| nationalisation | (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalization |
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| (noun) the action of rendering national in character | Synonyms: nationalization |
| (noun) the action of forming or becoming a nation | Synonyms: nationalization |
| nationalise | (verb) put under state control or ownership | Synonyms: nationalize |
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| (verb) make national in character or scope | Synonyms: nationalize |
| nationalism | (noun) love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | Synonyms: patriotism |
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| (noun) the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals | - |
| (noun) the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination | - |
| nationalist | (adjective) devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others | Synonyms: nationalistic |
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| (noun) one who loves and defends his or her country | Synonyms: patriot |
| (noun) an advocate of national independence of or a strong national government | - |
| nationalistic | (adjective) devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others | Synonyms: nationalist |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, jingoistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| nationality | (noun) people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation | - |
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| (noun) the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization | - |
| nationalization | (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalisation |
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| (noun) the action of rendering national in character | Synonyms: nationalisation |
| (noun) the action of forming or becoming a nation | Synonyms: nationalisation |
| nationalize | (verb) put under state control or ownership | Synonyms: nationalise |
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| (verb) make national in character or scope | Synonyms: nationalise |
| nationally | (adverb) extending throughout an entire nation | Synonyms: across the country, across the nation, nationwide |
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| (adverb) with regard to a nation taken as a whole | - |
| navigational | (adjective) of or relating to navigation | - |
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| neuronal | (adjective) of or relating to neurons | Synonyms: neural, neuronic |
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| nocturnal | (adjective) belonging to or active during the night | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or occurring in the night | - |
| nocturnally | (adverb) at night | - |
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| nominal | (adjective) of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun | - |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name | - |
| (adjective) existing in name only | Synonyms: titular |
| (adjective) insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal) | Synonyms: token, tokenish |
| (adjective) named; bearing the name of a specific person | Synonyms: nominative |
| (noun) a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb | Synonyms: nominal phrase, noun phrase |
| 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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| nominalistic | (adjective) of or relating to nominalism | - |
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| nominally | (adverb) in name only | - |
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| nonalcoholic | (adjective) characterized by the absence of alcohol | - |
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| nonaligned | (adjective) not affiliated with any faction, party, or cause | - |
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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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| nondenominational | (adjective) not restricted to a particular religious denomination | - |
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| nonfictional | (adjective) not fictional | - |
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| nonfunctional | (adjective) not having or performing a function | - |
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| (adjective) not performing or able to perform its regular function | Synonyms: malfunctioning |
| noninstitutional | (adjective) not institutional | - |
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| noninstitutionalised | (adjective) not committed to an institution | Synonyms: noninstitutionalized |
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| noninstitutionalized | (adjective) not committed to an institution | Synonyms: noninstitutionalised |
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| nonmedicinal | (adjective) not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed | Synonyms: unmedical, unmedicative, unmedicinal |
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| nonoperational | (adjective) (military) not involved in military operations | Synonyms: inactive |
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| nonpersonal | (adjective) lacking personality | - |
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| nonprofessional | (adjective) not professional; not engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or for gain | - |
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| nonrational | (adjective) obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation | Synonyms: intuitive, visceral |
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| (adjective) not based on reason | - |
| nonrecreational | (adjective) involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby | Synonyms: paid |
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| nonrepresentational | (adjective) of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature | - |
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| nontraditional | (adjective) not conforming to or in accord with tradition | Synonyms: untraditional |
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| nontranslational | (adjective) of or relating to movement that is not uniform or not without rotation | - |
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| noradrenaline | (noun) a catecholamine precursor of epinephrine that is secreted by the adrenal medulla and also released at synapses | Synonyms: norepinephrine |
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| notional | (adjective) being of the nature of a notion or concept | Synonyms: conceptional, ideational |
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| (adjective) indulging in or influenced by fancy | Synonyms: fanciful |
| (adjective) not based on fact or investigation | Synonyms: speculative |
| (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, imaginary |
| nutritional | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritionary |
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| nutritionally | (adverb) with regard to nutrition | - |
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| obligational | (adjective) relating or constituting or qualified to create a legal or financial obligation | - |
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| observational | (adjective) relying on observation or experiment | Synonyms: data-based, experimental |
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| obsessional | (adjective) characterized by or constituting an obsession | Synonyms: obsessive |
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| obsessionally | (adverb) in a compulsive manner | Synonyms: compulsively, obsessively |
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| occasional | (adjective) occurring from time to time | - |
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| (adjective) occurring on a temporary or irregular basis | Synonyms: casual |
| (adjective) recurring or reappearing from time to time | Synonyms: periodic |
| (adjective) occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals | Synonyms: episodic |
| occasionally | (adverb) sporadically and infrequently | Synonyms: at times, from time to time, now and again, now and then, on occasion, once in a while |
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| occupational | (adjective) of or relating to the activity or business for which you are trained | - |
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| octagonal | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like an octagon | Synonyms: octangular |
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| omnidirectional | (adjective) not directional | - |
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| operational | (adjective) (military) of or intended for or involved in military operations | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a process or series of actions for achieving a result | - |
| (adjective) being in effect or operation | Synonyms: in operation, operating |
| (adjective) fit or ready for use or service | Synonyms: functional, operable, usable, useable |
| operationalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in proving or applying it | - |
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| operationalist | (adjective) of or relating to or espousing operationalism | - |
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| operationally | (adverb) in respect to operation | - |
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| oppositionality | (noun) The quality of opposing or of being in conflict. | - |
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| optional | (adjective) possible but not necessary; left to personal choice | - |
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| optionality | (noun) Quality or state in which choice or discretion is allowed. | Synonyms: electiveness |
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| optionally | (adverb) in an optional manner | - |
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| ordinal | (adjective) being or denoting a numerical order in a series | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a taxonomic order | - |
| (noun) the number designating place in an ordered sequence | Synonyms: no., ordinal number |
| organisational | (adjective) of or relating to an organization | Synonyms: organizational |
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| organizational | (adjective) of or relating to an organization | Synonyms: organisational |
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| organizationally | (adverb) with regard to organization | - |
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| original | (adjective) being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of | - |
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| (adjective) (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary | - |
| (adjective) not derived or copied or translated from something else | - |
| (adjective) preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed | - |
| (noun) an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made | Synonyms: master, master copy |
| (noun) something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies | Synonyms: archetype, pilot |
| originalism | (noun) the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it | - |
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| originality | (noun) the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) | - |
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| (noun) the ability to think and act independently | - |
| originally | (adverb) in an manner suggesting originality | - |
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| (adverb) with reference to the origin or beginning | Synonyms: in the beginning, primitively |
| (adverb) before now | Synonyms: earlier, in the beginning, in the first place, to begin with |
| orthogonal | (adjective) not pertinent to the matter under consideration | Synonyms: extraneous, immaterial, impertinent |
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| (adjective) having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles | Synonyms: rectangular |
| (adjective) statistically unrelated | - |
| orthogonality | (noun) the quality of lying or intersecting at right angles | - |
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| (noun) the relation of opposition between things at right angles | Synonyms: orthogonal opposition, perpendicularity |
| overemotional | (adjective) excessively or abnormally emotional | Synonyms: sloppy |
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| paraphernalia | (noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: appurtenance, gear |
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| paraprofessional | (noun) a trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional | - |
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| paternal | (adjective) characteristic of a father | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent | Synonyms: maternal, parental |
| (adjective) belonging to or inherited from one's father | - |
| (adjective) related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, agnatic |
| paternalism | (noun) the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good | - |
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| paternalistic | (adjective) benevolent but sometimes intrusive | - |
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| paternally | (adverb) in a paternal manner | - |
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| penal | (adjective) of or relating to punishment | - |
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| (adjective) (of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law | Synonyms: punishable |
| (adjective) serving as or designed to impose punishment | - |
| penalisation | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalization, penalty, punishment |
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| penalise | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalize, punish |
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| penalization | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalty, punishment |
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| penalize | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, punish |
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| penally | (adverb) in a way intended to punish | Synonyms: punitively, punitorily |
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| penalty | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalization, punishment |
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| (noun) the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition | - |
| (noun) (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game | - |
| (noun) a payment required for not fulfilling a contract | - |
| pentagonal | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon | Synonyms: pentangular |
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| perianal | (adjective) around the anus | - |
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| perigonal | (adjective) of or relating to a perigone | - |
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| perirhinal | (adjective) near the nose | Synonyms: perinasal |
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| personal | (adjective) concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality | - |
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| (adjective) indicating grammatical person | - |
| (adjective) of or arising from personality | - |
| (adjective) intimately concerning a person's body or physical being | - |
| (noun) a short newspaper article about a particular person or group | - |
| personalise | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, individualize, personalize |
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| personalised | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, individualized, personalized |
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| personality | (noun) the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual | - |
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| (noun) a person of considerable prominence | - |
| personalize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, individualize, personalise |
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| personalized | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, individualized, personalised |
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| (adjective) pointedly referring to or concerning a person's individual personality or intimate affairs especially offensively | - |
| personally | (adverb) as a person | - |
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| (adverb) as yourself | - |
| (adverb) concerning the speaker | - |
| (adverb) in a personal way | - |
| (adverb) in the flesh; without involving anyone else | Synonyms: in person |
| personalty | (noun) movable property (as distinguished from real estate) | Synonyms: personal estate, personal property, private property |
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| phenomenal | (adjective) of or relating to a phenomenon | - |
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| (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
| phenomenality | (noun) The state or property of being very remarkable; highly extraordinary; amazing. | - |
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| phenomenally | (adverb) to a phenomenal degree | - |
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| photojournalism | (noun) journalism that presents a story primarily through the use of pictures | - |
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| photojournalist | (noun) a journalist who presents a story primarily through the use of photographs | - |
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