nalorphine
1: a narcotic antagonist (trade name Nalline) that counteracts the effects of narcotics (especially the effects of poisoning by morphine) [syn: {Nalline}]
naloxone
1: a potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine [syn: {Narcan}]
naltrexone
1: an oral antagonist against the action of opiates
namby-pamby
1: weak in willpower [syn: {spineless}, {wishy-washy}] n : an insipid weakling who is foolishly sentimental
name
1: a language unit by which a person or thing is known; "his name really is George Washington"; "those are two names for the same thing" 2: by the sanction or authority of; "halt in the name of the la...
name and address
1: written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location [syn: {address}, {destination}]
name calling
1: verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument [syn: {names}]
name day
1: the feast day of a saint whose name one bears
name dropper
1: someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends
name part
1: the role of the character after whom the play is named [syn: {title role}]
name tag
1: a tag showing the name of the person who wears it
name-dropping
1: the practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener; "the hard thing about name-dropping is to avoid being too obvious about it"
named
1: given or having a specified name; "they called his name Jesus"; "forces...which Empedocles called `love' and `hate'"; "an actor named Harold Lloyd"; "a building in Cardiff named the Temple of Peace...
namedrop
1: refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them
nameko
1: one of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan [syn: {viscid mushroom}, {Pholiota nameko}]
nameless
1: being or having an unknown or unnamed source; "a poem by an unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless owners"; "an unnamed donor" [syn: {unidentified}, {unknown}, {unnamed}]
namelessness
1: the state of being anonymous [syn: {anonymity}]
namely
1: as follows [syn: {viz.}, {that is to say}, {videlicet}]
namer
1: a person who gives a name or names; "the owner is usually the namer of a boat"
names
1: verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument [syn: {name calling}]
namesake
1: a person with the same name as another
Namib Desert
1: a desert in Namibia extending along the coast between the high plateau and the Atlantic Ocean
Namibia
1: a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia form part of the high...
Namibian
1: of or relating to Namibia or its people n : a native or inhabitant of Namibia
naming
1: inclined to or serving for the giving of names; "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites" [syn: {appellative}, {naming(a)}] n 1: the verbal act of na...
nammad
1: an embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt [syn: {numdah}, {numdah rug}]
Nammu
1: goddess personifying the primeval sea; mother of the gods and of heaven and earth
Namoi
1: a river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River [syn: {Namoi River}]
Namoi River
1: a river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River [syn: {Namoi}]
Nampa
1: a town in southwestern Idaho
Namtar
1: a demon personifying death; messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind [syn: {Namtaru}]
Namtaru
1: a demon personifying death; messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind [syn: {Namtar}]
Namur
1: a city in south central Belgium situated on a promontory between the Meuse River and the Sambre River; the site of intense fighting in World War I and World War II
nan
1: your grandmother 2: a river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the Ping River to form the Chao Phraya [syn: {Nan River}] 3: leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped l...
Nan Ling
1: a mountain range in southeastern China running generally east to west
Nan River
1: a river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the Ping River to form the Chao Phraya [syn: {Nan}]
Nan-chang
1: a walled city in southeastern China on the Gan Jiang [syn: {Nanchang}]
Nan-ning
1: an industrial city in southern China [syn: {Nanning}]
Nanaimo
1: a town in southwestern British Columbia on Vancouver Island west of Vancouver
Nanak
1: Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism in dissent from the caste system of Hinduism; he taught that all men had a right to search for knowledge of God and that spiritual liberation could be at...
nance
1: offensive terms for an openly homosexual man [syn: {fagot}, {faggot}, {fag}, {fairy}, {pansy}, {queen}, {queer}, {poof}, {poove}, {pouf}]
Nancere
1: a Chadic language spoken in Chad
Nanchang
1: a walled city in southeastern China on the Gan Jiang [syn: {Nan-chang}]
Nancy
1: a city in northeastern France in Lorraine
Nancy Mitford
1: English writer of comic novels (1904-1973) [syn: {Mitford}, {Nancy Freeman Mitford}]
Nancy Witcher Astor
1: British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964) [syn: {Astor}, {Viscountess Astor}]
NAND circuit
1: a logic gate that produces an output that is the inverse of the output of an AND gate [syn: {NAND gate}]
NAND gate
1: a logic gate that produces an output that is the inverse of the output of an AND gate [syn: {NAND circuit}]
Nanda Devi
1: a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,660 feet high)
nandrolone
1: an androgen (trade names Durabolin or Kabolin) that is used to treat testosterone deficiency or breast cancer or osteoporosis [syn: {Durabolin}, {Kabolin}]
nandu
1: smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Peru to Strait of Magellan [syn: {rhea}, {Pterocnemia pennata}]
Nanga Parbat
1: a mountain in the Himalayas in Kashmir (26,660 feet high)
nanism
1: a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature [syn: {dwarfism}]
Nanjing
1: a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s [syn: {Nanking}]
nankeen
1: a durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color
Nanking
1: a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s [syn: {Nanjing}]
Nanna
1: (Norse mythology) wife of Balder 2: god of the moon; counterpart of the Akkadian Sin
Nanning
1: an industrial city in southern China [syn: {Nan-ning}]
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nanny
1: a woman who is the custodian of children [syn: {nursemaid}, {nurse}] 2: female goat [syn: {nanny-goat}, {she-goat}]
nanny-goat
1: female goat [syn: {nanny}, {she-goat}]
nanocephalic
1: having an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain; "a nanocephalic dwarf" [syn: {microcephalic}, {microcephalous}]
nanocephaly
1: an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain [syn: {microcephaly}, {microcephalus}]
nanogram
1: one billionth (1/1,000,000,000) gram [syn: {ng}]
nanometer
1: a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter [syn: {nanometre}, {nm}, {millimicron}, {micromillimeter}, {micromillimetre}]
nanometre
1: a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter [syn: {nanometer}, {nm}, {millimicron}, {micromillimeter}, {micromillimetre}]
nanomia
1: small creatures resembling pieces of fuzzy rope; each with a cluster of swimming bells serving as the head and long elastic tentacles for drawing in prey
nanophthalmos
1: condition in which both eyes are abnormally small but otherwise normal
nanosecond
1: one billionth of a second; one thousandth of a microsecond
nanotechnology
1: the branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers (especially with the manipulation of individual molecules)
nanotube
1: a fullerene molecule having a cylindirical or toroidal shape [syn: {carbon nanotube}]
nanovolt
1: a unit of potential equal to one billionth of a volt
Nansen
1: Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930) [syn: {Fridtjof Nansen}]
Nantes
1: a port city in western France on the Loire estuary
Nanticoke
1: a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Maryland and eastern Delaware 2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Nanticoke and Conoy people
Nantua
1: white sauce with whipping cream and shrimp butter [syn: {shrimp sauce}]
Nantucket
1: an island resort off Cape Cod; formerly a center of the whaling industry
nanus
1: a person who is abnormally small [syn: {dwarf}, {midget}]
Naomi
1: the mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament [syn: {Noemi}]
nap
1: a period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap" [syn: {sleep}] 2: a soft or fuzzy surface texture 3: the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduro...
napa
1: plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery; used as a vegetable in east Asia [syn: {Chinese cabbage}, {celery cabbage}, {pe-tsai}, {Brassica rapa pekinensis}]
Napaea
1: 1 species: glade mallow [syn: {genus Napaea}] 2: Greek mythology [syn: {Napea}]
Napaea dioica
1: tall coarse American herb having palmate leaves and numerous small white dioecious flowers; found wild in most alluvial soils of eastern and central United States [syn: {glade mallow}]
napalm
1: gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps; highly incendiary liquid used in fire bombs and flame throwers
nape
1: the back side of the neck [syn: {scruff}, {nucha}]
Napea
1: Greek mythology [syn: {Napaea}]
napery
1: linens for the dining table [syn: {table linen}]
naphazoline
1: vasoconstrictor (trade names Privine and Sudafed) used in nasal sprays to treat symptoms of nasal congestion and in eyedrops to treat eye irritation [syn: {Privine}, {Sudafed}]
naphtha
1: any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures; used chiefly as solvents
naphthalene
1: a white crystalline strong-smelling hydrocarbon made from coal tar or petroleum and used in organic synthesis and as a fumigant in mothballs
naphthol
1: either of two phenols derived from naphthalene
naphthoquinone
1: a fat-soluble vitamin that helps in the clotting of blood [syn: {vitamin K}, {antihemorrhagic factor}]
Napier
1: Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617) [syn: {John Napier}]
Napier's bones
1: a set of graduated rods formerly used to do multiplication and division by a method invented by John Napier [syn: {Napier's rods}]
Napier's rods
1: a set of graduated rods formerly used to do multiplication and division by a method invented by John Napier [syn: {Napier's bones}]
napkin
1: to protect clothing; wipe mouth [syn: {table napkin}, {serviette}] 2: garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement [s...
napkin ring
1: a circular band used to hold a particular person's napkin
Naples
1: a port and tourist center in southwestern Italy; capital of the Campania region [syn: {Napoli}]
Naples garlic
1: European onion with white flowers [syn: {daffodil garlic}, {flowering onion}, {Allium neopolitanum}]
Napoleon
1: French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821) [syn: {Napoleon I}, {Napoleon Bonaparte}, {Bonaparte}, {the Little Corporal}] 2: a rectangular piece of pastry with thin flaky layers and...
Napoleon Bonaparte
1: French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821) [syn: {Napoleon}, {Napoleon I}, {Bonaparte}, {the Little Corporal}]
Napoleon I
1: French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821) [syn: {Napoleon}, {Napoleon Bonaparte}, {Bonaparte}, {the Little Corporal}]
Napoleon III
1: nephew of Napoleon I and emperor of the French from 1852 to 1871 (1808-1873) [syn: {Emperor Napoleon III}, {Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte}]
Napoleonic
1: of or relating to or like Napoleon Bonaparte; "Napoleonic Wars"
Napoleonic Wars
1: a series of wars fought between France (led by Napoleon Bonaparte) and alliances involving England and Prussia and Russia and Austria at different times; 1799-1815
Napoli
1: a port and tourist center in southwestern Italy; capital of the Campania region [syn: {Naples}]
nappy
1: in small tight curls [syn: {crisp}, {frizzly}, {frizzy}, {kinky}] n : garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement [s...
naprapath
1: a therapist who practices naprapathy
naprapathy
1: a drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues
Naprosyn
1: a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Naprosyn) used in the treatment of arthritis and musculoskeletal inflammation and moderate pain [syn: {naproxen}]
naproxen
1: a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Naprosyn) used in the treatment of arthritis and musculoskeletal inflammation and moderate pain [syn: {Naprosyn}]
naproxen sodium
1: a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen) [syn: {Aleve}, {Anaprox}, {Aflaxen}]
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