| nurtural | (adjective) resulting from nurture | - |
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| nurturance | (noun) physical and emotional care and nourishment | - |
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| nurturant | (adjective) providing 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 |
| (verb) help develop, help grow | Synonyms: foster |
| (verb) provide with nourishment | Synonyms: nourish, sustain |
| (verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, parent, raise, rear |
| 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 |
| (verb) gather nuts | - |
| nutate | (verb) rock, sway, or nod; usually involuntarily | - |
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| nutation | (noun) uncontrolled nodding | - |
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| nutbrown | (adjective) of the color of nuts | - |
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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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| nutlike | (adjective) resembling a nut in shape and size | - |
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| (adjective) having the flavor of nuts | Synonyms: nutty |
| 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 | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive |
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| (noun) any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue | Synonyms: food |
| (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 | - |
| nutrify | (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: aliment, nourish |
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| 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 | - |
| 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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| nutritionary | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritional |
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| nutritionist | (noun) a specialist in the study of nutrition | - |
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| nutritious | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritive |
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| nutritiousness | (noun) the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth | Synonyms: nutritiveness |
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| nutritive | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious |
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| nutritiveness | (noun) the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth | Synonyms: nutritiousness |
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| nuts | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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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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| nuttily | (adverb) in a mildly insane manner | Synonyms: balmily, daftly, dottily, wackily |
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| nutty | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) having the flavor of nuts | Synonyms: nutlike |
| nuzzle | (verb) rub noses | Synonyms: nose |
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| (verb) dig out with the snout | - |
| (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nestle, snuggle |
| obnubilate | (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, confuse, obscure |
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| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obscure |
| olibanum | (noun) an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | Synonyms: frankincense, gum olibanum, thus |
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| oligonucleotide | (noun) (biochemistry) a polynucleotide whose molecules contain relatively few nucleotides | Synonyms: oligo |
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| onus | (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, incumbrance, load |
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| origanum | (noun) any of various fragrant aromatic herbs of the genus Origanum used as seasonings | - |
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| outnumber | (verb) be larger in number | - |
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| pandanus | (noun) any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves | Synonyms: screw pine |
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| (noun) fiber from leaves of the pandanus tree; used for woven articles (such as mats) | - |
| pansinusitis | (noun) inflammation of all of the paranasal sinuses | - |
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| parvenu | (adjective) of or characteristic of a parvenu | Synonyms: parvenue |
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| (adjective) characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenue, upstart |
| (noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: arriviste, nouveau-riche, upstart |
| parvenue | (adjective) of or characteristic of a parvenu | Synonyms: parvenu |
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| (adjective) characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart |
| peanut | (adjective) of little importance or influence or power; of minor status | Synonyms: insignificant |
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| (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut |
| (noun) a young child who is small for his age | - |
| (noun) widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground | Synonyms: Arachis hypogaea, peanut vine |
| (noun) underground pod of the peanut vine | - |
| peanuts | (noun) an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount | - |
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| penuche | (noun) fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts | Synonyms: panocha, panoche, penoche |
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| penuchle | (noun) a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist | Synonyms: bezique, pinochle, pinocle |
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| penult | (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penultima, penultimate |
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| penultima | (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penult, penultimate |
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| penultimate | (adjective) second last | Synonyms: next-to-last |
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| (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penult, penultima |
| penumbra | (noun) a fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra | - |
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| penumbral | (adjective) of or pertaining to the region of partial shadow around an umbra | - |
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| penurious | (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched |
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| (adjective) excessively unwilling to spend | Synonyms: parsimonious |
| penuriously | (adverb) in a penurious manner | - |
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| penuriousness | (noun) a disposition to be niggardly with money | - |
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| (noun) a state of lacking money | Synonyms: impecuniousness, pennilessness |
| penury | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization |
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| phenylketonuria | (noun) a genetic disorder of metabolism; lack of the enzyme needed to turn phenylalanine into tyrosine results in an accumulation of phenylalanine in the body fluids which causes various degrees of mental deficiency | Synonyms: PKU |
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| pignut | (noun) an American hickory tree having bitter nuts | Synonyms: black hickory, brown hickory, Carya glabra, pignut hickory |
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| pinnule | (noun) division of a usually pinnately divided leaf | Synonyms: pinna |
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| planula | (noun) the flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates | - |
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| platinum | (noun) a heavy precious metallic element; grey-white and resistant to corroding; occurs in some nickel and copper ores and is also found native in some deposits | Synonyms: atomic number 78, Pt |
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| plenum | (noun) an enclosed space in which the air pressure is higher than outside | - |
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| (noun) a meeting of a legislative body at which all members are present | - |
| polynucleotide | (noun) (biochemistry) a linear polymer whose molecule is composed of many nucleotide units constituting a section of a nucleic acid molecule | - |
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| postnuptial | (adjective) relating to events after a marriage | - |
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| prenuptial | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: antenuptial, premarital |
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| pronucleus | (noun) the nucleus of the ovum or sperm after fertilization but before they fuse to form the nucleus of the zygote | - |
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| pronunciamento | (noun) a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government) | Synonyms: manifesto |
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| pronunciation | (noun) the manner in which someone utters a word | - |
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| (noun) the way a word or a language is customarily spoken | Synonyms: orthoepy |
| proteinuria | (noun) the presence of excessive protein (chiefly albumin but also globulin) in the urine; usually a symptom of kidney disorder | Synonyms: albuminuria |
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| quidnunc | (noun) a person who meddles in the affairs of others | Synonyms: busybody, nosey-parker, nosy-parker |
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| ranula | (noun) a cyst on the underside of the tongue | - |
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| renunciant | (adjective) used especially of behavior | Synonyms: renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying |
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| renunciation | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forgoing, forswearing |
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| (noun) an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned | Synonyms: renouncement |
| (noun) rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid | Synonyms: repudiation |
| (noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: apostasy, defection |
| renunciative | (adjective) used especially of behavior | Synonyms: renunciant, self-abnegating, self-denying |
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| retinue | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: cortege, entourage, suite |
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| revenue | (noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | Synonyms: gross, receipts |
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| (noun) government income due to taxation | Synonyms: tax income, tax revenue, taxation |
| revenuer | (noun) a government agent responsible for collecting revenue (especially one responsible for stopping bootlegging) | - |
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| ribonuclease | (noun) a transferase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid | Synonyms: ribonucleinase, RNase |
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| ribonucleinase | (noun) a transferase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid | Synonyms: ribonuclease, RNase |
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| ritenuto | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | Synonyms: rallentando, rit., ritardando |
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| runup | (noun) a substantial increase over a relatively short period of time | Synonyms: run-up |
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| sangapenum | (noun) a variety of gum | Synonyms: gum sangapenum |
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| sannup | (noun) a married male American Indian | - |
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| scalenus | (noun) any of four pairs of muscles extending from the cervical vertebrae to the second rib; involved in moving the neck and in breathing | Synonyms: musculus scalenus, scalene muscle |
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| semiannual | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biannual, biyearly, half-yearly |
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| semiannually | (adverb) twice a year | Synonyms: biyearly |
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| seminude | (adjective) partially clothed | - |
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| silenus | (noun) any of the minor woodland deities who were companions of Dionysus (similar to the satyrs) | - |
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| sinuate | (adjective) curved or curving in and out | Synonyms: sinuous, wiggly |
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| (adjective) having a strongly waved margin alternately concave and convex | - |
| sinuosity | (noun) having bends (especially of streams and roads) | Synonyms: sinuousness |
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| sinuous | (adjective) curved or curving in and out | Synonyms: sinuate, wiggly |
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| (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, supple |
| sinuously | (adverb) in a sinuous manner | - |
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| sinuousness | (noun) having bends (especially of streams and roads) | Synonyms: sinuosity |
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| sinus | (noun) a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel | Synonyms: venous sinus |
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| (noun) any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull | - |
| (noun) an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface | Synonyms: fistula |
| sinusitis | (noun) inflammation of one of the paranasal sinuses | - |
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| sinusoid | (noun) tiny endothelium-lined passages for blood in the tissue of an organ | - |
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| (noun) the curve of y=sin x | Synonyms: sine curve |
| sinusoidal | (adjective) having a succession of waves or curves | - |
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