| adrenarche | (noun) the increase in activity of the adrenal glands just before puberty | - |
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| anarchism | (noun) a political theory favoring the abolition of governments | - |
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| anarchist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: nihilist, syndicalist |
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| anarchy | (noun) a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) | Synonyms: lawlessness |
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| anarthria | (noun) partial or total loss of articulate speech resulting from lesions of the central nervous system | - |
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| antiphonary | (noun) bound collection of antiphons | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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| bicentenary | (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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| bimillenary | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillennium |
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| (noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillennium |
| binary | (noun) a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system | Synonyms: binary program |
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| (noun) a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation | Synonyms: binary star, double star |
| canard | (noun) a deliberately misleading fabrication | - |
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| canary | (noun) any of several small Old World finches | Synonyms: canary bird |
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| (noun) a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge | Synonyms: canary yellow |
| (noun) a female singer | - |
| (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
| carbonara | (noun) sauce for pasta; contains eggs and bacon or ham and grated cheese | - |
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| catenary | (noun) the curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points | - |
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| centenarian | (noun) someone who is at least 100 years old | - |
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| centenary | (noun) the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: centennial |
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| chanar | (noun) thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries | Synonyms: chanal, Geoffroea decorticans |
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| confectionary | (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionery |
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| consuetudinary | (noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) | Synonyms: consuetudinal |
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| coronary | (noun) obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus) | Synonyms: coronary thrombosis |
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| counterrevolutionary | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
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| decennary | (noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decade, decennium |
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| dictionary | (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: lexicon |
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| dinar | (noun) the basic unit of money in Algeria | Synonyms: Algerian dinar |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Bahrain; equal to 1,000 fils | Synonyms: Bahrain dinar |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Iraq; equal to 1,000 fils | Synonyms: Iraqi dinar |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Jordan; equal to 1,000 fils | Synonyms: Jordanian dinar |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Kuwait; equal 1,000 fils | Synonyms: Kuwaiti dinar |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Libya | Synonyms: Libyan dinar |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Tunisia | Synonyms: Tunisian dinar |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Yugoslavia | Synonyms: Yugoslavian dinar |
| (noun) 100 dinars equal 1 rial in Iran | Synonyms: Iranian dinar |
| disciplinarian | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: martinet, moralist |
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| enarthrosis | (noun) a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone | Synonyms: articulatio spheroidea, ball-and-socket joint, cotyloid joint, enarthrodial joint, spheroid joint |
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| ethnarch | (noun) the ruler of a province (as in the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire) or certain religious rulers with secular authority | - |
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| extraordinariness | (noun) the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered | - |
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| functionary | (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: official |
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| gnarl | (noun) something twisted and tight and swollen | Synonyms: knot |
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| granary | (noun) a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed | Synonyms: garner |
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| gurnard | (noun) bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom | - |
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| gynarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a woman | Synonyms: gynecocracy |
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| hymnary | (noun) a songbook containing a collection of hymns | Synonyms: hymnal, hymnbook |
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| imaginary | (noun) (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 | Synonyms: complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number |
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| innards | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: entrails, insides, viscera |
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| lacunar | (noun) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome | Synonyms: caisson, coffer |
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| latitudinarian | (noun) a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct) | - |
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| legionary | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionnaire |
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| luminary | (noun) a celebrity who is an inspiration to others | Synonyms: guiding light, leading light, notability, notable |
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| marinara | (noun) sauce for pasta; contains tomatoes and garlic and herbs | - |
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| menarche | (noun) the first occurrence of menstruation in a woman | - |
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| mercenariness | (noun) The state or condition of being motivated by private gain. | - |
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| mercenary | (noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own | Synonyms: soldier of fortune |
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| millenarian | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarist |
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| millenarianism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarism, millenniumism |
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| millenarism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarianism, millenniumism |
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| millenarist | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarian |
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| millenary | (noun) a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years) | - |
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| (noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millennium |
| (noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millennium |
| minaret | (noun) slender tower with balconies | - |
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| missionary | (noun) someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program | - |
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| (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missioner |
| monarch | (noun) large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed | Synonyms: Danaus plexippus, milkweed butterfly, monarch butterfly |
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| (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, sovereign |
| monarchism | (noun) a belief in and advocacy of monarchy as a political system | - |
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| monarchist | (noun) an advocate of the principles of monarchy | Synonyms: royalist |
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| monarchy | (noun) an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority | - |
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| monarda | (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda | Synonyms: wild bergamot |
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| naranjilla | (noun) small perennial shrub cultivated in uplands of South America for its edible bright orange fruits resembling tomatoes or oranges | Synonyms: Solanum quitoense |
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| narc | (noun) a lawman concerned with narcotics violations | Synonyms: narcotics agent, nark |
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| narcism | (noun) an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself | Synonyms: narcissism, self-love |
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| narcissism | (noun) an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself | Synonyms: narcism, self-love |
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| narcissist | (noun) someone in love with themselves | Synonyms: narcist |
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| narcissus | (noun) bulbous plant having erect linear leaves and showy yellow or white flowers either solitary or in clusters | - |
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| narcist | (noun) someone in love with themselves | Synonyms: narcissist |
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| narcodollar | (noun) money (especially in the form of US dollars) obtained from narcotrafficking. | Synonyms: narco-dollar |
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| narcolepsy | (noun) a sleep disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep | - |
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| narcoleptic | (noun) a soporific drug that produces an uncontrollable desire to sleep | - |
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| (noun) a person who has narcolepsy | - |
| narcosis | (noun) unconsciousness induced by narcotics or anesthesia | - |
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| narcoterrorism | (noun) the financing of terrorist activities by participation in the drug trade | - |
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| narcotic | (noun) a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction | - |
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| narcotraffic | (noun) traffic in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug traffic, drug trafficking |
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| nard | (noun) an aromatic ointment used in antiquity | Synonyms: spikenard |
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| nardo | (noun) Australian clover fern | Synonyms: common nardoo, Marsilea drummondii, nardoo |
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| nardoo | (noun) Australian clover fern | Synonyms: common nardoo, Marsilea drummondii, nardo |
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| narghile | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| nargileh | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| naris | (noun) any of the openings to the nasal cavities that allow air to flow through the cavities to the pharynx | - |
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| nark | (noun) an informer or spy working for the police | Synonyms: copper's nark |
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| (noun) a lawman concerned with narcotics violations | Synonyms: narc, narcotics agent |
| narration | (noun) the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | Synonyms: recital, yarn |
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| (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narrative, story, tale |
| (noun) (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth | - |
| narrative | (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, story, tale |
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| narrator | (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: storyteller, teller |
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| narrow | (noun) a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water | - |
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| narrowboat | (noun) a long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals | Synonyms: canal boat, narrow boat |
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| narrowing | (noun) the act of making something narrower | - |
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| (noun) an instance of becoming narrow | - |
| (noun) a decrease in width | - |
| narrowness | (noun) the property of being narrow; having little width | - |
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| (noun) a small margin | Synonyms: narrow margin, slimness |
| (noun) an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior | Synonyms: narrow-mindedness |
| (noun) a restriction of range or scope | - |
| narthex | (noun) a vestibule leading to the nave of a church | - |
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| (noun) portico at the west end of an early Christian basilica or church | - |
| narwal | (noun) small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk | Synonyms: Monodon monoceros, narwhal, narwhale |
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| narwhal | (noun) small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk | Synonyms: Monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhale |
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| narwhale | (noun) small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk | Synonyms: Monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhal |
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| nonagenarian | (noun) someone whose age is in the nineties | - |
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| octogenarian | (noun) someone whose age is in the eighties | - |
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| octonary | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, ogdoad, VIII |
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| ordinariness | (noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity |
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| ordinary | (noun) (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields | - |
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| (noun) an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel | Synonyms: ordinary bicycle |
| (noun) a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death | - |
| (noun) a judge of a probate court | - |
| (noun) the expected or commonplace condition or situation | - |
| pensionary | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: hireling |
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| (noun) the beneficiary of a pension fund | Synonyms: pensioner |
| planaria | (noun) free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts | Synonyms: planarian |
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| planarian | (noun) free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts | Synonyms: planaria |
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| platitudinarian | (noun) a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes | - |
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| predestinarian | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinationist |
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| predestinarianism | (noun) the belief or doctrine of predestinarians | - |
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| preliminary | (noun) a minor match preceding the main event | Synonyms: prelim |
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| (noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: overture, prelude |
| proseminar | (noun) a course of study like a graduate seminar but often open to advanced undergraduates. | - |
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