| actinotherapy | (noun) (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance | Synonyms: irradiation, radiation, radiation therapy, radiotherapy |
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| aminotransferase | (noun) a class of transferases that catalyze transamination (that transfer an amino group from an amino acid to another compound) | Synonyms: aminopherase, transaminase |
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| annotating | (noun) the act of adding notes | Synonyms: annotation |
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| annotation | (noun) the act of adding notes | Synonyms: annotating |
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| (noun) a comment or instruction (usually added) | Synonyms: notation, note |
| annotator | (noun) a commentator who writes notes to a text | - |
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| banknote | (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note |
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| bowknot | (noun) a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces | Synonyms: bow |
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| carnotite | (noun) a yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium | - |
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| cenotaph | (noun) a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered | Synonyms: empty tomb |
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| connotation | (noun) an idea that is implied or suggested | - |
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| (noun) what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression | Synonyms: intension |
| denotation | (noun) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to | Synonyms: extension, reference |
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| (noun) the act of indicating or pointing out by name | Synonyms: indication |
| denotatum | (noun) an actual object referred to by a linguistic expression | - |
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| footnote | (noun) a printed note placed below the text on a printed page | Synonyms: footer |
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| genotype | (noun) the particular alleles at specified loci present in an organism | Synonyms: genetic constitution |
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| (noun) a group of organisms sharing a specific genetic constitution | - |
| hypnotherapy | (noun) the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy | - |
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| hypnotic | (noun) a drug that induces sleep | Synonyms: soporific |
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| hypnotiser | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerist, mesmerizer |
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| hypnotism | (noun) the act of inducing hypnosis | Synonyms: mesmerism, suggestion |
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| hypnotist | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotizer, mesmerist, mesmerizer |
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| hypnotizer | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, mesmerist, mesmerizer |
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| immunotherapy | (noun) therapy designed to produce immunity to a disease or to enhance resistance by the immune system | - |
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| kenotron | (noun) a type of vacuum tube formerly used as a high-voltage rectifier. | - |
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| keynote | (noun) a fundamental or central idea | - |
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| (noun) (music) the first note of a diatonic scale | Synonyms: tonic |
| (noun) the principal theme in a speech or literary work | - |
| knot | (noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calidris canutus, grayback, greyback |
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| (noun) any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object | - |
| (noun) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design | Synonyms: burl, slub |
| (noun) a tight cluster of people or things | - |
| (noun) something twisted and tight and swollen | Synonyms: gnarl |
| (noun) a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged | - |
| (noun) (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour | - |
| knotgrass | (noun) low-growing weedy grass with spikelets along the leaf stems | Synonyms: Paspalum distichum |
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| knothole | (noun) a hole in a board where a knot came out | - |
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| knottiness | (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complicatedness, complication, tortuousness |
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| monotheism | (noun) belief in a single God | - |
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| monotheist | (noun) a believer in one god | - |
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| monotone | (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: drone, droning |
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| (noun) a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) | - |
| monotony | (noun) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | Synonyms: humdrum, sameness |
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| (noun) constancy of tone or pitch or inflection | - |
| monotopism | (noun) origin of a systematic group only once (as by mutation) or at a single location. | - |
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| monotreme | (noun) the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria | Synonyms: egg-laying mammal |
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| monotype | (noun) a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that sets separate characters | - |
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| (noun) the sole print made by pressing paper against a painted or inked glass or metal plate | - |
| (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group with a single member (a single species or genus) | - |
| nanotechnology | (noun) the branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers (especially with the manipulation of individual molecules) | - |
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| nanotube | (noun) a fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape | Synonyms: carbon nanotube |
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| notability | (noun) a celebrity who is an inspiration to others | Synonyms: guiding light, leading light, luminary, notable |
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| notable | (noun) a celebrity who is an inspiration to others | Synonyms: guiding light, leading light, luminary, notability |
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| notary | (noun) someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions | Synonyms: notary public |
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| notation | (noun) the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters | - |
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| (noun) a technical system of symbols used to represent special things | Synonyms: notational system |
| (noun) a comment or instruction (usually added) | Synonyms: annotation, note |
| notch | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: nick, snick |
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| (noun) a V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface | - |
| (noun) the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks | Synonyms: mountain pass, pass |
| (noun) a V-shaped indentation | - |
| note | (noun) a characteristic emotional quality | - |
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| (noun) a brief written record | - |
| (noun) a comment or instruction (usually added) | Synonyms: annotation, notation |
| (noun) a short personal letter | Synonyms: billet, line, short letter |
| (noun) a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound | Synonyms: musical note, tone |
| (noun) a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling | - |
| (noun) a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time | Synonyms: note of hand, promissory note |
| (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback |
| (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: distinction, eminence, preeminence |
| notebook | (noun) a small compact portable computer | Synonyms: notebook computer |
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| (noun) a book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda | - |
| notecase | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: billfold, pocketbook, wallet |
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| notepad | (noun) a pad of paper for keeping notes | - |
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| notepaper | (noun) writing paper intended for writing short notes or letters | - |
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| nothing | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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| nothingness | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarkey, malarky, wind |
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| (noun) the state of nonexistence | Synonyms: nihility, nullity, void |
| nothings | (noun) inconsequential conversation | - |
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| nothosaur | (noun) extinct marine reptile with longer more slender limbs than plesiosaurs and less completely modified for swimming | - |
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| notice | (noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: observance, observation |
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| (noun) polite or favorable attention | - |
| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, placard, poster, posting |
| (noun) an announcement containing information about an event | - |
| (noun) a request for payment | Synonyms: notification |
| (noun) advance notification (usually written) of the intention to withdraw from an arrangement of contract | - |
| (noun) a short critical review | - |
| noticeability | (noun) the property of being easy to see and understand | Synonyms: noticeableness, obviousness, patency |
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| noticeableness | (noun) the property of being easy to see and understand | Synonyms: noticeability, obviousness, patency |
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| noticer | (noun) someone who gives formal notice | - |
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| (noun) someone who takes notice | - |
| notification | (noun) an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative | Synonyms: presentment |
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| (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: apprisal, telling |
| (noun) a request for payment | Synonyms: notice |
| notion | (noun) (usually plural) small personal articles or clothing or sewing items | - |
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| (noun) a general inclusive concept | - |
| (noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | Synonyms: whim, whimsey, whimsy |
| (noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: belief, feeling, impression, opinion |
| notochord | (noun) a flexible rodlike structure that forms the supporting axis of the body in the lowest chordates and lowest vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates | - |
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| notoriety | (noun) the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality | Synonyms: ill fame |
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| notornis | (noun) flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules | Synonyms: Notornis mantelli, takahe |
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| notturno | (noun) a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) | Synonyms: nocturne |
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| parthenote | (noun) a cell resulting from parthenogenesis | - |
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| phenothiazine | (noun) a compound used primarily in veterinary medicine to rid farm animals of internal parasites | Synonyms: thiodiphenylamine |
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| phenotype | (noun) what an organism looks like as a consequence of the interaction of its genotype and the environment | - |
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| rhinotomy | (noun) surgical procedure in which an incision is made in the nose to drain accumulated pus | - |
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| rhinotracheitis | (noun) a respiratory infection of the nose and throat in cattle | - |
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| slipknot | (noun) a knot at the end of a cord or rope that can slip along the cord or rope around which it is made | - |
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| snot | (noun) nasal mucus | - |
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| (noun) a person regarded as arrogant and annoying | Synonyms: prig, snob, snoot |
| stephanotis | (noun) any of various evergreen climbing shrubs of the genus Stephanotis having fragrant waxy flowers | - |
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| topknot | (noun) showy crest or knot of hair or feathers | - |
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| (noun) headdress consisting of a decorative ribbon or bow worn in the hair | - |
| unnoticeableness | (noun) the quality of being not easily noticed | - |
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| whatnot | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, knickknackery, nicknack |
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| xenotime | (noun) a brown-to-yellow mineral that is a phosphate of yttrium in crystalline form | - |
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| xenotransplant | (noun) a surgical procedure in which tissue or whole organs are transferred from one species to another species | Synonyms: xenotransplantation |
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| xenotransplantation | (noun) a surgical procedure in which tissue or whole organs are transferred from one species to another species | Synonyms: xenotransplant |
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