12-letter words starting with non

non-domestic — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
non-dominant — ruling, governing, or controlling; having or exerting authority or influence: dominant in the chain of command.
non-drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
non-dutiable — subject to customs duty, as imported goods.
non-economic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
non-egoistic — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
non-elective — pertaining to the principle of electing to an office, position, etc.
non-electric — pertaining to, derived from, produced by, or involving electricity: an electric shock.
non-eligible — fit or proper to be chosen; worthy of choice; desirable: to marry an eligible bachelor. Synonyms: suitable, fitting. Antonyms: ineligible, unsuitable, unacceptable.
non-emergent — coming into view or notice; issuing.
non-empathic — of, relating to, or characterized by empathy, the psychological identification with the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of others: a sensitive, empathetic school counselor.
non-equation — the act of equating or making equal; equalization: the symbolic equation of darkness with death.
non-erasable — to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
non-existent — absence of existence.
non-existing — to have actual being; be: The world exists, whether you like it or not.
non-familial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a family: familial ties.
non-feminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
non-flexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
non-friction — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
non-fungible — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
non-graduate — a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
non-granular — of the nature of granules; grainy.
non-hispanic — Spanish.
non-hydrated — chemically combined with water in its molecular form.
non-imitable — capable or worthy of being imitated: She has many good, imitable qualities.
non-incident — an individual occurrence or event.
non-industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
non-inherent — existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute; inhering: an inherent distrust of strangers.
non-invasive — not invading adjacent healthy cells, blood vessels, or tissues; localized: a noninvasive tumor.
non-itemizer — to state by items; give the particulars of; list the individual units or parts of: to itemize an account.
non-literary — pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature: literary history.
non-luminous — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
non-lustrous — having luster; shining; luminous: lustrous eyes.
non-magnetic — of or relating to a magnet or magnetism.
non-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
non-matching — not matching: a nonmatching set of furniture.
non-material — not material or composed of matter.
non-metrical — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
non-militant — vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause: militant reformers.
non-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
non-minority — the smaller part or number; a number, part, or amount forming less than half of the whole.
non-monastic — of or relating to monasteries: a monastic library.
non-monetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
non-narcotic — any of a class of substances that blunt the senses, as opium, morphine, belladonna, and alcohol, that in large quantities produce euphoria, stupor, or coma, that when used constantly can cause habituation or addiction, and that are used in medicine to relieve pain, cause sedation, and induce sleep.
non-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
non-nutrient — nourishing; providing nourishment or nutriment.
non-obsolete — no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression.
non-occupant — a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something: the occupant of a taxicab; the occupants of the building.
non-offender — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
non-operable — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).

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