no | (noun) a negative | - |
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nob | (noun) informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person | Synonyms: toff |
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nobelium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding curium with carbon ions; 7 isotopes are known | Synonyms: No, atomic number 102 |
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nobility | (noun) a privileged class holding hereditary titles | Synonyms: aristocracy |
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(noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: nobleness, magnanimousness, grandeur |
(noun) the state of being of noble birth | Synonyms: noblesse |
noble | (noun) a titled peer of the realm | Synonyms: nobleman, Lord |
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nobleman | (noun) a titled peer of the realm | Synonyms: noble, Lord |
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nobleness | (noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: nobility, magnanimousness, grandeur |
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noblesse | (noun) the state of being of noble birth | Synonyms: nobility |
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(noun) members of the nobility (especially of the French nobility) | - |
noblewoman | (noun) a woman of the peerage in Britain | Synonyms: peeress, Lady |
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nobody | (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: nonentity, cipher, cypher |
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noctambulation | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulism, sleepwalking, somnambulation, somnambulism |
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noctambulism | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, sleepwalking, somnambulation, somnambulism |
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noctambulist | (noun) someone who walks about in their sleep | Synonyms: sleepwalker, somnambulist |
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noctiluca | (noun) large bioluminescent marine protozoan | Synonyms: Noctiluca miliaris |
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noctuid | (noun) usually dull-colored medium-sized nocturnal moth; the usually smooth-bodied larvae are destructive agricultural pests | Synonyms: noctuid moth, owlet moth |
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nocturia | (noun) excessive urination at night; especially common in older men | Synonyms: nycturia |
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nocturne | (noun) a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) | Synonyms: notturno |
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nod | (noun) a sign of assent or salutation or command | - |
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(noun) the act of nodding the head | - |
noddle | (noun) an informal British expression for head or mind | - |
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node | (noun) a connecting point at which several lines come together | - |
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(noun) any thickened enlargement | Synonyms: thickening, knob |
(noun) (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge | Synonyms: leaf node |
(noun) (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system | - |
(noun) (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane | - |
(noun) the source of lymph and lymphocytes | Synonyms: lymph gland, lymph node |
(noun) any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part | - |
(noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | Synonyms: guest, client |
nodule | (noun) a small node | - |
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(noun) small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant | Synonyms: tubercle |
(noun) (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment) | - |
noesis | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: knowledge, cognition |
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nog | (noun) a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface | Synonyms: peg |
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(noun) a wooden block built into a masonry wall so that joinery structure can be nailed to it | - |
noggin | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: dome, attic, noodle, bean, bonce |
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nogging | (noun) rough brick masonry used to fill in the gaps in a wooden frame | - |
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noise | (noun) sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) | - |
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(noun) the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience | Synonyms: racket, dissonance |
(noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: interference, disturbance |
(noun) a loud outcry of protest or complaint | - |
(noun) incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks | - |
(noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: randomness, haphazardness, stochasticity |
noiselessness | (noun) the property of making no noise | - |
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noisemaker | (noun) a device (such as a clapper or bell or horn) used to make a loud noise at a celebration | - |
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noisiness | (noun) the auditory effect characterized by loud and constant noise | Synonyms: racketiness |
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noisomeness | (noun) the quality of being noxious | Synonyms: noxiousness, harmfulness |
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noma | (noun) acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals; often seen in undernourished children | - |
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nomad | (noun) a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons | - |
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nomadism | (noun) The way of life of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc. | - |
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nombril | (noun) the center point on a shield | - |
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nomenclature | (noun) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline | Synonyms: language, terminology |
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nomenklatura | (noun) the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party | - |
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nomia | (noun) a genus of bee; some are important pollinators of legumes | Synonyms: genus Nomia |
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nominal | (noun) a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb | Synonyms: nominal phrase, noun phrase |
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nominalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name | - |
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nominalist | (noun) a philosopher who has adopted the doctrine of nominalism | - |
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nomination | (noun) the act of officially naming a candidate | - |
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(noun) the condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election | - |
(noun) an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election | Synonyms: nominating address, nominating speech |
nominative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb | Synonyms: nominative case, subject case |
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nominator | (noun) someone who proposes a candidate for appointment or election | - |
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nominee | (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: campaigner, candidate |
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nomogram | (noun) a graphic representation of numerical relations | Synonyms: nomograph |
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nomograph | (noun) a graphic representation of numerical relations | Synonyms: nomogram |
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nonabsorbency | (noun) the property of not being absorbent | - |
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nonacceptance | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: turndown |
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nonaccomplishment | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonachievement |
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nonachievement | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonaccomplishment |
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nonachiever | (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: underperformer, underachiever |
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nonage | (noun) any age prior to the legal age | Synonyms: minority |
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nonagenarian | (noun) someone whose age is in the nineties | - |
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nonaggression | (noun) a policy of not initiating hostilities | - |
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nonagon | (noun) a nine-sided polygon | - |
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nonalignment | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalinement |
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nonalinement | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalignment |
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nonallele | (noun) genes that are not competitors at the same locus | - |
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nonappearance | (noun) failure to appear (especially as at court) | - |
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nonattendance | (noun) the failure to attend | - |
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nonattender | (noun) someone who shirks duty | Synonyms: no-show, truant |
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nonbeing | (noun) the state of not being | - |
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nonbeliever | (noun) someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity) | - |
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noncandidate | (noun) someone who has announced they are not a candidate; especially a politician who has announced that he or she is not a candidate for some political office | - |
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nonce | (noun) the present occasion | Synonyms: time being |
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nonchalance | (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: unconcern, indifference |
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noncitizen | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: outlander, alien, foreigner |
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noncom | (noun) a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel | Synonyms: noncommissioned officer, enlisted officer |
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noncombatant | (noun) a member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon) | - |
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noncompliance | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: disobedience |
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noncompliant | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: balker, baulker |
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nonconductor | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: insulator, dielectric |
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nonconformance | (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformism, nonconformity |
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(noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformity |
nonconformism | (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformance, nonconformity |
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(noun) the practice of nonconformity | - |
nonconformist | (noun) someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct | Synonyms: recusant |
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nonconformity | (noun) lack of harmony or correspondence | - |
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(noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformance, nonconformism |
(noun) unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values | - |
(noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformance |
nondescript | (noun) a person who is not easily classified and not very interesting | - |
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nondevelopment | (noun) failure of normal development to occur | - |
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nondisjunction | (noun) meiosis in which there is a failure of paired homologous chromosomes to separate; results in an abnormal number of chromosomes in the daughter cells | - |
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nondrinker | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstainer, abstinent |
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nondriver | (noun) a person who is not a driver | - |
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none | (noun) a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise | - |
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(noun) a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier | - |
nonentity | (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonexistence |
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(noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: nobody, cipher, cypher |
nonequivalence | (noun) not interchangeable | - |
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nones | (noun) the fifth of the seven canonical hours; about 3 p.m. | - |
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nonessential | (noun) anything that is not essential | Synonyms: inessential |
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nonesuch | (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, paragon, nonpareil, nonsuch, saint |
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nonevent | (noun) an anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected | - |
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nonexistence | (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonentity |
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nonfeasance | (noun) a failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do | - |
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nonfiction | (noun) prose writing that is not fictional | Synonyms: nonfictional prose |
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nonidentity | (noun) Difference, distinction; failure to be identical. | - |
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nonindulgence | (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: asceticism, austerity |
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noninterference | (noun) a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes | Synonyms: nonintervention |
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nonintervention | (noun) a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes | Synonyms: noninterference |
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noninvasiveness | (noun) The quality of not being or involving an invasive medical procedure. | - |
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nonmember | (noun) a person who is not a member | - |
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nonmetal | (noun) a chemical element lacking typical metallic properties | - |
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nonobservance | (noun) a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | - |
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nonoccurrence | (noun) absence by virtue of not occurring | - |
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