13-letter words starting with ne
- neosurrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
- nephelometers — Plural form of nephelometer.
- nephelometric — Bacteriology. an apparatus containing a series of barium chloride standards used to determine the number of bacteria in a suspension.
- nephrectomies — Plural form of nephrectomy.
- nephrectomize — to perform a nephrectomy upon.
- nephridiopore — The external opening of a nephridium.
- nephrological — of or relating to nephrology
- nephropathies — Plural form of nephropathy.
- nerve impulse — a progressive wave of electric and chemical activity along a nerve fiber that stimulates or inhibits the action of a muscle, gland, or other nerve cell.
- nerve oneself — to collect one's energies or courage for an effort
- nerve-racking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- nervelessness — The characteristic of being nerveless; cowardliness.
- nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
- nervomuscular — (physiology) Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles.
- nervous wreck — sb anxious
- nesting table — one of a set of usually three or four small tables that are graduated in size so that they may be stacked on top of one another.
- netherlandian — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
- nethertheless — (obsolete) Nevertheless.
- nettle family — the plant family Urticaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs, sometimes covered with stinging hairs, having alternate or opposite simple leaves, clusters of small flowers, and small, dry, seedlike fruit, and including baby's-tears, clearweed, nettles of the genus Urtica, and ramie.
- neturei karta — a small ultra-orthodox Jewish group living mainly in Jerusalem and New York who oppose the establishment of a Jewish state by temporal means
- network layer — (networking) (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
- network storm — broadcast storm
- neuraminidase — An enzyme, present in many pathogenic or symbiotic microorganisms, that catalyzes the breakdown of glycosides containing neuraminic acid.
- neurilemmomas — Plural form of neurilemmoma.
- neuroanatomic — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
- neuroatypical — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
- neuroblastoma — a malignant tumor of immature nerve cells that usually starts in the autonomic nervous system or adrenal gland and spreads quickly, most often affecting young children.
- neurochemical — of or relating to neurochemistry.
- neurocomputer — a computer or a software program that uses a neural network simulating the human brain and can be trained to perform specific tasks, as pattern recognition.
- neuroectoderm — (anatomy) The region of the ectoderm of an embryo that develops into the central nervous system and other nervous tissue.
- neuroeffector — The junction site, where a motor neuron releases a neurotransmitter to affect a target, that acts like an effector.
- neuroethology — the study of the role of the nervous system in animal behaviour
- neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
- neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
- neurofilament — (anatomy) A neurofibril.
- neurohormonal — pertaining to or controlled by a neurohormone.
- neurohormones — Plural form of neurohormone.
- neurolinguist — One who studies neurolinguistics.
- neuromuscular — pertaining to or affecting both nerves and muscles.
- neuromyelitis — (pathology) inflammation of both the spinal cord and nerves.
- neuropeptides — Plural form of neuropeptide.
- neurosciences — Plural form of neuroscience.
- neurosurgeons — Plural form of neurosurgeon.
- neurosurgical — Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
- neurosyphilis — Syphilis that involves the central nervous system.
- neurotoxicity — the degree to which a substance is poisonous to nerve tissue.
- neurovascular — of, relating to, or involving the nerves and blood vessels.
- never offline — (software) (NOL) /noh-el/ A software service provided by America's Multimedia Online that allows Internet users to be constantly connected to the Internet.
- never say die — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- never-failing — that does not fail ever; unfailing