| Nouakchott |
the capital of Mauritania. |
| nougat |
a chewy or brittle candy that contains nuts and sometimes chunks of fruit. |
| nought |
variant of naught. |
| noun |
in grammar, a word that names a person, place, thing, condition, or quality, that usu. has plural and possessive forms, and that functions as the subject of a sentence or as the object of a verb or preposition. [3 definitions] |
| nourish |
to supply with food or other essential nutriments. [3 definitions] |
| nourishment |
that which nourishes; food. [2 definitions] |
| nouveau riche |
(French) a person who has recently acquired great wealth, usu. one who engages in a vulgar display or discussion of that wealth; parvenu. |
| nouvelle cuisine |
(sometimes cap.) contemporary French cooking that emphasizes artfully arranged fresh ingredients and uses low-calorie stock-based sauces. |
| Nov. |
abbreviation of "November," the eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar year, having thirty days. |
| nova |
a star that suddenly becomes many times brighter and then gradually, in several weeks, months, or years, returns to its original magnitude. (Cf. supernova.) |
| Nova Scotia |
a Canadian Maritime Province southeast of New Brunswick. |
| novel1 |
a relatively long work of prose fiction, usu. having a plot and characters. |
| novel2 |
new and unusual. |
| novelette |
a short novel; novella. |
| novelist |
one who writes novels. |
| novelistic |
of, pertaining to, or typical of novels. |
| novelize |
to convert into the form of a novel, as a film. |
| novella |
a short novel, often witty or satirical in its earlier forms. |
| novelty |
the quality of being strikingly new or unusual. [3 definitions] |
| November |
the eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar year, having thirty days. |
| novena |
in the Roman Catholic church, a religious observance in which prayers are said or services held for a special purpose, on nine days in a row. |