| 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: atomic number 102, No |
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| nobility | (noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: grandeur, magnanimousness, nobleness |
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| (noun) a privileged class holding hereditary titles | Synonyms: aristocracy |
| (noun) the state of being of noble birth | Synonyms: noblesse |
| noble | (noun) a titled peer of the realm | Synonyms: Lord, nobleman |
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| nobleman | (noun) a titled peer of the realm | Synonyms: Lord, noble |
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| nobleness | (noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: grandeur, magnanimousness, nobility |
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| noblesse | (noun) members of the nobility (especially of the French nobility) | - |
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| (noun) the state of being of noble birth | Synonyms: nobility |
| noblewoman | (noun) a woman of the peerage in Britain | Synonyms: Lady, peeress |
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| nobody | (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, nonentity |
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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) the act of nodding the head | - |
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| (noun) a sign of assent or salutation or command | - |
| noddle | (noun) an informal British expression for head or mind | - |
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| node | (noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | Synonyms: client, guest |
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| (noun) any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part | - |
| (noun) the source of lymph and lymphocytes | Synonyms: lymph gland, lymph node |
| (noun) (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane | - |
| (noun) (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system | - |
| (noun) (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge | Synonyms: leaf node |
| (noun) any thickened enlargement | Synonyms: knob, thickening |
| (noun) a connecting point at which several lines come together | - |
| nodule | (noun) a small node | - |
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| (noun) (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment) | - |
| (noun) small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant | Synonyms: tubercle |
| noesis | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: cognition, knowledge |
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| nog | (noun) a wooden block built into a masonry wall so that joinery structure can be nailed to it | - |
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| (noun) a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface | Synonyms: peg |
| noggin | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bean, bonce, dome, noodle |
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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) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: haphazardness, randomness, stochasticity |
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| (noun) incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks | - |
| (noun) the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience | Synonyms: dissonance, racket |
| (noun) a loud outcry of protest or complaint | - |
| (noun) sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) | - |
| (noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: disturbance, interference |
| 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: harmfulness, noxiousness |
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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) an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election | Synonyms: nominating address, nominating speech |
| (noun) the condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election | - |
| 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: underachiever, underperformer |
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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: indifference, unconcern |
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| noncitizen | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: alien, foreigner, outlander |
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| noncom | (noun) a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel | Synonyms: enlisted officer, noncommissioned 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: dielectric, insulator |
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| nonconformance | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformity |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformism, nonconformity |
| nonconformism | (noun) the practice of nonconformity | - |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformance, nonconformity |
| nonconformist | (noun) someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct | Synonyms: recusant |
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| nonconformity | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformance |
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| (noun) unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values | - |
| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformance, nonconformism |
| (noun) lack of harmony or correspondence | - |
| 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 service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier | - |
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| (noun) a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise | - |
| nonentity | (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, nobody |
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| (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonexistence |
| 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, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, 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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