6-letter words starting with no
- noshes — to snack or eat between meals.
- nosily — unduly curious about the affairs of others; prying; meddlesome.
- nosing — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- nosode — (in homeopathy) a preparation of substances secreted in the course of a disease, used in the treatment of that disease.
- nossal — Sir Gustav (Victor Joseph). born 1931, Australian biologist, born in Austria; knighted (1977) for his work on immunology
- nostoc — any freshwater, blue-green alga of the genus Nostoc, often occurring in jellylike colonies in moist places.
- nostos — A homecoming.
- nostra — Plural form of nostrum.
- notary — notary public.
- notate — to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation: The book describes how to notate music for instruments and voice.
- notchy — an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.
- notest — Archaic second-person singular form of note.
- nother — Informal. a whole nother, an entirely different; a whole other.
- nothin — Apocopic form of nothing.
- notice — an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
- notify — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- noting — a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- notion — a general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something: a notion of how something should be done.
- notist — (obsolete) An annotator.
- notory — (now rare, historical) Pertaining to magical signs or symbols. (from 16th c.).
- nougat — a chewy or brittle candy containing almonds or other nuts and sometimes fruit.
- nought — nothing.
- noumea — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
- nounal — any member of a class of words that can function as the main or only elements of subjects of verbs (A dog just barked), or of objects of verbs or prepositions (to send money from home), and that in English can take plural forms and possessive endings (Three of his buddies want to borrow John's laptop). Nouns are often described as referring to persons, places, things, states, or qualities, and the word noun is itself often used as an attributive modifier, as in noun compound; noun group. See also noun adjunct, noun clause, noun phrase. Synonyms: substantive, name.
- novara — a city in NE Piedmont, in NW Italy.
- novate — To replace something with something new.
- novato — a city in W California, N of San Francisco.
- novels — Roman Law. an imperial enactment subsequent and supplementary to an imperial compilation and codification of authoritative legal materials. Usually, Novels. imperial enactments subsequent to the promulgation of Justinian's Code and supplementary to it: one of the four divisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis.
- novena — a devotion consisting of nine separate days of prayers or services.
- novice — a person who is new to the circumstances, work, etc., in which he or she is placed; beginner; tyro: a novice in politics.
- novity — (countable, now rare) An innovation; a novelty.
- nowell — Obsolete spelling of noel.
- nowels — Plural form of nowel.
- nowise — noway.
- nowruz — the Persian New Year's Day.
- noyade — destruction or execution by drowning, especially as practiced at Nantes, France, in 1793–94, during the Reign of Terror.
- noyous — annoying; troublesome
- nozzer — a new recruit; a novice
- nozzle — a projecting spout, terminal discharging pipe, or the like, as of a hose or bellows.