14-Letter Words Starting with N

Science at the molecular level

Subject of Michael Crichton's "Prey"

Field that produces microscopic devices

Adjective (-ical)

NARROWCASTING narrowcast

Necessitarian

Necessitation

Neglectful

Neoclassicism

Neoclassicist

""Control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures. In contrast to colonialism, in which one country controls another territory by military force.colonialism, in which one country controls another territory by military force.""

Dominating another country by economic power

Neoplasticism

Neoplasticist

NEPHRECTOMIZE

Nephrectomize

NEPHROTOXIC

Neurochemical

NEUROCHEMIST

""Of, relating to, or involving the interaction between the nervous system and the hormones of the endocrine glands: the neuroendocrine apparatus in birds.""

NEUROGENIC

Neurological

Expert on hemispheres

""The secretion of substances, such as hormones, by nerve cells.""

""The secretion of substances, such as hormones, by nerve cells.""

Nitrification

""See Gun cotton, under Gun. Gun cotton, under Gun.""

Explosive

Nitroglycerin

NOMENCLATOR One who calls persons or things by their names.

Nonacceptance

""ACCOUNTABLE Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct. as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.""

""ACHIEVEMENT The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object. as, the achievement of his object.""

ACQUISITIVE Acquired.

Nonantibiotic

Nonappearance

Nonattachment

Nonattendance

Noncandidacy

Noncapitalist

Noncarcinogen

""CELEBRATION The act, process, or time of celebrating.""

Noncelebrity

CHARISMATIC Of or pertaining to a charism.

Plural (-ists)

Inflected form of CHROMOSOMAL Inflected form of CHROMOSOME One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann. idant of Weismann.

Nonchurchgoer

I couldn't borrow "The Death of the Heart" because it was...

I couldn't borrow 'The Death of the Heart' because it was...

""CLANDESTINE Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage. as, a clandestine marriage.""

Lack of coincidence.

""Not combustible; not able to burn; as, drapery should be made of noncombustible materials. Opposite of combustible.as, drapery should be made of noncombustible materials. Opposite of combustible.""

Word with prefix non-

Noncommitment

Noncommittal

Plural or third person singular

COMMUTATIVE Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.

""COMPETITION The act of seeking, or endevearing to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with. for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.""

""COMPETITIVE Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination. as, a competitive examination.""

Noncompetitor

Noncompliance

Inflected form of COMPLICATED Inflected form of COMPLICATE Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.

Nonconclusion

Disagreement

""CONDENSABLE Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable. as, vapor is condensable.""

""CONDITIONED Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man. as, a well conditioned man.""

Plural noun (-tions)

Plural or third person singular

Nonconfidence

CONFLICTING conflict

CONFORMANCE Conformity.

Nonconformism

No-name inmate in favor of films for individualists

Nonconnection

""CONSECUTIVE Following in a train; suceeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years. as, fifty consecutive years.""

""CONSUMPTION The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.""

""CONSUMPTIVE Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.""

Inflected form of CONTRACTUAL Inflected form of CONTRACT to decrease in size

CONTROLLING control

CONVERTIBLE Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable.

COOPERATION

COOPERATIVE

Noncooperator

""CORRELATION Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases. as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases.""

""CRYSTALLINE Consisting, or made, of crystal.""

CULTIVATION The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.

Nondescript

""DESTRUCTIVE Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth. of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.""

DIRECTIONAL of or pertaining to direction (definition 2).

Nondisclosure

""DISJUNCTION The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.as, the disjunction of soul and body.""

DISTINCTIVE Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar.

""DOCTRINAIRE One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions. as, doctrinaire notions.""

DOCUMENTARY Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing.

EDUCATIONAL Of or pertaining to education.

""ELECTROLYTE A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.""

Word with prefix non-

Nonemergency

ENFORCEMENT The act of enforcing; compulsion.

""EQUIVALENCE The condition of being equivalent or equal; equality of worth, value, signification, or force; as, an equivalence of definitions. as, an equivalence of definitions.""

FLUORESCENT Having the property of fluorescence.

FUNCTIONING function

""GEOMETRICAL Pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem.as, a geometrical solution of a problem.""

""GRAMMATICAL Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule. as, a grammatical rule.""

HANDICAPPED handicap

""HYGROSCOPIC Of or pertaining to, or indicated by, the hygroscope; not readily manifest to the senses, but capable of detection by the hygroscope; as, glass is often covered with a film of hygroscopic moisture. as, glass is often covered with a film of hygroscopic moisture.""

IDEOLOGICAL Of or pertaining to ideology.

""IMPLICATION The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.""

INTERACTING interact

INTERACTIVE

""INTERCOURSE A <?/<?/mmingling; intimate connection or dealings between persons or nations, as in common affairs and civilities, in correspondence or trade; communication; commerce; especially, interchange of thought and feeling; association; communion.""

JUSTICIABLE Proper to be examined in a court of justice.

Not determined by a mechanical process; partly resulting from a creative process.

Nonnecessity

Inflected form of OBJECTIVISM Inflected form of OBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to an object.

OBJECTIVIST

""OBJECTIVITY The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective.""

Nonobservance

Nonoccurrence

PARTICIPANT Sharing; participating; having a share of part.

Neglect or failure to perform.

Nonpolitical

Nonpolitician

PSYCHIATRIC Of or pertaining to psychiatria.

""RADIOACTIVE Capable of luminescence under the action of cathode rays, X rays, or any of the allied forms of radiation.""

Word with prefix non-

""RECOGNITION The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.""

Not produced by genetic recombination.

Nonresidency

Nonresistance

""RESTRICTIVE Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade. as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.""

RETROACTIVE Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective.

Plural or third person singular

""SIGNIFICANT Fitted or designed to signify or make known somethingl having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive; as, a significant word or sound; a significant look. as, a significant word or sound; a significant look.""

Nonspecialist

SPECTACULAR Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.

SPECULATIVE Given to speculation; contemplative.

""STATISTICAL Of or pertaining to statistics; as, statistical knowledge; statistical tabulation.as, statistical knowledge; statistical tabulation.""

""SYMMETRICAL Involving or exhibiting symmetry; proportional in parts; having its parts in due proportion as to dimensions; as, a symmetrical body or building. as, a symmetrical body or building.""

SYNCHRONOUS Happening at the same time; simultaneous.

""THEOLOGICAL Of or pertaining to theology, or the science of God and of divine things; as, a theological treatise. as, a theological treatise.""

""THEORETICAL Pertaining to theory; depending on, or confined to, theory or speculation; speculative; terminating in theory or speculation: not practical; as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences.as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences.""

THERAPEUTIC One of the Therapeut\'91.

NOVELISTIC

The cardinal number equal to 10 60 .

Nucleoprotein

Nullification

NUMISMATIC

NYMPHOMANIAC A woman afflicted with nymphomania.