nubble | (noun) a small lump or protuberance | Synonyms: nub |
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nucellus | (noun) central part of a plant ovule; contains the embryo sac | - |
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nucha | (noun) the back side of the neck | Synonyms: nape, scruff |
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nuclease | (noun) general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units | - |
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nucleole | (noun) a small round body of protein in a cell nucleus; such organelles contain RNA and are involved in protein synthesis | Synonyms: nucleolus |
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nucleolus | (noun) a small round body of protein in a cell nucleus; such organelles contain RNA and are involved in protein synthesis | Synonyms: nucleole |
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nucleon | (noun) a constituent (proton or neutron) of an atomic nucleus | - |
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nucleonics | (noun) the branch of physics that studies the internal structure of atomic nuclei | Synonyms: atomic physics, nuclear physics |
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nucleoplasm | (noun) the protoplasm that constitutes the nucleus of a cell | Synonyms: karyoplasm |
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nucleoprotein | (noun) any of several substances found in the nuclei of all living cells; consists of a protein bound to a nucleic acid | - |
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nucleoside | (noun) a glycoside formed by partial hydrolysis of a nucleic acid | - |
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nucleosynthesis | (noun) (astronomy) the cosmic synthesis of atoms more complex than the hydrogen atom | - |
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nucleotide | (noun) a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) | Synonyms: base |
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nucleus | (noun) a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction | Synonyms: cell nucleus, karyon |
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(noun) any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord | - |
(noun) the central structure of the lens that is surrounded by the cortex | Synonyms: lens nucleus |
(noun) a small group of indispensable persons or things | Synonyms: core, core group |
(noun) the positively charged dense center of an atom | - |
(noun) (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail | - |
nude | (noun) a painting of a naked human figure | Synonyms: nude painting |
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(noun) a statue of a naked human figure | Synonyms: nude sculpture, nude statue |
(noun) a naked person | Synonyms: nude person |
(noun) without clothing (especially in the phrase `in the nude') | - |
nudeness | (noun) the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind | Synonyms: nakedness, nudity |
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nudge | (noun) a slight push or shake | Synonyms: jog |
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nudger | (noun) someone who nudges; someone who gives a gentle push | - |
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nudibranch | (noun) any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body | Synonyms: sea slug |
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nudism | (noun) going without clothes as a social practice | Synonyms: naturism |
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nudist | (noun) a person who practices nudity for reasons of health or religion | Synonyms: naturist |
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nudity | (noun) the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind | Synonyms: nakedness, nudeness |
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nudnick | (noun) (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest | Synonyms: nudnik |
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nudnik | (noun) (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest | Synonyms: nudnick |
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nugget | (noun) a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth | - |
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nuisance | (noun) (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive | - |
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(noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
nuke | (noun) the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb | Synonyms: atomic warhead, nuclear warhead, thermonuclear warhead |
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null | (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, nothing, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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nullah | (noun) a ravine or gully in southern Asia | - |
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nullification | (noun) the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something | Synonyms: override |
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(noun) the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress | - |
nullifier | (noun) an advocate of nullification; someone who believes that a state can resist federal laws | - |
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(noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: invalidator, voider |
nullipara | (noun) (obstetrics) a woman who has never give birth to a child | - |
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nullity | (noun) something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity) | - |
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(noun) the state of nonexistence | Synonyms: nihility, nothingness, void |
numbat | (noun) small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct | Synonyms: anteater, banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus |
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number | (noun) an item of clothing | - |
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(noun) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals | Synonyms: figure |
(noun) a clothing measurement | - |
(noun) one of a series published periodically | Synonyms: issue |
(noun) a symbol used to represent a number | Synonyms: numeral |
(noun) a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification and may be attached to accounts, memberships, etc. | - |
(noun) the number is used in calling a particular telephone | Synonyms: phone number, telephone number |
(noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, bit, routine, turn |
(noun) the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural) | - |
(noun) a numbered item in a series | - |
(noun) a select company of people | - |
(noun) a concept of quantity involving zero and units | - |
numbering | (noun) a numbered list | Synonyms: enumeration |
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numberplate | (noun) a plate mounted on the front and back of car and bearing the car's registration number | Synonyms: license plate |
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numbers | (noun) an illegal daily lottery | Synonyms: numbers game, numbers pool, numbers racket |
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numbfish | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: crampfish, electric ray, torpedo |
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numbness | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: apathy, indifference, spiritlessness |
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(noun) partial or total lack of sensation in a part of the body; a symptom of nerve damage or dysfunction | - |
numdah | (noun) an embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt | Synonyms: nammad, numdah rug |
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numen | (noun) a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion) | - |
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numeracy | (noun) skill with numbers and mathematics | - |
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numeral | (noun) a symbol used to represent a number | Synonyms: number |
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(noun) a word expressing a number. | - |
numeration | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, reckoning, tally |
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(noun) naming numbers | - |
numerator | (noun) the dividend of a fraction | - |
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numerologist | (noun) a believer in numerology | - |
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numerology | (noun) the study of the supposed occult influence of numbers on human affairs | - |
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numerosity | (noun) a large number | Synonyms: multiplicity, numerousness |
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numerousness | (noun) a large number | Synonyms: multiplicity, numerosity |
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numismatics | (noun) the collection and study of money (and coins in particular) | Synonyms: coin collecting, coin collection, numismatology |
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numismatist | (noun) a collector and student of money (and coins in particular) | Synonyms: coin collector, numismatologist |
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numismatologist | (noun) a collector and student of money (and coins in particular) | Synonyms: coin collector, numismatist |
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numismatology | (noun) the collection and study of money (and coins in particular) | Synonyms: coin collecting, coin collection, numismatics |
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nummulite | (noun) large fossil protozoan of the Tertiary period | - |
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numskull | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, shithead |
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nun | (noun) a buoy resembling a cone | Synonyms: conical buoy, nun buoy |
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(noun) a woman religious | - |
(noun) the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
nuna | (noun) used by males to address an older female | Synonyms: noona |
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nuncio | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope having ambassadorial status | Synonyms: papal nuncio |
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nunnery | (noun) the convent of a community of nuns | - |
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nuptials | (noun) the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed | Synonyms: hymeneals, wedding, wedding ceremony |
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nurse | (noun) one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician) | - |
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(noun) a woman who is the custodian of children | Synonyms: nanny, nursemaid |
nurseling | (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nursling, suckling |
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nursemaid | (noun) a woman who is the custodian of children | Synonyms: nanny, nurse |
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nurser | (noun) a person who treats something carefully | - |
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nursery | (noun) a child's room for a baby | Synonyms: baby's room |
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nurseryman | (noun) someone who takes care of a garden | Synonyms: gardener |
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nursing | (noun) the work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm | - |
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(noun) nourishing at the breast | Synonyms: breast feeding |
(noun) the profession of a nurse | - |
nursling | (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nurseling, suckling |
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nurturance | (noun) physical and emotional care and nourishment | - |
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nurture | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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(noun) the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child | Synonyms: raising, rearing |
nut | (noun) a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt | - |
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(noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, orchis, testicle, testis |
(noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, freak, junkie, junky |
(noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut case, screwball |
(noun) usually large hard-shelled seed | - |
(noun) half the width of an em | Synonyms: en |
nutation | (noun) uncontrolled nodding | - |
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nutcase | (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, looney, loony, weirdo |
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nutcracker | (noun) speckled birds that feed on nuts | - |
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(noun) any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects | Synonyms: nuthatch |
(noun) a compound lever used to crack nuts open | - |
nutgrass | (noun) a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers | Synonyms: Cyperus rotundus, nut grass, nut sedge, nutsedge |
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nuthatch | (noun) any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects | Synonyms: nutcracker |
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nuthouse | (noun) pejorative terms for an insane asylum | Synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, sanatorium, snake pit |
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nutlet | (noun) a small nut | - |
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nutmeg | (noun) hard aromatic seed of the nutmeg tree used as spice when grated or ground | - |
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(noun) East Indian tree widely cultivated in the tropics for its aromatic seed; source of two spices: nutmeg and mace | Synonyms: Myristica fragrans, nutmeg tree |
nutria | (noun) aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur | Synonyms: coypu, Myocastor coypus |
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nutrient | (noun) any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue | Synonyms: food |
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(noun) any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis | - |
nutriment | (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals |
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nutrition | (noun) the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans) | - |
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(noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, victuals |
(noun) (physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance | - |
nutritionist | (noun) a specialist in the study of nutrition | - |
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nutritiousness | (noun) the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth | Synonyms: nutritiveness |
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nutritiveness | (noun) the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth | Synonyms: nutritiousness |
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nutsedge | (noun) a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers | Synonyms: Cyperus rotundus, nut grass, nut sedge, nutgrass |
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nutshell | (noun) the shell around the kernel of a nut | - |
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nutter | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: wacko, whacko |
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olibanum | (noun) an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | Synonyms: frankincense, gum olibanum, thus |
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oligonucleotide | (noun) (biochemistry) a polynucleotide whose molecules contain relatively few nucleotides | Synonyms: oligo |
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onus | (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, incumbrance, load |
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origanum | (noun) any of various fragrant aromatic herbs of the genus Origanum used as seasonings | - |
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pandanus | (noun) any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves | Synonyms: screw pine |
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(noun) fiber from leaves of the pandanus tree; used for woven articles (such as mats) | - |
pansinusitis | (noun) inflammation of all of the paranasal sinuses | - |
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parvenu | (noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: arriviste, nouveau-riche, upstart |
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peanut | (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut |
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(noun) a young child who is small for his age | - |
(noun) widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground | Synonyms: Arachis hypogaea, peanut vine |
(noun) underground pod of the peanut vine | - |
peanuts | (noun) an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount | - |
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penuche | (noun) fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts | Synonyms: panocha, panoche, penoche |
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