12-letter words containing nis
- guardianista — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
- hegemonistic — the policy or practice of hegemony to serve national interests.
- hobgoblinism — a belief in hobgoblins
- homogenising — Present participle of homogenise.
- humanisation — Alternative form of humanization.
- hyannis port — a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.
- ignis fatuus — Also called friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter.
- illusionists — Plural form of illusionist.
- immersionism — the doctrine that immersion is essential to Christian baptism.
- immunisation — (British, immunology) alternative spelling of immunization.
- inclusionist — (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) Describing a wiki user who tends to favor the inclusion of questionable articles.
- incognisance — Alternative spelling of incognizance.
- indigenising — to make indigenous.
- inflationism — the policy or practice of inflation through expansion of currency or bank deposits.
- inflationist — an advocate of inflation through expansion of currency or bank deposits.
- intrusionist — a person who intrudes
- intuitionism — Ethics. the doctrine that moral values and duties can be discerned directly.
- intuitionist — A person who studies intuitionistic mathematics.
- isolationism — the policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, etc., seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement and remain at peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilities.
- isolationist — a person who favors or works for isolationism.
- isoteniscope — an instrument used to measure vapour pressure
- lex talionis — the principle or law of retaliation that a punishment inflicted should correspond in degree and kind to the offense of the wrongdoer, as an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; retributive justice.
- meniscectomy — the surgical excision of a meniscus, as of the knee joint.
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- microphonism — a usually undesirable property of some electronic circuits or components in which mechanical vibrations of a component affect the signal being transmitted through the circuit.
- migrationist — a person who considers it important for species of animals and plants to migrate for the purposes of distribution and evolution
- ministership — (government) The position held by a minister.
- ministration — the act of ministering care, aid, religious service, etc.
- ministrative — Serving to aid; ministering.
- miscellanist — a person who writes, compiles, or edits miscellanies.
- misogynistic — reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women.
- nail varnish — nail polish.
- neonomianism — the doctrine in Christian theology that the Gospel of Christ is a new Law, completely supplanting the Mosaic Law
- neoplatonism — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
- neoplatonist — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
- nestorianism — one of a sect of followers of Nestorius who denied the hypostatic union and were represented as maintaining the existence of two distinct persons in Christ.
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- non-feminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- noncommunist — not following, belonging to, or associated with the Communist Party or Communism.
- nonunionised — Alternative spelling of nonunionized.
- nonvanishing — (mathematics) (of a quantity) that is nonzero at all points in a space.
- nutritionist — a person who is trained or expert in the science of nutrition.
- oil minister — a government official responsible for the oil industry in their country
- oil of anise — the aromatic seed of anise, the oil of which (anise oil, aniseed oil, oil of anise) is used in the manufacture of anethole, in medicine as a carminative and expectorant, and in cookery and liqueurs for its licoricelike flavor.
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- omnisciences — Plural form of omniscience.
- omnisciently — having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.
- omnishambles — Chiefly British Informal. a situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgment results in disorder or chaos with potentially disastrous consequences.
- operationism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
- opportunists — Plural form of opportunist.