| nu | (noun) the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| nuance | (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, refinement, shade, subtlety |
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| nub | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, pith, substance, sum |
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| (noun) a small piece | Synonyms: stub |
| (noun) a small lump or protuberance | Synonyms: nubble |
| nubbin | (noun) a small nub (especially an undeveloped fruit or ear of corn) | - |
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| nubbiness | (noun) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) | Synonyms: coarseness, tweediness |
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| nubble | (noun) a small lump or protuberance | Synonyms: nub |
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| nucellus | (noun) central part of a plant ovule; contains the embryo sac | - |
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| nucha | (noun) the back side of the neck | Synonyms: nape, scruff |
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| nuclease | (noun) general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units | - |
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| nucleole | (noun) a small round body of protein in a cell nucleus; such organelles contain RNA and are involved in protein synthesis | Synonyms: nucleolus |
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| nucleolus | (noun) a small round body of protein in a cell nucleus; such organelles contain RNA and are involved in protein synthesis | Synonyms: nucleole |
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| nucleon | (noun) a constituent (proton or neutron) of an atomic nucleus | - |
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| nucleonics | (noun) the branch of physics that studies the internal structure of atomic nuclei | Synonyms: atomic physics, nuclear physics |
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| nucleoplasm | (noun) the protoplasm that constitutes the nucleus of a cell | Synonyms: karyoplasm |
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| nucleoprotein | (noun) any of several substances found in the nuclei of all living cells; consists of a protein bound to a nucleic acid | - |
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| nucleoside | (noun) a glycoside formed by partial hydrolysis of a nucleic acid | - |
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| nucleosynthesis | (noun) (astronomy) the cosmic synthesis of atoms more complex than the hydrogen atom | - |
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| nucleotide | (noun) a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) | Synonyms: base |
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| nucleus | (noun) a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction | Synonyms: cell nucleus, karyon |
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| (noun) any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord | - |
| (noun) the central structure of the lens that is surrounded by the cortex | Synonyms: lens nucleus |
| (noun) a small group of indispensable persons or things | Synonyms: core, core group |
| (noun) the positively charged dense center of an atom | - |
| (noun) (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail | - |
| nude | (noun) a painting of a naked human figure | Synonyms: nude painting |
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| (noun) a statue of a naked human figure | Synonyms: nude sculpture, nude statue |
| (noun) a naked person | Synonyms: nude person |
| (noun) without clothing (especially in the phrase `in the nude') | - |
| nudeness | (noun) the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind | Synonyms: nakedness, nudity |
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| nudge | (noun) a slight push or shake | Synonyms: jog |
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| nudger | (noun) someone who nudges; someone who gives a gentle push | - |
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| nudibranch | (noun) any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body | Synonyms: sea slug |
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| nudism | (noun) going without clothes as a social practice | Synonyms: naturism |
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| nudist | (noun) a person who practices nudity for reasons of health or religion | Synonyms: naturist |
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| nudity | (noun) the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind | Synonyms: nakedness, nudeness |
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| nudnick | (noun) (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest | Synonyms: nudnik |
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| nudnik | (noun) (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest | Synonyms: nudnick |
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| nugget | (noun) a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth | - |
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| nuisance | (noun) (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| nuke | (noun) the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb | Synonyms: atomic warhead, nuclear warhead, thermonuclear warhead |
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| null | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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| nullah | (noun) a ravine or gully in southern Asia | - |
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| nullification | (noun) the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something | Synonyms: override |
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| (noun) the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress | - |
| nullifier | (noun) an advocate of nullification; someone who believes that a state can resist federal laws | - |
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| (noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: invalidator, voider |
| nullipara | (noun) (obstetrics) a woman who has never give birth to a child | - |
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| nullity | (noun) something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity) | - |
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| (noun) the state of nonexistence | Synonyms: nihility, nothingness, void |
| numbat | (noun) small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct | Synonyms: anteater, banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus |
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| number | (noun) an item of clothing | - |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals | Synonyms: figure |
| (noun) a clothing measurement | - |
| (noun) one of a series published periodically | Synonyms: issue |
| (noun) a symbol used to represent a number | Synonyms: numeral |
| (noun) a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification and may be attached to accounts, memberships, etc. | - |
| (noun) the number is used in calling a particular telephone | Synonyms: phone number, telephone number |
| (noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, bit, routine, turn |
| (noun) the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural) | - |
| (noun) a numbered item in a series | - |
| (noun) a select company of people | - |
| (noun) a concept of quantity involving zero and units | - |
| numbering | (noun) a numbered list | Synonyms: enumeration |
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| numberplate | (noun) a plate mounted on the front and back of car and bearing the car's registration number | Synonyms: license plate |
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| numbers | (noun) an illegal daily lottery | Synonyms: numbers game, numbers pool, numbers racket |
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| numbfish | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: crampfish, electric ray, torpedo |
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| numbness | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: apathy, indifference, spiritlessness |
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| (noun) partial or total lack of sensation in a part of the body; a symptom of nerve damage or dysfunction | - |
| numdah | (noun) an embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt | Synonyms: nammad, numdah rug |
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| numen | (noun) a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion) | - |
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| numeracy | (noun) skill with numbers and mathematics | - |
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| numeral | (noun) a symbol used to represent a number | Synonyms: number |
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| (noun) a word expressing a number. | - |
| numeration | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, reckoning, tally |
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| (noun) naming numbers | - |
| numerator | (noun) the dividend of a fraction | - |
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| 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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