| nebulose | (adjective) lacking definite form or limits | Synonyms: cloudy, nebulous |
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| necrose | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, mortify, sphacelate |
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| nitrocellulose | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, guncotton, nitrocotton |
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| nodulose | (adjective) having minute nodules | - |
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| noose | (noun) a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose | Synonyms: gin, snare |
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| (noun) a loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled | Synonyms: running noose, slip noose |
| (verb) secure with a noose | - |
| (verb) make a noose in or of | - |
| nose | (noun) a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft) | - |
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| (noun) a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged | Synonyms: nozzle |
| (noun) the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon | - |
| (noun) the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals | Synonyms: olfactory organ |
| (noun) the sense of smell (especially in animals) | - |
| (noun) a natural skill | - |
| (noun) a symbol of inquisitiveness | - |
| (noun) a small distance | - |
| (verb) defeat by a narrow margin | - |
| (verb) rub noses | Synonyms: nuzzle |
| (verb) push or move with the nose | - |
| (verb) advance the forward part of with caution | - |
| (verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way | Synonyms: horn in, intrude, poke, pry |
| (verb) catch the scent of; get wind of | Synonyms: scent, wind |
| operose | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome |
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| oppose | (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, controvert |
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| (verb) be against; express opposition to | - |
| (verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: match, pit, play off |
| (verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: defend, fight, fight back, fight down |
| (verb) act against or in opposition to | Synonyms: react |
| (verb) contrast with equal weight or force | Synonyms: counterbalance |
| otiose | (adjective) disinclined to work or exertion | Synonyms: faineant, indolent, lazy, slothful, work-shy |
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| (adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, ineffectual, meaningless, unavailing |
| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted |
| overdose | (verb) dose too heavily | Synonyms: o.d. |
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| overexpose | (verb) expose excessively | - |
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| (verb) expose to too much light | - |
| pantyhose | (noun) a woman's tights consisting of underpants and stockings | - |
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| papillose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillary |
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| papoose | (noun) an American Indian infant | Synonyms: pappoose |
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| pappoose | (noun) an American Indian infant | Synonyms: papoose |
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| pappose | (adjective) (of plants such as dandelions and thistles) having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles | - |
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| pentose | (noun) any monosaccharide sugar containing five atoms of carbon per molecule | - |
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| pilose | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilary, pilous |
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| plumose | (adjective) having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft | Synonyms: plumate, plumed |
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| polyose | (noun) any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules | Synonyms: polysaccharide |
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| porose | (adjective) forming a continuous series of pores | - |
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| pose | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectation, affectedness, mannerism |
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| (noun) affected manners intended to impress others | Synonyms: airs |
| (noun) a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes | - |
| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: impersonate, personate |
| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, position, put, set |
| (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, posture, sit |
| (verb) behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others | Synonyms: posture |
| (verb) offer for others to consider | Synonyms: present |
| postpose | (verb) place after another constituent in the sentence | - |
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| predispose | (verb) make susceptible | - |
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| prepose | (verb) place before another constituent in the sentence | - |
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| presuppose | (verb) require as a necessary antecedent or precondition | Synonyms: suppose |
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| (verb) take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand | Synonyms: suppose |
| primrose | (noun) any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads | Synonyms: primula |
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| propose | (verb) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc. | Synonyms: project |
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| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, purport, purpose |
| (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: advise, suggest |
| (verb) ask (someone) to marry you | Synonyms: declare oneself, offer, pop the question |
| (verb) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position | Synonyms: nominate |
| prose | (noun) ordinary writing as distinguished from verse | - |
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| (noun) matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression | - |
| purpose | (noun) what something is used for | Synonyms: function, role, use |
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| (noun) the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose | Synonyms: determination |
| (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, design, intent, intention |
| (verb) reach a decision | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purport |
| pyrocellulose | (noun) nitrocellulose containing less nitrogen than guncotton; used in making smokeless powder | - |
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| quartzose | (adjective) relating to or made of quartz | - |
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| racemose | (adjective) having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that continue to open in succession from below as the stem continues to grow | - |
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| raffinose | (noun) a trisaccharide that occurs in sugar beets and cotton seeds and certain cereals | - |
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| ramose | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, branching, ramate, ramous |
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| redispose | (verb) dispose anew | - |
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| reimpose | (verb) impose anew | - |
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| repose | (noun) freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) | Synonyms: ease, relaxation, rest |
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| (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: placidity, quiet, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity |
| (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, heartsease, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, serenity |
| (verb) put or confide something in a person or thing | - |
| (verb) lie when dead | - |
| (verb) put in a horizontal position | Synonyms: lay, put down |
| (verb) lean in a comfortable resting position | Synonyms: recline, recumb |
| (verb) to put something (eg trust) in something | - |
| (verb) be inherent or innate in | Synonyms: reside, rest |
| ribose | (noun) a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid | - |
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| rimose | (adjective) having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices | - |
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| rockrose | (noun) small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions of southern Europe and North Africa; grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage | Synonyms: rock rose |
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| (noun) any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers | Synonyms: rock rose |
| rose | (adjective) of something having a dusty purplish pink color | Synonyms: rosaceous, roseate |
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| (noun) a dusty pink color | Synonyms: rosiness |
| (noun) pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began | Synonyms: blush wine, pink wine, rose wine |
| (noun) any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses | Synonyms: rosebush |
| rugose | (adjective) of leaves; ridged or wrinkled | - |
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| saccharose | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent | Synonyms: sucrose |
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| scapose | (adjective) resembling or consisting of a scape; having a bare leafless stalk growing directly from the ground | - |
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| schmoose | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze |
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| (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |
| semicomatose | (adjective) in a state of partial coma | - |
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| setose | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, spiny, thorny |
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| shmoose | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmooze |
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| spinose | (adjective) armed with spines | - |
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| squamulose | (adjective) covered with tiny scales | - |
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| stachyose | (noun) a tetrasaccharide found in the tubers of the Chinese artichoke | - |
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| sucrose | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent | Synonyms: saccharose |
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| sunrose | (noun) any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions | Synonyms: helianthemum, sun rose |
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| superimpose | (verb) place on top of | Synonyms: lay over, superpose |
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| superpose | (verb) place (one geometric figure) upon another so that their perimeters coincide | - |
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| (verb) place on top of | Synonyms: lay over, superimpose |
| suppose | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, imagine, opine, reckon, think |
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| (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, theorise, theorize |
| (verb) require as a necessary antecedent or precondition | Synonyms: presuppose |
| (verb) take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand | Synonyms: presuppose |
| (verb) express a supposition | Synonyms: say |
| tetrose | (noun) any monosaccharide sugar containing four atoms of carbon per molecule | - |
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| thrombose | (verb) become blocked by a thrombus | - |
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| tomentose | (adjective) covered with densely matted filaments | - |
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| (adjective) densely covered with short matted woolly hairs | Synonyms: tomentous |
| torulose | (adjective) of a cylindrical or ellipsoid body; swollen and constricted at intervals | - |
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| transpose | (noun) a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix | - |
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| (verb) change the order or arrangement of | Synonyms: commute, permute |
| (verb) change key | - |
| (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: counterchange, interchange |
| (verb) exchange positions without a change in value | Synonyms: commute |
| (verb) transfer from one place or period to another | Synonyms: transfer, transplant |
| (verb) put (a piece of music) into another key | - |
| (verb) transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality | - |
| triose | (noun) any monosaccharide sugar containing three atoms of carbon per molecule | - |
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| tuberose | (noun) a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers | Synonyms: Polianthes tuberosa |
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| underexpose | (verb) expose insufficiently | - |
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| (verb) expose to too little light | - |
| unloose | (verb) loosen the ties of | Synonyms: unloosen |
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| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, liberate, loose, release, unloosen |
| vamoose | (verb) leave suddenly | Synonyms: decamp, skip |
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| varicose | (adjective) abnormally swollen or knotty | - |
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| venose | (adjective) having or showing markings that resemble veins | Synonyms: veined, veinlike |
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| ventricose | (adjective) having a swelling on one side | Synonyms: ventricous |
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| verbose | (adjective) using or containing too many words | Synonyms: long-winded, tedious, windy, wordy |
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| verrucose | (adjective) (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts | Synonyms: wartlike, warty |
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| viscose | (noun) a rayon fabric made from viscose (cellulose xanthate) fibers | Synonyms: viscose rayon |
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| (noun) a cellulose ester obtained by treating cellulose with caustic soda | Synonyms: cellulose xanthate |
| xylose | (noun) a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics | Synonyms: wood sugar |
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