| murmuration | (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuring, mussitation, mutter, muttering |
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| natural | (noun) (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake | - |
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| (noun) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat | Synonyms: cancel |
| (noun) someone regarded as certain to succeed | - |
| naturalisation | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalization |
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| (noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalization |
| (noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalization |
| (noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalization |
| naturalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations | - |
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| (noun) an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description | Synonyms: realism |
| naturalist | (noun) a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology) | Synonyms: natural scientist |
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| (noun) an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms | - |
| naturalization | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalisation |
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| (noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| naturalness | (noun) the quality of being natural or based on natural principles | - |
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| (noun) the likeness of a representation to the thing represented | - |
| (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, ingenuousness, innocence |
| neuralgia | (noun) acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves | Synonyms: neuralgy |
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| neuralgy | (noun) acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves | Synonyms: neuralgia |
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| neurasthenia | (noun) nervous breakdown (not in technical use) | - |
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| neurasthenic | (noun) a person suffering a nervous breakdown | - |
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| nitrofuran | (noun) derivative of furan used to inhibit bacterial growth | - |
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| nitrofurantoin | (noun) derivative of nitrofuran used as an antibacterial medicine (trade name Macrodantin) effective against a broad range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria; used to treat infections of the urinary tract | Synonyms: Macrodantin |
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| nomenklatura | (noun) the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party | - |
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| nurturance | (noun) physical and emotional care and nourishment | - |
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| obduracy | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: adamance, unyieldingness |
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| obscurantism | (noun) a deliberate act intended to make something obscure | - |
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| (noun) a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge | - |
| obscurantist | (noun) a person who is deliberately vague | - |
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| obturator | (noun) a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate) | - |
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| pasturage | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, grass, pasture |
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| (noun) succulent herbaceous vegetation of pastureland | Synonyms: herbage |
| perdurability | (noun) the property of being extremely durable | - |
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| pleura | (noun) the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest | - |
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| pleuralgia | (noun) pain in the chest caused by inflammation of the muscles between the ribs | Synonyms: costalgia, pleurodynia |
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| plural | (noun) the form of a word that is used to denote more than one | Synonyms: plural form |
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| pluralisation | (noun) the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to | Synonyms: pluralization |
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| pluralism | (noun) the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time | - |
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| (noun) the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements | - |
| (noun) a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated | - |
| pluralist | (noun) someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society | - |
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| (noun) a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature | - |
| (noun) a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time | - |
| plurality | (noun) (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less than half of the votes) | Synonyms: relative majority |
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| (noun) a large indefinite quantity | Synonyms: battalion, large number, multitude, pack |
| (noun) the state of being plural | - |
| pluralization | (noun) the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to | Synonyms: pluralisation |
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| prefiguration | (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, foreshadowing |
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| (noun) an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come | - |
| procural | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procurance, procurement |
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| procurance | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurement |
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| procurator | (noun) (ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to act for another | Synonyms: placeholder, proxy |
| propylthiouracil | (noun) a crystalline compound used as an antithyroid drug in the treatment of goiter | - |
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| proturan | (noun) any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter | Synonyms: telsontail |
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| purau | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua |
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| purpura | (noun) any of several blood diseases causing subcutaneous bleeding | Synonyms: peliosis |
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| reassurance | (noun) the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence | - |
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| reinsurance | (noun) sharing the risk by insurance companies; part or all of the insurer's risk is assumed by other companies in return for part of the premium paid by the insured | - |
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| restaurant | (noun) a building where people go to eat | Synonyms: eatery, eating house, eating place |
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| restauranter | (noun) the proprietor of a restaurant | Synonyms: restaurateur |
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| restaurateur | (noun) the proprietor of a restaurant | Synonyms: restauranter |
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| ruralism | (noun) a rural characteristic or trait | Synonyms: rurality |
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| (noun) a rural idiom or expression | Synonyms: rusticism |
| (noun) Advocacy of rural life instead of urbanism or city living. | - |
| ruralist | (noun) an advocate of rural living | - |
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| (noun) a man who lives in the country and has country ways | Synonyms: countryman |
| rurality | (noun) a rural characteristic or trait | Synonyms: ruralism |
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| samurai | (noun) feudal Japanese military aristocracy | - |
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| (noun) a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy | - |
| saturant | (noun) a substance which is used to saturate another. | - |
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| saturation | (noun) the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid | - |
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| (noun) chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue | Synonyms: chroma, intensity, vividness |
| (noun) the process of totally saturating something with a substance | Synonyms: impregnation |
| (noun) a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence | - |
| structuralism | (noun) linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse | Synonyms: structural linguistics |
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| (noun) an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena | Synonyms: structural anthropology |
| (noun) a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals | Synonyms: structural sociology |
| supernatural | (noun) supernatural forces and events and beings collectively | Synonyms: occult |
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| supernaturalism | (noun) the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces | Synonyms: supernaturalness |
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| (noun) a belief in forces beyond ordinary human understanding | - |
| supernaturalness | (noun) the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces | Synonyms: supernaturalism |
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| suppuration | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, ichor, purulence, pus, sanies |
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| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: festering, maturation |
| sura | (noun) the muscular back part of the shank | Synonyms: calf |
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| (noun) one of the sections (or chapters) in the Koran | - |
| sutura | (noun) an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull) | Synonyms: fibrous joint, suture |
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| tempura | (noun) vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried | - |
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| thiouracil | (noun) depresses the function of the thyroid gland | - |
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| touraco | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: turaco, turacou, turakoo |
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| transfiguration | (noun) the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify | - |
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| (noun) a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances | Synonyms: metamorphosis |
| tubocurarine | (noun) a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles | Synonyms: curare |
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| turaco | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: touraco, turacou, turakoo |
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| turacou | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: touraco, turaco, turakoo |
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| turakoo | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: touraco, turaco, turacou |
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| unfavourableness | (noun) the quality of not being encouraging or indicative of success | Synonyms: unfavorableness |
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| uninsurability | (noun) the quality of being uninsurable; the conditions under which an insurance company will refuse to issue insurance to an applicant (based on standards set by the insurance company) | - |
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| unnaturalness | (noun) the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles | - |
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| uracil | (noun) a base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine | Synonyms: U |
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| uraemia | (noun) accumulation in the blood of nitrogenous waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine | Synonyms: azotaemia, azotemia, uremia |
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| uranalysis | (noun) (medicine) the chemical analysis of urine (for medical diagnosis) | Synonyms: urinalysis |
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| uraninite | (noun) a mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive form is called pitchblende which is the chief uranium ore | Synonyms: pitchblende |
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| uranium | (noun) a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons | Synonyms: atomic number 92, U |
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| uranologist | (noun) a physicist who studies astronomy | Synonyms: astronomer, stargazer |
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| uranology | (noun) the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole | Synonyms: astronomy |
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| uranoplasty | (noun) surgical correction of a defect of the palate | - |
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| uranyl | (noun) the bivalent radical UO2 which forms salts with acids | Synonyms: uranyl group, uranyl radical |
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| urarthritis | (noun) a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints | Synonyms: gout, gouty arthritis |
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| urate | (noun) a salt of uric acid | - |
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| uratemia | (noun) presence of abnormal amounts of uric acid salts in the blood; symptom of gout | - |
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| uraturia | (noun) presence of abnormally large amounts of uric acid in the urine; symptom of gout | - |
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| zamburak | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburek, zumbooruck, zumbooruk |
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| ziggurat | (noun) a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | Synonyms: zikkurat, zikurat |
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| zikkurat | (noun) a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | Synonyms: ziggurat, zikurat |
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| zikurat | (noun) a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | Synonyms: ziggurat, zikkurat |
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