second pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct impulses from the retina to the brain.
- outgenerals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgeneral.
- overgrainer — someone who overgrains
- page turner — a book so exciting or gripping that one is compelled to read it very rapidly.
- page-turner — a book so exciting or gripping that one is compelled to read it very rapidly.
- panty liner — a pad worn inside a woman's underwear for feminine hygiene purposes such as absorbing light menstrual flow, daily vaginal discharge, etc
- paraplanner — a person who assists a financial planner, esp in compiling reports and conducting research
- parishioner — one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
- partitioner — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
- partnerless — the person with whom one cohabits in a romantic relationship: I'd like you to meet my partner, Sarah.
- partnership — the state or condition of being a partner; participation; association; joint interest.
- party liner — a person who follows a party line, especially the Communist Party line.
- paumgartner — Bernhard [bern-hahrt] /ˈbɛrn hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1887–1971, Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist.
- pet scanner — a tomographic imaging device that yields visual information about the ongoing activity of the brain: positron-emitting isotopes, incorporated into biologically important compounds, are injected intravenously or administered by inhalation, and the resultant gamma radiation is sensed by detectors and converted into computer-generated images of blood flow, oxygen utilization, glucose uptake, etc.
- phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- phanerozoic — the eon comprising the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras.
- piano tuner — a person who tunes pianos and sometimes other keyboard instruments.
- planer tree — a small tree, Planera aquatica, of the elm family, growing in moist ground in the southern U.S., bearing a small, ovoid, nutlike fruit and yielding a compact light-brown wood.
- policyowner — policyholder.
- poltroonery — a wretched coward; craven.
- pregenerate — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
- prizewinner — a person or thing that wins a prize or is deserving of a prize.
- probationer — a person undergoing probation or trial.
- provisioner — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- questioners — Plural form of questioner.
- quinceanera — (among Hispanics in Latin America and the U.S.) a celebration of a girl's 15th birthday, marking her transition from childhood to maturity.
- re-energize — to give energy to; rouse into activity: to energize the spirit with brave words.
- rear gunner — a soldier on a military aircraft who defends it against enemy attack from behind
- refectioner — a person in charge of a refectory