| nonsubjective | (adjective) undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena | Synonyms: objective |
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| nonsuppurative | (adjective) not suppurative | - |
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| nonvenomous | (adjective) not producing venom | - |
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| nonverbal | (adjective) involving little use of language | - |
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| (adjective) being other than verbal communication | Synonyms: gestural |
| (adjective) lacking verbal skill | - |
| nonverbally | (adverb) without words | Synonyms: non-verbally |
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| normative | (adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules | Synonyms: prescriptive |
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| (adjective) relating to or dealing with norms | - |
| normotensive | (adjective) having normal blood pressure | - |
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| nosedive | (noun) a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft | Synonyms: dive, nose dive |
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| (noun) a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline | - |
| (verb) plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft | - |
| novel | (adjective) pleasantly new or different | Synonyms: refreshing |
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| (adjective) original and of a kind not seen before | Synonyms: fresh, new |
| (noun) a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction | - |
| (noun) an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story | - |
| novelette | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novella |
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| novelisation | (noun) converting something into the form of a novel | Synonyms: novelization |
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| novelise | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize, novelize |
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| novelist | (noun) one who writes novels | - |
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| novelization | (noun) converting something into the form of a novel | Synonyms: novelisation |
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| novelize | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize, novelise |
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| novella | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novelette |
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| novelty | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, trinket |
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| (noun) a small inexpensive mass-produced article | Synonyms: knickknack |
| (noun) originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel | Synonyms: freshness |
| (noun) originality by virtue of being new and surprising | Synonyms: freshness |
| novena | (noun) a Roman Catholic devotion consisting of prayers on nine consecutive days | - |
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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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| objective | (adjective) undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena | Synonyms: nonsubjective |
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| (adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes | Synonyms: accusative |
| (adjective) belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events | - |
| (adjective) emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation | - |
| (noun) the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed | Synonyms: object glass, object lens, objective lens |
| (noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, object, target |
| objectively | (adverb) with objectivity | - |
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| objectiveness | (noun) judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices | Synonyms: objectivity |
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| observe | (verb) stick to correctly or closely | Synonyms: keep, maintain |
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| (verb) make mention of | Synonyms: mention, note, remark |
| (verb) watch attentively | - |
| (verb) observe with care or pay close attention to | Synonyms: note, take note |
| (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, discover, find, notice |
| (verb) follow with the eyes or the mind | Synonyms: follow, keep an eye on, watch, watch over |
| (verb) show respect towards | Synonyms: abide by, honor, honour, respect |
| (verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: celebrate, keep |
| (verb) conform one's action or practice to | Synonyms: keep |
| observed | (adjective) discovered or determined by scientific observation | Synonyms: ascertained, discovered |
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| observer | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, perceiver, percipient |
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| (noun) an expert who observes and comments on something | Synonyms: commentator |
| obsessive | (adjective) characterized by or constituting an obsession | Synonyms: obsessional |
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| (noun) a person who has obsessions | - |
| obsessively | (adverb) in a compulsive manner | Synonyms: compulsively, obsessionally |
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| obsessiveness | (noun) extreme compulsiveness | Synonyms: obsessivity |
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| obstructive | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, hindering, impeding |
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| obstructively | (adverb) in an obstructive manner | Synonyms: hinderingly |
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| obtrusive | (adjective) undesirably noticeable | - |
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| (adjective) sticking out; protruding | - |
| obtrusively | (adverb) in an obtrusive manner | - |
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| obtrusiveness | (noun) an unwelcome conspicuousness | - |
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| obverse | (noun) the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design | - |
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| (noun) the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides | - |
| occlusive | (adjective) tending to occlude | - |
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| (noun) a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it | Synonyms: plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop, stop consonant |
| octave | (noun) a musical interval of eight tones | Synonyms: musical octave |
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| (noun) a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse | - |
| (noun) a feast day and the seven days following it | - |
| offensive | (adjective) unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses | - |
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| (adjective) causing anger or annoyance | - |
| (adjective) for the purpose of attack rather than defense | - |
| (adjective) morally offensive | Synonyms: unsavory, unsavoury |
| (adjective) violating or tending to violate or offend against | Synonyms: violative |
| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, sickening, vile |
| (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offence, offense |
| offensively | (adverb) aggressively | - |
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| (adverb) in an obnoxious manner | Synonyms: objectionably, obnoxiously |
| (adverb) in an unpleasantly offensive manner | - |
| offensiveness | (noun) the quality of being offensive | Synonyms: distastefulness, odiousness |
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| ogive | (noun) front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere | Synonyms: nose cone |
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| oilstove | (noun) heater that burns oil (as kerosine) for heating or cooking | Synonyms: kerosene heater, kerosine heater, oil heater |
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| olfactive | (adjective) of or relating to olfaction | Synonyms: olfactory |
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| olive | (adjective) of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive | - |
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| (noun) a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation | - |
| (noun) one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish | - |
| (noun) evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits | Synonyms: European olive tree, Olea europaea |
| (noun) small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil | - |
| (noun) hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork | - |
| olivelike | (adjective) resembling an olive | Synonyms: olive-like |
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| olivenite | (noun) rare green to black mineral consisting of hydrated copper arsenate that is found in copper deposits | - |
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| omissive | (adjective) characterized by omissions | - |
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| operative | (adjective) being in force or having or exerting force | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine | Synonyms: surgical |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: functional, running, working |
| (adjective) effective; producing a desired effect | - |
| (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus, sherlock |
| (noun) a person secretly employed in espionage for a government | Synonyms: intelligence agent, intelligence officer, secret agent |
| operatively | (adverb) in a manner to produce an effect | - |
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| opinionative | (adjective) obstinate in your opinions | Synonyms: opinionated, self-opinionated |
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| oppositive | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: adversative |
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| oppressive | (adjective) marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior | Synonyms: tyrannical, tyrannous |
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| (adjective) weighing heavily on the senses or spirit | - |
| oppressively | (adverb) in a heavy and oppressive way | - |
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| oppressiveness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness |
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| (noun) a feeling of being oppressed | Synonyms: oppression |
| optative | (adjective) relating to a mood of verbs in some languages | - |
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| (adjective) indicating an option or wish | - |
| (noun) a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs | Synonyms: optative mood |
| originative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: creative |
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| (adjective) containing seeds of later development | Synonyms: germinal, seminal |
| ostensive | (adjective) represented or appearing as such; pretended | Synonyms: ostensible |
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| (adjective) manifestly demonstrative | - |
| outbrave | (verb) be braver than | - |
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| (verb) resist bravely | - |
| outlive | (verb) live longer than | Synonyms: outlast, survive |
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| outmaneuver | (verb) defeat by more skillful maneuvering | Synonyms: outmanoeuvre, outsmart |
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| oven | (noun) kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting | - |
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| ovenbake | (verb) bake in an oven | - |
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| ovenbird | (noun) American warbler; builds a dome-shaped nest on the ground | Synonyms: Seiurus aurocapillus |
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| (noun) small brownish South American birds that build oven-shaped clay nests | - |
| ovenware | (noun) heat-resistant dishware in which food can be cooked as well as served | - |
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| over | (adjective) having come or been brought to a conclusion | Synonyms: all over, complete, concluded, ended, terminated |
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| (noun) (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch | - |
| (adverb) throughout a period of time | Synonyms: o'er |
| (adverb) at or to a point across intervening space etc. | - |
| (adverb) throughout an area | - |
| (adverb) beyond the top or upper surface or edge; forward from an upright position | - |
| (adverb) over the entire area | Synonyms: all over |
| overabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance |
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| (noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, surfeit |
| overabundant | (adjective) excessively abundant | Synonyms: plethoric, rife |
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| overachieve | (verb) perform better or achieve a greater degree of success than expected | - |
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| overachievement | (noun) better than expected performance (better than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) | - |
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| overachiever | (noun) a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated | - |
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| overact | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham, ham it up, overplay |
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| overacting | (noun) poor acting by a ham actor | Synonyms: hamming |
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| overactive | (adjective) more active than normal | Synonyms: hyperactive |
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| overactivity | (noun) excessive activity | - |
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| overage | (adjective) too old to be useful | Synonyms: over-the-hill, overaged, superannuated |
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| (noun) a surplus or excess of money or merchandise that is actually on hand and that exceeds expectations | - |
| overaged | (adjective) too old to be useful | Synonyms: over-the-hill, overage, superannuated |
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| overall | (adjective) involving only main features | - |
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| (adjective) including everything | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) work clothing consisting of denim trousers (usually with a bib and shoulder straps) | - |
| (noun) a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work | Synonyms: boilers suit, boilersuit |
| overambitious | (adjective) excessively ambitious | - |
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| overanxiety | (noun) excessive anxiety | - |
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| overanxious | (adjective) anxious or nervous to an excessive degree | - |
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| overappraisal | (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overestimation, overvaluation |
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| overarch | (verb) form an arch over | Synonyms: arch over |
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| (verb) be central or dominant | - |
| overarm | (adjective) with hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level | Synonyms: overhand, overhanded |
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| overawe | (verb) subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats) | Synonyms: cow |
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| overawed | (adjective) overcome by a feeling of awe | - |
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| overbalance | (verb) cause to be off balance | - |
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| (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, preponderate |
| overbear | (verb) contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery | Synonyms: bear down |
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| (verb) bear too much | - |
| (verb) overcome | - |
| overbearing | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: authoritarian, dictatorial |
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| (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
| overbearingly | (adverb) in an overbearing manner | - |
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| overbearingness | (noun) the trait of being imperious and overbearing | Synonyms: domineeringness, imperiousness |
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| overbid | (noun) a bid that is higher than preceding bids | - |
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| (noun) (bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand) | Synonyms: overcall |
| (verb) bid more than the object is worth | - |
| (verb) to bid for more tricks than one can expect to win | - |
| overbite | (noun) (dentistry) malocclusion in which the upper teeth extend abnormally far over the lower teeth | - |
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| overblown | (adjective) past the stage of full bloom | - |
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| (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous |
| overboard | (adverb) from on board a vessel into the water | - |
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| (adverb) to extremes | - |
| overboil | (verb) overflow or cause to overflow while boiling | Synonyms: boil over |
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| (verb) boil excessively | - |
| overbold | (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, impudent, sassy, saucy, smart, wise |
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| overburden | (noun) an excessive burden | Synonyms: overload |
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| (noun) the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits | - |
| (verb) burden with too much work or responsibility | - |
| (verb) load with excessive weight | - |
| overburdened | (adjective) heavily burdened with work or cares | Synonyms: bowed down, loaded down, weighed down |
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| overbusy | (adjective) too busy | - |
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| overcall | (noun) (bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand) | Synonyms: overbid |
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