16-letter words containing ner
- generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
- generalizability — The quality of being generalizable.
- generation jones — members of the generation of people born in the Western world between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s
- gerard de nerval — Gérard de [zhey-rar duh] /ʒeɪˈrar də/ (Show IPA), (Gérard Labrunie) 1808–55, French writer.
- governor general — a governor who is chief over subordinate or deputy governors.
- governor-general — A Governor-General is a person who is sent to a former British colony as the chief representative of Britain.
- graphic designer — person: commercial artist
- gunnery sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking above a staff sergeant and below a first or master sergeant.
- hair conditioner — a substance used, often after shampooing, to detangle and improve the condition of the hair. Like shampoo, it is applied to wet hair and then rinsed out after applying.
- hospital corners — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
- hyperinnervation — the act of innervating; state of being innervated.
- in general terms — generally, approximately
- invulnerableness — The quality of being invulnerable.
- johnny foreigner — a person from a country other than those which make up the United Kingdom
- kellner eyepiece — a Ramsden eyepiece having an achromatic lens, used in binoculars.
- learner's permit — A learner's permit is a license that allows you to drive a vehicle before you have passed your driving test.
- lincoln reckoner — An interactive mathematics program including matrix operations, written about 1965. It ran on the TX-2.
- lose one's nerve — to become timid, esp failing to perform some audacious act
- magnetogenerator — magneto.
- marriage partner — a person you are married to
- medical examiner — a physician or other person trained in medicine who is appointed by a city, county, or the like, to perform autopsies on the bodies of persons supposed to have died from unnatural causes and to investigate the cause and circumstances of such deaths.
- megaphanerophyte — any tree with a height over 30 metres
- middle westerner — the region of the United States bounded on the W by the Rocky Mountains, on the S by the Ohio River and the S extremities of Missouri and Kansas, and on the E, variously, by the Allegheny Mountains, the E border of Ohio, or the E border of Illinois.
- mineral charcoal — a fibrous substance resembling charcoal and having a high carbon content, often occurring in thin layers in bituminous coal.
- mineral deposits — amounts of minerals that occur naturally in particular areas
- minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
- non-remuneration — the act of remunerating.
- non-remunerative — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
- oculomotor nerve — either one of the third pair of cranial nerves, consisting chiefly of motor fibers that innervate most of the muscles of the eyeball.
- parser generator — A program which takes a formal description of a grammar (e.g. in BNF) and outputs source code for a parser which will recognise valid strings obeying that grammar and perform associated actions. Unix's yacc is a well known example.
- peace campaigner — someone who campaigns for peace or an end to conflict
- pencil sharpener — tool for sharpening pencils to a point
- personal trainer — a person who works one-on-one with a client to plan or implement an exercise or fitness regimen.
- potential energy — the energy of a body or a system with respect to the position of the body or the arrangement of the particles of the system.
- prairie schooner — a type of covered wagon, similar to but smaller than the Conestoga wagon, used by pioneers in crossing the prairies and plains of North America.
- prisoner of bill — (humour) (PoB) A derisory term, in use generally among Unix users, for anyone who uses Microsoft products either because they don't know there is anything better (i.e. Unix) or because they would be incapable of working anything more complex (i.e. Unix). The interesting and widespread presumption among users of the term is that (at least at the time of writing, 1998) using anything other than Unix or a Microsoft OS (whether VMS, Macintosh, Amiga) is so eccentric a choice as to be at least somewhat praiseworthy.
- public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
- receiver general — a public official in charge of the government's treasury.
- refinery upgrade — A refinery upgrade is the process of introducing the newest technology in some parts of the refinery.
- remineralization — to convert into a mineral substance.
- renewable energy — any naturally occurring, theoretically inexhaustible source of energy, as biomass, solar, wind, tidal, wave, and hydroelectric power, that is not derived from fossil or nuclear fuel.
- round the corner — close at hand
- schreiner finish — a lustrous surface imparted to a fabric by schreinerizing.
- shared ownership — (in Britain) a form of house purchase whereby the purchaser buys a proportion of the dwelling, usually from a local authority or housing association, and rents the rest
- shifting spanner — an adjustable spanner
- signal generator — radio
- sleeping partner — silent partner.
- soil conditioner — any of various organic or inorganic materials added to soil to improve its structure.
- sparring partner — a boxer who spars with and otherwise serves to train a boxer who is preparing for a bout.
- splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.