17-letter words that end in n
- neurotransmission — the transmission of a nerve impulse across a synapse.
- new guinea pidgin — the variety of Neo-Melanesian spoken in Papua New Guinea and neighbouring islands
- ngaliema mountain — Mount, a mountain with two summits, in central Africa, between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo: highest peak in the Ruwenzori group. 16,790 feet (5119 meters).
- niger-kordofanian — a language family comprising Niger-Congo and Kordofanian.
- nitrogen fixation — any process of combining atmospheric nitrogen with other elements, either by chemical means or by bacterial action: used chiefly in the preparation of fertilizers, industrial products, etc.
- non-accommodation — the act of accommodating; state or process of being accommodated; adaptation.
- non-authoritarian — favoring complete obedience or subjection to authority as opposed to individual freedom: authoritarian principles; authoritarian attitudes.
- non-certification — the act of certifying.
- non-communication — the act or process of communicating; fact of being communicated.
- non-comprehension — the act or process of comprehending.
- non-confrontation — an act of confronting.
- non-consideration — the act of considering; careful thought; meditation; deliberation: I will give your project full consideration.
- non-contamination — the act of contaminating, or of making something impure or unsuitable by contact with something unclean, bad, etc.
- non-proliferation — Non-proliferation is the limiting of the production and spread of something such as nuclear or chemical weapons.
- non-subordination — the act of placing in a lower rank or position: The refusal to allow women to be educated was part of society's subordination of women to men.
- nondiscrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
- northcountrywoman — a female native or inhabitant of the North of England
- northern michigan — the peninsula between lakes Superior and Michigan constituting the N part of Michigan. Abbreviation: U.P.
- nothing less than — You can use nothing less than to emphasize your next words, often indicating that something seems very surprising or important.
- nothing more than — merely, solely
- nuclear radiation — Physics. radiation in the form of elementary particles emitted by an atomic nucleus, as alpha rays or gamma rays, produced by decay of radioactive substances or by nuclear fission.
- number eight iron — a club with an iron head the face of which has more slope than a pitcher but less slope than a niblick.
- number seven iron — pitcher2 (def 3).
- nursery education — education provided at a school for young children, usually from three to five years old
- off-year election — (in the US) an election held in a year when a presidential election does not take place
- office automation — a method or system of using automated or electronic equipment, as word processors and computers, in the operations of an office.
- old south arabian — a group of four closely related Semitic languages, having a writing system and used from about the eighth to the fifth centuries b.c. in the southern part of Arabia.
- old-man-and-woman — houseleek (def 1).
- on the foundation — an endowment or legacy for the perpetual support of an institution such as a school or hospital
- operation sealion — the codename for Hitler's proposed invasion (1940) of Great Britain
- optical carrier n — (networking) (OC-n) A SONET rate of n times 51.84 megabits per second.
- orthogonalization — (mathematics) The process of converting a set of functions or vectors into orthogonal ones.
- out of all reason — unreasonable
- out of commission — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- out of proportion — exaggerated, excessive
- over-appreciation — gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.
- over-compensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
- overconcentration — the act of concentrating; the state of being concentrated.
- overdetermination — the concept that a single emotional symptom or event, as a dream or a slip of the tongue, may be caused by more than one factor.
- pair annihilation — Physics. annihilation (def 3a).
- palace revolution — a challenge to or overthrow of a sovereign or other leader by members of the ruling family or group.
- papua new guinean — a native or inhabitant of Papua New Guinea.
- papua-new-guinean — an inhabitant or native of Papua New Guinea
- particularization — to make particular.
- parts of kesteven — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- parts per million — the number of units (of a substance) present in a million units of another substance
- passenger station — a station used by passengers
- pension provision — the provision of a pension by the state or an employer
- peridot of ceylon — a honey-colored tourmaline, used as a gem: not a true peridot.
- period-revolution — a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics: a period of illness; a period of great profitability for a company; a period of social unrest in Germany.