niacin | (noun) a B vitamin essential for the normal function of the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract | Synonyms: nicotinic acid |
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nib | (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, bill, neb, pecker |
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(noun) the writing point of a pen | Synonyms: pen nib |
nibbed | (adjective) (used of pens) having a writing point or nib especially of a certain kind | - |
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nibble | (noun) gentle biting | - |
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(noun) a small byte | Synonyms: nybble |
(verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: pick, piece |
(verb) bite off very small pieces | - |
(verb) bite gently | - |
nibbler | (noun) a biter who takes dainty repeated bites | - |
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niblick | (noun) an iron with considerable loft | Synonyms: nine iron |
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nicad | (noun) a rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode; often used in emergency systems because of its low discharge rate when not in use | Synonyms: nickel-cadmium accumulator |
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nice | (adjective) pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance | - |
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(adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, overnice, prissy, squeamish |
(adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: courteous, gracious |
(adjective) socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous | Synonyms: decent |
(adjective) done with delicacy and skill | Synonyms: skillful |
nicely | (adverb) in a nice way | - |
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niceness | (noun) the quality of nice | - |
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(noun) the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze | Synonyms: subtlety |
(noun) a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage | Synonyms: politeness |
nicety | (noun) conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety | Synonyms: justness, rightness |
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(noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nuance, refinement, shade, subtlety |
niche | (noun) an enclosure that is set back or indented | Synonyms: recess |
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(noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: corner, recess, recession |
(noun) a position particularly well suited to the person who or organization which occupies it | - |
(noun) (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species) | Synonyms: ecological niche |
nick | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: notch, snick |
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(noun) (British slang) a prison | - |
(noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: dent, ding, gouge |
(verb) mate successfully; of livestock | - |
(verb) divide or reset the tail muscles of | - |
(verb) cut a nick into | Synonyms: chip |
(verb) cut slightly, with a razor | Synonyms: snick |
nickel | (noun) a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar | - |
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(noun) five dollars worth of a drug | Synonyms: nickel note |
(noun) a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite | Synonyms: atomic number 28, Ni |
(verb) plate with nickel | - |
nickelodeon | (noun) a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin | Synonyms: jukebox |
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nicker | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
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(verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
nicknack | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, knickknackery, whatnot |
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nickname | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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(noun) a descriptive name for a place or thing | - |
(verb) give a nickname to | Synonyms: dub |
nicotine | (noun) an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide | - |
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nictate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictitate, wink |
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nictation | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictitation, wink, winking |
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nictitate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictate, wink |
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nictitation | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictation, wink, winking |
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nidation | (noun) (embryology) the organic process whereby a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the lining of the uterus of placental mammals | Synonyms: implantation |
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nidicolous | (adjective) (of birds) remaining in the nest for a time after hatching | - |
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nidifugous | (adjective) (of birds) leaving the nest shortly after hatching | - |
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nidus | (noun) a nest in which spiders or insects deposit their eggs | - |
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(noun) a central point or locus of an infection in an organism | Synonyms: focal point, focus |
niece | (noun) a daughter of your brother or sister | - |
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nierembergia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: cupflower |
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nifedipine | (noun) calcium blocker (trade name Procardia); appears to increase the risk of recurrent heart attacks | Synonyms: Procardia |
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niff | (noun) an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: pong |
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niffy | (adjective) (British informal) malodorous | - |
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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 |