13-Letter Words Starting with N

NEPHRECTOMIZE

A hydrolytic enzyme that removes sialic acid from mucoproteins and is found chiefly in microorganisms of the respiratory and intestinal tracts.

ABSORBABLE Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

""ABSORPTIVE Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe.""

""AGGRESSIVE Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.""

Failure to be present

A no-show

COMPARABLE Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison.

CONFERENCE The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.

CORRODIBLE Capable of being corroded; corrosible.

DEFERRABLE

""DEGENERATE Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low.""

DEGRADABLE

""DELIBERATE Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. as, a deliberate judge or counselor.""

""DERIVATIVE Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word.""

""DISCLOSURE The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure.""

DISCURSIVE Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.

DISPERSIVE Tending to disperse.

""DISRUPTIVE Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery.""

""FIGURATIVE Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.""

Inflected form of FILTERABLE Inflected form of FILTER to purify a fluid of solid matter

""FORFEITURE The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act.""

MEASURABLE Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.

Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.

""OCCURRENCE A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. as, the occurence of a railway collision.""

""PERISHABLE Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies. as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies.""

PERMISSIVE Permitting; granting leave or liberty.

Not giving results

Sterile

Inflected form of RECYCLABLE Inflected form of RECYCLE to process waste materials

REFILLABLE

REFUNDABLE

Policy of not fighting against authority

Passive submission 3,10

RESPONSIVE That responds; ready or inclined to respond.

""RETRACTILE CApable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile. as, the claws of a cat are retractile.""

Like a bottle on which no deposit has been paid

Not reversible or capable of having either side out; -- used mostly of clothing. Opposite of reversible.reversible.

Inflected form of SHRINKABLE Inflected form of SHRINK to contract or draw back

Blood pressure drug

""A progestational hormone, C 20 H 26 O 2 , similar in effect to progesterone, used especially in oral contraceptives.""

""A tricyclic antidepressant drug, C 19 H 21""