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no-good (informal) worthless; contemptible.
no-hitter a baseball game in which a pitcher does not let the opposing team score any hits.
noise sound or a sound. [6 definitions]
noiseless making no noise; quiet.
noisemaker someone or something that makes noise, esp. a rattle, horn, or other device used at a party or celebration.
noiseproof resistant to outside noise; soundproof.
noisome offensive or disgusting, esp. in smell; foul. [2 definitions]
noisy making a lot of noise. [2 definitions]
nolens volens (Latin) whether unwillingly or willingly; willy-nilly.
nolle prosequi in law, a formal declaration by a prosecutor in a criminal case or a plaintiff in a civil one that one or more charges or defendants will be dropped from a suit.
nolo contendere in law, a plea entered in a criminal case that the charges will not be contested, thus allowing the defendant's conviction without any admission of guilt.
no longer not currently happening or in the same state or condition as before; not anymore. [2 definitions]
no love lost great dislike or animosity.
nol-pros in law, to terminate (prosecution) by an entry of nolle prosequi on the court records.
nom. abbreviation of "nominative," denoting, relating to, or in a grammatical case that usu. indicates the subject of a sentence or the basic form of a noun or adjective.
nomad a member of a group or tribe that has no permanent home and moves from place to place, often in search of pasture for the group's livestock. [2 definitions]
nomadic pertaining to, being, or resembling a nomad; wandering homelessly.
no man's land a disputed territory, as between opposing armies. [3 definitions]
no matter regardless of; irrespective of (used in combination with "how," "what," "where," and other question words). [2 definitions]
no matter what regardless of the cost or of what might happen.
nom de guerre war name (French); an assumed name; pseudonym.