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“N” Words

The process by which living things take in and use food for growth and health.

Relating to nutrition or the nourishment food provides.

A professional who studies or advises on diet and nourishment.

Full of nutrients; good for you to eat.

Informal: crazy, irrational, or wildly excited.

A bag in which nuts are carried or stored.

The hard outer covering of a nut.

British informal: an eccentric or mentally unstable person.

The quality or degree of having a nutty flavor or texture.

An outing to gather nuts.

Tasting or smelling of nuts.

To push or thrust (the nose or snout, face or muzzle, or head, or an object) against or into something.

Never mind; used to withdraw a question or comment you have just made, usually because you have found the answer or decided it does not matter.

A standard that lets a solid-state drive talk to a computer directly over its high-speed internal connection, designed around flash memory rather than the older conventions inherited from spinning disks, and allowing much greater speed.

An exclamation used to express smug or childish triumph over someone, often paired with a taunting gesture.

A city and municipality in central Denmark, on the island of Funen.

An old-fashioned or dialectal spelling of "nice."

Relating to or lasting a nychthemeron (a period of 24 hours).

A group of pheasants, especially when on the ground rather than in flight.

No — used to represent a Russian-style blunt refusal.

A small, densely structured spot found on the wings of certain insects, whose exact biological function is not fully understood.

A strong, synthetic polymer used to make fabric, rope, and plastic parts.

Sheer stockings made of nylon fabric.

In mythology, a minor female nature spirit linked to rivers, woods, or mountains.

A shrine consecrated to water nymphs, often with a fountain.

Informal, often derogatory, short form of nymphomaniac.

Uncontrollably frequent or intense sexual desire in a woman; a dated term no longer used as a clinical diagnosis.

A dated, often disparaging term for a woman said to have an unusually strong sex drive.

One of the two major written standards (language variants) of Norwegian.

Any tree of the genus Nyssa, commonly known as tupelo, often found in wetlands of North America and Asia.

In Greek mythology, the primordial goddess personifying night.