Finnish–English dictionary

nuijia

(transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.

nujakka

A fight, tussle, skirmish.

nujakoida

(intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.

nujertaa

(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.

nukahtaminen

The process of falling asleep.

nukahtelusairaus

(pathology) A disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable attacks of deep sleep, often brief, sometimes accompanied by paralysis and hallucinations.

nukata

(intransitive, textiles) Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.

nukittaa

(transitive) To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.

nukka

The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.

nukkaantua

To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.

nukkainen

Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals.

nukkapintainen

Having a soft, fluffy exterior (of a man-made object, especially stuffed animals or upholstery).

nukkavieru

Of cloth, clothing, furnishings, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show; shabby, worn-out.

nukke

A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.

nukkehallitsija

(figuratively) A person, country, etc, controlled by another.

nukkehallitus

A government which is formally independent, but de facto wholly controlled by a foreign power.

nukkevaltio

(figuratively) A person, country, etc, controlled by another.

nukkua

(informal, chiefly, UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.

nukkua lusikassa

(intransitive, dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.

nukkua talviunta

(intransitive, biology) To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep.

nukkuja

Someone who sleeps.

nukkumaanmenoaika

The time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep.

nukkumapaikka

The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).

nukkumassa

In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting.

nukkumatin maa

An imaginary place inhabited by those who are asleep; (by extension) the state of slumber.

nukkumatti

(folklore) A figure that brings sleep and dreams by sprinkling magical sand into people's eyes. [from early 19th c.]

nukkuva

In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting.

nukkuva agentti

A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.

nukleosynteesi

(physics, astronomy) Any of several processes that lead to the synthesis of heavier atomic nuclei.

nukuksiin

In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting.

nukuksissa

In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting.

nukuttaa

(transitive) To administer anesthesia to: to render unfeeling or unconscious through the use of narcotic substances, usually either alcohol or pharmaceutical drugs.

nukuttaa kloloformilla

To treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform.

nukuttava

(pharmaceutical effect) Calming, soothing, inducing sleep, tranquilizing

nukutusaine

(American spelling, medicine) A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness for surgery and may render the recipient unconscious.

nukutuslääkäri

(American spelling, Canadian spelling) A physician who specializes in anesthesiology and administers anesthesia.

nullifikaatio

The nullification crisis in U.S. history, confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former's attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.

numbatti

A small marsupial carnivore, Myrmecobius fasciatus, endemic to western Australia, that eats almost exclusively termites.

numeerinen

Property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.

numeerisesti

In a numerical manner.

numeraali

(linguistics) A number word, a simple or compound word for a number often having particular grammatical attributes depending on the language.

numero

A numeric character.

numeroida

(transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).

numeroida lehdet

To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate.

numerointi

The action of creating or assigning such a sequence for identification.

numeroitumaton

(mathematics) Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.

numeroituva

(mathematics) In one to one correspondence with the set of natural integers.

numerokilpi

(transport) A sign or symbol, usually containing numbers and sometimes letters, identifying a highway route.

numerolappu

(sports) A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by competitors.

numeroliivi

(sports) A colourful polyester or plastic vest worn over one's clothes, usually to mark one's team during group activities.

numerovalitsin

(computing, graphical user interface) An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.

nummi

A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.

nun

The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

nunnaluostari

(chiefly, _, Christianity) The residence of a female religious community, a monastery for nuns.

nunnanhuntu

A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.

nunnankaapu

A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.

nuohooja

A person whose job is to clean soot from chimneys.

nuokkua

(intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.

nuolaisu

The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.

nuoleminen

The act by which something is licked.

nuolenpää

The head of an arrow or spear.

nuolentekijä

A person who makes arrows.

nuoleskelija

A fawning toady; a base sycophant.

nuoleskella

To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour.

nuoli

Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.

nuolihaukka

Falco subbuteo, a small raptor of the falcon family.

nuolikimppu

A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.

nuolikotelo

(weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.

nuolla peräaukkoa

(vulgar, slang) To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act; to perform anilingus.

nuora

(anatomy) Any of several cordlike structures, especially the umbilical cord, or a bundle of nerve fibres (white matter) in the spinal cord. The white matter of the spinal cord is made of (posterior, anterior and lateral) columns/funiculi. The grey columns are also called horns but not funiculi.

nuorehko

Young or seeming young.

nuorekas

Exhibiting retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult.

nuorekkuus

The vitality characteristic of youth.

nuorempi

(countable) A younger person.

nuorempi kivikausi

The period of prehistory from circa 8500 to 4500 BCE.

nuorempi konstaapeli

(UK, law) A police officer or an officer with equivalent powers.

nuorentaa

To render young again.

nuorentuminen

The process of rendering young again.

nuoret

(uncountable, used as plural or singular) Young persons, collectively.

nuori

Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.

nuori eläin

(zoology) A sexually immature animal.

nuori ihminen

A young person.

nuori kasvuyritys

A new company or organization or business venture designed for rapid growth.

nuori uroshirvi

(zoology) An adolescent male deer.

nuoriherra

A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.

nuorimies

(countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.

nuorimmainen

The youngest child of a family.

nuorin

(figuratively) The youngest member of any company or organization.

nuoriso

(uncountable) The quality or state of being young.

nuorten-

Characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish.

nuorukainen

A term of endearment or admonishment by adults for a young boy.

nuoruus

The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.

nuoruusikä

The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.

nuoskalumi

(uncountable, skiing, snowboarding) A heavy wet snow on which it is difficult to travel.

nuotata

(ambitransitive) To use a seine, to fish with a seine.

nuotinnos

(countable) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.

nuotinnus

(uncountable) The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.

nuotio

A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.

nuotittaa

To add notes to; to annotate

nuotta

A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at the bottom, used in shallow water for catching fish.

nuotti

A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.

nuottiviivasto

(music, plural staffs or staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.

nupi

A small nail with a flat head.

nupopää

A hornless variety of domestic animal, such as cattle or goats.

nuppi

(slang) The head or brain.

nuppineula

A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.

nuppineulan kärki

The point of a pin.

nuppineulanpää

The head of a pin. (Frequently used in size comparisons.)

nuppu

A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.

nupukivi

A small, square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging.

nurin

From an upright position to a horizontal one.

nurin mennyt

Bankrupt.

nurina

A complaint against something.

nurista

(intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.

nurja

Opposed; contrary; opposing one's interests or desire.

nurja puoli

The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.

nurja silmukka

A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.

nurjahtaa

Of a thing (especially a slender structure under compression): to collapse or distort under physical pressure.

nurjamielinen

Having a repugnance or opposition of mind.

nurkata

(finance, business, transitive) To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.

nurkka

A corner where two walls intersect.

nurkkakuntainen

(derogatory) Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.

nurkkakuntaisuus

The quality or state of being parochial; especially: selfish pettiness or narrowness (as of interests, opinions, or views).

nurkkasilmällä

Sideways; obliquely.

nurkkaus

A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.

nurmettaa

(transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.

nurmi

(uncountable) A lawn.

nurmikeilailu

A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.

nurmikerros

(countable) A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.

nurmikko

(uncountable) A lawn.

nurmikonleikkaaja

A person who landscapes and in particular mows lawns.

nurmimatto

(countable) A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.

nurmipora

(US, military slang, derogatory) An infantryman.

nurmitähkiö

Other species of genus Phleum.

Nürnberg

A major city in Bavaria, Germany.

nussia

(transitive, , intransitive, US, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse (with).

nussija

A thing or person which bangs, in any sense.

nussiminen

(vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.

Nutella

A sweet spread made from hazelnuts, sugar, vegetable oils, cocoa solids and skimmed milk, generically called chocolate spread.

Nutikka

(historical) A type of jet fighter aircraft.

nutipää

A hornless variety of domestic animal, such as cattle or goats.

nutritiivinen

That provides nourishment; nutritious.

nuttura

A roll of hair worn at the back of the head.

nuudeli

(usually, in the plural) A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.

nuuduttaa

(transitive, culinary) To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.

nuuhkaista

(ambitransitive) To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as when smelling something.

nuuhkaisu

An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly.

nuuhkaus

(countable) An instance of sniffing.

nuuhkia

(transitive) To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.

nuuhkinta

An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly.