| N: | the fourteenth letter of English alphabet is a vocal consonent and in allusion to its mode of formation is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent Its commoner sound is that heard in ran done but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k as in single sink conquer it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in sing bring etc This is a simple but related sound and is called the gutturonasal consonent See Guide to Pronunciation sectsect 243246 |
| N: | A measure of space equal to half an M or em an en |
| Na: | No not See No |
| Nab: | The summit of an eminence |
| Nab: | To catch or seize suddenly or unexpectedly |
| Nabit: | Pulverized sugar candy |
| dNabk: | The edible berries of the Zizyphys Lotus a tree of Northern Africa and Southwestern Europe |
| Nabob: | A deputy or viceroy in India a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire |
| Nacarat: | A pale red color with a cast of orange |
| Nacelle: | A small boat |
| nacho: | A tortilla chip topped with cheese and often chilipepper or beans and then broiled eaten as a snack or light meal |
| Nacker: | See Nacre |
| Nacre: | A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells and is most perfect in the motherofpearl |
| dNacr: | Having the peculiar iridescence of nacre or motherofpearl or an iridescence resembling it as nacr ware |
| Nacreous: | Consisting of or resembling nacre pearly |
| Nad: | Had not |
| dnada: | Nothing |
| Nadder: | An adder |
| Nadene: | A family of North American Indian languages including Tlingit the Athabascan language family and Haida |
| Nadir: | That point of the heavens or lower hemisphere directly opposite the zenith the inferior pole of the horizon the point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand |
| dNnia: | See Nenia |
| Nve: | A nvus |
| Nvoid: | Resembling a nvus or nvi as nvoid elephantiasis |
| Nvose: | Spotted freckled |
| dNvus: | A spot or mark on the skin of children when born a birthmark the term includes moles as wells a other types of birthmark and is most commonly applied to reddish or brownish raised vascular areas of the skin i e those consisting mainly of blood vessels as dilated arteries veins or capillaries |
| Nag: | A small horse a pony hence any horse especially one that is of inferior breeding or useless |
| Nag: | To tease in a petty way to scold habitually to annoy to fret pertinaciously |
| Nag: | A person who nags especially habitually called also nagger |
| nagami: | A shrub Fortunella margarita bearing ovalfruited kumquats See also kumquat |
| Nagana: | A disease of horses and other domestic animals transmitted by the tsetse fly any trypanosomiasis especially the variety caused by Trypanosoma brucei |
| Nageia: | A small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea |
| nagger: | Someone especially a woman who constantly finds fault |
| Nagging: | Faultfinding teasing persistently annoying as a nagging toothache |
| Naggy: | Irritable touchy |
| dNagor: | A West African gazelle Gazella redunca |
| Nagyagite: | A mineral of blackish leadgray color and metallic luster generally of a foliated massive structure foliated tellurium It is a telluride of lead and gold |
| Naiad: | A water nymph one of the lower female divinities fabled to preside over some body of fresh water as a lake river brook or fountain |
| Naiadaceae: | A monotypic family of aquatic plants having narrow leaves and small flowers |
| naiant: | See Natant |
| naid: | Any one of numerous species of small freshwater chtopod annelids of the tribe Naidina They belong to the Oligochta |
| Nabf: | Having a true natural luster without being cut applied by jewelers to a precious stone |
| dNaik: | A chief a leader a Sepoy corporal |
| Nail: | the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes |
| Nail: | To fasten with a nail or nails to close up or secure by means of nails as to nail boards to the beams |
| Nailbrush: | A brush for cleaning the nails |
| Nailer: | One whose occupation is to make nails a nail maker |
| Naileress: | A woman who makes nails |
| Nailery: | A factory where nails are made |
| Nailheaded: | Having a head like that of a nail formed so as to resemble the head of a nail |
| Nailless: | Without nails having no nails |
| Nainsook: | A thick sort of jaconet muslin plain or striped formerly made in India |
| dNais: | See Naiad |
| dNaissant: | Same as Jessant |
| naive: | Having native or unaffected simplicity ingenuous artless frank as na8bve manners a na8bve person na8bve and unsophisticated remarks |
| nabvely: | In a na8bve manner |
| dNabvet: | The state or quality of being naive |
| naivety: | Na8bvet |
| Naja: | A genus of cobras |
| Najadaceae: | A monotypic family of aquatic plants having narrow leaves and small flowers same as Naiadaceae the naiad family |
| Najas: | The sole genus of the family Naiadaceae |
| Nake: | To make naked |
| Nakedly: | In a naked manner without covering or disguise manifestly simply barely |
| Nakedness: | The condition of being naked |
| Naker: | Same as Nacre |
| Naker: | A kind of kettledrum |
| dNakoo: | The gavial |
| Nale: | Ale also an alehouse |
| Nall: | An awl |
| Nam: | Am not |
| Nam: | imp of Nim |
| Namable: | Capable of being named |
| Namation: | A distraining or levying of a distress an impounding |
| Namaycush: | A large North American lake trout Salvelinus namaycush It is usually spotted with red and sometimes weighs over forty pounds Called also Mackinaw trout lake trout lake salmon salmon trout togue and tuladi |
| Nambypamby: | Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty |
| Nambypamby: | Affectedly pretty weakly sentimental finical insipid |
| Name: | The title by which any person or thing is known or designated a distinctive specific appellation whether of an individual or a class |
| Name: | To give a distinctive name or appellation to to entitle to denominate to style to call |
| named: | given or having a specified name as an actor named Harold Lloyd a building in Cardiff named the Temple of Peace Contrasted to unnamed |
| namedrop: | To refer to people that one assumes ones interlocutors admire so as to impress them same as to drop names |
| namedropper: | Someone who pretends that famous people are hisher friends Someone who namedrops |
| namedropping: | The practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress ones listener |
| nameko: | one of the most important fungi Pholiota nameko cultivated in Japan |
| Nameless: | Without a name not having been given a name as a nameless star |
| Namelessly: | In a nameless manner |
| Namely: | By name by particular mention specifically especially expressly |
| Namer: | One who names or calls by name |
| Namesake: | One that has the same name as another especially one called after or named out of regard to another |
| Nammu: | The Sumerian goddess personifying the primeval sea mother of the gods and of heaven and earth |
| Namo: | No more |
| Namtar: | A demon personifying death messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind |
| Nan: | Anan |
| Nana: | Grandmother |
| Nandine: | An African carnivore Nandinia binotata allied to the civets It is spotted with black |
| Nandou: | Any one of three species of South American ostriches of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia especially the smallest Pterocnemia pennata formerly Rhea Americana called also the common rhea They are tall fastrunning flightless birds similar to ostriches but threetoed found from Peru to the Straits of Magellan See Rhea |
| Nanism: | The condition of being abnormally small in stature dwarfism dwarfishness opposed to gigantism |
| Nanjing: | a former capital of China |
| Nankeen: | A species of cloth of a firm texture originally brought from China made of a species of cotton Gossypium religiosum that is naturally of a brownish yellow color quite indestructible and permanent |
| Nanna: | The wife of Balder |
| Nanny: | A diminutive of Ann or Anne the proper name |
| Nanny: | a caretaker for a child a childs nurse a nursemaid |
| Nannyberry: | See Sheepberry |
| nano: | A prefix meaning onebillionth as a nanogram is onethousandth of a microgram |
| nanotechnology: | The manipulation or construction of objects with sizes in the nanometer range or smaller |
| Nanpie: | The magpie |
| Nantua: | A white sauce with whipping cream and shrimp butter |
| dNaos: | A term used by modern archologists instead of cella See Cella |
| Nap: | To have a short sleep to be drowsy to doze |
| Nap: | A short sleep a doze a siesta |
| Nap: | Woolly or villous surface of felt cloth plants etc an external covering of down of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything and lying smoothly in one direction the pile as the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth |
| Nap: | To raise or put a nap on |
| Nap: | Same as Napoleon 1 below |
| napa: | A plant Brassica rapa pekinensis with an elongated celerylike head of broadstalked leaves used as a vegetable in east Asia called also Chinese cabbage |
| Napaea: | A genus consisting of only one species the glade mallow |
| napalm: | A highly incediary liquid consisting of gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps used as a weapon of war in fire bombs and flame throwers |
| Nape: | The back part of the neck |
| Napecrest: | An African bird of the genus Schizorhis related to the plantain eaters |
| Napery: | Table linen also linen clothing or linen in general |
| Naphawater: | A perfume distilled from orange flowers |
| Naphew: | See Navew |
| naprapathy: | A drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues |
| Naphtha: | The complex mixture of volatile liquid inflammable hydrocarbons occurring naturally and usually called crude petroleum mineral oil or rock oil |
| Naphthalate: | A salt of naphthalic acid a phthalate |
| Naphthalene: | A white crystalline aromatic hydrocarbon C10H8 analogous to benzene and obtained by the distillation of certain bituminous materials such as the heavy oil of coal tar It is the type and basis of a large number of derivatives among organic compounds Formerly called also naphthaline |
| Naphthalenic: | Pertaining to or derived from naphthalene used specifically to designate a yellow crystalline substance called naphthalenic acid and also hydroxy quinone and obtained from certain derivatives of naphthol |
| Naphthalic: | Pertaining to derived from or related to naphthalene formerly used to denote any one of a series of acids derived from naphthalene and called naphthalene acids now specifically referring to 18naphthalenedicaboxylic acid C12H8O4 |
| Naphthalidine: | Same as Naphthylamine |
| Naphthalin: | See Naphthalene |
| Naphthalize: | To mingle saturate or impregnate with naphtha |
| Naphthazarin: | A dyestuff resembling alizarin obtained from naphthoquinone as a red crystalline substance with a bright green metallic luster called also naphthalizarin |
| Naphthene: | A peculiar hydrocarbon fraction occuring as an ingredient of some crude petroleums mostly mixtures of derivatives of the five and sixmembered saturated cyclic alkanes cyclopentane and cyclohexane having the general formula CnH2n |
| Naphthide: | A compound of naphthalene or its radical with a metallic element as mercuric naphthide |
| Naphthoic: | Pertaining to derived from or related to naphthalene used to designate any one of a series of carboxyl derivatives called naphthoic acids of the general formula C10H7COOH such as 1naphthoic acid |
| Naphthol: | Any one of a series of hydroxyl derivatives of naphthalene analogous to phenol In general they are crystalline substances with a phenol carbolic odor |
| Naphthoquinone: | A yellow crystalline substance C10H6O2 analogous to quinone obtained by oxidizing naphthalene with chromic acid |
| Naphthyl: | A hydrocarbon radical regarded as the essential residue of naphthalene |
| Naphthylamine: | One of two basic amido derivatives of naphthalene C10H7NH2 forming crystalline solids |
| Napierian: | Of pertaining to or discovered by Napier or Naper |
| Napiersbones: | A set of rods made of bone or other material each divided into nine spaces and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table a contrivance of Baron Napier the inventor of logarithms for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division |
| Napiform: | Turnipshaped large and round in the upper part and very slender below |
| Napkin: | A little towel made of cloth or paper esp one for wiping the fingers and mouth at table |
| Napless: | Without nap threadbare |
| Naplesyellow: | See under Yellow |
| Napoleon: | Napoleon Bonaparte or Buonaparte Born at Ajaccio Corsica Aug 15 1766 or according to some at Corte Jan 7 1768 died at Longwood St Helena May 5 1821 Emperor of the French 180414 |
| Napoleon: | A French gold coin of twenty francs no longer minted or circulated It bore the portrait of Napoleon I or Napoleon III |
| Napoleonic: | Of or pertaining to Napoleon I or his family resembling or having the qualities of Napoleon I |
| Napoleonist: | A supporter of the dynasty of the Napoleons |
| Nappe: | Sheet surface all that portion of a surface that is continuous in such a way that it is possible to pass from any one point of the portion to any other point of the portion without leaving the surface Thus some hyperboloids have one nappe and some have two |
| Nappiness: | The quality of having a nap abundance of nap as on cloth |
| Napping: | The act or process of raising a nap as on cloth |
| Nappy: | Inclined to sleep sleepy as to feel nappy |
| Nappy: | Having a nap or pile downy shaggy |
| Nappy: | A round earthen dish with a flat bottom and sloping sides |
| nappy: | A diaper4 |
| Naptaking: | A taking by surprise an unexpected onset or attack |
| dNapu: | A very small chevrotain Tragulus Javanicus native of Java It is about the size of a hare and is noted for its agility in leaping Called also Java musk deer pygmy musk deer and deerlet |
| dNapus: | A kind of turnip See Navew |
| Narceine: | An alkaloid found in small quantities in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent taste It is a narcotic Called also narceia |
| Narcissine: | Of or pertaining to Narcissus |
| narcissism: | An exceptional interest in and admiration for oneself |
| narcissist: | Someone in love with hisself or herself |
| narcissistic: | Having an excessive love of oneself egocentric egoistic |
| narcist: | Someone in love with themselves a narcissist |
| dNarcosis: | Privation of sense or consciousness due to a narcotic |
| Narcotic: | Having the properties of a narcotic operating as a narcotic |
| Narcotic: | A drug which in medicinal doses generally allays morbid susceptibility relieves pain and produces sleep but which in poisonous doses produces stupor coma or convulsions and when given in sufficient quantity causes death The best examples are opium with morphine belladonna with atropine and conium |
| Narcotical: | Narcotic |
| Narcotine: | An alkaloid found in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance tasteless and less poisonous than morphine called also narcotia |
| Narcotinic: | Pertaining to narcotine |
| Narcotism: | Narcosis the state of being narcotized |
| Narcotize: | To imbue with or subject to the influence of a narcotic to put into a state of narcosis |
| narcotized: | under the influence of narcotics |
| narcotizing: | Inducing stupor or narcosis |
| Nard: | An East Indian plant Nardostachys Jatamansi of the Valerian family used from remote ages in Oriental perfumery |
| Nardine: | Of or pertaining to nard having the qualities of nard |
| dNardoo: | An Australian name for Marsilea Drummondii a fourleaved cryptogamous plant sometimes used for food |
| Nare: | A nostril |
| dNares: | The nostrils or nasal openings the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils and the posterior nares the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx |
| Nargile: | An apparatus for smoking tobacco It has a long flexible tube and the smoke is drawn through water Also called hoookah and water pipe Functionally similar to the hubblebubble a simplified form |
| dNarica: | The brown coati See Coati |
| Nariform: | Formed like the nose |
| narine: | Of or belonging to the nostrils |
| nark: | A law enforcement agent specializing in narcotics law violations |
| narrable: | Capable of being narrated or told |
| Narragansetts: | A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited the shores of Narragansett Bay |
| narrate: | To tell rehearse or recite as a story to relate the particulars of to go through with in detail as an incident or transaction to give an account of |
| narration: | The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event a recital of certain events usually in chronological order rehearsal |
| Narrative: | Of or pertaining to narration relating to the particulars of an event or transaction |
| Narrative: | That which is narrated the recital of a story a continuous account of the particulars of an event or transaction a story |
| Narratively: | In the style of narration |
| Narrator: | One who narrates one who relates a series of events or transactions |
| Narratory: | Giving an account of events narrative as narratory letters |
| Narre: | Nearer |
| Narrow: | Of little breadth not wide or broad having little distance from side to side as a narrow board a narrow street a narrow hem |
| Narrow: | A narrow passage esp a contracted part of a stream lake or sea a strait connecting two bodies of water usually in the plural as The Narrows of New York harbor |
| Narrow: | To lessen the breadth of to contract to draw into a smaller compass to reduce the width or extent of |
| Narrow: | To become less broad to contract to become narrower as the sea narrows into a strait |
| narrowed: | reduced in size as if by being squeezed |
| Narrower: | One who or that which narrows or contracts |
| Narrowing: | The act of contracting or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent |
| Narrowly: | With little breadth in a narrow manner |
| Narrowminded: | Of narrow mental scope lacking tolerance or breadth of view illiberal mean Opposite of broadminded openminded liberal |
| Narrowness: | The condition or quality of being narrow |
| Nart: | Art not |
| dNarthex: | A tall umbelliferous plant Ferula communis See Giant fennel under Fennel |
| Narwal: | See Narwhal |
| Narwe: | Narrow |
| Narwhal: | 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 Sometimes two horns are developed side by side |
| Nas: | Was not |
| Nas: | Has not |
| Nasal: | Of or pertaining to the nose |
| Nasal: | An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously |
| Nasalis: | A genus of mammals comprising the proboscis monkeys |
| nasalise: | Same as nasalize |
| Nasality: | The quality or state of being nasal |
| Nasalization: | The act of nasalizing or the state of being nasalized |
| Nasalize: | To render nasal as sound to insert a nasal or sound in |
| Nasalize: | To utter words or letters with a nasal sound to speak through the nose to pronounce with a lowered velum |
| Nasally: | In a nasal manner by the nose |
| Nascal: | A kind of pessary of medicated wool or cotton formerly used |
| Nascency: | State of being nascent birth beginning origin |
| Nascent: | Commencing or in process of development beginning to exist or to grow coming into being as a nascent germ |
| Naseberry: | A tropical fruit See Sapodilla |
| Nash: | Firm stiff hard also chilly |
| Nasicornous: | Bearing a horn or horns on the nose as the rhinoceros |
| Nasiform: | Having the shape of a nose |
| dNasion: | The middle point of the nasofrontal suture |
| Naso: | A combining form denoting pertaining to the nose or connected with the nose as nasofrontal |
| Nasobuccal: | Connected with both the nose and the mouth as the nasobuccal groove in the skate |
| Nasofrontal: | Of or pertaining to the nose and the front of the head as the embryonic nasofrontal process which forms the anterior boundary of the mouth |
| Nasolachrymal: | Connected with the lachrymal apparatus and the nose as the nasolachrymal or lachrymal duct |
| Nasopalatal: | Connected with both the nose and the palate as the nasopalatine or incisor canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals the nasopalatine nerve |
| Nasopharyngeal: | Of or pertaining to both throat and nose as a nasopharyngeal polypus |
| Nasoseptal: | Of or pertaining to the internasal septum |
| Nasoturbinal: | Connected with or near both the turbinal and the nasal bones as the nasoturbinal bone made up of the uppermost lammel of the ethmoturbinal and sometimes united with the nasal |
| Nassa: | Any species of marine gastropods of the genera Nassa Tritia and other allied genera of the family Nassid a dog whelk See Illust under Gastropoda |
| Nastily: | In a nasty manner |
| Nastiness: | The quality or state of being nasty extreme filthness dirtiness also indecency obscenity |
| Nasturtion: | Same as Nasturtium |
| Nasturtium: | A genus of cruciferous plants having white or yellowish flowers including several species of cress They are found chiefly in wet or damp grounds and have a pungent biting taste |
| Nasty: | Offensively filthy very dirty foul or defiled disgusting nauseous |
| Nasute: | Having a nice sense of smell |
| Nasutness: | Quickness of scent hence nice discernment acuteness |
| Nat: | Not |
| Nat: | Not at nor at |
| Natal: | Of or pertaining to ones birth accompying or dating from ones birth native |
| Natalboil: | same as Aleppo boil |
| Natalitial: | Of or pertaining to ones birth or birthday or ones nativity |
| Nataloin: | A bitter crystalline substance constituting the essential principle of Natal aloes Cf Aloon |
| Natalplum: | The drupaceous fruit of two South African shrubs of the genus Carissa formerly Arduina Carissa bispinosa and Carissa grandiflora It is also called amatungulu |
| Natals: | Ones birth or the circumstances attending it |
| Natant: | Floating in water as the leaves of water lilies or submersed as those of many aquatic plants |
| Natantly: | In a floating manner swimmingly |
| Natation: | The act of floating on the water swimming |
| dNatatores: | The swimming birds |
| Natatorial: | Inclined or adapted to swim swimming as natatorial birds |
| Natatorious: | Adapted for swimming said of the legs of certain insects |
| dNatatorium: | A swimming bath |
| Natatory: | Adapted for swimming or floating as natatory organs |
| Natch: | The rump of beef esp the lower and back part of the rump |
| Natchez: | A tribe of Indians who formerly lived near the site of the city of Natchez Mississippi In 1729 they were subdued by the French the survivors joined the Creek Confederacy |
| Natchnee: | An annual grass Eleusine coracona cultivated in India as a food plant |
| dNates: | The buttocks |
| Nath: | hath not |
| Nathless: | Nevertheless |
| Nathmore: | Not the more never the more |
| natica: | Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods belonging to Natica Lunatia Neverita and other allied genera family Naticid They burrow beneath the sand or mud and drill other shells |
| Naticoid: | Like or belonging to Natica or the family Naticid |
| Nation: | A part or division of the people of the earth distinguished from the rest by common descent language or institutions a race a stock |
| National: | Of or pertaining to a nation common to a whole people or race public general as a national government language dress custom calamity etc |
| national: | A citizen of a particular country as U S nationals are advised to contact their embassy when abroad |
| nationalisation: | same as nationalization |
| Nationalism: | The state of being national national attachment nationality |
| nationalist: | One who advocates national unity and independence as for example one of a party favoring Irish independence before 1918 |
| nationalistic: | Fanatically patriotic chauvinistic |
| Nationality: | The quality of being national or strongly attached to ones own nation patriotism |
| Nationalization: | The act of nationalizing or the state of being nationalized |
| nationalize: | To make national to make a nation of to endow with the character and habits of a nation or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation |
| Nationally: | In a national manner or way as a nation |
| Nationalness: | The quality or state of being national nationality |
| dNationalrath: | See Legislature |
| Native: | Arising by birth having an origin born |
| Native: | One who or that which is born in a place or country referred to a denizen by birth an animal a fruit or vegetable produced in a certain region as a native of France the natives are restless |
| Natively: | By natural or original condition naturally originally |
| Nativeness: | The quality or state of being native |
| Nativesteel: | A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore |
| Nativism: | The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country in preference to immigrants from foreign countries |
| Nativist: | An advocate of nativism |
| Nativistic: | Relating to nativism |
| Nativity: | The coming into life or into the world birth also the circumstances attending birth as time place manner etc |
| Natka: | A species of shrike |
| Natrium: | The technical name for sodium |
| Natrolite: | A zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals and in masses which often have a radiated structure It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and soda |
| Natron: | Native sodium carbonate |
| Natter: | To find fault to be peevish |
| Natterjack: | A European toad Bufo calamita having a yellow line along its back |
| Natty: | Neatly dressed smart trim tidy spruce |
| Natural: | Fixed or determined by nature pertaining to the constitution of a thing belonging to native character according to nature essential characteristic innate not artificial foreign assumed put on or acquired as the natural growth of animals or plants the natural motion of a gravitating body natural strength or disposition the natural heat of the body natural color |
| Natural: | A native an aboriginal |
| naturalfamily: | a group of living organisms classed as a family in a toxonomic classification |
| naturalgas: | The combustible gas found associated with petroleum deposits and also in other geological formations comprised predominantly of methane plus variable other constitutents It is an important source of energy and is transported long distances by pipelines or in a liquefied state in tankers for commercial distribution Some natural gas deposits contain helium and comprise the primary source of that rare element |
| Naturalism: | A state of nature conformity to nature |
| naturalist: | One versed in natural science a student of natural history esp of the natural history of plants or animals a botanist or zoologist |
| Naturalistic: | Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism |
| Naturality: | Nature naturalness |
| Naturalization: | The act or process of naturalizing esp of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen also the state of being naturalized |
| Naturalize: | To make natural as custom naturalizes labor or study |
| Naturalize: | To become as if native |
| naturalized: | Acclimated to a new environment introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation of plants or animals not native to a location |
| Naturally: | In a natural manner or way according to the usual course of things spontaneously |
| Naturalness: | The state or quality of being natural conformity to nature |
| Naturalproduct: | A chemical substance produced by a living organism a term used commonly in reference to chemical substances found in nature that have distinctive pharmacological effects Such a substance is considered a natural product even if it can be prepared by total synthesis |
| Naturalproductchemistry: | That branch of chemistry which deals with the isolation identification structure elucidation and study of the chemical characteristics of chemical substances produced by living organisms |
| Naturalsteel: | Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery or as wootz by a direct process from the ore |
| Nature: | The existing system of things the universe of matter energy time and space the physical world all of creation Contrasted with the world of mankind with its mental and social phenomena |
| Nature: | To endow with natural qualities |
| Natured: | Having such a nature temper or disposition disposed used in composition as goodnatured illnatured etc |
| Natureless: | Not in accordance with nature unnatural |
| Naturism: | The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent |
| Naturist: | One who believes in or conforms to the theory of naturism |
| Naturity: | The quality or state of being produced by nature |
| Naturize: | To endow with a nature or qualities to refer to nature |
| nauch: | an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls |
| Nauclea: | A small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves |
| Naufrage: | Shipwreck ruin |
| Naufragous: | causing shipwreck |
| Naught: | Nothing |
| Naught: | In no degree not at all |
| Naught: | Of no value or account worthless bad useless |
| Naughtily: | In a naughty manner wickedly perversely |
| Naughtiness: | The quality or state of being naughty perverseness badness wickedness |
| Naughtly: | Naughtily wrongly |
| Naughty: | Having little or nothing |
| Nauheimtreatment: | Orig a method of therapeutic treatment administered esp for chronic diseases of the curculatory system at Bad Nauheim Germany by G Schott consisting in baths in the natural mineral waters of that place which are charged with carbonic acid and the use of a graduated course of rest physical exercises massage etc hence any similar treatment using waters artificially charged with the essential ingredients of the natural mineral waters of Bad Nauheim Hence Nauheim bath etc |
| naumachia: | Same as naumachy |
| Naumachy: | A naval battle esp a mock sea fight put on by the ancient Romans |
| dNauplius: | A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs corresponding to the antennules antenn and mandibles a median eye and little or no segmentation of the body |
| Nauropometer: | An instrument for measuring the amount which a ship heels at sea |
| Nauruan: | Of or pertaining to Nauru as Nauruan artifacts |
| Nauscopy: | The power or act of discovering ships or land at considerable distances |
| Nausea: | Seasickness hence any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit qualm squeamishness of the stomach loathing |
| Nauseant: | A substance which produces nausea an emetic |
| Nauseate: | To become squeamish to feel nausea to turn away with disgust |
| Nauseate: | To affect with nausea to sicken to cause to feel loathing or disgust |
| Nauseation: | The act of nauseating or the state of being nauseated |
| Nauseative: | Causing nausea nauseous |
| Nauseous: | Causing or fitted to cause nausea sickening loathsome disgusting exciting abhorrence as a nauseous drug or medicine |
| dNautch: | An entertainment consisting chiefly of dancing by professional dancing or Nautch girls |
| Nautic: | Nautical |
| Nautical: | Of or pertaining to seamen to the art of navigation or to ships as nautical skill |
| Nautically: | In a nautical manner with reference to nautical affairs |
| Nautiform: | Shaped like the hull of a ship |
| Nautilidae: | A natural family of spiralshelled cephalopods |
| Nautilite: | A fossil nautilus |
| Nautiloid: | Like or pertaining to the nautilus shaped like a nautilus shell |
| Nautilus: | The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific but many other species are found fossil The shell is spiral symmetrical and chambered or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle See Tetrabranchiata |
| Navajoes: | A tribe of Indians inhabiting New Mexico and Arizona allied to the Apaches They are now largely engaged in agriculture |
| Naval: | Having to do with shipping of or pertaining to ships or a navy consisting of ships as naval forces successes stores etc |
| Navals: | Naval affairs |
| Navarch: | The commander of a fleet |
| navarchy: | Nautical skill or experience |
| Navarino: | The name of a naval battle in the War of Greek Independence 1827 at which the Turkish and Egyptian fleet was defeated by the allied fleet |
| Navarrese: | Of or pertaining to Navarre |
| nave: | The block in the center of a wheel from which the spokes radiate and through which the axle passes called also hub or hob |
| Nave: | The middle or body of a church extending from the transepts to the principal entrances or if there are no transepts from the choir to the principal entrance but not including the aisles |
| Navel: | A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen the umbilicus called also belly button in humans See Umbilicus |
| navelorange: | A type of orange in which the fruit incloses a small secondary fruit the rind showing on the exterior a navellike pit or depression at the apex There are several varieties they are usually seedless or nearly so and are much grown in California |
| Navelstring: | The umbilical cord |
| Navelwort: | A European perennial succulent herb Cotyledon umbilicus having round peltate leaves with a central depression also called pennywort and kidneywort |
| Navew: | A kind of small turnip a variety of Brassica campestris See Brassica |
| Navicular: | Of pertaining to or resembling a boat or ship |
| Navicular: | The navicular bone |
| Navigability: | The quality or condition of being navigable navigableness |
| Navigable: | Capable of being navigated deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels as a navigable river |
| Navigate: | To journey by water to go in a vessel or ship to perform the duties of a navigator to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication to sail |
| Navigate: | To pass over in ships to sail over or on as to navigate the Atlantic |
| Navigation: | The act of navigating the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels the state of being navigable |
| navigational: | of or pertaining to navigation used in navigation as navigational aids |
| Navigator: | One who navigates or sails esp one who direct the course of a ship or one who is skillful in the art of navigation also a book which teaches the art of navigation as Bowditchs Navigator |
| Navigerous: | Bearing ships capable of floating vessels |
| Navvy: | Originally a laborer on canals for internal navigation hence a laborer on other public works as in building railroads embankments etc |
| Navy: | A fleet of ships an assemblage of merchantmen or so many as sail in company |
| Navy: | Having a color of navy blue |
| Navyblue: | A dark grayish blue Also called navy |
| dNawab: | A deputy ruler or viceroy in India also a title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East |
| Nawl: | An awl |
| nay: | No a negative answer to a question asked or a request made now superseded by no Opposed to aye or yea See also Yes |
| Nay: | Denial refusal |
| Nay: | To refuse |
| dNayaur: | A specied of wild sheep Ovis Hodgsonii native of Nepal and Tibet It has a dorsal mane and a white ruff beneath the neck |
| Nayt: | To refuse to deny |
| Nayward: | The negative side |
| Nayword: | A byword a proverb also a watchword |
| Nazarene: | A native or inhabitant of Nazareth a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians |
| Nazarite: | A Jew bound by a vow to leave 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 The word is also used adjectively |
| Nazariteship: | The state of a Nazarite |
| Nazaritic: | Of or pertaining to a Nazarite or to Nazarites |
| Nazaritism: | The vow and practice of a Nazarite |
| naze: | A promontory or headland |
| Nazirite: | A Nazarite |
| ne: | Not never |
| ne: | Nor |
| Neaf: | See 2d Neif |
| Neal: | To anneal |
| Neal: | To be tempered by heat |
| neanderthal: | uncouth in manners or appearance |
| Neanderthal: | Of pertaining to or named from the Neanderthal a valley in the Rhine Province in which were found parts of a skeleton of an early type of man The skull is characterized by extreme dolichocephaly flat retreating forehead with closed frontal sutures and enormous superciliary ridges The cranial capacity is estimated at about 1220 cubic centimeters being about midway between that of the Pithecanthropus and modern man |
| Neanderthal: | A neanderthal human being a member of the race Homo sapiens neanderthalensis as neanderthals were shorter than modern humans |
| Neanderthalian: | same as Neanderthal1 |
| Neanderthaloid: | Like or pertaining to the Neanderthal skull or the type of man it represents |
| Neap: | The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals |
| Neap: | Low |
| Neap: | A neap tide |
| Neaped: | Left aground on the height of a spring tide so that it will not float till the next spring tide called also beneaped |
| Neapolitan: | Of of pertaining to Naples in Italy |
| Neapolitanice: | An ice or ice cream containing eggs as well as cream |
| Near: | At a little distance in place time manner or degree not remote nigh |
| Near: | Not far distant in time place or degree not remote close at hand adjacent neighboring nigh |
| Near: | Adjacent to close by not far from nigh as the ship sailed near the land See the Note under near a |
| Near: | To approach to come nearer as the ship neared the land |
| Near: | To draw near to approach |
| Nearctic: | Of or pertaining to a region of the earths surface including all of temperate and arctic North America and Greenland In the geographical distribution of animals this region is marked off as the habitat certain species |
| Nearbeer: | Any of various malt liquors see Citation below |
| nearby: | situated near as the nearby towns Opposite of far away |
| nearer: | less distant in space as we walked to the nearer house |
| Nearhand: | Near near at hand closely |
| Nearlegged: | Having the feet so near together that they interfere in traveling |
| Nearly: | In a near manner not remotely closely intimately almost as he nearly lost his life in the accident |
| Nearness: | The state or quality of being near used in the various senses of the adjective |
| Nearsighted: | Seeing distinctly at short distances only myopic shortsighted |
| Nearsightedness: | An eyesight abnormality resulting from the eyes faulty refractive ability such that one can see only close objects distinctly the condition of being nearsighted See Myopic and Myopia |
| Neat: | Cattle of the genus Bos as distinguished from horses sheep and goats an animal of the genus Bos as a neats tongue a neats foot |
| Neat: | Of or pertaining to the genus Bos or to cattle of that genus as neat cattle |
| Neat: | Free from that which soils defiles or disorders clean cleanly tidy |
| Neath: | An abbreviation of Beneath |
| Neatherd: | A person who has the care of neat cattle a cowherd |
| Neathouse: | A building for the shelter of neat cattle |
| Neatify: | To make neat |
| Neatly: | In a neat manner tidily tastefully |
| neatness: | The state or quality of being neat |
| Neatress: | A woman who takes care of cattle |
| Neb: | The nose the snout the mouth the beak of a bird a nib as of a pen |
| dNebalia: | A genus of small marine Crustacea considered the type of a distinct order Nebaloidea or Phyllocarida |
| Nebbish: | A person who is ineffectual timid and often luckless a person of no significance |
| Nebneb: | Same as Bablh |
| Nebo: | The Babylonian god of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools |
| Nebraskan: | A resident of the state of Nebraska |
| Nebula: | A faint cloudlike selfluminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars The term was originally applied to any diffuse luminous region Now technically it is applied to interstellar clouds of dust and gases diffuse nebula However distant galaxies and very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope such as the spiral nebula in Andromeda known now to be a distant galaxy |
| Nebular: | Of or pertaining to nebul of the nature of or resembling a nebula |
| nebulated: | Clouded with indistinct color markings as an animal |
| nebulation: | The condition of being nebulated also a clouded or illdefined color mark |
| nebule: | A little cloud a cloud |
| dNbul: | Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded |
| Nebulization: | The act or process of nebulizing atomization |
| Nebulize: | To reduce as a liquid to a fine spray or vapor to atomize |
| Nebulizer: | An atomizer |
| Nebulose: | Nebulous cloudy |
| Nebulosity: | The state or quality of being nebulous cloudiness haziness mistiness nebulousness |
| Nebulous: | Cloudy hazy misty |
| Nebuly: | A line or a decoration composed of successive short curves or waves supposed to resemble a cloud See Nbul |
| Necessarian: | An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity a necessitarian |
| Necessarian: | Of or pertaining to necessarianism |
| Necessarianism: | The doctrine of philosophical necessity necessitarianism |
| Necessarily: | In a necessary manner by necessity unavoidably indispensably |
| Necessariness: | The quality of being necessary |
| Necessary: | Such as must be impossible to be otherwise not to be avoided inevitable |
| Necessary: | A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose something that one can not do without a requisite an essential used chiefly in the plural as the necessaries of life |
| Necessitarian: | 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 opposed to libertarian |
| Necessitarian: | One who holds to the doctrine of necessitarianism |
| Necessitarianism: | The doctrine of philosophical necessity the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes and esp that the will is not free but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives determinism |
| Necessitate: | To make necessary or indispensable to render unavoidable |
| Necessitattion: | The act of making necessary or the state of being made necessary compulsion |
| Necessitied: | In a state of want necessitous |
| Necessitous: | Very needy or indigent pressed with poverty |
| Necessitude: | Necessitousness want |
| Necessity: | The quality or state of being necessary unavoidable or absolutely requisite inevitableness indispensableness |
| Neck: | The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk and which in man and many other animals is more slender than the trunk |
| Neck: | To reduce the diameter of an object near its end by making a groove around it used with down as to neck down a shaft |
| neck: | To kiss and caress amorously |
| Neckarnut: | See Nicker nut |
| Neckband: | A band which goes around the neck often the part at the top of a garment |
| Neckcloth: | A piece of any fabric worn around the neck |
| Necked: | Having such a neck chiefly used in composition as stiffnecked |
| Neckerchief: | A kerchief for the neck called also neck handkerchief |
| Necking: | Same as Neckmold |
| necklace: | A string of beads etc or any continuous band or chain worn around the neck as an ornament |
| necklaced: | Wearing a necklace marked as with a necklace |
| neckland: | A neck of land |
| neckless: | lacking or apparently lacking a neck of a garment as a neckless gown |
| necklet: | A necklace |
| Neckmold: | A small convex molding surrounding a column at the junction of the shaft and capital |
| Neckplate: | See Gorget 1 and 2 |
| Necktie: | A scarf band or kerchief of silk etc passing around the neck or collar and tied in front a bow of silk etc fastened in front of the neck |
| Neckwear: | A collective term for cravats collars etc |
| Neckweed: | An American annual weed veronica peregrina with small white flowers and a roundish pod |
| dNecrobiosis: | The death of a part of an organism by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy a normal dying out of cells in a tissue in contrast to necrosis |
| Necrobiotic: | Of or pertaining to necrobiosis as a necrobiotic metamorphosis |
| Necrolatry: | The worship of the dead manes worship |
| Necrolite: | Same as Necronite |
| Necrologic: | Of or pertaining to necrology of the nature of necrology relating to or giving an account of the dead or of deaths |
| Necrologist: | One who gives an account of deaths |
| Necrology: | An account of deaths or of the dead a register of deaths a collection of obituary notices |
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