| nosebleed | (noun) bleeding from the nose | Synonyms: epistaxis |
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| nosecount | (noun) a periodic count of the population | Synonyms: census, nose count |
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| nosed | (adjective) having a nose (either literal or metaphoric) especially of a specified kind | - |
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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 | - |
| nosegay | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: bouquet, corsage, posy |
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| noseless | (adjective) having no nose | - |
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| nosepiece | (noun) the link between two lenses; rests on the nose | Synonyms: bridge |
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| (noun) armor plate that protects the nose | - |
| (noun) a strap that is the part of a bridle that goes over the animal's nose | Synonyms: noseband |
| nosewheel | (noun) a wheel located under the nose of an airplane that is part of the plane's landing gear | - |
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| nosey | (adjective) offensively curious or inquisitive | Synonyms: nosy, prying, snoopy |
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| nosh | (noun) (Yiddish) a snack or light meal | - |
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| (verb) eat a snack; eat lightly | Synonyms: snack |
| nosher | (noun) someone who eats lightly or eats snacks between meals | Synonyms: snacker |
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| nosiness | (noun) offensive inquisitiveness | Synonyms: prying, snoopiness |
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| nosocomial | (adjective) taking place or originating in a hospital | - |
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| nosohusial | (adjective) taking place related or acquired under home healthcare | - |
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| nosology | (noun) the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease | Synonyms: diagnostics |
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| nostalgia | (noun) longing for something past | - |
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| nostalgic | (adjective) unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons | - |
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| nostalgically | (adverb) in a nostalgic manner | - |
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| nostoc | (noun) found in moist places as rounded jellylike colonies | - |
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| nostril | (noun) either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose | Synonyms: anterior naris |
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| nostrum | (noun) patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable | - |
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| (noun) hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists | Synonyms: catholicon, cure-all, panacea |
| nosy | (adjective) offensively curious or inquisitive | Synonyms: nosey, prying, snoopy |
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| not | (adverb) negation of a word or group of words | Synonyms: non |
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| notability | (noun) a celebrity who is an inspiration to others | Synonyms: guiding light, leading light, luminary, notable |
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| notable | (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famed, famous, far-famed, illustrious, noted, renowned |
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| (adjective) worthy of attention | Synonyms: noteworthy, remarkable |
| (noun) a celebrity who is an inspiration to others | Synonyms: guiding light, leading light, luminary, notability |
| notably | (adverb) especially; in particular | - |
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| (adverb) to a remarkable degree or extent | Synonyms: remarkably, unco, unusually |
| notarise | (verb) authenticate as a notary | Synonyms: notarize |
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| notarize | (verb) authenticate as a notary | Synonyms: notarise |
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| notary | (noun) someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions | Synonyms: notary public |
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| notate | (verb) put into notation, as of music or choreography | - |
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| notation | (noun) the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters | - |
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| (noun) a technical system of symbols used to represent special things | Synonyms: notational system |
| (noun) a comment or instruction (usually added) | Synonyms: annotation, note |
| notch | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: nick, snick |
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| (noun) a V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface | - |
| (noun) the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks | Synonyms: mountain pass, pass |
| (noun) a V-shaped indentation | - |
| (verb) notch a surface to record something | - |
| (verb) cut or make a notch into | - |
| notched | (adjective) having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed | Synonyms: erose, jagged, jaggy, toothed |
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| (adjective) notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex | Synonyms: saw-toothed, serrate, serrated, toothed |
| note | (noun) a characteristic emotional quality | - |
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| (noun) a brief written record | - |
| (noun) a comment or instruction (usually added) | Synonyms: annotation, notation |
| (noun) a short personal letter | Synonyms: billet, line, short letter |
| (noun) a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound | Synonyms: musical note, tone |
| (noun) a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling | - |
| (noun) a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time | Synonyms: note of hand, promissory note |
| (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback |
| (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: distinction, eminence, preeminence |
| (verb) make mention of | Synonyms: mention, observe, remark |
| (verb) make a written note of | Synonyms: take down |
| (verb) notice or perceive | Synonyms: mark, notice |
| (verb) observe with care or pay close attention to | Synonyms: observe, take note |
| notebook | (noun) a small compact portable computer | Synonyms: notebook computer |
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| (noun) a book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda | - |
| notecase | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: billfold, pocketbook, wallet |
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| noted | (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famed, famous, far-famed, illustrious, notable, renowned |
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| notepad | (noun) a pad of paper for keeping notes | - |
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| notepaper | (noun) writing paper intended for writing short notes or letters | - |
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| noteworthy | (adjective) worthy of attention | Synonyms: notable, remarkable |
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| nothing | (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, nil, nix, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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| (adverb) in no respect; to no degree | - |
| nothingness | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarkey, malarky, wind |
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| (noun) the state of nonexistence | Synonyms: nihility, nullity, void |
| nothings | (noun) inconsequential conversation | - |
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| nothosaur | (noun) extinct marine reptile with longer more slender limbs than plesiosaurs and less completely modified for swimming | - |
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| notice | (noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: observance, observation |
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| (noun) polite or favorable attention | - |
| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, placard, poster, posting |
| (noun) an announcement containing information about an event | - |
| (noun) a request for payment | Synonyms: notification |
| (noun) advance notification (usually written) of the intention to withdraw from an arrangement of contract | - |
| (noun) a short critical review | - |
| (verb) make or write a comment on | Synonyms: comment, point out, remark |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: acknowledge |
| (verb) notice or perceive | Synonyms: mark, note |
| (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, discover, find, observe |
| noticeability | (noun) the property of being easy to see and understand | Synonyms: noticeableness, obviousness, patency |
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| noticeable | (adjective) capable or worthy of being noticed | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being detected | Synonyms: detectable |
| noticeableness | (noun) the property of being easy to see and understand | Synonyms: noticeability, obviousness, patency |
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| noticeably | (adverb) in a noticeable manner | Synonyms: observably, perceptibly |
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| noticed | (adjective) being perceived or observed | - |
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| noticer | (noun) someone who gives formal notice | - |
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| (noun) someone who takes notice | - |
| notifiable | (adjective) requiring that official notification be given | - |
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| notification | (noun) an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative | Synonyms: presentment |
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| (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: apprisal, telling |
| (noun) a request for payment | Synonyms: notice |
| notify | (verb) inform (somebody) of something | Synonyms: advise, apprise, apprize, give notice, send word |
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| notion | (noun) (usually plural) small personal articles or clothing or sewing items | - |
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| (noun) a general inclusive concept | - |
| (noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | Synonyms: whim, whimsey, whimsy |
| (noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: belief, feeling, impression, opinion |
| notional | (adjective) being of the nature of a notion or concept | Synonyms: conceptional, ideational |
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| (adjective) indulging in or influenced by fancy | Synonyms: fanciful |
| (adjective) not based on fact or investigation | Synonyms: speculative |
| (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, imaginary |
| notochord | (noun) a flexible rodlike structure that forms the supporting axis of the body in the lowest chordates and lowest vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates | - |
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| notoriety | (noun) the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality | Synonyms: ill fame |
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| notorious | (adjective) known widely and usually unfavorably | Synonyms: ill-famed, infamous |
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| notoriously | (adverb) to a notorious degree | - |
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| notornis | (noun) flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules | Synonyms: Notornis mantelli, takahe |
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| notturno | (noun) a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) | Synonyms: nocturne |
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| notwithstanding | (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, still, withal, yet |
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| nougat | (noun) nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste | - |
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| nought | (noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cipher, cypher, zero |
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| noumenon | (noun) the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception | Synonyms: thing-in-itself |
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| noun | (noun) a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action | - |
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| (noun) the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition | - |
| nourish | (verb) provide with nourishment | Synonyms: nurture, sustain |
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| (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: aliment, nutrify |
| nourished | (adjective) being provided with adequate nourishment | - |
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| nourishing | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive |
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| nourishment | (noun) the act of nourishing | - |
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| (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals |
| nous | (noun) that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | Synonyms: brain, head, mind, psyche |
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| (noun) common sense | - |
| nova | (noun) a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and becomes more luminous in the process | - |
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| novate | (verb) replace with something new, especially an old obligation by a new one | - |
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| novation | (noun) (law) the replacement of one obligation by another by mutual agreement of both parties; usually the replacement of one of the original parties to a contract with the consent of the remaining party | - |
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| 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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| novice | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: beginner, initiate, tiro, tyro |
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| (noun) someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows | Synonyms: novitiate |
| noviciate | (noun) the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order) | Synonyms: novitiate |
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| novillada | (noun) a bullfight in which the bulls are less than four years old | - |
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| novillero | (noun) a bullfighter who is required to fight bulls less than four years of age | - |
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| novitiate | (noun) someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows | Synonyms: novice |
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| (noun) the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order) | Synonyms: noviciate |
| novobiocin | (noun) an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used to treat infections by Gram-positive bacteria | - |
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| novocaine | (noun) procaine administered as a hydrochloride (trade name Novocain) | Synonyms: Novocain, procaine hydrochloride |
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| now | (noun) the momentary present | - |
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| (adverb) in these times | Synonyms: nowadays, today |
| (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, forthwith, immediately, instantly, like a shot, right away, straight off, straightaway |
| (adverb) used to preface a command or reproof or request | - |
| (adverb) at the present moment | Synonyms: at present |
| (adverb) in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events | - |
| (adverb) in the immediate past | - |
| (adverb) (prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity | - |
| nowadays | (noun) the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech | Synonyms: present |
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| (adverb) in these times | Synonyms: now, today |
| nowhere | (noun) an insignificant place | - |
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| (adverb) not anywhere; in or at or to no place | - |
| nowise | (adverb) in no manner | Synonyms: to no degree |
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| nowness | (noun) the quality of being the present | Synonyms: presentness |
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| noxious | (adjective) injurious to physical or mental health | - |
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| noxiously | (adverb) in a detrimental manner | Synonyms: detrimentally, harmfully |
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| noxiousness | (noun) the quality of being noxious | Synonyms: harmfulness, noisomeness |
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