| nifty | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| nigella | (noun) any plant of the genus Nigella | - |
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| nigga | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: jigaboo, nigger, nigra |
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| niggard | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, scrooge, skinflint |
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| niggardliness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
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| niggardly | (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: grudging, scrimy |
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| niggardness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
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| nigger | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: jigaboo, nigga, nigra |
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| niggle | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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| (verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fret, fuss |
| niggler | (noun) someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way | Synonyms: carper |
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| niggling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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| nigh | (adjective) not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances | Synonyms: close, near |
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| (adjective) being on the left side | Synonyms: near |
| (adverb) near in time or place or relationship | Synonyms: close, near |
| (adverb) (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but | Synonyms: about, almost, most, near, nearly, virtually, well-nigh |
| nigher | (adverb) (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance | Synonyms: closer, nearer |
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| nighest | (adverb) (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance | Synonyms: closest, nearest |
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| night | (noun) darkness | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, nighttime |
| (noun) a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom | - |
| (noun) the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit | - |
| (noun) the time between sunset and midnight | - |
| (noun) the period spent sleeping | - |
| (noun) a shortening of nightfall | - |
| nightbird | (noun) a person who likes to be active late at night | Synonyms: night owl, nighthawk |
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| nightcap | (noun) the final game of a double header | - |
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| (noun) a cloth cap worn in bed | - |
| (noun) an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic | - |
| nightclothes | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightwear, sleepwear |
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| nightclub | (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, club, night club, nightspot |
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| nightcrawler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| nightdress | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightgown, nightie |
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| nighted | (adjective) overtaken by night or darkness | Synonyms: benighted |
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| nightfall | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, twilight |
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| nightgown | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightdress, nightie |
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| nighthawk | (noun) mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker | Synonyms: bullbat, mosquito hawk |
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| (noun) a person who likes to be active late at night | Synonyms: night owl, nightbird |
| nightie | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightdress, nightgown |
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| nightingale | (noun) European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song | Synonyms: Luscinia megarhynchos |
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| nightjar | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, goatsucker |
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| nightlife | (noun) the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion (as at the theater, a nightclub, etc.) | Synonyms: night life |
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| (noun) the entertainment available to people seeking nighttime diversion | Synonyms: night life |
| nightlong | (adjective) lasting, open, or operating through the whole night | Synonyms: all-night, overnight |
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| nightly | (adjective) happening every night | - |
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| (adverb) at the end of each day | Synonyms: every night |
| nightmare | (noun) a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream | - |
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| (noun) a situation resembling a terrifying dream | Synonyms: incubus |
| nightmarish | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: bloodcurdling, hair-raising |
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| nightmarishness | (noun) The property of being extremely bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying; resembling a nightmare. | Synonyms: hellishness |
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| nightrider | (noun) member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge | Synonyms: night rider |
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| nightshade | (noun) any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit | - |
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| nightshirt | (noun) nightclothes worn by men | - |
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| nightspot | (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, club, night club, nightclub |
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| nightstick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, truncheon |
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| nighttime | (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, night |
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| nightwalker | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, red worm, wiggler |
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| nightwear | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightclothes, sleepwear |
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| nightwork | (noun) work to be done at night | - |
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| nigra | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: jigaboo, nigga, nigger |
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| nihil | (noun) (Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ) | - |
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| nihilism | (noun) a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake | - |
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| (noun) complete denial of all established authority and institutions | - |
| (noun) the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal | Synonyms: nihilistic delusion |
| nihilist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: anarchist, syndicalist |
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| (noun) someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief | - |
| nihilistic | (adjective) of or relating to nihilism | - |
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| nihility | (noun) the state of nonexistence | Synonyms: nothingness, nullity, void |
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| nil | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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| nilgai | (noun) large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns | Synonyms: blue bull, Boselaphus tragocamelus, nylghai, nylghau |
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| nilpotent | (adjective) equal to zero when raised to a certain power | - |
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| nim | (noun) game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table | - |
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| nimble | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: agile, quick, spry |
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| (adjective) mentally quick | Synonyms: agile |
| nimbleness | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightness, lightsomeness |
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| (noun) intelligence as revealed by quickness and alertness of mind | Synonyms: mental dexterity |
| nimblewill | (noun) slender branching American grass of some value for grazing in central United States | Synonyms: Muhlenbergia schreberi, nimble Will |
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| nimbly | (adverb) in a nimble or agile manner; with quickness and lightness and ease | Synonyms: agilely |
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| nimbus | (noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aura, aureole, gloriole, glory, halo |
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| (noun) a dark grey cloud bearing rain | Synonyms: nimbus cloud, rain cloud |
| nimiety | (noun) a quantity much larger than is needed | Synonyms: excess, surplus, surplusage |
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| nincompoop | (noun) a stupid foolish person | Synonyms: ninny, poop |
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| nine | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten | Synonyms: 9, ix |
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| (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face | Synonyms: nine-spot |
| (noun) a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together | Synonyms: ball club, baseball club, club |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one | Synonyms: 9, ennead, IX, Nina from Carolina, niner |
| ninefold | (adjective) having nine units or components | Synonyms: nine-fold, nonuple |
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| (adverb) by a factor of nine | Synonyms: nine times |
| ninepence | (noun) a coin worth nine pennies | - |
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| ninepenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 2 3/4 in or 7 cm long | - |
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| ninepin | (noun) a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles | Synonyms: skittle, skittle pin |
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| ninepins | (noun) a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins | Synonyms: skittles |
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| niner | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one | Synonyms: 9, ennead, IX, Nina from Carolina, nine |
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| nineteen | (adjective) being one more than eighteen | Synonyms: 19, xix |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one | Synonyms: 19, XIX |
| nineteenth | (adjective) coming next after the eighteenth in position | Synonyms: 19th |
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| (noun) position 19 in a countable series of things | - |
| nineties | (noun) the time of life between 90 and 100 | Synonyms: mid-nineties |
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| (noun) the decade from 1990 to 1999 | Synonyms: 1990s |
| (noun) the decade from 1890 to 1899 | Synonyms: 1890s |
| ninetieth | (adjective) the ordinal number of ninety in counting order | Synonyms: 90th |
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| (noun) position 90 in a countable series of things | - |
| ninety | (adjective) being ten more than eighty | Synonyms: 90, xc |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine | Synonyms: 90, XC |
| ninja | (noun) a class of 14th century Japanese who were trained in martial arts and were hired for espionage and assassinations | - |
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| (noun) a member of the ninja who were trained in martial arts and hired for espionage or sabotage or assassinations; a person skilled in ninjutsu | - |
| ninjitsu | (noun) the traditional Japanese method of espionage; involves stealthy movements and the use of camouflage | Synonyms: ninjutsu |
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| ninjutsu | (noun) the traditional Japanese method of espionage; involves stealthy movements and the use of camouflage | Synonyms: ninjitsu |
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| ninny | (noun) a stupid foolish person | Synonyms: nincompoop, poop |
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| ninon | (noun) a fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or nylon | - |
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| ninth | (adjective) coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position | Synonyms: 9th |
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| (noun) one part in nine equal parts | Synonyms: one-ninth |
| (noun) position nine in a countable series of things | - |
| niobite | (noun) a black mineral that is an ore of niobium and tantalum | Synonyms: columbite |
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| niobium | (noun) a soft grey ductile metallic element used in alloys; occurs in niobite; formerly called columbium | Synonyms: atomic number 41, Nb |
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| nip | (noun) a small sharp bite or snip | Synonyms: pinch |
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| (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest |
| (noun) the property of being moderately cold | Synonyms: chilliness, coolness |
| (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang |
| (noun) a small drink of liquor | Synonyms: shot |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping | Synonyms: clip, nip off, snip, snip off |
| (verb) give a small sharp bite to | - |
| nipa | (noun) made from sap of the Australasian nipa palm | - |
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| nipper | (noun) a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods | Synonyms: chela, claw, pincer |
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| (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
| nipping | (adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating | Synonyms: crisp, frosty, nippy, snappy |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, mordacious, pungent |
| nipple | (noun) a flexible cap on a baby's feeding bottle or pacifier | - |
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| (noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mamilla, mammilla, pap, teat, tit |
| nippy | (adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating | Synonyms: crisp, frosty, nipping, snappy |
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| (adjective) a sharp biting taste | - |
| niqaabi | (noun) an observant Muslim woman who covers her face and hands when in public or in the presence of any man outside her immediate family | - |
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| niqab | (noun) a face veil covering the lower part of the face (up to the eyes) worn by observant Muslim women | - |
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| nirvana | (noun) any place of complete bliss and delight and peace | Synonyms: Eden, heaven, paradise, promised land, Shangri-la |
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| (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness | Synonyms: enlightenment |
| nisi | (adjective) not final or absolute | - |
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| nisus | (noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal | Synonyms: pains, strain, striving |
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| nit | (noun) egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing | - |
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| (noun) a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source | - |
| niter | (noun) (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive | Synonyms: nitre, potassium nitrate, saltpeter, saltpetre |
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| nitid | (adjective) bright with a steady but subdued shining | Synonyms: agleam, gleaming |
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| nitpick | (verb) be overly critical; criticize minor details | - |
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| nitpicker | (noun) someone who makes small and unjustified criticisms | - |
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| nitramine | (noun) a yellow crystalline explosive solid that is used in detonators | Synonyms: tetryl |
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| nitrate | (noun) any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid) | - |
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| (verb) treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate | - |
| nitrazepam | (noun) a hypnotic and sedative drug of the benzodiazepine type | - |
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| nitre | (noun) (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive | Synonyms: niter, potassium nitrate, saltpeter, saltpetre |
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