16-letter words containing ns
- labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
- lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
- lattice constant — a parameter, either a measure of length or angle, that defines the size and shape of the unit cell of a crystal lattice.
- league champions — the team that has come top of the league
- liebig condenser — a laboratory condenser consisting of a glass tube surrounded by a glass envelope through which cooling water flows
- lizard peninsula — a promontory in SW England, in SW Cornwall: the southernmost point in Great Britain
- loan translation — the process whereby a compound word or expression is created by literal translation of each of the elements of a compound word or expression in another language, as marriage of convenience from French mariage de convenance.
- logical constant — one of the connectives of a given system of formal logic, esp those of the sentential calculus, not, and, or, and if … then …
- lyndon b johnson — Andrew, 1808–75, seventeenth president of the U.S. 1865–69.
- macroinstruction — macro (def 5).
- mainstream media — newspapers, magazines, television, and radio, as opposed to social media
- marine insurance — ocean marine insurance.
- marriage license — permit to marry
- megacorporations — Plural form of megacorporation.
- menstrual cramps — pain in the lower abdomen as well as possibly in the lower back and legs associated with menstruation
- menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
- microaggressions — Plural form of microaggression.
- microconstituent — a microscopically small constituent of a metal or alloy.
- microinstruction — an instruction that defines part of a machine-language instruction in terms of simpler operations.
- microtransmitter — a small electronic device which transmits television or radio signals
- minstrel gallery — a gallery in a building meant for use by musicians playing to provide background music or entertainment at a feast or other event
- misapprehensions — Plural form of misapprehension.
- miscomprehension — the act or process of comprehending.
- misconstructions — Plural form of misconstruction.
- mistranscription — the act or process of transcribing.
- monoline insurer — insurer who pays the principal and interest on a bond in the event of a default
- monotransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being monotransitive.
- mourne mountains — a mountain range in SE Northern Ireland. Highest peak: Slieve Donard, 853 m (2798 ft)
- multidimensional — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- mutual insurance — insurance in which those insured become members of a company who reciprocally engage, by payment of certain amounts into a common fund, to indemnify one another against loss.
- narragansett bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in E Rhode Island. 28 miles (45 km) long.
- nationalizations — Plural form of nationalization.
- native americans — a person born in the United States.
- neo-conservatism — (in the US) a right-wing tendency that originated amongst supporters of the political left and has become characterized by its support of hawkish foreign policies
- neoconservatives — Plural form of neoconservative.
- neurotransmitter — any of several chemical substances, as epinephrine or acetylcholine, that transmit nerve impulses across a synapse to a postsynaptic element, as another nerve, muscle, or gland.
- new orleans jazz — the jazz originating in New Orleans from about 1914; traditional jazz
- nicoya peninsula — a peninsula in NW Costa Rica, on the Pacific Ocean.
- non-apprehension — anticipation of adversity or misfortune; suspicion or fear of future trouble or evil.
- non-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- non-constructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- non-consummation — the act of consummating; completion.
- non-instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
- non-transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- non-transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- noninstitutional — Not institutional; not having the usual characteristics of an institution.
- nontransmissible — Not transmissible.
- nontransmittable — Not transmittable.
- northamptonshire — a county in central England. 914 sq. mi. (2365 sq. km).
- not by any means — in no way, by no method