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Need
  • (adv.) Of necessity.
  • (n.) A state that requires supply or relief
  • (v. i.) To be wanted

    Nefarious
  • (adv.) Wicked in the extreme

    Negation
  • (adv.) Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception

    Negative
  • (a.) Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate
  • (n.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture
  • (v. t.) To neutralize the force of

    Neglect
  • (adv.) Not to attend to with due care or attention
  • (v.) Habitual carelessness

    Negligee
  • (n.) An easy, unceremonious attire

    Negligence
  • (n.) An act or instance of negligence or carelessness.

    Negligent
  • (a.) Apt to neglect

    Negligible
  • (a.) That may neglicted, disregarded, or left out of consideration.

    Negotiable
  • (a.) Capable of being negotiated

    Negotiant
  • (n.) A negotiator.

    Negotiate
  • (v. i.) To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or convention
  • (v. t.) To carry on negotiations concerning

    Negotiation
  • (n.) Hence, mercantile business

    Negotiator
  • (n.) One who negotiates

    Negus
  • (n.) A beverage made of wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon juice

    Neigh
  • (n.) The cry of a horse
  • (v. i.) To scoff or sneer

    neighbor
  • (v. t.) To adjoin

    Neighborhood
  • (n.) A place near

    Neighboring
  • (a.) Living or being near
  • (p. pr. & vb. n) of neighbor

    Neighborly
  • (a.) Apropriate to the relation of neighbors
  • (adv.) In a neigborly manner.

    Neither
  • (a.) Not either
  • (conj.) not either

    Nematocyst
  • (n.) A lasso cell, or thread cell.

    Nemesis
  • (n.) The goddess of retribution or vengeance

    Neodymium
  • (n.) An elementary substance which forms one of the constituents of didymium. Symbol Nd. Atomic weight 140

    Neoimpressionism
  • (n.) A theory or practice which is a further development, on more rigorously scientific lines, of the theory and practice of Impressionism, originated by George Seurat (1859-91), and carried on by Paul Signac (1863- -) and others

    Neolithic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone.

    Neologism
  • (n.) A new doctrine

    Neologize
  • (v. i.) To introduce innovations in doctrine, esp. in theological doctrine.

    Neology
  • (n.) A new doctrine

    Neophyte
  • (n.) A new convert or proselyte

    Neoplasia
  • (n.) Growth or development of new material

    Neoplasm
  • (n.) A new formation or tissue, the product of morbid action.

    Neoplasty
  • (n.) Restoration of a part by granulation, adhesive inflammation, or autoplasty.

    Neoteric
  • (n.) One of modern times

    Neotropical
  • (a.) Belonging to, or designating, a region of the earth's surface which comprises most of South America, the Antilles, and tropical North America

    Nepenthe
  • (n.) A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow

    Nephelite
  • (n.) A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals

    Nephelometer
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.

    Nephew
  • (n.) A cousin.

    Nephoscope
  • (n.) An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity.

    Nephridium
  • (n.) A segmental tubule

    Nephrite
  • (n.) A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name

    Nephritic
  • (n.) A medicine adapted to relieve or cure disease of the kidneys.

    Nephritis
  • (n.) An inflammation of the kidneys.

    Nephrology
  • (n.) A treatise on, or the science which treats of, the kidneys, and their structure and functions

    Nephrostome
  • (n.) The funnelshaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.

    Nephrotomy
  • (n.) Extraction of stone from the kidney by cutting.

    Nepotism
  • (n.) Undue attachment to relations

    Neptune
  • (n.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered—as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris—by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846

    Neptunium
  • (n.) A new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite

    Nereid
  • (n.) Any species of Nereis. The word is sometimes used for similar annelids of other families.

    Nereis
  • (n.) A genus, including numerous species, of marine chaetopod annelids, having a well-formed head, with two pairs of eyes, antennae, four pairs of tentacles, and a protrusile pharynx, armed with a pair of hooked jaws

    Neroli
  • (n.) An essential oil obtained by distillation from the flowers of the orange. It has a strong odor, and is used in perfumery, etc

    Nerve
  • (n.) A sinew or a tendon.
  • (v. t.) To give strength or vigor to

    Nervous
  • (a.) Having the nerves weak, diseased, or easily excited

    Nervure
  • (n.) One of the chitinous supports, or veins, in the wings of incests.

    Nervy
  • (superl. -) Strong

    Nescience
  • (n.) Want of knowledge

    Ness
  • (n.) A promontory

    Nest
  • (n.) A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger
  • (v. i.) To build and occupy a nest.
  • (v. t.) To put into a nest

    Net
  • (a.) Free from extraneous substances
  • (v. i.) To form network or netting
  • (v. t.) To inclose or cover with a net

    Nether
  • (a.) Situated down or below

    Netsuke
  • (n.) In Japanese costume and decorative art, a small object carved in wood, ivory, bone, or horn, or wrought in metal, and pierced with holes for cords by which it is connected, for convenience, with the inro, the smoking pouch (tabako-ire), and similar objects carried in the girdle

    Netting
  • (n.) A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding

    Nettle
  • (n.) A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation
  • (v. t.) To fret or sting

    Network
  • (n.) A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them

    Neural
  • (a.) relating to the nerves or nervous system

    Neurasthenia
  • (n.) A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord

    Neurilemma
  • (n.) The delicate outer sheath of a nerve fiber

    Neuritis
  • (n.) Inflammation of a nerve.

    Neuroglia
  • (n.) The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord

    Neurology
  • (n.) The branch of science which treats of the nervous system.

    Neuroma
  • (n.) A tumor developed on, or connected with, a nerve, esp. one consisting of new-formed nerve fibers

    Neuromuscular
  • (a.) Nervomuscular.

    Neuron
  • (n.) The brain and spinal cord

    Neuropathy
  • (n.) An affection of the nervous system or of a nerve.

    Neuropteran
  • (n.) A neuropter.

    Neurosis
  • (n.) A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure

    Neurotic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the nerves
  • (n.) A disease seated in the nerves.

    Neurotomy
  • (n.) The dissection, or anatomy, of the nervous system.

    Neurula
  • (n.) An embryo or certain invertebrates in the stage when the primitive band is first developed

    Neuter
  • (a.) Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females
  • (n.) An intransitive verb.

    Neutral
  • (a.) Having neither acid nor basic properties
  • (n.) A person or a nation that takes no part in a contest between others

    Neutrophil
  • (n.) One of a group of leucocytes whose granules stain only with neutral dyes.

    Never
  • (adv.) In no degree

    New
  • (adv.) Newly
  • (superl.) As if lately begun or made
  • (v. t. & i.) To make new

    Newborn
  • (a.) Recently born.

    Newcomer
  • (n.) One who has lately come.

    Newel
  • (n.) A novelty

    Newfangled
  • (a.) Disposed to change

    Newfoundland
  • (n.) A Newfoundland dog.

    Newly
  • (adv.) Anew

    Newmarket
  • (n.) A long, closely fitting cloak.

    News
  • (n) A bearer of news

    newsboy
  • (n.) A boy who distributes or sells newspaper.

    Newsman
  • (n.) A man who distributes or sells newspapers.

    Newsmonger
  • (n.) One who deals in news

    Newspaper
  • (n.) A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc

    Newsroom
  • (n.) A room where news is collected and disseminated, or periodicals sold

    Newsy
  • (a.) Full of news

    Newt
  • (n.) Any one of several species of small aquatic salamanders. The common British species are the crested newt (Triton cristatus) and the smooth newt (Lophinus punctatus)

    Next
  • (adv.) In the time, place, or order nearest or immediately suceeding
  • (superl.) Adjoining in a series

    Nexus
  • (n.) Connection

    Nib
  • (n.) A small and pointed thing or part
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a nib

    Nibble
  • (n.) A small or cautious bite.
  • (v. t.) To bite by little at a time

    Niblick
  • (n.) A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc.

    Niccolite
  • (n.) A mineral of a copper-red color and metallic luster

    Nice
  • (superl.) Apprehending slight differences or delicate distinctions

    Niche
  • (n.) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament

    Nick
  • (n.) A broken or indented place in any edge or surface
  • (v. t.) To hit at, or in, the nick

    Nicotiana
  • (n.) A genus of American and Asiatic solanaceous herbs, with viscid foliage and funnel-shaped blossoms

    Nicotine
  • (n.) An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste

    Nicotinism
  • (n.) The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of tobacco.

    Nictitate
  • (v. i.) To wink

    Nide
  • (n.) A nestful

    Nidificate
  • (v. i.) To make a nest.

    Nidus
  • (n.) A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.

    Niece
  • (n.) A daughter of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law.

    Niello
  • (n.) A metallic alloy of a deep black color.

    Niggard
  • (a.) Like a niggard
  • (n.) A person meanly close and covetous
  • (v. t. & i.) To act the niggard toward

    Niggle
  • (v. i.) To be finicky or excessively critical
  • (v. t.) To act or walk mincingly.

    Niggling
  • (n.) Finicky or pottering work

    Nigh
  • (a.) Almost
  • (prep.) Near to
  • (superl.) Not distant or remote in place or time
  • (v. t. & i.) To draw nigh (to)

    Nihilism
  • (n.) Nothingness

    Nihility
  • (n.) Nothingness

    Nil
  • (n. & a.) Nothing
  • (v. t.) Will not.

    Nile
  • (n.) The great river of Egypt.

    Nilotic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Nile

    Nim
  • (v. t.) To take

    Nimble
  • (superl.) Light and quick in motion

    Nimbus
  • (n.) A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc

    Nimiety
  • (n.) State of being in excess.

    Nincompoop
  • (n.) A fool

    Nine
  • (a.) Eight and one more
  • (n.) A symbol representing nine units, as 9 or ix.

    Ninny
  • (n.) A fool

    Ninth
  • (a.) Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is divided.
  • (n.) A chord of the dominant seventh with the ninth added.

    Niobium
  • (n.) A later name of columbium.

    Nip
  • (n.) A biting sarcasm
  • (v. t.) Hence: To blast, as by frost

    Nipper
  • (n.) A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).

    Nipping
  • (a.) Biting

    Nipple
  • (n.) Any small projection or article in which there is an orifice for discharging a fluid, or for other purposes

    Nirvana
  • (n.) In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine

    Nisan
  • (n.) The first month of the jewish ecclesiastical year, formerly answering nearly to the month of April, now to March, of the Christian calendar

    Nisi
  • (conj.) Unless

    Nisus
  • (n.) A striving

    Nit
  • (n.) The egg of a louse or other small insect.

    Nitrate
  • (n.) A salt of nitric acid.

    Nitre
  • (n.) A white crystalline semitransparent salt

    Nitric
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen

    Nitride
  • (n.) A binary compound of nitrogen with a more metallic element or radical

    Nitrify
  • (v. t.) To combine or impregnate with nitrogen

    Nitrile
  • (n.) Any one of a series of cyanogen compounds

    Nitrite
  • (n.) A salt of nitrous acid.

    Nitrobenzene
  • (n.) A yellow aromatic liquid (C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane

    Nitrogen
  • (n.) A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume

    Nitroglycerin
  • (n.) A liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of nitric acid, and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate

    Nitromethane
  • (n.) A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid

    Nitrous
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, niter

    Nival
  • (a.) Abounding with snow

    Niveous
  • (a.) Snowy

    Nix
  • (fem.) One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.

    No
  • (a.) Not any
  • (adv.) Nay
  • (n.) A negative vote

    Noachian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the patriarch Noah, or to his time.

    Noah
  • (n.) A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge.

    Nob
  • (n.) A person in a superior position in life

    Nobby
  • (a.) Stylish

    Nobiliary
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the nobility.
  • (n.) A history of noble families.

    Nobility
  • (n.) The quality or state of being noble

    Noble
  • (n.) A European fish
  • (superl.) Grand
  • (v. t.) To make noble

    Nobody
  • (n.) A person of no influence or importance

    Nocent
  • (a.) Doing hurt, or having a tendency to hurt
  • (n.) A criminal.

    Nock
  • (n.) A notch.
  • (v. t.) To notch

    Noctiluca
  • (n.) A genus of marine flagellate Infusoria, remarkable for their unusually large size and complex structure, as well as for their phosphorescence

    Noctuid
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the noctuids, or family Noctuidae.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous moths of the family Noctuidae, or Noctuaelitae, as the cutworm moths, and armyworm moths

    Noctule
  • (n.) A large European bat (Vespertilio, / Noctulina, altivolans).

    Nocturn
  • (n.) An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.

    Nocuous
  • (a.) Hurtful

    Nod
  • (n.) A dropping or bending forward of the upper oart or top of anything.
  • (v. i.) To be drowsy or dull
  • (v. t.) To cause to bend.

    Nodal
  • (a.) Of the nature of, or relating to, a node

    Noddle
  • (n.) The back part of the head or neck.

    Noddy
  • (n.) An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top

    Node
  • (n.) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis

    Nodose
  • (a.) Having nodes or prominences

    Nodule
  • (n.) A rounded mass or irregular shape

    Nog
  • (n.) A kind of strong ale.
  • (v. t.) To fasten, as shores, with treenails.

    Noggin
  • (n.) A measure equivalent to a gill.

    Noil
  • (n.) A short or waste piece or knot of wool separated from the longer staple by combing

    Noise
  • (n.) Especially, loud, confused, or senseless sound
  • (v. i.) To sound
  • (v. t.) To disturb with noise.

    Noisome
  • (a.) Noxious to health

    Noisy
  • (superl.) Full of noise.

    Nom
  • (n.) Name.

    Nomad
  • (a.) Roving
  • (n.) One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game

    Nomarchy
  • (n.) A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece

    Nombril
  • (n.) A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon

    Nome
  • (n.) Any melody determined by inviolable rules.

    Nominal
  • (a.) Existing in name only
  • (n.) A name

    Nominate
  • (v. t.) To call

    Nomination
  • (n.) The act of naming or nominating

    Nominative
  • (a.) Giving a name
  • (n.) The nominative case.

    Nominee
  • (n.) A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position

    Nonage
  • (n.) The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes

    Nonagon
  • (n.) A figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles.

    Nonappearance
  • (n.) Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend

    Nonce
  • (n.) The one or single occasion

    Nonchalance
  • (n.) Indifference

    Nonchalant
  • (a.) Indifferent

    Noncombatant
  • (n.) Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others

    Noncommittal
  • (n.) A state of not being committed or pledged

    Noncompliance
  • (n.) Neglect of compliance

    Nonconductor
  • (n.) A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty

    Nonconformist
  • (n.) One who does not conform to an established church

    Nonconformity
  • (n.) Neglect or failure of conformity

    Noncontributory
  • (a.) Not contributing.

    Nondescript
  • (a.) Not hitherto described
  • (n.) A thing not yet described

    None
  • (a.) No

    Nonillion
  • (n.) According to the French and American notation, a thousand octillions, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed

    Nonintervention
  • (n.) The state or habit of not intervening or interfering

    Nonjoinder
  • (n.) The omission of some person who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant in a suit, or of some cause of action which ought to be joined

    Nonjuror
  • (n.) One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688

    Nonmetal
  • (n.) Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties

    Nonmoral
  • (a.) Not moral nor immoral

    Nonobservance
  • (n.) Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.

    Nonpareil
  • (a.) A beautifully colored finch (Passerina ciris), native of the Southern United States. The male has the head and neck deep blue, rump and under parts bright red, back and wings golden green, and the tail bluish purple

    Nonpayment
  • (n.) Neglect or failure to pay.

    Nonperformance
  • (n.) Neglect or failure to perform.

    Nonplus
  • (n.) A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment
  • (v. t.) To puzzle

    Nonprofessional
  • (a.) Not belonging to a profession

    Nonresident
  • (a.) Not residing in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place
  • (n.) A nonresident person

    Nonresistant
  • (a.) Making no resistance.
  • (n.) One who maintains that no resistance should be made to constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised

    Nonsense
  • (n.) That which is not sense, or has no sense

    Nonsensical
  • (a.) Without sense

    Nonsuit
  • (a.) Nonsuited.
  • (n.) A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit
  • (v. t.) To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up

    Nonunion
  • (a.) Not belonging to, or affiliated with, a trades union

    Noodle
  • (n.) A simpleton

    Nook
  • (n.) A narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies

    Noon
  • (a.) Belonging to midday
  • (n.) Hence, the highest point
  • (v. i.) To take rest and refreshment at noon.

    Noose
  • (n.) A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.
  • (v. t.) To tie in a noose

    Nopal
  • (n.) A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected

    Nope
  • (n.) A bullfinch.

    Nor
  • (conj.) A negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following neither, or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either)

    Noria
  • (n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough

    Norite
  • (n.) A granular crystalline rock consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar (as labradorite) and hypersthene

    Norm
  • (a.) A rule or authoritative standard

    Norse
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Scandinavia, or to the language spoken by its inhabitants.
  • (n.) The Norse language.

    North
  • (a.) Lying toward the north
  • (adv.) Northward.
  • (n.) Any country or region situated farther to the north than another
  • (v. i.) To turn or move toward the north

    Norwegian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Norway, its inhabitants, or its language.
  • (n.) A native of Norway.

    Nose
  • (n.) A projecting end or beak at the front of an object
  • (v. i.) To pry officiously into what does not concern one.
  • (v. t.) to beat by (the length of) a nose.

    Nosing
  • (n.) That part of the treadboard of a stair which projects over the riser

    Nosocomial
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a hospital

    Nosography
  • (n.) A description or classification of diseases.

    Nosology
  • (n.) A systematic arrangement, or classification, of diseases.

    Nosophobia
  • (n.) Morbid dread of disease.

    Nostalgia
  • (n.) Homesickness

    Nostoc
  • (n.) A genus of algae. The plants are composed of moniliform cells imbedded in a gelatinous substance

    Nostril
  • (n.) One of the external openings of the nose, which give passage to the air breathed and to secretions from the nose and eyes

    Nostrum
  • (n.) A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor

    Not
  • (a.) Shorn
  • (adv.) A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal.

    Notability
  • (n.) A notable, or remarkable, person or thing

    Notable
  • (a.) Capable of being noted
  • (n.) A person, or thing, of distinction.

    Notably
  • (adv.) In a notable manner.

    Notarial
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a notary

    Notary
  • (n.) A public officer who attests or certifies deeds and other writings, or copies of them, usually under his official seal, to make them authentic, especially in foreign countries

    Notate
  • (a.) Marked with spots or lines, which are often colored.

    Notation
  • (n.) Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc

    Notch
  • (n.) A hollow cut in anything
  • (v. t.) To cut or make notches in

    Note
  • (n.) A brief remark
  • (v. t.) To butt

    Nothing
  • (adv.) In no degree
  • (n.) A cipher

    Notice
  • (n.) An announcement, often accompanied by comments or remarks
  • (v. t.) To observe

    Notification
  • (n.) Notice given in words or writing, or by signs.

    Notify
  • (v. t.) To give notice to

    Notional
  • (a.) Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas

    Notochord
  • (n.) An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebrae and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed

    Notorious
  • (a.) Generally known and talked of by the public

    Notornis
  • (n.) A genus of birds allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight

    Notum
  • (n.) The back.

    Notwithstanding
  • (adv. / conj.) Nevertheless
  • (prep.) Without prevention, or obstruction from or by

    Nougat
  • (n.) A cake, sweetmeat, or confection made with almonds or other nuts.

    Noumenon
  • (n.) The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood

    Noun
  • (n.) A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought

    Nourish
  • (n.) A nurse.
  • (v. i.) To gain nourishment.
  • (v. t.) To cherish

    Nous
  • (n.) Intellect

    Nova
  • (n.) A new star, usually appearing suddenly, shining for a brief period, and then sinking into obscurity

    Novel
  • (a.) A fictitious tale or narrative, professing to be conformed to real life

    November
  • (n.) The eleventh month of the year, containing thirty days.

    Novercal
  • (a.) Done or recurring every ninth year.

    Novice
  • (a.) Like a novice
  • (n.) One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.

    Novitiate
  • (n.) Hence: Time of probation in a religious house before taking the vows.

    Now
  • (a.) Existing at the present time
  • (adv.) At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or contemplated
  • (n.) The present time or moment

    Nowadays
  • (adv.) In these days

    Nowhere
  • (adv.) Not anywhere

    Nowise
  • (n.) Not in any manner or degree

    Noxious
  • (a.) Guilty

    Nozzle
  • (n.) A short outlet, or inlet, pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler

    Nuance
  • (n.) A shade of difference

    Nub
  • (n.) A jag, or snag
  • (v. t.) To push

    Nubbin
  • (n.) A small or imperfect ear of maize.

    Nubble
  • (v. t.) To beat or bruise with the fist.

    Nubecula
  • (n.) A cloudy object or appearance in urine.

    Nubia
  • (n.) A light fabric of wool, worn on the head by women

    Nubile
  • (a.) Of an age suitable for marriage

    Nuclear
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus

    Nucleate
  • (a.) Having a nucleus
  • (v. t.) To gather, as about a nucleus or center.

    Nuclein
  • (n.) A constituent of the nuclei of all cells. It is a colorless amorphous substance, readily soluble in alkaline fluids and especially characterized by its comparatively large content of phosphorus

    Nucleolus
  • (n.) A little nucleus.

    Nucleoplasm
  • (n.) The matter composing the nucleus of a cell

    Nucleus
  • (n.) A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents

    Nude
  • (a.) Bare

    Nudge
  • (n.) A gentle push, or jog, as with the elbow.
  • (v. t.) To touch gently, as with the elbow, in order to call attention or convey intimation.

    Nudibranch
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Nudibranchiata.
  • (n.) One of the Nudibranchiata.

    Nudity
  • (n.) That which is nude or naked

    Nugatory
  • (a.) Of no force

    Nugget
  • (n.) A lump

    Nuisance
  • (n.) That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation

    Null
  • (a.) Of no legal or binding force or validity
  • (n.) One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (v. t.) To annul.

    Numb
  • (a.) Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion
  • (v. t.) To make numb

    Numerable
  • (v. t.) Capable of being numbered or counted.

    Numeral
  • (n.) A figure or character used to express a number

    Numerary
  • (a.) Belonging to a certain number

    Numerate
  • (v.) To divide off and read according to the rules of numeration

    Numeration
  • (n.) The act or art of numbering.

    Numerator
  • (n.) One who numbers.

    Numerical
  • (n.) Belonging to number

    Numerous
  • (a.) Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects

    Numismatics
  • (n.) The science of coins and medals.

    Nummary
  • (a.) Of or relating to coins or money.

    Nummulite
  • (n.) A fossil of the genus Nummulites and allied genera.

    Numskull
  • (n.) A dunce


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