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13-letter words containing nor

  • north america — 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 andover — a city in NE Massachusetts.
  • north augusta — a city in W South Carolina.
  • north babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • north belmont — a town in S North Carolina.
  • north brabant — a province in S Netherlands. 1965 sq. mi. (5090 sq. km). Capital: 's Hertogenbosch.
  • north by east — a point on the compass 11°15′ east of north. Abbreviation: NbE.
  • north by west — a point on the compass 11°15′ west of north. Abbreviation: NbW.
  • north channel — a strait between SW Scotland and NE Ireland. 14 miles (23 km) wide at the narrowest point.
  • north chicago — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan.
  • north country — the part of England north of the Humber estuary.
  • north dakotan — a state in the N central United States. 70,665 sq. mi. (183,020 sq. km). Capital: Bismarck. Abbreviation: ND (for use with zip code), N. Dak.
  • north holland — a province in W Netherlands. 1163 sq. mi. (3010 sq. km). Capital: Haarlem.
  • north merrick — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • north olmsted — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • north ossetia — an autonomous republic in S European Russia, in the N Caucasus. 3100 sq. mi. (8029 sq. km) Capital: Vladikavkaz.
  • north reading — a city in NE Massachusetts.
  • north sea gas — natural gas extracted from deposits beneath the North Sea
  • north sea oil — oil extracted from deposits beneath the North Sea
  • north vietnam — that part of Vietnam N of about 17° N; formerly a part of French Indochina; separate republic 1954–75.
  • north-eastern — North-eastern means in or from the north-east of a region or country.
  • north-western — North-western means in or from the north-west of a region or country.
  • northallerton — a market town in N England, administrative centre of North Yorkshire. Pop: 15 517 (2001)
  • northeasterly — of or located in the northeast.
  • northeastward — the northeast.
  • northerliness — The quality of being northerly.
  • northern blot — Biology, Medicine/Medical. a procedure for studying the activity of a specific gene, as in testing for a hereditary defect: RNA fragments in an extract of a cell population or a tissue are separated by gel electrophoresis, transferred to a filter, and then hybridized with labeled DNA or RNA derived from a laboratory-engineered copy of the gene in order to identify the size and abundance of the RNA expressed by that gene.
  • northern cape — the largest but least populated province in South Africa, in the NW part of the country; created in 1994 from part of Cape Province: agriculture, mining (esp diamonds). Capital: Kimberley. Pop: 1 145 861 (2011 est). Area: 139 703 sq km (361 830 sq miles)
  • northern pike — a pike, Esox lucius, of North American and Eurasian waters, valued as a game fish.
  • northwesterly — Situated in, or pointing to, the northwest.
  • northwestward — the northwest.
  • norton shores — a city in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
  • nortriptyline — a tricyclic antidepressant drug, C 1 9 H 2 1 N, used to treat depression.
  • norwalk virus — a norovirus.
  • norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • norwegian sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, N and E of Iceland and between Greenland and Norway.
  • old northwest — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • oppignoration — the act or an instance of pawning or pledging
  • paranormality — the state of being paranormal
  • phonoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by sound waves.
  • pons asinorum — a geometric proposition that if a triangle has two of its sides equal, the angles opposite these sides are also equal: so named from the difficulty experienced by beginners in mastering it. Euclid, 1:5.
  • rory o'connor — Also called Roderic. ?1116–98, king of Connaught and last High King of Ireland
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • the far north — the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of the world
  • the northeast — any area lying in or towards this direction
  • the northwest — any area lying in or towards this direction
  • unoriginality — the quality or state of being original.
  • west by north — a point on the compass 11°15prime; north of west. Abbreviation: WbN.
  • west norriton — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
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