11-letter words starting with n
- nociceptive — Of, relating to, or denoting pain arising from the stimulation of nerve cells (often as distinct from that arising from damage or disease in the nerves themselves).
- nociceptors — Plural form of nociceptor.
- noctilucent — (of high-altitude clouds) visible during the short night of the summer.
- noctilucous — (obsolete) Shining in the night; luminescent.
- noctiphobia — Fear of night; nyctophobia.
- noctivagant — someone who wanders in the night
- nocturnally — of or relating to the night (opposed to diurnal).
- nodal point — either of two points on the axis of a lens or other optical system, determined by extending an incident oblique ray and the corresponding refracted ray to the axis for the pair of rays that are parallel outside the optical system.
- nodding dog — a small model of a dog carried as a mascot in a motor vehicle, with a head so mounted that it moves up and down with the motion of the vehicle
- noirishness — Quality of being noirish.
- noiselessly — accompanied by or making little or no noise; silent; quiet: a noiseless step; a noiseless typewriter.
- noisemakers — Plural form of noisemaker.
- noisemaking — The production of noise.
- noisomeness — The state or quality of being noisome.
- noisy miner — a honey-eater, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia, having a grey-white plumage and brown wings and noted for its raucous cries
- nomadically — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
- nomenclator — a person who assigns names, as in scientific classification; classifier.
- nominal par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- nominalised — Simple past tense and past participle of nominalise.
- nominalized — to convert (another part of speech) into a noun, as in changing the adjective lowly into the lowly or the verb legalize into legalization.
- nominations — Plural form of nomination.
- nominatives — Plural form of nominative.
- nomographer — the art of or a treatise on drawing up laws.
- nomological — the science of law or laws.
- non-abiding — continuing without change; enduring; steadfast: an abiding faith.
- non-abusive — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
- non-accrued — to happen or result as a natural growth, addition, etc.
- non-aerobic — (of an organism or tissue) requiring the presence of air or free oxygen for life.
- non-aligned — not aligned: nonaligned machine parts.
- non-allelic — any of several forms of a gene, usually arising through mutation, that are responsible for hereditary variation.
- non-aquatic — of, in, or pertaining to water.
- non-arrival — an act of arriving; a coming: His arrival was delayed by traffic.
- non-athlete — a person trained or gifted in exercises or contests involving physical agility, stamina, or strength; a participant in a sport, exercise, or game requiring physical skill.
- non-audible — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
- non-bilious — Physiology, Pathology. pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
- non-citable — to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
- non-clastic — Biology. breaking up into fragments or separate portions; dividing into parts.
- non-closure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
- non-contact — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- non-corrupt — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- non-current — passing in time; belonging to the time actually passing: the current month.
- non-cursive — (of handwriting) in flowing strokes with the letters joined together.
- non-density — the state or quality of being dense; compactness; closely set or crowded condition.
- non-dualism — the state of being dual or consisting of two parts; division into two.
- non-ductile — capable of being hammered out thin, as certain metals; malleable.
- non-elderly — of advanced age; old: discounts for elderly patrons.
- non-emotive — characterized by or pertaining to emotion: the emotive and rational capacities of humankind.
- non-extinct — no longer in existence; that has ended or died out: an extinct species of fish.
- non-feeling — the function or the power of perceiving by touch.
- non-fiction — the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama).