| actinon | (noun) any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103 | Synonyms: actinide, actinoid |
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| amrinone | (noun) a drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure; increases strength of contraction of myocardium | Synonyms: Inocor |
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| annon | (noun) sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds | Synonyms: sugar apple, sweetsop |
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| anonym | (noun) a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role | Synonyms: nom de guerre, pseudonym |
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| anonymity | (noun) the state of being anonymous | Synonyms: namelessness |
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| argonon | (noun) any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table | Synonyms: inert gas, noble gas |
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| benzoquinone | (noun) any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes | Synonyms: quinone |
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| bignoniad | (noun) any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| bourguignon | (noun) reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter | Synonyms: bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce |
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| butanone | (noun) colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid | Synonyms: methyl ethyl ketone |
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| cannon | (noun) a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other | Synonyms: carom |
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| (noun) lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals | Synonyms: shank |
| (noun) a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels | - |
| (noun) heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane | - |
| (noun) (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm | - |
| (noun) heavy gun fired from a tank | - |
| cannonade | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: drumfire |
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| cannonball | (noun) a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon | Synonyms: cannon ball, round shot |
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| cannoneer | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: artilleryman, gunner, machine gunner |
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| canon | (noun) a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy | - |
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| (noun) a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts | - |
| (noun) a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired | - |
| (noun) a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church | - |
| (noun) a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall | Synonyms: canyon |
| (noun) a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter | - |
| canonisation | (noun) (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints | Synonyms: canonization |
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| canonist | (noun) a specialist in canon law | - |
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| canonization | (noun) (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints | Synonyms: canonisation |
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| chignon | (noun) a roll of hair worn at the nape of the neck | - |
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| chloroacetophenone | (noun) a tear gas that is weaker than CS gas but lasts longer | Synonyms: CN gas |
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| chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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| deinonychus | (noun) swift agile wolf-sized bipedal dinosaur having a large curved claw on each hind foot; of the Cretaceous | - |
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| epiphenomenon | (noun) a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon | - |
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| guenon | (noun) small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face | Synonyms: guenon monkey |
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| headcanon | (noun) A personal version of the fantasy world from popular media | - |
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| koinonia | (noun) Christian fellowship or communion with God or with fellow Christians; said in particular of the early Christian community | - |
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| lanthanon | (noun) any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71) | Synonyms: lanthanide, lanthanoid, rare-earth element, rare earth |
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| mignonette | (noun) Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance | Synonyms: Reseda odorata, sweet reseda |
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| mononeuropathy | (noun) any neuropathy of a single nerve trunk | - |
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| mononucleosis | (noun) an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing | Synonyms: glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, kissing disease, mono |
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| naphthoquinone | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that helps in the clotting of blood | Synonyms: antihemorrhagic factor, vitamin K |
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| ninon | (noun) a fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or nylon | - |
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| nonabsorbency | (noun) the property of not being absorbent | - |
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| nonacceptance | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: turndown |
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| nonaccomplishment | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonachievement |
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| nonachievement | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonaccomplishment |
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| nonachiever | (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: underachiever, underperformer |
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| nonage | (noun) any age prior to the legal age | Synonyms: minority |
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| nonagenarian | (noun) someone whose age is in the nineties | - |
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| nonaggression | (noun) a policy of not initiating hostilities | - |
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| nonagon | (noun) a nine-sided polygon | - |
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| nonalignment | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalinement |
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| nonalinement | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalignment |
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| nonallele | (noun) genes that are not competitors at the same locus | - |
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| nonappearance | (noun) failure to appear (especially as at court) | - |
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| nonattendance | (noun) the failure to attend | - |
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| nonattender | (noun) someone who shirks duty | Synonyms: no-show, truant |
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| nonbeing | (noun) the state of not being | - |
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| nonbeliever | (noun) someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity) | - |
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| noncandidate | (noun) someone who has announced they are not a candidate; especially a politician who has announced that he or she is not a candidate for some political office | - |
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| nonce | (noun) the present occasion | Synonyms: time being |
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| nonchalance | (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: indifference, unconcern |
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| noncitizen | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: alien, foreigner, outlander |
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| noncom | (noun) a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel | Synonyms: enlisted officer, noncommissioned officer |
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| noncombatant | (noun) a member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon) | - |
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| noncompliance | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: disobedience |
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| noncompliant | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: balker, baulker |
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| nonconductor | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: dielectric, insulator |
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| nonconformance | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformity |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformism, nonconformity |
| nonconformism | (noun) the practice of nonconformity | - |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformance, nonconformity |
| nonconformist | (noun) someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct | Synonyms: recusant |
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| nonconformity | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformance |
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| (noun) unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values | - |
| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformance, nonconformism |
| (noun) lack of harmony or correspondence | - |
| nondescript | (noun) a person who is not easily classified and not very interesting | - |
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| nondevelopment | (noun) failure of normal development to occur | - |
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| nondisjunction | (noun) meiosis in which there is a failure of paired homologous chromosomes to separate; results in an abnormal number of chromosomes in the daughter cells | - |
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| nondrinker | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstainer, abstinent |
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| nondriver | (noun) a person who is not a driver | - |
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| none | (noun) a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier | - |
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| (noun) a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise | - |
| nonentity | (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, nobody |
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| (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonexistence |
| nonequivalence | (noun) not interchangeable | - |
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| nones | (noun) the fifth of the seven canonical hours; about 3 p.m. | - |
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| nonessential | (noun) anything that is not essential | Synonyms: inessential |
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| nonesuch | (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, saint |
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| nonevent | (noun) an anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected | - |
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| nonexistence | (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonentity |
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| nonfeasance | (noun) a failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do | - |
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| nonfiction | (noun) prose writing that is not fictional | Synonyms: nonfictional prose |
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| nonidentity | (noun) Difference, distinction; failure to be identical. | - |
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| nonindulgence | (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: asceticism, austerity |
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| noninterference | (noun) a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes | Synonyms: nonintervention |
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| nonintervention | (noun) a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes | Synonyms: noninterference |
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| noninvasiveness | (noun) The quality of not being or involving an invasive medical procedure. | - |
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| nonmember | (noun) a person who is not a member | - |
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| nonmetal | (noun) a chemical element lacking typical metallic properties | - |
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| nonobservance | (noun) a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | - |
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| nonoccurrence | (noun) absence by virtue of not occurring | - |
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| nonoptimality | (noun) The state of not being best, most favourable or desirable. | - |
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| nonpareil | (noun) colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies | - |
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| (noun) a flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar | - |
| (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonsuch, paragon, saint |
| nonpareille | (noun) a 6-point printing type: a size smaller than minion. | - |
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| nonparticipant | (noun) a person who does not participate | - |
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| nonparticipation | (noun) withdrawing from the activities of a group | Synonyms: non-engagement, non-involvement |
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| nonpartisan | (noun) a person who is nonpartisan | Synonyms: nonpartizan |
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| nonpartisanship | (noun) an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally | Synonyms: impartiality |
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| nonpartizan | (noun) a person who is nonpartisan | Synonyms: nonpartisan |
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| nonpayment | (noun) the deliberate act of failing to pay money | Synonyms: evasion |
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| (noun) loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid | Synonyms: default, nonremittal |
| (noun) act of failing to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: default, nonremittal |
| nonperformance | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, negligence |
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| nonperson | (noun) a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons) | Synonyms: unperson |
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| nonprofit | (noun) an organization chartered for other than profit-making activities | Synonyms: nonprofit organization, not-for-profit |
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| nonproliferation | (noun) the prevention of something increasing or spreading (especially the prevention of an increase in the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons) | Synonyms: non-proliferation |
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| nonreader | (noun) a student who is very slow in learning to read | - |
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| (noun) a person unable to read | Synonyms: illiterate, illiterate person |