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Mos
  • (n.) sing. of Mores.

    Mosaic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, or established through his agency
  • (n.) A picture or design made in mosaic

    Moschatel
  • (n.) A plant of the genus Adoxa (A. moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell

    Moselle
  • (n.) A light wine, usually white, produced in the vicinity of the river Moselle.

    Moses
  • (n.) A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.

    Mosey
  • (v. i.) To go, or move (in a certain manner)

    Mosque
  • (n.) A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship.

    Mosquito
  • (n.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood

    Moss
  • (n.) A bog
  • (v. t.) To cover or overgrow with moss.

    Most
  • (a.) Consisting of the greatest number or quantity

    Mote
  • (n.) A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs
  • (pres. subj.) of Mot

    Moth
  • (n.) A mote.

    Motif
  • (n.) A decorative applique design or figure, as of lace or velvet, used in trimming.

    Motile
  • (a.) Exhibiting, or capable of, spontaneous movement
  • (n.) A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc

    Motion
  • (n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant
  • (v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand
  • (v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head

    Motivate
  • (n.) To provide with a motive

    Motive
  • (a.) Causing motion
  • (n.) That which incites to action
  • (v. t.) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives

    Motivity
  • (n.) The power of moving or producing motion.

    Motley
  • (a.) Variegated in color
  • (n.) A combination of distinct colors

    Motmot
  • (n.) Any one of several species of long-tailed, passerine birds of the genus Momotus, having a strong serrated beak

    Motorcar
  • (n.) An automobile, locomobile, or locomotive designed to run and be steered on a street or roadway

    Motorcycle
  • (n.) A bicycle having a motor attached so as to be self-propelled. In Great Britain the term motor cycle is treated by statute (3 Ed VII

    Motorize
  • (v. t.) To substitute motor-driven vehicles, or automobiles, for the horses and horse-drawn vehicles of (a fire department, city, etc

    Motorman
  • (n.) A man who controls a motor.

    Motte
  • (n.) A clump of trees in a prairie.

    Mottle
  • (n.) A mottled appearance.
  • (v. t.) To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained

    Motto
  • (n.) A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievment.

    Mouflon
  • (n.) A wild sheep (Ovis musimon), inhabiting the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles

    Mould
  • (n.) A fontanel.
  • (v.) Crumbling, soft, friable earth
  • (v. i.) To become moldy
  • (v. t.) To cause to become moldy

    Moult
  • (n.) The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.
  • (v. t.) To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like

    Mound
  • (n.) A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross
  • (v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.

    Mount
  • (n.) Any one of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand which are taken as significant of the influence of "planets," and called the mounts of Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, the Sun or Apollo, and Venus
  • (v.) A bank
  • (v. t.) Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper

    Mourn
  • (v. i.) To express or to feel grief or sorrow
  • (v. t.) To grieve for

    Mouse
  • (n.) A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow.
  • (v. i.) To watch for and catch mice.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a mouse

    Mousing
  • (a.) Impertinently inquisitive
  • (n.) A ratchet movement in a loom.

    Mousse
  • (n.) A frozen dessert of a frothy texture, made of sweetened and flavored whipped cream, sometimes with the addition of egg yolks and gelatin

    Moustache
  • (n.) Mustache.

    Mousy
  • (a.) Infested with mice

    Mouth
  • (n.) An opening affording entrance or exit
  • (v. i.) To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.
  • (v. t.) To form or cleanse with the mouth

    Movable
  • (a.) Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture
  • (n.) An article of wares or goods

    Move
  • (n.) An act for the attainment of an object
  • (v. i.) To act
  • (v. t.) To apply to, as for aid.

    Movie
  • (n.) A moving picture or a moving picture show

    Moving
  • (a.) Changing place or posture
  • (n.) The act of changing place or posture

    Mow
  • (n.) A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.
  • (pres. sing.) of Mow
  • (v.) May
  • (v. i.) To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine
  • (v. t.) To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.

    Mown
  • (p. p. & a.) Cut down by mowing, as grass

    Moxie
  • (n.) courage, determination.

    Mozzetta
  • (n.) A cape, with a small hood

    Much
  • (a.) To a great degree or extent
  • (Compar. & superl. wanting, but supplied by) Great in quantity
  • (n.) A great quantity

    Mucigen
  • (n.) A substance which is formed in mucous epithelial cells, and gives rise to mucin.

    Mucilage
  • (n.) A gummy or gelatinous substance produced in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of quinces, of flax, etc

    Mucilaginous
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or secreting, mucilage

    Mucin
  • (n.) An albuminoid substance which is contained in mucus, and gives to the latter secretion its peculiar ropy character

    Muck
  • (a.) Like muck
  • (n.) Anything filthy or vile.
  • (v. t.) To manure with muck.

    Mucoid
  • (a.) Resembling mucus.
  • (n.) One of a class of mucinlike substances yielding on decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form of proteid matter

    Mucopurulent
  • (a.) Having the character or appearance of both mucus and pus.

    Mucous
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, mucus

    Mucro
  • (n.) A minute abrupt point, as of a leaf

    Mucus
  • (n.) A gelatinous or slimy substance found in certain algae and other plants.

    Mud
  • (n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
  • (v. t.) To bury in mud.

    Muddle
  • (n.) A state of being turbid or confused
  • (v. i.) To dabble in mud.
  • (v. t.) To cloud or stupefy

    Muddy
  • (superl.) Abounding in mud

    Mudfish
  • (n.) The bowfin.

    Muezzin
  • (n.) A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer.

    Muff
  • (n.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
  • (v. t.) To handle awkwardly

    Mufti
  • (n.) An official expounder of Mohammedan law.

    Mug
  • (n.) A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle

    Muggy
  • (superl.) Moist

    Mugwort
  • (n.) A somewhat aromatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally

    Mugwump
  • (n.) A bolter from the Republican party in the national election of 1884

    Muharram
  • (n.) A festival of the Shiah sect of the Mohammedans held during the first ten days of the month Mohurrum

    Mulberry
  • (n.) A dark pure color, like the hue of a black mulberry.

    Mulch
  • (n.) Half-rotten straw, or any like substance strewn on the ground, as over the roots of plants, to protect from heat, drought, etc
  • (v. t.) To cover or dress with mulch.

    Mulct
  • (n.) A blemish or defect.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to deprive of

    Mule
  • (n.) A hybrid animal

    Muliebrity
  • (n.) Hence: Effeminancy

    Mulish
  • (a.) Like a mule

    Mull
  • (n.) An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger
  • (v. i.) To work (over) mentally
  • (v. t.) To dispirit or deaden

    Multicellular
  • (a.) Consisting of, or having, many cells or more than one cell.

    Multicolor
  • (a.) Having many, or several, colors.

    Multifarious
  • (a.) Having multiplicity

    Multifid
  • (a.) Having many segments

    Multiflorous
  • (a.) Having many flowers.

    Multifoil
  • (a.) Having more than five divisions or foils.
  • (n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of more than five divisions or foils.

    Multiform
  • (a.) Having many forms, shapes, or appearances.

    Multilateral
  • (a.) Having many sides

    Multilocular
  • (a.) Having many or several cells or compartments

    Multinuclear
  • (a.) Containing many nuclei

    Multiparous
  • (a.) Producing many, or more than one, at a birth.

    Multipartite
  • (a.) Divided into many parts

    Multiplane
  • (a.) Having several or many planes or plane surfaces
  • (n.) An aeroplane with three or more superposed main planes.

    Multiple
  • (a.) Containing more than once, or more than one
  • (n.) A quantity containing another quantity a number of times without a remainder.

    Multiplicand
  • (n.) The number which is to be multiplied by another number called the multiplier.

    Multiplicate
  • (a.) Consisting of many, or of more than one

    Multiplication
  • (n.) An increase above the normal number of parts, especially of petals

    Multiplicative
  • (a.) Tending to multiply

    Multiplicity
  • (n.) The quality of being multiple, manifold, or various

    Multiplier
  • (n.) An instrument for multiplying or increasing by repetition or accumulation the intensity of a force or action, as heat or electricity

    Multiply
  • (v. i.) To become greater in number
  • (v. t.) To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times

    Multipolar
  • (a.) Having, or pertaining to, many poles, as a field magnet or armature of a dynamo, or a dynamo having such a field magnet or (sometimes) armature

    Multipotent
  • (a.) Having manifold power, or power to do many things.

    Multitude
  • (n.) A great number of persons collected together

    Multitudinous
  • (a.) Consisting of a multitude

    Multivalent
  • (a.) Having a valence greater than one, as silicon.

    Mum
  • (a.) Silent
  • (interj.) Be silent! Hush!
  • (n.) A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.

    Mumble
  • (v.) To chew something gently with closed lips.
  • (v. t.) To chew or bite gently, as one without teeth.

    Mumm
  • (v. i.) To sport or make diversion in a mask or disguise

    Mumps
  • (n.) A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands

    Munch
  • (v. t. & i.) To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews provender

    Mundane
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the world

    Mungo
  • (n.) A fibrous material obtained by deviling rags or the remnants of woolen goods.

    Municipal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government

    Munificent
  • (a.) Very liberal in giving or bestowing

    Muniment
  • (n.) A record

    Munition
  • (n.) Fortification

    Muntjac
  • (n.) Any one of several species of small Asiatic deer of the genus Cervulus, esp. C. muntjac, which occurs both in India and on the East Indian Islands

    Mural
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a wall

    Murder
  • (n.) The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied

    Murex
  • (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside

    Murine
  • (a.) Pertaining to a family of rodents (Muridae), of which the mouse is the type.
  • (n.) One of a tribe of rodents, of which the mouse is the type.

    Murk
  • (a.) Dark
  • (n.) Darkness

    Murmur
  • (v. i.) A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice.
  • (v. t.) To utter or give forth in low or indistinct words or sounds

    Murphy
  • (n.) A potato.

    Murrain
  • (a.) Having, or afflicted with, murrain.
  • (n.) An infectious and fatal disease among cattle.

    Murre
  • (n.) Any one of several species of sea birds of the genus Uria, or Catarractes

    Murrhine
  • (a.) Made of the stone or material called by the Romans murrha

    Murther
  • (n. & v.) Murder, n. & v.

    Mus
  • (n.) A genus of small rodents, including the common mouse and rat.

    Musca
  • (n.) A genus of dipterous insects, including the common house fly, and numerous allied species.

    Muscid
  • (n.) Any fly of the genus Musca, or family Muscidae.

    Muscle
  • (n.) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion.

    Muscovado
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, unrefined or raw sugar, obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporating and draining off the molasses
  • (n.) Unrefined or raw sugar.

    Muscovite
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Muscovy or ancient Russia

    Muscular
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles

    Musculature
  • (n.) Musculation.

    Musculocutaneous
  • (a.) Pertaining both to muscles and skin

    Muse
  • (n.) A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass
  • (v. t.) To think on

    Mush
  • (n.) A march on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs
  • (v. i.) To travel on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs.
  • (v. t. ) To cause to travel or journey.
  • (v. t.) To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.

    Music
  • (n.) A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals.

    Musk
  • (n.) A plant of the genus Erodium (E. moschatum)
  • (v. t.) To perfume with musk.

    Muslin
  • (n.) A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is also applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods

    Muss
  • (n.) A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them
  • (v. t.) To disarrange, as clothing

    Must
  • (n.) An elephant in must.
  • (v. i. / auxiliary) To be morally required
  • (v. t. & i.) To make musty

    Mutable
  • (a.) Capable of alteration

    Mutation
  • (n.) As now employed (first by de Vries), a sudden variation (the offspring differing from its parents in some well-marked character or characters) as distinguished from a gradual variations in which the new characters become fully developed only in the course of many generations

    Mutilate
  • (a.) Deprived of, or having lost, an important part
  • (n.) A cetacean, or a sirenian.
  • (v. t.) To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of

    Mutilation
  • (n.) The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated

    Mutineer
  • (n.) One guilty of mutiny.

    Mutinous
  • (a.) Disposed to mutiny

    Mutiny
  • (n.) Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority
  • (v. i.) To fall into strife

    Mutter
  • (n.) Repressed or obscure utterance.
  • (v. i.) To sound with a low, rumbling noise.
  • (v. t.) To utter with imperfect articulations, or with a low voice

    Mutton
  • (n.) A loose woman

    Mutual
  • (a.) Possessed, experienced, or done by two or more persons or things at the same time

    Mutule
  • (n.) A projecting block worked under the corona of the Doric corice, in the same situation as the modillion of the Corinthian and Composite orders

    Mux
  • (n.) Dirt
  • (v. t.) To mix in an unitidy and offensive way

    Muzzle
  • (v. i.) A fastening or covering (as a band or cage) for the mouth of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious biting
  • (v. t.) To bind the mouth of

    Muzzy
  • (a.) Absent-minded

    My
  • (a.) Of or belonging to me

    Myalgia
  • (n.) Pain in the muscles

    Mycelium
  • (n.) The white threads or filamentous growth from which a mushroom or fungus is developed

    Mycology
  • (n.) That branch of botanical science which relates to the musgrooms and other fungi.

    Mydriasis
  • (n.) A long-continued or excessive dilatation of the pupil of the eye.

    Myelencephalon
  • (n.) The brain and spinal cord

    Myelin
  • (n.) A soft white substance constituting the medullary sheats of nerve fibers, and composed mainly of cholesterin, lecithin, cerebrin, albumin, and some fat

    Myelitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the spinal marrow or its membranes.

    Myeloid
  • (a.) Resembling marrow in appearance or consistency

    Mynheer
  • (n.) The Dutch equivalent of Mr. or Sir

    Myocarditis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the myocardium.

    Myocardium
  • (n.) The main substance of the muscular wall of the heart inclosed between the epicardium and endocardium

    Myograph
  • (n.) An instrument for determining and recording the different phases, as the intensity, velocity, etc

    Myology
  • (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of muscles.

    Myoma
  • (n.) A tumor consisting of muscular tissue.

    Myope
  • (n.) A person having myopy

    Myopia
  • (n.) Nearsightedness

    Myopic
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or affected with, or characterized by, myopia

    Myosin
  • (n.) An albuminous body present in dead muscle, being formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis

    Myosis
  • (n.) Long-continued contraction of the pupil of the eye.

    Myositis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the muscles.

    Myosotis
  • (n.) A genus of plants.

    Myotome
  • (n.) A muscular segment

    Myriad
  • (a.) Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number
  • (n.) An immense number

    Myriapod
  • (n.) One of the Myriapoda.

    Myrica
  • (n.) A widely dispersed genus of shrubs and trees, usually with aromatic foliage. It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called

    Myrmidon
  • (n.) A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity

    Myrrh
  • (n.) A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste

    Myrtle
  • (n.) A species of the genus Myrtus, especially Myrtus communis. The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem, eight or ten feet high

    Myself
  • (pron.) I or me in person

    Mystagogue
  • (n.) interprets mysteries, especially of a religious kind.

    Mysterious
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to mystery

    Mystery
  • (a.) A kind of secret religious celebration, to which none were admitted except those who had been initiated by certain preparatory ceremonies
  • (n.) A dramatic representation of a Scriptural subject, often some event in the life of Christ

    Mystic
  • (n.) One given to mysticism

    Mystify
  • (v. t.) To involve in mystery

    Myth
  • (n.) A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.

    Myxoma
  • (n.) A tumor made up of a gelatinous tissue resembling that found in the umbilical cord.

    N
  • (n.) A measure of space equal to half an M (or em)

    Na
  • (a. & adv.) No, not.

    Nab
  • (n.) The cock of a gunlock.
  • (v. t.) To catch or seize suddenly or unexpectedly.

    Nabob
  • (n.) A deputy or viceroy in India

    Nacelle
  • (n.) A boatlike, inclosed body of an aeroplane.

    Nacre
  • (a.) Having the peculiar iridescence of nacre, or mother-of-pearl, or an iridescence resembling it
  • (n.) A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl

    Nadir
  • (n.) That point of the heavens, or lower hemisphere, directly opposite the zenith

    Nag
  • (n.) A paramour
  • (v. t. & i.) To tease in a petty way

    Nagana
  • (n.) The disease caused by the tsetse fly.

    Naiad
  • (n.) Any plant of the order Naiadaceae, such as eelgrass, pondweed, etc.

    Nail
  • (a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
  • (n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them

    Nainsook
  • (n.) A thick sort of jaconet muslin, plain or striped, formerly made in India.

    Naive
  • (a.) Having native or unaffected simplicity

    Naked
  • (a.) Having no clothes on

    Nam
  • (imp.) of Nim

    Namable
  • (a.) Capable of being named.

    Name
  • (n.) A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts

    Nan
  • (inerj.) Anan.

    Nankeen
  • (n.) An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.

    Nanny
  • (n.) A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name.

    Naos
  • (n.) A term used by modern archaeologists instead of cella.

    Nap
  • (n.) A short sleep
  • (v. i.) To be in a careless, secure state.
  • (v. t.) To raise, or put, a nap on.

    Nape
  • (n.) The back part of the neck.

    Naphtha
  • (n.) One of several volatile inflammable liquids obtained by the distillation of certain carbonaceous materials and resembling the naphtha from petroleum

    Naphthene
  • (n.) A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum.

    Naphthol
  • (n.) Any one of a series of hydroxyl derivatives of naphthalene, analogous to phenol. In general they are crystalline substances with a phenol (carbolic) odor

    Napiform
  • (a.) Turnip-shaped

    Napkin
  • (n.) A handkerchief.

    Napoleon
  • (n.) A bid to take five tricks at napoleon. It is ordinarily the highest bid

    Nappe
  • (n.) Sheet

    Nappy
  • (a.) Having a nap or pile
  • (n.) A round earthen dish, with a flat bottom and sloping sides.

    Narcissus
  • (n.) A beautiful youth fabled to have been enamored of his own image as seen in a fountain, and to have been changed into the flower called Narcissus

    Narcosis
  • (n.) Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic.

    Narcotic
  • (a.) Having the properties of a narcotic
  • (n.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep

    Narcotize
  • (v. t.) To imbue with, or subject to the influence of, a narcotic

    Nard
  • (n.) A kind of grass (Nardus stricta) of little value, found in Europe and Asia.

    Nares
  • (n. pl.) The nostrils or nasal openings

    Narrate
  • (v. t.) To tell, rehearse, or recite, as a story

    Narration
  • (n.) That part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject

    Narrative
  • (a.) Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events
  • (n.) That which is narrated

    Narrator
  • (n.) One who narrates

    Narrow
  • (n.) A narrow passage
  • (superl.) Contracted
  • (v. i.) Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other
  • (v. t.) To contract the reach or sphere of

    Narthex
  • (n.) A tall umbelliferous plant (Ferula communis).

    Narwhal
  • (n.) An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale

    Nasal
  • (a.) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose
  • (n.) A medicine that operates through the nose

    Nascent
  • (a.) Commencing, or in process of development

    Naseberry
  • (n.) A tropical fruit.

    Nasion
  • (n.) The middle point of the nasofrontal suture.

    Nasofrontal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the nose and the front of the head

    Nasopharyngeal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to both throat and nose

    Nasturtium
  • (n.) A genus of cruciferous plants, having white or yellowish flowers, including several species of cress

    Nasty
  • (superl.) Characterized by obcenity

    Nat
  • (adv.) Not.

    Natal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth

    Natant
  • (a.) Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants

    Natation
  • (n.) The act of floating on the water

    Natatory
  • (a.) Adapted for swimming or floating

    Natch
  • (n.) The rump of beef

    Nates
  • (n. pl.) The buttocks.

    Nation
  • (n.) A great number

    Nativism
  • (n.) The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries

    Nativity
  • (n.) A picture representing or symbolizing the early infancy of Christ. The simplest form is the babe in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born

    Natrium
  • (n.) The technical name for sodium.

    Natrolite
  • (n.) A zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals, and in masses which often have a radiated structure

    Natron
  • (n.) Native sodium carbonate.

    Natter
  • (v. i.) To find fault

    Natty
  • (a.) Neat

    Natural
  • (a.) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key
  • (n.) A character

    Nature
  • (n.) Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artifical, or forced, or remote from actual experience
  • (v. t.) To endow with natural qualities.

    Naturism
  • (n.) The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.

    Naturist
  • (n.) One who believes in, or conforms to, the theory of naturism.

    Naught
  • (a.) Hence, vile
  • (adv.) In no degree

    Nauplius
  • (n.) A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body

    Nausea
  • (n.) Seasickness

    Nauseous
  • (a.) Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea

    Nautch
  • (n.) An entertainment consisting chiefly of dancing by professional dancing (or Nautch) girls.

    Nautical
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships

    Nautiloid
  • (a.) Like or pertaining to the nautilus
  • (n.) A mollusk, or shell, of the genus Nautilus or family Nautilidae.

    Nautilus
  • (n.) A variety of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants

    Naval
  • (a.) Having to do with shipping

    Nave
  • (n.) The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes

    Navicular
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship.
  • (n.) The navicular bone.

    Navigable
  • (a.) Capable of being navigated

    Navigate
  • (v. i.) To joirney by water
  • (v. t.) To pass over in ships

    Navigation
  • (n.) Ships in general.

    Navigator
  • (n.) One who navigates or sails

    Navvy
  • (n.) Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation

    Navy
  • (n.) A fleet of ships

    Nawab
  • (n.) A deputy ruler or viceroy in India

    Nay
  • (adv.) No
  • (n.) a negative vote
  • (v. t. & i.) To refuse.

    Nazarene
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Nazareth

    Nazarite
  • (n.) A Jew bound by a vow to lave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time

    Nazirite
  • (n.) A Nazarite.

    Ne
  • (adv.) Nor.

    Neap
  • (a.) Low.
  • (n.) A neap tide.

    Near
  • (a) Close-fisted
  • (adv.) At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree
  • (prep.) Adjacent to
  • (v. i.) To draw near

    Neat
  • (a.) Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.
  • (n.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus
  • (n. sing. & pl.) Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats

    Neb
  • (n.) The nose

    Nebula
  • (n.) A cloudy appearance in the urine.

    Nebulize
  • (v. t.) To reduce (as a liquid) to a fine spray or vapor

    Nebulosity
  • (n.) A nebula.

    Nebulous
  • (a.) Cloudy

    Necessarily
  • (adv.) In a necessary manner

    Necessary
  • (a.) Acting from necessity or compulsion
  • (n.) A privy

    Necessitarian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will
  • (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of necessitarianism.

    Necessitate
  • (v. t.) To make necessary or indispensable

    Necessitous
  • (a.) Narrow

    Necessity
  • (n.) That which is necessary

    Neck
  • (n.) A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts
  • (v. t.) To reduce the diameter of (an object) near its end, by making a groove around it
  • (v. t. & i.) To kiss and caress amorously.

    Necrobiosis
  • (n.) The death of a part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy

    Necrolatry
  • (n.) The worship of the dead

    Necrology
  • (n.) An account of deaths, or of the dead

    Necromancy
  • (n.) The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead

    Necrophagous
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Necrophaga

    Necrophobia
  • (n.) An exaggerated fear of death or horror of dead bodies.

    Necropolis
  • (n.) A city of the dead

    Necropsy
  • (n.) A post-mortem examination or inspection

    Necrosis
  • (n.) A disease of trees, in which the branches gradually dry up from the bark to the center.

    Nectar
  • (n.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.


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