14-Letter Words Starting with N

Naphthylamine

Adjective (-ical)

Narratologist

NARROWCASTING narrowcast

""The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.""

Navigability

Navigational

Necessitarian

Necessitation

Negativeness

The quality or state of being neighborly.

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

Neoliberalism

Neonatologist

Neoorthodoxy

Neoplasticism

Neoplasticist

Nephelometry

NEPHRECTOMIZE

Nephrectomize

NEPHROTOXIC

Neuraminidase

Neuroanatomy

Nerves

Neurobiology

The biological study of the nervous system or any part of it.

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.""

Pl. neurofibromas or neurofibromata (-m -t ) A usually benign tumor originating in peripheral nerve fibers and composed chiefly of neurilemma cells.

NEUROGENIC

Neurological

The branch of radiology that deals with the nervous system.

Expert on hemispheres

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

Neurosurgery

Counteractive process

What items must have to be reported

What makes story a success or extraordinary hit in many quarters

Gripping quality of story as unusual western is shown

Nitrification

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

Explosive

Nitroglycerin

Nitroparaffin

NOMENCLATOR One who calls persons or things by their names.

""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.

Nonaggression

Nonantibiotic

BARBITURATE

One rebelling is transformed by books of Bible, becoming peaceful

Spain

Noncandidacy

Noncapitalist

Noncarcinogen

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

Noncelebrity

CHARISMATIC Of or pertaining to a charism.

Plural (-ists)

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

""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)

Nonconfidence

CONFLICTING conflict

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.""

CONTROLLING control

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

COOPERATION

COOPERATIVE

""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.

Nondeposition

Plural or third person singular

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.""

DIMENSIONAL Pertaining to dimension.

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.

""DIVERSIFIED Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape. as, diversified scenery or landscape.""

""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.""

EDUCATIONAL Of or pertaining to education.

Word with prefix non-

Nonemergency

ENGINEERING engineer

EQUILIBRIUM Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

""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.""

Word with prefix non-

ESTABLISHED establish

EXISTENTIAL Having existence.

FILAMENTOUS Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments.

Not capable of undergoing fission{4}; -- of atoms or chemical elements. Opposite of fissionable.fissionable.

FORFEITABLE Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture.

Nonforfeiture

Neglect or failure to fulfill.

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.""

Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.

""INFLAMMABLE Capable of being easily set fire; easily enkindled; combustible; as, inflammable oils or spirits. as, inflammable oils or spirits.""

""INFORMATION The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.""

INSTALLMENT The act of installing; installation.

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.""

Withdrawing from the activities of a group.

JUSTICIABLE Proper to be examined in a court of justice.

Nonlinearity

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

Nonmembership

Nonmonetarist

Nonnecessity

""Devoid of nitrogen; as, a nonnitrogenous principle; a nonnitrogenous food. See the Note under Food, n., 1.as, a nonnitrogenous principle; a nonnitrogenous food. See the Note under Food, n., 1.""

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.""

Not working or in use

OVERLAPPING overlap

PARTICIPANT Sharing; participating; having a share of part.

Nonperishable

""PHILOSOPHER One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy.""

POLARIZABLE Susceptible of polarization.

Nonpolitical

Nonpolitician

Nonpossession

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

""PROPRIETARY A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.""

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.

Plural noun (-tions)

Nonresidency

Type of property constructed in iron and steel

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

""SEGREGATION The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.""

""SENSATIONAL Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. as, sensational nerves.""

""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

SPECULATIVE Given to speculation; contemplative.

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

""SUPERVISORY Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers. as, supervisory powers.""

""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.""

""Inflected form of TERMINATING Inflected form of TERMINATE To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line. as, to terminate a surface by a line.""

""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.

THREATENING threaten

""TRADITIONAL Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures. as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.""

""UTILITARIAN Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art. as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art.""

Nonvegetarian

Noradrenaline

Real spelling of a real hormone (but didn't she direct Sleepless in Seattle?)

Norethindrone

Normalization

Nortriptyline

""Noteworthier , noteworthiest Deserving notice or attention; notable: a noteworthy advance in cancer research.""

NOVELISTIC

The cardinal number equal to 10 60 .

Nucleoprotein

Nullification

Numinousness

NUMISMATIC

Nutritious

NYMPHOMANIAC A woman afflicted with nymphomania.