Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N - Page 21

Nominately (adv.) By name; particularly; namely.

Nomination (n.) The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated.

Nomination (n.) The denomination, or name.

Nominatival (a.) Of or pertaining to the nominative case.

Nominative (a.) Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.

Nominative (n.) The nominative case.

Nominatively (adv.) In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.

Nominator (n.) One who nominates.

Nominee (n.) A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office.

Nominor (n.) A nominator.

Nomocracy (n.) Government in accordance with a system of law.

Nomography (n.) A treatise on laws; an exposition of the form proper for laws.

Nomology (n.) The science of law; legislation.

Nomology (n.) The science of the laws of the mind; rational psychology.

Nomopelmous (a.) Having a separate and simple tendon to flex the first toe, or hallux, as do passerine birds.

Nomothete (n.) A lawgiver.

Nomothetic (a.) Alt. of Nomothetical

Nomothetical (a.) Legislative; enacting laws; as, a nomothetical power.

Non (a.) No; not. See No, a.

Non- () A prefix used in the sense of not; un-; in-; as in nonattention, or non-attention, nonconformity, nonmetallic, nonsuit.

Nonability (n.) Want of ability.

Nonability (n.) An exception taken against a plaintiff in a cause, when he is unable legally to commence a suit.

Nonacceptance (n.) A neglect or refusal to accept.

Nonacid (a.) Destitute of acid properties; hence, basic; metallic; positive; -- said of certain atoms and radicals.

Nonacquaintance (n.) Want of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted.

Nonacquiescence (n.) Refusal of acquiescence; failure to yield or comply.

Nonadmission (n.) Failure to be admitted.

Nonadult (a.) Not adult; immature.

Nonaerobiotic (a.) Capable of living without atmospheric oxygen; anaerobiotic.

Nonage (n.) The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes.

Nonage (n.) Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal immaturity; minority.

Nonaged (a.) Having the quality of nonage; being a minor; immature.

Nonagenarian (n.) A person ninety years old.

Nonagesimal (a.) Of or pertaining to the ninetieth degree or to a nonagesimal.

Nonagesimal (n.) The middle or highest point of the part of the ecliptic which is at any given moment above the horizon. It is the ninetieth degree of the ecliptic, reckoned from the points in which it is intersected by the horizon.

Nonagon (n.) A figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles.

Nonagrian (n.) Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer.

Nonalienation (n.) Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated.

Nonane (n.) One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons C9H20 of the paraffin series; -- so called because of the nine carbon atoms in the molecule. Normal nonane is a colorless volatile liquid, an ingredient of ordinary kerosene.

Nonappearance (n.) Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.

Nonappointment (n.) Neglect of making appointment; failure to receive an appointment.

Nonarrival (n.) Failure to arrive.

Non assumpsit () The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.

Nonattendance (n.) A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.

Nonattention (n.) Inattention.

Nonbituminous (a.) Containing no bitumen; not bituminous.

Nonce (n.) The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce.

Nonchalance (n.) Indifference; carelessness; coolness.

Nonchalant (a.) Indifferent; careless; cool.

Nonchalantly (adv.) In a nonchalant, indifferent, or careless manner; coolly.

Nonclaim (n.) A failure to make claim within the time limited by law; omission of claim.

Noncohesion (n.) Want of cohesion.

Noncoincidence (n.) Lack of coincidence.

Noncoincident (a.) Not coincident.

Noncombatant (n.) Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy.

Noncommissioned (a.) Not having a commission.

Noncommittal (n.) A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.

Noncommunion (n.) Neglect or failure of communion.

Noncompletion (n.) Lack of completion; failure to complete.

Noncompliance (n.) Neglect of compliance; failure to comply.

Noncomplying (a.) Neglecting or refusing to comply.

Non compos () Alt. of Non compos mentis

Non compos mentis () Not of sound mind; not having the regular use of reason; hence, also, as a noun, an idiot; a lunatic; one devoid of reason, either by nature or from accident.

Noncon. (n.) See Noncontent.

Nonconcluding (a.) Not concluding.

Nonconcur (v. i.) To dissent or refuse to concur.

Nonconcurrence (n.) Refusal to concur.

Noncondensible (a.) Not condensible; incapable of being liquefied; -- said of gases.

Noncondensing (a.) Not condensing; discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser.

Nonconducting (a.) Not conducting; not transmitting a fluid or force; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.

Nonconduction (n.) The quality of not being able to conduct or transmit; failure to conduct.

Nonconductor (n.) A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of electricity.

Nonconforming (a.) Not conforming; declining conformity; especially, not conforming to the established church of a country.

Nonconformist (n.) One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.

Nonconformity (n.) Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship.

Nonconstat (n.) It does not appear; it is not plain or clear; it does not follow.

Noncontagious (a.) Not contagious; not catching; not communicable by contact.

Noncontent (n.) One who gives a negative vote; -- sometimes abridged into noncon. or non con.

Noncontributing (a.) Alt. of Noncontributory

Noncontributory (a.) Not contributing.

Nonda (n.) The edible plumlike fruit of the Australian tree, Parinarium Nonda.

Nondecane (n.) A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, a white waxy substance, C19H40; -- so called from the number of carbon atoms in the molecule.

Nondeciduate (a.) Characterized by the absence of a decidua; indeciduate.

Nondelivery (n.) A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.

Nondeposition (n.) A failure to deposit or throw down.

Nondescript (a.) Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable.

Nondescript (n.) A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable.

Nondevelopment (n.) Failure or lack of development.

Nondiscovery (n.) Want or failure of discovery.

Nondo (n.) A coarse umbelliferous plant (Ligusticum actaeifolium) with a large aromatic root. It is found chiefly in the Alleghany region. Also called Angelico.

None (a.) No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any.

None (a.) No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life.

None (n.) Same as Nones, 2.

Noneffective (a.) Not effective.

Noneffective (a.) Not fit or available for duty.

Non-ego (n.) The union of being and relation as distinguished from, and contrasted with, the ego. See Ego.

Nonelastic (a.) Not having elasticity.

Nonelect (n. sing. & pl.) A person or persons not elected, or chosen, to salvation.

Nonelection (n.) Failure of election.

Nonelectric (a.) Alt. of Nonelectrical

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