nautilus
1: a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power [syn: {nuclear submarine}, {nuclear-powered submarine}] 2: cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells [syn: {pap...
Navaho
1: a member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah [syn: {Navajo}] 2: the Athapaskan language spoken by the Navaho people [syn: {Navajo}]
Navajo
1: a member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah [syn: {Navaho}] 2: the Athapaskan language spoken by the Navaho people [syn: {Navaho}]
naval
1: connected with or belonging to or used in a navy; "naval history"; "naval commander"; "naval vessels"
naval attache
1: a military attache who is a commissioned or warrant officer in a navy
naval blockade
1: the interdiction of a nation's lines of communication at sea by the use of naval power
naval brass
1: alpha-beta brass containing tin; resistant to sea water; Admiralty Metal is a trademark [syn: {Admiralty brass}, {Admiralty Metal}, {Tobin bronze}]
naval campaign
1: an operation conducted primarily by naval forces in order to gain or extend or maintain control of the sea
naval chart
1: a chart for a navigator showing the prevailing meteorological and hydrographic and navigational conditions [syn: {navigational chart}, {pilot chart}]
naval engineer
1: a naval officer responsible for the operation and maintenance of the ship's engines [syn: {marine engineer}]
naval engineering
1: the branch of engineering that deals with the design and construction and operation of ships
naval forces
1: an organization of military naval forces [syn: {navy}]
naval gun
1: naval weaponry consisting of a large gun carried on a warship
naval missile
1: naval weaponry consisting of a missile carried on a warship
naval radar
1: naval equipment consisting of a shipboard radar
Naval Research Laboratory
1: the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines [syn: {NRL}]
Naval Special Warfare
1: the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare [syn: {NSW}]
Naval Surface Warfare Center
1: the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare [syn: {NSWC}]
Naval Underwater Warfare Center
1: the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for submarine and undersea warfare systems [syn: {NUWC}]
naval unit
1: a military unit that is part of a navy
Navane
1: a tranquilizer (trade name Navane) used to treat schizophrenia [syn: {thiothixene}]
Navarino
1: a decisive naval battle in the War of Greek Independence (1827); the Turkish and Egyptian fleet was defeated by an allied fleet of British and French and Russian warships [syn: {battle of Navarino}...
nave
1: the central area of a church
navel
1: scar where the umbilical cord was attached [syn: {umbilicus}, {bellybutton}, {omphalos}, {omphalus}] 2: the center point or middle of something [syn: {navel point}]
navel orange
1: seedless orange enclosing a small secondary fruit at the apex
navel point
1: the center point or middle of something [syn: {navel}]
navicular
1: shaped like a boat [syn: {scaphoid}] n : the largest wrist bone on the thumb side [syn: {scaphoid bone}, {os scaphoideum}]
navigability
1: suitability for the passage of a ship or aircraft
navigable
1: able to be sailed on or through safely; "navigable waters"; "a navigable channel"
navigate
1: travel by boat on a boat propelled by wind or by other means; "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow" [syn: {voyage}, {sail}] 2: act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct...
navigation
1: the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place [syn: {pilotage}, {piloting}] 2: ship traffic; "the channel will be open to navigation as soon as the ice melts" 3: the work of a sailor [syn:...
navigation light
1: light on an airplane that indicates the plane's position and orientation; red light on the left (port) wing tip and green light on the right (starboard) wing tip
navigational
1: of or relating to navigation; "navigational aids"
navigational chart
1: a chart for a navigator showing the prevailing meteorological and hydrographic and navigational conditions [syn: {naval chart}, {pilot chart}]
navigational system
1: a system ithat provides information useful in determining the position and course of a ship or aircraft
navigator
1: the ship's officer in charge of navigation [syn: {sailing master}] 2: the member of an aircrew who is responsible for the aircraft's course 3: in earlier times, a person who explored by ship
Navratilova
1: United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won nine Wimbledon women's singles championships (born in 1856) [syn: {Martina Navratilova}]
navvy
1: a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: {drudge}, {peon}, {galley slave}]
navy
1: an organization of military naval forces [syn: {naval forces}] 2: a dark shade of blue [syn: {dark blue}, {navy blue}]
navy base
1: base of operations for a naval fleet
navy bean
1: white-seeded bean; usually dried [syn: {pea bean}, {white bean}]
navy blue
1: a dark shade of blue [syn: {dark blue}, {navy}]
Navy Cross
1: a United States Navy decoration for extraordinary heroism against an armed enemy
Navy Department
1: a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1798 and combined with the War Department in 1947
navy man
1: a serviceman in the navy [syn: {bluejacket}, {sailor}, {sailor boy}]
Navy SEAL
1: a member of a Naval Special Warfare unit who is trained for unconventional warfare; "SEAL is an acronym for Sea Air and Land" [syn: {SEAL}]
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Navy Secretary
1: head of a former executive department; combined with the War Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in 1947 [syn: {Secretary of the Navy}]
navy yard
1: a military shipyard [syn: {naval shipyard}]
nawab
1: a governor in India during the Mogual empire [syn: {nabob}]
NAWCWPNS
1: the principal Navy agency for research and development for air warfare and missile weapon systems [syn: {Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division}]
nay
1: a negative; "the nays have it" [ant: {yea}] adv : not this merely but also; not only so but; "each of us is peculiar, nay, in a sense unique"
naysayer
1: someone with an aggressively negative attitude
naysaying
1: the act of saying no to a request
Nazarene
1: of or relating to the Nazarenes or their religion 2: of or relating to the town of Nazareth or its inhabitants n 1: a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church...
Nazareth
1: a historic town in northern Israel that is mentioned in the Gospels as the home of Joseph and Mary
Naze
1: a cape at the southern tip of Norway [syn: {Lindesnes}]
Nazi
1: relating to or consistent with or typical of the ideology and practice of Nazism or the Nazis; "the total Nazi crime"; "the Nazi interpretation of history" 2: relating to a form of socialism; "the ...
Nazi Germany
1: the Nazi dictatorship under Hitler (1933-1945) [syn: {Third Reich}]
Nazi Party
1: the political party founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power by Hitler in 1933 [syn: {National Socialist German Workers' Party}]
Nazification
1: social process of adopting (or being forced to adopt) Nazism; "as the process of Nazification spread they paid less attention to public opinion"
Nazify
1: cause or force to adopt Nazism or a Nazi character; "Hitler nazified Germany in the 1930's"; "The arts were nazified everywhere in Germany" [ant: {denazify}]
Naziism
1: a form of socialism featuring racism and expansionism [syn: {Nazism}, {national socialism}]
Nazimova
1: United States actress (born in Russia) (1879-1945) [syn: {Alla Nazimova}]
Nazism
1: a form of socialism featuring racism and expansionism [syn: {Naziism}, {national socialism}]
Nb
1: a soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys; occurs in niobite; formerly called columbium [syn: {niobium}, {atomic number 41}] 2: a Latin phrase (or its abbreviation) used to indicate that ...
NbE
1: the compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north [syn: {north by east}]
NbW
1: the compass point that is one point west of due north [syn: {north by west}]
NC
1: a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: {North Carolina}, {Old North State}, {Tar Heel State}]
NCDC
1: the part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data [syn: {National Climatic Data Center}]
Nd
1: a yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs in monazite and bastnasite in association with cerium and lanthanum and praseodymium [syn: {neodymium}, {atomic number 60}] 2: a ...
Ndebele
1: a Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu [syn: {Matabele}]
Ndjamena
1: the capital and largest city of Chad; located in the southwestern on the Shari river [syn: {N'Djamena}, {Fort-Lamy}, {capital of Chad}]
Ne
1: a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts [syn: {neon}, {atomic number 10}] 2: the compass point mi...
ne plus ultra
1: the state of being without a flaw or defect [syn: {perfection}, {flawlessness}] [ant: {imperfection}]
ne'er
1: not ever; at no time in the past or future; "I have never been to China"; "I shall never forget this day"; "had never seen a circus"; "never on Sunday"; "I will never marry you!" [syn: {never}] [an...
ne'er-do-well
1: an idle worthless person [syn: {goldbrick}, {goof-off}, {good-for-nothing}, {good-for-naught}]
Neandertal
1: relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man; "Neanderthal skull" [syn: {Neanderthal}, {Neanderthalian}] 2: ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boo...
Neandertal man
1: extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia [syn: {Neanderthal man}, {Neandertal}, {Neanderthal}, {Homo sapiens neanderthalensis}]
neanderthal
1: ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swin...
Neanderthal man
1: extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia [syn: {Neandertal man}, {Neandertal}, {Neanderthal}, {Homo sapiens neanderthalensis}]
Neanderthalian
1: relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man; "Neanderthal skull" [syn: {Neanderthal}, {Neandertal}]
neap
1: a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon [syn: {neap tide}] [ant: {springtide}]
neap tide
1: a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon [syn: {neap}] [ant: {springtide}]
Neapolitan
1: of or relating to or characteristic of Naples or its people
near
1: not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances; "near neighbors"; "in the near future"; "they are near equals"; "his nearest approach to success"; "a very near thing"; "a near hit by t...
near beer
1: drink that resembles beer but with less than 1/2 percent alcohol
Near East
1: the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judai...
near gale
1: wind moving 32-38 knots; 7 on the Beaufort scale [syn: {moderate gale}]
near miss
1: an accidental collision that is narrowly avoided
near thing
1: something that barely avoids failure or disaster
near vision
1: vision for objects 2 feet or closer to the viewer
near-blind
1: having greatly reduced vision [syn: {dim-sighted}, {purblind}, {sand-blind}, {visually impaired}, {visually challenged}]
nearby
1: close at hand; "the nearby towns"; "concentrated his study on the nearby planet Venus" adv : not far away in relative terms; "she works nearby"; "the planets orbiting nearby are Venus and Mars"
nearer
1: (comparative of `near') being the one of two that is less distant in space; "we walked to the nearer house" adv : (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance; "come closer, my dear...
nearest
1: (superlative of `near' or `nigh') most near [syn: {nighest}] adv : (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance; "that was the time he came nearest to death" [syn: {nighest}, {cl...
nearly
1: (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; `near' is sometimes used informally for `nearly' and `most' is sometimes used informally for `almost'; "the job is (just) about d...
nearness
1: the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action" [syn: {closeness}] [ant: {farness}]
nearside
1: the side of a vehicle nearest the kerb
nearsighted
1: unable to see distant objects clearly [syn: {myopic}] [ant: {farsighted}]
nearsightedness
1: (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred [syn: {myopia}, {shortsightedness}] [ant: {hyperopia}]
neat
1: clean or orderly; "her neat dress"; "a neat room" 2: showing care in execution; "neat homework"; "neat handwriting" 3: free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules";...
neat's-foot oil
1: a pale yellow oil made from the feet and legs of cattle; used as a dressing for leather
neaten
1: put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!" [syn: {tidy}, {tidy up}, {clean up}, {straighten}, {straighten out}, {square away}] 2: care for one's external appearance; "He is always well-g...
neatly
1: with neatness; "she put the slippers under the bed neatly" [syn: {showing neatness}]
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