10-letter words starting with n
- neologisms — Plural form of neologism.
- neologized — Simple past tense and past participle of neologize.
- neon tetra — a small, brightly colored red and blue characin fish, Pracheirodon innesi, native to parts of the Amazon basin: a popular aquarium fish.
- neonatally — In a neonatal way.
- neopallium — neocortex.
- neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- neorealism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of various movements in literature, art, etc., that are considered as a return to a more realistic style.
- neorealist — Of or pertaining to the post World War II international relations movement of neorealism.
- neoterical — Alternative form of neoteric.
- neotropics — Tropical America: the tropical areas of North, Central and South America; the tropics of the New World.
- nepenthean — a drug or drink, or the plant yielding it, mentioned by ancient writers as having the power to bring forgetfulness of sorrow or trouble.
- nephelinic — containing or resembling nepheline, pertaining to nepheline
- nephograph — an instrument for photographing clouds
- nephometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of cloud cover in the sky.
- nephoscope — an instrument for determining the speed and direction of cloud motion.
- nephralgia — kidney pain.
- nephridial — Of or pertaining to a nephridium.
- nephridium — the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
- nephrolith — a renal calculus; kidney stone.
- nephrology — the branch of medical science that deals with the kidney.
- nephropexy — (surgery) suspension or fixation of the kidney.
- nephrotomy — incision into the kidney, as for the removal of a calculus.
- nepotistic — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
- nerd pride — (body) The Nerd Pride movement, modeled on the Gay Pride movement, was started at MIT by Professors Gerald Sussman and Hal Abelson. Nerd pride paraphernalia includes baseball hats, buttons and - of course - pocket protectors. "My idea is to present an image to children that it is good to be intellectual, and not to care about the peer pressures to be anti-intellectual. I want every child to turn into a nerd - where that means someone who prefers studying and learning to competing for social dominance". -- Gerald Sussman, quoted by Katie Hafner, "New York Times", 1994-08-29.
- neroli oil — a brown essential oil derived from the flowers of the orange tree, Citrus aurantium, used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- nerve cell — neuron.
- nerve cord — a single hollow tract of nervous tissue that constitutes the central nervous system of chordates and develops into the spinal cord and brain in vertebrates.
- nerve root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
- nesselrode — a mixture of preserved fruits, nuts, etc., used as a sauce or in pies, puddings, ice cream, or the like.
- nestedness — A measure of the order in an ecological system.
- net assets — business: equity, worth
- net blotch — a disease of barley, characterized by a brown, netlike discoloration of the leaves, caused by fungi of the genus Helminthosporium.
- net income — the excess of revenues and gains of a business over expenses and losses during a given period of time.
- net profit — the actual profit made on a business transaction, sale, etc., or during a specific period of business activity, after deducting all costs from gross receipts.
- net weight — goods minus packaging
- net-veined — having branched veins that form a network, as the leaves of most dicotyledonous plants.
- net-winged — having reticulate wing venation.
- net.police — /net-p*-lees'/ (Or "net police", "net.cops") Those Usenet readers who feel it is their responsibility to pounce on and flame any posting which they regard as offensive or in violation of their understanding of netiquette. Generally used sarcastically or pejoratively. See also net.-, code police.
- netaddress — Knowbot Information Service
- nethermore — (archaic, rare) farther down; lower.
- nethermost — lowest; farthest down: the nethermost depths of the ocean.
- netherward — bottom-most, lowest
- netiquette — the rules of etiquette that apply when communicating over computer networks, especially the Internet.
- netminding — (field hockey) goalkeeping.
- netsurfing — Netsurfing is the activity of looking at different sites on the Internet, especially when you are not looking for anything in particular.
- nettlefish — jellyfish.
- nettlesome — causing irritation, vexation, or annoyance: to cope with a nettlesome situation.
- networkers — Plural form of networker.
- networking — network
- neufchatel — a soft, white cheese similar to cream cheese, made from whole or partly skimmed milk in Neufchâtel, a town in N France.