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12-letter words containing not

  • not just any — If you say that someone or something is not just any person or thing, you mean that they are special in some way.
  • not much cop — If you say that something is not much cop, you mean that it is not very good, and is disappointing.
  • not so dusty — not too bad; fairly well: often in response to the greeting how are you?
  • not to worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
  • not with you — not able to grasp or follow what you are saying
  • not-a-number — (mathematics)   (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
  • notabilities — Plural form of notability.
  • notarization — the act of notarizing (a document) or a record thereof; certification
  • notch effect — the increase in stress in an area of a component near a crack, depression, etc, or a change in section, such as a sharp angle: can be enough to cause failure of the component although the calculated average stress may be quite safe
  • note of hand — promissory note.
  • note payable — A note payable is a written legal obligation to repay an amount of borrowed money at a particular future date.
  • note verbale — a diplomatic communication prepared in the third person and unsigned: less formal than a note but more formal than an aide-mémoire.
  • note-perfect — (of a singer or musician) able to sing or play without making any errors
  • noteworthily — worthy of notice or attention; notable; remarkable: a noteworthy addition to our collection of rare books.
  • nothing like — totally dissimilar to, completely unlike
  • nothing much — not a lot
  • nothingarian — A person of no particular beliefs.
  • notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
  • noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
  • notification — a formal notifying or informing.
  • notoungulate — one of the herbivorous, hoofed mammals of the extinct order Notoungulata, best known from the Paleocene to the Pleistocene Epochs of South America.
  • or no/or not — You use or no or or not to emphasize that a particular thing makes no difference to what is going to happen.
  • organotropic — designating or of a substance or virus that travels predominantly to a specific organ
  • passing note — a note that is foreign to a harmony and is introduced between two successive chord tones in order to produce a melodic transition.
  • persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
  • phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • phonotactics — the patterns in which the phonemes of a language may combine to form sequences.
  • pinot grigio — a variety of grape, grown in Italy for wine-making
  • post-it note — a small square of sticky paper on which notes can be written
  • posthypnotic — of or relating to the period after hypnosis.
  • program note — A program note is an article written in a program for a play or concert that gives information about the performance or production.
  • project note — a short-term municipal note issued by a local government housing agency to finance a public housing project.
  • prothonotary — a chief clerk or official in certain courts of law.
  • quarter note — a note equivalent to one fourth of a whole note; a crotchet.
  • retinotectal — of or relating to the retina and the tectum
  • running knot — a knot made around and so as to slide along a part of the same rope, thus forming a noose (running noose) that tightens as the rope is pulled.
  • serve notice — to give formal warning or information, as of intentions; announce
  • short notice — little warning
  • sleeve notes — the printed information on a record sleeve
  • snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
  • snotty-nosed — child: runny nose
  • stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
  • suicide note — letter left by person ending own life
  • the cenotaph — the monument in Whitehall, London, honouring the dead of both World Wars: designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens: erected in 1920
  • tie the knot — an interlacing, twining, looping, etc., of a cord, rope, or the like, drawn tight into a knob or lump, for fastening, binding, or connecting two cords together or a cord to something else.
  • touch-me-not — any of several plants belonging to the genus Impatiens, of the balsam family, especially I. noli-tangere, bearing pods that, when ripe, burst on being touched, scattering the seeds.
  • trefoil knot — a knot having the form of a trefoil.
  • unnoteworthy — worthy of notice or attention; notable; remarkable: a noteworthy addition to our collection of rare books.
  • unnoticeable — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
  • unnoticeably — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
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