| actinon | (noun) any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103 | Synonyms: actinide, actinoid |
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| amrinone | (noun) a drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure; increases strength of contraction of myocardium | Synonyms: Inocor |
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| annon | (noun) sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds | Synonyms: sugar apple, sweetsop |
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| anon | (adverb) (old-fashioned or informal) in a little while | - |
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| (adverb) at another time | - |
| anonym | (noun) a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role | Synonyms: nom de guerre, pseudonym |
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| anonymity | (noun) the state of being anonymous | Synonyms: namelessness |
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| anonymous | (adjective) having no known name or identity or known source | Synonyms: anon. |
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| (adjective) not known or lacking marked individuality | - |
| anonymously | (adverb) without giving a name | - |
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| argonon | (noun) any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table | Synonyms: inert gas, noble gas |
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| benzoquinone | (noun) any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes | Synonyms: quinone |
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| bignoniaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| bignoniad | (noun) any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| bourguignon | (noun) reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter | Synonyms: bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce |
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| butanone | (noun) colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid | Synonyms: methyl ethyl ketone |
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| cannon | (noun) a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other | Synonyms: carom |
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| (noun) lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals | Synonyms: shank |
| (noun) a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels | - |
| (noun) heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane | - |
| (noun) (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm | - |
| (noun) heavy gun fired from a tank | - |
| (verb) fire a cannon | - |
| (verb) make a cannon | - |
| cannonade | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: drumfire |
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| (verb) attack with cannons or artillery | - |
| cannonball | (noun) a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon | Synonyms: cannon ball, round shot |
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| cannoneer | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: artilleryman, gunner, machine gunner |
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| canon | (noun) a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy | - |
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| (noun) a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts | - |
| (noun) a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired | - |
| (noun) a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church | - |
| (noun) a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall | Synonyms: canyon |
| (noun) a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter | - |
| canonic | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonical |
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| (adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonical |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonical, sanctioned |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonical |
| canonical | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonic |
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| (adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonic |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonic, sanctioned |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonic |
| canonically | (adverb) in a canonical manner | - |
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| canonisation | (noun) (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints | Synonyms: canonization |
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| canonise | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonize, saint |
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| (verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonize |
| canonised | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonized, glorified |
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| canonist | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g. "canonist communism" | - |
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| (noun) a specialist in canon law | - |
| canonization | (noun) (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints | Synonyms: canonisation |
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| canonize | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonise, saint |
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| (verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonise |
| canonized | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonised, glorified |
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| chignon | (noun) a roll of hair worn at the nape of the neck | - |
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| chloroacetophenone | (noun) a tear gas that is weaker than CS gas but lasts longer | Synonyms: CN gas |
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| chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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| deinonychus | (noun) swift agile wolf-sized bipedal dinosaur having a large curved claw on each hind foot; of the Cretaceous | - |
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| epiphenomenon | (noun) a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon | - |
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| guenon | (noun) small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face | Synonyms: guenon monkey |
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| headcanon | (noun) A personal version of the fantasy world from popular media | - |
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| koinonia | (noun) Christian fellowship or communion with God or with fellow Christians; said in particular of the early Christian community | - |
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| lanthanon | (noun) any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71) | Synonyms: lanthanide, lanthanoid, rare-earth element, rare earth |
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| mignonette | (noun) Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance | Synonyms: Reseda odorata, sweet reseda |
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| mononeuropathy | (noun) any neuropathy of a single nerve trunk | - |
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| mononuclear | (adjective) having only one nucleus | Synonyms: mononucleate |
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| mononucleate | (adjective) having only one nucleus | Synonyms: mononuclear |
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| mononucleosis | (noun) an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing | Synonyms: glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, kissing disease, mono |
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| naphthoquinone | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that helps in the clotting of blood | Synonyms: antihemorrhagic factor, vitamin K |
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| ninon | (noun) a fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or nylon | - |
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| non | (adverb) negation of a word or group of words | Synonyms: not |
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| nonabsorbency | (noun) the property of not being absorbent | - |
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| nonabsorbent | (adjective) not capable of absorbing or soaking up (liquids) | Synonyms: nonabsorptive |
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| nonabsorptive | (adjective) not capable of absorbing or soaking up (liquids) | Synonyms: nonabsorbent |
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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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| nonadaptive | (adjective) (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose | Synonyms: dysfunctional |
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| nonaddictive | (adjective) not causing or characterized by addiction | - |
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| nonadhesive | (adjective) not tending to adhere | - |
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| nonadjacent | (adjective) not adjacent; not next | - |
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| nonadsorbent | (adjective) lacking a capacity to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: nonadsorptive |
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| nonadsorptive | (adjective) lacking a capacity to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: nonadsorbent |
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| nonage | (noun) any age prior to the legal age | Synonyms: minority |
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| nonaged | (adjective) not of legal age | Synonyms: minor, underage |
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| nonagenarian | (adjective) being from 90 to 99 years old | - |
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| (noun) someone whose age is in the nineties | - |
| nonaggression | (noun) a policy of not initiating hostilities | - |
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| nonaggressive | (adjective) not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness | Synonyms: unaggressive |
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| nonagon | (noun) a nine-sided polygon | - |
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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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| nonappearance | (noun) failure to appear (especially as at court) | - |
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| nonappointive | (adjective) filled by popular election rather than by appointment | - |
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| nonarbitrable | (adjective) not appropriate for or subject to arbitration | - |
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| nonarbitrary | (adjective) not subject to individual determination | Synonyms: unarbitrary |
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| nonarboreal | (adjective) not inhabiting or frequenting trees | - |
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| nonassertive | (adjective) not aggressively self-assured, though not necessarily lacking in confidence | - |
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| nonassociative | (adjective) not associative | - |
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| nonastringent | (adjective) not astringent | - |
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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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| nonautonomous | (adjective) (of peoples and political bodies) controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: nonsovereign |
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| nonbearing | (adjective) (of a structural member) supporting no vertical weight other than its own | - |
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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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| nonbelligerent | (adjective) not directly at war | - |
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| noncaloric | (adjective) of food have no (or few) calories | - |
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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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| noncarbonated | (adjective) not having carbonation | Synonyms: uncarbonated |
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| noncausal | (adjective) not causative | Synonyms: noncausative |
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| noncausative | (adjective) not causative | Synonyms: noncausal |
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| nonce | (noun) the present occasion | Synonyms: time being |
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| noncellular | (adjective) not made up of or divided into cells | Synonyms: acellular |
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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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| nonchalant | (adjective) marked by blithe unconcern | Synonyms: casual, insouciant |
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| nonchalantly | (adverb) in an unconcerned manner | Synonyms: casually |
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| (adverb) in a composed and unconcerned manner | Synonyms: coolly, nervelessly |
| nonchristian | (adjective) not believing in Christ | Synonyms: christless |
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| nonchurchgoing | (adjective) no longer active or practicing | Synonyms: lapsed |
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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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| noncivilised | (adjective) not having a high state of culture and social development | Synonyms: noncivilized |
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| noncivilized | (adjective) not having a high state of culture and social development | Synonyms: noncivilised |
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