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14-letter words containing nu

  • jelly doughnut — a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.
  • karitane nurse — a nurse trained in the care of young babies and their mothers according to the principles of the Plunket Society
  • knuckle-duster — brass knuckles.
  • knuckledusters — Plural form of knuckleduster.
  • licence number — an identifying number on a licence or licence plate that identifies it with the owner
  • license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
  • liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
  • macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
  • madison avenue — a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.
  • manual testing — (testing)   That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
  • manuel noriega — Manuel Antonio, born 1934, military leader of Panama 1983–89: captured by U.S. forces and sentenced to prison for drug trafficking 1992.
  • manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • mare tyrrhenum — (Tyrrhenian Sea) an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
  • messier number — a number (preceded by M) designating the 109 double stars, clusters, nebulae, and galaxies in the Messier catalog.
  • micronutrients — Plural form of micronutrient.
  • minucius felix — Marcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
  • minus infinity — The most negative value, not necessarily or even usually the simple negation of plus infinity. In N bit twos-complement arithmetic, infinity is 2^(N-1) - 1 but minus infinity is -(2^(N-1)), not -(2^(N-1) - 1).
  • minus quantity — a quantity less than zero
  • mononucleotide — (genetics) A single nucleotide.
  • monumentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of monumentalize.
  • multinucleated — Having multiple nuclei; multinucleate.
  • natural number — a positive integer or zero.
  • network number — network address
  • neutron number — the number of neutrons in the nucleus of an atom, equal to the mass number minus the atomic number of the atom. Symbol: N.
  • nil nisi bonum — de mortuis nil nisi bonum
  • non-continuous — uninterrupted in time; without cessation: continuous coughing during the concert.
  • non-enumerated — to mention separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list: Let me enumerate the many flaws in your hypothesis.
  • non-nucleoside — any of various antiviral drugs that bind directly to reverse transcriptase and prevent RNA conversion to DNA, used in combination with other drugs to treat HIV infection.
  • non-nutritious — providing nourishment, especially to a high degree; nourishing; healthful: a good, nutritious meal.
  • nonutilitarian — Not utilitarian.
  • nuclear energy — energy released by reactions within atomic nuclei, as in nuclear fission or fusion.
  • nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
  • nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
  • nuclear isomer — isomer (def 2).
  • nuclear option — the use of or power to use nuclear weapons
  • nuclear weapon — an explosive device whose destructive potential derives from the release of energy that accompanies the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei.
  • nuclear winter — the general devastation of life, along with worldwide darkness and extreme cold, that some scientists believe would result from a global dust cloud screening out sunlight following large-scale nuclear detonations.
  • nuclearization — to equip with nuclear weapons; give nuclear capability to: a fear that armed forces on both sides would become nuclearized.
  • nucleoproteins — Plural form of nucleoprotein.
  • nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
  • nuisance value — the usefulness of a person's or thing's capacity to cause difficulties or irritation
  • null character — Computers. a control character representing nothing, with the value of binary zero, but having special meaning when interpreted as text, as in marking the end of character strings.
  • nulli secundus — second to none
  • nullius filius — (especially in law) son of nobody; bastard.
  • numa pompilius — died 673? b.c, 2nd legendary Sabine king of Rome 715–673?
  • numeral system — any notation for the representation of numerals or numbers.
  • numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
  • numidian crane — the demoiselle crane
  • numismatically — Of or relating to coins or currency.
  • nursery school — a prekindergarten school for children from about three to five years of age.
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