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  • neoclassicism — (often initial capital letter) Architecture. the trend or movement prevailing in the architecture of Europe, America, and various European colonies at various periods during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, characterized by the introduction and widespread use of Greek orders and decorative motifs, the subordination of detail to simple, strongly geometric overall compositions, the presence of light colors or shades, frequent shallowness of relief in ornamental treatment of façades, and the absence of textural effects.
  • neoliberalism — an outgrowth of the U.S. liberal movement, beginning in the late 1960s, that modified somewhat its traditional endorsement of all trade unions and opposition to big business and military buildup.
  • neoplasticism — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
  • neopositivism — A resurgent positivism, or an updated version of it.
  • neosurrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
  • nephrectomies — Plural form of nephrectomy.
  • neurilemmomas — Plural form of neurilemmoma.
  • neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
  • neuromyelitis — (pathology) inflammation of both the spinal cord and nerves.
  • new economics — Keynesianism.
  • noise limiter — an electronic circuit that cuts off all noise peaks that are stronger than some specific maximum for the desired input signal, thus limiting atmospheric and other interference.
  • noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
  • nominal scale — a discrete classification of data, in which data are neither measured nor ordered but subjects are merely allocated to distinct categories: for example, a record of students' course choices constitutes nominal data which could be correlated with school results
  • nominal wages — minimum pay
  • non-composite — Nautical. noting a vessel having frames of one material and shells and decking of another, especially one having iron or steel frames with shells and decks planked.
  • non-masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • noninstalment — (of a loan) not payable in instalments
  • nonleguminous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or bearing legumes.
  • nonmainstream — denoting someone or something not in the main current (of style, culture, etc)
  • nonmembership — the fact or condition of being a nonmember
  • nonmonetarist — a person who does not believe in the theory of monetarism
  • nonpermissive — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
  • nonsystematic — Not systematic.
  • normal series — a collection of subgroups of a given group so arranged that the first subgroup is the identity, the last subgroup is the group itself, and each subgroup is a normal subgroup of the succeeding subgroup.
  • normativeness — The quality or state of being normative.
  • normotensives — Plural form of normotensive.
  • nucleoplasmic — Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm.
  • numerologists — the study of numbers, as the figures designating the year of one's birth, to determine their supposed influence on one's life, future, etc.
  • nutrigenomics — the study of how individual genetic makeup interacts with diet, especially the effects of this interaction on a person's health.
  • occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
  • omnipresently — In an omnipresent manner.
  • on its merits — on the intrinsic qualities or virtues
  • on one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • on one's time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
  • one-upmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
  • onomatopoeias — Plural form of onomatopoeia.
  • ornamentalism — the desire or tendency to feature ornament in the design of buildings, interiors, furnishings, etc.
  • ornamentalist — A person who ornaments.
  • over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
  • pan-teutonism — Pan-Germanism.
  • paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
  • pentatonicism — the use of a five-tone scale.
  • perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
  • perimenopause — the period leading up to the menopause during which some of the symptoms associated with menopause may be experienced
  • persian melon — a round variety of muskmelon having a green, reticulate, unribbed rind and orange flesh.
  • phenomenalism — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • photoemission — photoelectric effect.
  • physiognomies — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
  • physostigmine — an alkaloid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease to raise the level of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and also as a miotic in glaucoma.
  • piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
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