| 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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| nyala | (noun) spiral-horned South African antelope with a fringe of white hairs along back and neck | Synonyms: Tragelaphus angasi |
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| nybble | (noun) a small byte | Synonyms: nibble |
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| nyctalopia | (noun) inability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder | Synonyms: moon blindness, night blindness |
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| nyctophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of night or darkness | - |
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| nycturia | (noun) excessive urination at night; especially common in older men | Synonyms: nocturia |
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| nylghai | (noun) large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns | Synonyms: blue bull, Boselaphus tragocamelus, nilgai, nylghau |
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| nylghau | (noun) large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns | Synonyms: blue bull, Boselaphus tragocamelus, nilgai, nylghai |
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| nylon | (noun) a group of synthetic fabrics, known generically as aliphatic polyamides | - |
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| (noun) a thermoplastic polyamide; a family of strong resilient synthetic fibers | - |
| nylons | (noun) women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk) | Synonyms: nylon stocking, rayon stocking, rayons, silk stocking |
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| nymph | (noun) a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly) | - |
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| (noun) (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden | - |
| (noun) a voluptuously beautiful young woman | Synonyms: houri |
| nymphalid | (noun) medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast | Synonyms: brush-footed butterfly, four-footed butterfly, nymphalid butterfly |
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| nymphet | (noun) a sexually attractive young woman | - |
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| nympho | (noun) a woman with abnormal sexual desires | Synonyms: nymphomaniac |
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| nympholepsy | (noun) a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable | - |
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| nympholept | (noun) a person seized by nympholepsy | - |
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| nymphomania | (noun) abnormally intense sexual desire in women | - |
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| nymphomaniac | (noun) a woman with abnormal sexual desires | Synonyms: nympho |
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| nystagmus | (noun) involuntary movements of the eyeballs; its presence or absence is used to diagnose a variety of neurological and visual disorders | - |
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| nystatin | (noun) an antifungal and antibiotic (trade names Mycostatin and Nystan) discovered in New York State; derived from soil fungi actinomycetes | Synonyms: Mycostatin, Nystan |
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