neckcloth | (noun) an ornamental white cravat | Synonyms: stock |
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necker | (noun) a lover who necks | - |
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neckerchief | (noun) a kerchief worn around the neck | - |
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necking | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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(noun) the molding at the top of a column | Synonyms: gorgerin |
necklace | (noun) jewelry consisting of a cord or chain (often bearing gems) worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women) | - |
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necklet | (noun) decoration worn about the neck (fur piece or tight necklace) as an ornament | - |
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neckline | (noun) the line formed by the edge of a garment around the neck | - |
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neckpiece | (noun) an article of apparel worn about the neck | - |
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necktie | (noun) neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front | Synonyms: tie |
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neckwear | (noun) articles of clothing worn about the neck | - |
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necrobiosis | (noun) (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells) | Synonyms: cell death |
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necrolatry | (noun) superstitious worship or veneration of the dead. | - |
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necrology | (noun) a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography | Synonyms: obit, obituary |
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(noun) a list of people who died recently | - |
necrolysis | (noun) disintegration and dissolution of dead tissue | - |
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necromancer | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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(noun) one who practices divination by conjuring up the dead | - |
necromancy | (noun) conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying | - |
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(noun) the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world | Synonyms: black art, black magic, sorcery |
necromania | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necrophilia, necrophilism |
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necrophagia | (noun) feeding on corpses or carrion | Synonyms: necrophagy |
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necrophagy | (noun) feeding on corpses or carrion | Synonyms: necrophagia |
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necrophilia | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necromania, necrophilism |
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necrophilism | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necromania, necrophilia |
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necropolis | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, graveyard, memorial park |
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necropsy | (noun) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Synonyms: autopsy, PM, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem, postmortem examination |
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necrosis | (noun) the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) | Synonyms: gangrene, mortification, sphacelus |
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nectar | (noun) (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal | Synonyms: ambrosia |
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(noun) fruit juice especially when undiluted | - |
(noun) a sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators | - |
nectarine | (noun) a variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin | - |
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(noun) variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh | Synonyms: nectarine tree, Prunus persica nectarina |
nectary | (noun) a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar | Synonyms: honey gland |
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need | (noun) the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior | Synonyms: motivation, motive |
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(noun) anything that is necessary but lacking | Synonyms: want |
(noun) a condition requiring relief | Synonyms: demand |
(noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, pauperism, pauperization, penury |
needer | (noun) a person who wants or needs something | Synonyms: wanter |
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neediness | (noun) the quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree | - |
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(noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: deprivation, privation, want |
needle | (noun) a sharp pointed implement (usually steel) | - |
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(noun) a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument | - |
(noun) a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record | Synonyms: phonograph needle |
(noun) the leaf of a conifer | Synonyms: acerate leaf |
needlebush | (noun) shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea lissosperma, needle-bush, needle bush |
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needlecraft | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlework |
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(noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlework |
needlefish | (noun) fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates | Synonyms: pipefish |
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(noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: billfish, gar |
needlepoint | (noun) embroidery consisting of allover embroidered canvas resembling tapestry | Synonyms: needlepoint embroidery |
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(noun) lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern | Synonyms: point lace |
needlewoman | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, seamstress, sempstress |
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needlewood | (noun) large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea leucoptera, needle-wood, needle wood |
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needlework | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlecraft |
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(noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlecraft |
needleworker | (noun) someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle | - |
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needy | (noun) needy people collectively | - |
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neem | (noun) large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia | Synonyms: arishth, Azadirachta indica, margosa, Melia Azadirachta, neem tree, nim tree |
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neencephalon | (noun) the part of the brain having the most recent phylogenetic origin; the cerebral cortex and related parts | Synonyms: neoencephalon |
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nefariousness | (noun) the quality of being wicked | Synonyms: ugliness, vileness, wickedness |
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nefazodone | (noun) an antidepressant drug (trade name Serzone) | Synonyms: Serzone |
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negation | (noun) the speech act of negating | - |
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(noun) a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement | - |
(noun) (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false | - |
negative | (noun) a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed | - |
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(noun) a reply of denial | - |
negativeness | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativism, negativity |
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(noun) an amount less than zero | Synonyms: negativity |
(noun) the character of the negative electric pole | Synonyms: negativity |
negativism | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativity |
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negativist | (noun) someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | Synonyms: defeatist |
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(noun) someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked | - |
negativity | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativism |
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(noun) (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond | Synonyms: electronegativity |
(noun) an amount less than zero | Synonyms: negativeness |
(noun) the character of the negative electric pole | Synonyms: negativeness |
negatron | (noun) an elementary particle with negative charge | Synonyms: electron |
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neglect | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, negligence, nonperformance |
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(noun) willful lack of care and attention | Synonyms: disregard |
(noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglectfulness, negligence |
(noun) lack of attention and due care | Synonyms: disregard |
(noun) the state of something that has been unused and neglected | Synonyms: disuse |
neglecter | (noun) a person who is neglectful and gives little attention or respect to people or responsibilities | - |
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neglectfulness | (noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglect, negligence |
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neglige | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, negligee, peignoir, wrapper |
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negligee | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, peignoir, wrapper |
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negligence | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, nonperformance |
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(noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglect, neglectfulness |
negotiant | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiator, treater |
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negotiation | (noun) the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms | - |
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(noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: dialogue, talks |
negotiator | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiant, treater |
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negotiatress | (noun) a woman negotiator | Synonyms: negotiatrix |
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negotiatrix | (noun) a woman negotiator | Synonyms: negotiatress |
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negus | (noun) wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg | - |
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neigh | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: nicker, whicker, whinny |
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neighbor | (noun) a nearby object of the same kind | Synonyms: neighbour |
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(noun) a person who lives (or is located) near another | Synonyms: neighbour |
neighborhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighbourhood |
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(noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighbourhood, vicinity |
(noun) an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community) | - |
(noun) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') | Synonyms: region |
neighborliness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors | Synonyms: good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighbourliness |
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neighbour | (noun) a nearby object of the same kind | Synonyms: neighbor |
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(noun) a person who lives (or is located) near another | Synonyms: neighbor |
neighbourhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighborhood |
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(noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, vicinity |
neighbourliness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors | Synonyms: good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighborliness |
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nekton | (noun) the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales | - |
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nelfinavir | (noun) a protease inhibitor (trade name Viracept) used in treating HIV usually in combination with other drugs | Synonyms: Viracept |
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nelson | (noun) any of several wrestling holds in which an arm is passed under the opponent's arm from behind and the hand exerts pressure on the back of the neck | - |
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nematode | (noun) unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic | Synonyms: nematode worm, roundworm |
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nemertean | (noun) soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract | Synonyms: nemertine, proboscis worm, ribbon worm |
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nemertine | (noun) soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract | Synonyms: nemertean, proboscis worm, ribbon worm |
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nemesis | (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, curse, scourge |
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nemophila | (noun) any plant of the genus Nemophila | - |
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neobaroque | (noun) art or architecture based on study of 17th century baroque. | Synonyms: neo-baroque |
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neobehaviorism | (noun) a school of psychology based on the general principles of behaviorism but broader and more flexible in concept. It stresses experimental research and laboratory analyses in the study of overt behavior and in various subjective phenomena that cannot be directly observed and measured, such as fantasies, love, stress, empathy, trust, and personality. | - |
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neoclassicism | (noun) revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation | - |
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neoclassicist | (noun) an advocate of neoclassicism | - |
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neocolonialism | (noun) control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures | - |
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neocon | (noun) a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism | Synonyms: neoconservative |
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neoconservatism | (noun) an approach to politics or theology that represents a return to a traditional point of view (in contrast to more liberal or radical schools of thought of the 1960s) | - |
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neoconservative | (noun) a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism | Synonyms: neocon |
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neocortex | (noun) the cortical part of the neencephalon | Synonyms: neopallium |
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neocriticism | (noun) a form of neo-Kantianism developed principally by C. B. Renouvier and his followers rejecting the noumena of Kant and restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories. | - |
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neodymium | (noun) a yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs in monazite and bastnasite in association with cerium and lanthanum and praseodymium | Synonyms: atomic number 60, Nd |
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neoencephalon | (noun) the part of the brain having the most recent phylogenetic origin; the cerebral cortex and related parts | Synonyms: neencephalon |
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neoevolutionism | (noun) school of anthropology concerned with long-term culture change and with the similar patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures. | Synonyms: neo-evolutionism |
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neoexpressionism | (noun) an art movement based on expressionism; developed in 1980s in Europe and United States; crudely drawn garish paintings | - |
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neoliberal | (noun) a liberal who subscribes to neoliberalism | - |
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neoliberalism | (noun) a political orientation originating in the 1960s; blends liberal political views with an emphasis on economic growth | - |
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neolith | (noun) a stone tool from the Neolithic Age | - |
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neologism | (noun) the act of inventing a word or phrase | Synonyms: coinage, neology |
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(noun) a newly invented word or phrase | Synonyms: coinage, neology |
neologist | (noun) a lexicographer of new words and expressions | - |
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neology | (noun) the act of inventing a word or phrase | Synonyms: coinage, neologism |
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(noun) a newly invented word or phrase | Synonyms: coinage, neologism |
neomycin | (noun) an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used (as a sulphate under the trade name Neobiotic) as an intestinal antiseptic in surgery | Synonyms: fradicin, Neobiotic |
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neon | (noun) a colorless odorless gaseous element that gives a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts | Synonyms: atomic number 10, Ne |
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