| 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 | - |
| nationhood | (noun) the state of being a nation | - |
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| nationwide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a country or nation | Synonyms: countrywide |
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| (adverb) extending throughout an entire nation | Synonyms: across the country, across the nation, nationally |
| native | (adjective) characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: aboriginal |
| (adjective) belonging to one by birth | - |
| (adjective) as found in nature in the elemental form | - |
| (noun) indigenous plants and animals | - |
| (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene |
| (noun) a person born in a particular place or country | - |
| nativeness | (noun) the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin | - |
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| nativism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate | - |
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| (noun) the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation) | - |
| nativist | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating nativism | Synonyms: nativistic |
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| (adjective) advocating the perpetuation of native societies | Synonyms: nativistic |
| (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to nativism | - |
| nativistic | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating nativism | Synonyms: nativist |
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| (adjective) advocating the perpetuation of native societies | Synonyms: nativist |
| nativity | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascence, nascency |
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| natriuresis | (noun) the presence of abnormally large amounts of sodium in the urine | - |
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| natriuretic | (adjective) of or relating to natriuresis | - |
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| natrolite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of sodium and aluminum | - |
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| natter | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| natterjack | (noun) common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe; runs rather than hops | Synonyms: Bufo calamita |
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| nattily | (adverb) in a natty manner; with smartness | - |
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| nattiness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, jauntiness, rakishness |
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| natty | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| natural | (adjective) (of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related | Synonyms: biological |
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| (adjective) in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature | - |
| (adjective) existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation | - |
| (adjective) existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical | - |
| (adjective) (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone | - |
| (adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: born, innate |
| (adjective) functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies | - |
| (adjective) unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct | Synonyms: instinctive |
| (adjective) free from artificiality | Synonyms: lifelike |
| (adjective) (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes | Synonyms: raw, rude |
| (noun) (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake | - |
| (noun) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat | Synonyms: cancel |
| (noun) someone regarded as certain to succeed | - |
| naturalisation | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalization |
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| (noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalization |
| (noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalization |
| (noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalization |
| naturalise | (verb) make into a citizen | Synonyms: naturalize |
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| (verb) make more natural or lifelike | Synonyms: naturalize |
| (verb) adopt to another place | Synonyms: naturalize |
| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalize, tame |
| naturalised | (adjective) planted so as to give an effect of wild growth | Synonyms: naturalized |
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| naturalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations | - |
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| (noun) an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description | Synonyms: realism |
| naturalist | (noun) a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology) | Synonyms: natural scientist |
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| (noun) an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms | - |
| naturalistic | (adjective) representing what is real; not abstract or ideal | Synonyms: realistic |
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| naturalization | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalisation |
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| (noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| naturalize | (verb) make into a citizen | Synonyms: naturalise |
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| (verb) make more natural or lifelike | Synonyms: naturalise |
| (verb) adopt to another place | Synonyms: naturalise |
| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame |
| (verb) explain with reference to nature | - |
| naturalized | (adjective) planted so as to give an effect of wild growth | Synonyms: naturalised |
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| (adjective) introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation | Synonyms: established |
| naturally | (adverb) as might be expected | Synonyms: course, of course |
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| (adverb) according to nature; by natural means; without artificial help | - |
| (adverb) in a natural or normal manner | - |
| (adverb) through inherent nature | Synonyms: by nature |
| naturalness | (noun) the quality of being natural or based on natural principles | - |
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| (noun) the likeness of a representation to the thing represented | - |
| (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, ingenuousness, innocence |
| nature | (noun) the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions | - |
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| (noun) the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized | - |
| (noun) a particular type of thing | - |
| (noun) the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc. | - |
| (noun) a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe | - |
| naturism | (noun) going without clothes as a social practice | Synonyms: nudism |
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| naturist | (noun) a person who practices nudity for reasons of health or religion | Synonyms: nudist |
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| naturistic | (adjective) in accord with naturism | - |
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| naturopath | (noun) a therapist who practices naturopathy | - |
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| naturopathy | (noun) a method of treating disease using food and exercise and heat to assist the natural healing process | - |
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| neonatal | (adjective) relating to or affecting the infant during the first month after birth | - |
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| neonate | (noun) a baby from birth to four weeks | Synonyms: newborn |
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| neonatology | (noun) that branch of pediatric medicine concerned with the newborn; the diagnosis and treatment of neonates | - |
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| neuroanatomic | (adjective) of or relating to neural tissue or the nervous system | Synonyms: neuroanatomical |
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| neuroanatomical | (adjective) of or relating to neural tissue or the nervous system | Synonyms: neuroanatomic |
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| neuroanatomy | (noun) the anatomy of the nervous system | - |
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| nominate | (verb) propose as a candidate for some honor | Synonyms: put forward, put up |
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| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, constitute, name |
| (verb) charge with a function; charge to be | Synonyms: make, name |
| (verb) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position | Synonyms: propose |
| nominated | (adjective) appointed by nomination | Synonyms: nominative |
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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 | (adjective) serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb | - |
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| (adjective) appointed by nomination | Synonyms: nominated |
| (adjective) named; bearing the name of a specific person | Synonyms: nominal |
| (noun) the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb | Synonyms: nominative case, subject case |
| nominator | (noun) someone who proposes a candidate for appointment or election | - |
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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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| noncarbonated | (adjective) not having carbonation | Synonyms: uncarbonated |
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| noncombinative | (adjective) not involving combination | - |
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| nondenominational | (adjective) not restricted to a particular religious denomination | - |
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| nonnative | (adjective) not being or composed of aborigines | - |
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| (adjective) of persons born in another area or country than that lived in | Synonyms: foreign-born |
| (adjective) of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing | - |
| nonnatural | (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: otherworldly, preternatural, transcendental |
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| obstinate | (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: stubborn, unregenerate |
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| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, perverse, wayward |
| (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obdurate, unrepentant |
| (verb) persist stubbornly | - |
| obstinately | (adverb) in a stubborn unregenerate manner | Synonyms: cussedly, mulishly, obdurately, pig-headedly, stubbornly |
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| odonate | (noun) large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings | - |
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| opinionated | (adjective) obstinate in your opinions | Synonyms: opinionative, self-opinionated |
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| opinionative | (adjective) obstinate in your opinions | Synonyms: opinionated, self-opinionated |
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| opisthognathous | (adjective) having receding jaws | - |
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| ordinate | (noun) the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis | - |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, coordinate |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, order |
| ordination | (noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders | Synonyms: ordinance |
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| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: order, ordering |
| (noun) the status of being ordained to a sacred office | - |
| originate | (verb) bring into being | Synonyms: initiate, start |
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| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, rise, spring up, uprise |
| (verb) begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc. | - |
| origination | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction |
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| (noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | Synonyms: inception, origin |
| originative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: creative |
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| (adjective) containing seeds of later development | Synonyms: germinal, seminal |
| originator | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: conceiver, mastermind |
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| ornate | (adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | Synonyms: flowery |
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| ornately | (adverb) in an ornate manner | - |
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| ornateness | (noun) an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated | Synonyms: elaborateness |
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| (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, rhetoric |
| ostinato | (noun) a musical phrase repeated over and over during a composition | - |
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| oxygenate | (verb) impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen | Synonyms: aerate, oxygenise, oxygenize |
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| oxygenation | (noun) the process of providing or combining or treating with oxygen | - |
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| paginate | (verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: foliate, page |
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| pagination | (noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: folio, page number, paging |
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| palatinate | (noun) a territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine | - |
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| panatela | (noun) a long slender cigar | Synonyms: panetela, panetella |
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| paripinnate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) pinnate with a pair of leaflets at the apex | Synonyms: abruptly-pinnate, even-pinnate |
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| passionate | (adjective) having or expressing strong emotions | - |
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| passionately | (adverb) with passion | - |
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| (adverb) in a stormy or violent manner | Synonyms: stormily, turbulently |
| passionateness | (noun) a strong feeling or emotion | Synonyms: passion |
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| patinate | (verb) coat with a patina | Synonyms: patinise, patinize |
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| pectinate | (adjective) like a comb | - |
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| pennate | (adjective) having feathered wings | - |
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| peregrinate | (verb) travel around, through, or over, especially on foot | - |
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| peregrination | (noun) traveling or wandering around | - |
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| perennate | (verb) survive from season to season, of plants | - |
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| perennation | (noun) the process of living through a number of years (as a perennial plant) | - |
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| perinatal | (adjective) occurring during the period around birth (5 months before and 1 month after) | - |
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| perinatologist | (noun) an obstetrician specializing in perinatology | - |
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| perinatology | (noun) the branch of obstetrics concerned with the anatomy and physiology and diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the mother and the fetus or newborn baby during late pregnancy and childbirth and the puerperium | - |
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| permanganate | (noun) a dark purple salt of permanganic acid; in water solution it is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic | - |
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| personate | (verb) attribute human qualities to something | Synonyms: personify |
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| (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: impersonate, pose |
| personation | (noun) imitating the mannerisms of another person | Synonyms: impersonation |
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| (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, enactment, portrayal |
| phonate | (verb) utter speech sounds | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize |
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| phonation | (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, voice, vox |
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| pinata | (noun) plaything consisting of a container filled with toys and candy; suspended from a height for blindfolded children to break with sticks | - |
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