nonremittal | (noun) loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid | Synonyms: default, nonpayment |
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(noun) act of failing to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: default, nonpayment |
nonresident | (noun) someone who does not live in a particular place | - |
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nonresistance | (noun) group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence | - |
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nonsense | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, trumpery |
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(noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsensicality |
nonsensicality | (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense |
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nonsmoker | (noun) a passenger car for passengers who want to avoid tobacco smoke | Synonyms: nonsmoking car |
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(noun) a person who does not smoke tobacco | - |
nonstandardness | (noun) The state or condition of not being standard. | - |
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nonstarter | (noun) a horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered | - |
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(noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: failure, loser, unsuccessful person |
nonsteroid | (noun) an organic compound that does no contain a steroid | Synonyms: nonsteroidal |
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nonsteroidal | (noun) an organic compound that does no contain a steroid | Synonyms: nonsteroid |
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nonstop | (noun) a flight made without intermediate stops between source and destination | Synonyms: nonstop flight |
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nonsuch | (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonpareil, paragon, saint |
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nontoxicity | (noun) The state or condition of not being toxic or poisonous. | - |
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nontricyclic | (noun) a class of antidepressant drugs that are not tricyclic drugs and do not act by inhibiting MAO | Synonyms: nontricyclic antidepressant, nontricyclic antidepressant drug, nontricyclic drug |
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nonuniformity | (noun) the quality of being diverse and interesting | - |
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nonviolence | (noun) peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate | Synonyms: nonviolent resistance, passive resistance |
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nonworker | (noun) a person who does nothing | - |
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noumenon | (noun) the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception | Synonyms: thing-in-itself |
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olecranon | (noun) process of the ulna that forms the outer bump of the elbow and fits into the fossa of the humerus when the arm is extended | Synonyms: olecranon process |
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organon | (noun) a system of principles for philosophic or scientific investigations; an instrument for acquiring knowledge | - |
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paregmenon | (noun) juxtaposing words having a common derivation (as in `sense and sensibility') | - |
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pennon | (noun) wing of a bird | Synonyms: pinion |
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(noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennant, streamer, waft |
pennoncel | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncelle, penoncel |
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pennoncelle | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncel, penoncel |
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penoncel | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncel, pennoncelle |
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phenomenon | (noun) any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning | - |
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(noun) a remarkable development | - |
phylloquinone | (noun) a form of vitamin K, based on 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone, with a 3-phytyl substituent | Synonyms: phytonadione, vitamin K1 |
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pinon | (noun) any of several low-growing pines of western North America | Synonyms: pinyon |
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polypropenonitrile | (noun) acrylic resin used to make a strong soft crease-resistant fabric (trade name Acrilan) | Synonyms: Acrilan |
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prolegomenon | (noun) a preliminary discussion inserted at the beginning of a book or treatise | - |
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propanone | (noun) the simplest ketone; a highly flammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics | Synonyms: acetone, dimethyl ketone |
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propenonitrile | (noun) a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene | Synonyms: acrylonitrile, vinyl cyanide |
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quinone | (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: benzoquinone |
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rotenone | (noun) a white crystalline insecticide that has low toxicity for mammals; is used in home gardens; extracted from the roots of derris and cube | - |
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scuppernong | (noun) amber-green muscadine grape of southeastern United States | - |
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synonym | (noun) two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context | Synonyms: equivalent word |
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synonymist | (noun) a student of synonyms | - |
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synonymity | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning | Synonyms: synonymousness, synonymy |
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synonymousness | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning | Synonyms: synonymity, synonymy |
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synonymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning | Synonyms: synonymity, synonymousness |
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tenon | (noun) a projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint | - |
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tenonitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon | Synonyms: tendinitis, tendonitis |
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ubiquinone | (noun) any of several quinones found in living cells and that function as coenzymes that transfer electrons from one molecule to another in cell respiration | Synonyms: coenzyme Q |
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vernonia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue | Synonyms: ironweed |
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watercannon | (noun) a hose (carried on a truck) that fires water under high pressure to disperse crowds (especially crowds of rioters) | Synonyms: water cannon |
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xenon | (noun) a colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts | Synonyms: atomic number 54, Xe |
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