English words: nucleofecting to null persistent
300 English words, part 95 of 99 of the words starting with N, A to Z. 35 have a page of their own.
English words nucleofecting to null persistent
- nucleofecting noun: transfecting using nucleofection
- nucleofection noun: a technique for the transfection of nucleic acids into cells.
- nucleofector noun: the device used in nucleofection
- nucleofilament noun: A filamentous form of a chromosome made from nucleosome subunits.
- nucleofractis noun: damage to the nucleus (of the eye) during surgery
- nucleofracture noun: The division of the nucleus prior to phacoemulsification.
- nucleofugal adjective: Of or pertaining to a nucleofuge
- nucleofugality noun: The condition of being nucleofugal.
- nucleofuge noun: A leaving group that takes away a bonding electron pair with it
- nucleofugic adjective: Of or pertaining to a nucleofuge
- nucleogenesis noun: Synonym of nucleosynthesis (“the formation of atomic nuclei”).
- nucleogenetic adjective: Relating to nucleogenesis.
- nucleogenic adjective: Produced by a natural terrestrial nuclear reaction
- nucleohistone noun: A complex of histone and nucleic acid
- nucleohyaloplasm noun: Nuclear hyaloplasm.
- nucleoid noun /ˈnjuːkliˌɔɪd/: The irregularly-shaped region within a prokaryote cell where the genetic material is localized
- nucleoidal adjective: Relating to or composed of nucleoids.
- nucleokinesis noun: The saltatory forward movement of the nucleus within a cell
- nucleokinetic adjective: Relating to nucleokinesis.
- nucleolar adjective: Of or pertaining to the nucleolus
- nucleolate adjective: Having a nucleolus.
- nucleolated adjective: Having a nucleolus (second inner nucleus).
- nucleole noun: Alternative form of nucleolus.
- nucleolic adjective: Relating to a nucleolus
- nucleoliform adjective: Resembling a nucleolus.
- nucleolin noun: A eukaryotic nucleolar phosphoprotein that is involved in the synthesis and maturation of ribosomes.
- nucleolipid noun: A complex of lipid and nucleic acid
- nucleolocytoplasmic adjective: Both nucleolar and cytoplasmic.
- nucleoloid adjective: Resembling a nucleolus.
- nucleolus noun: A conspicuous, rounded body within the nucleus of a cell.
- nucleolysin noun: A nucleolytic enzyme
- nucleolysis noun: The destruction of a nucleus
- nucleolytic adjective: Cutting the nucleotide-nucleotide link in DNA or RNA.
- nucleolytically adverb: By means of nucleolysis
- nucleome noun: A genome of a cell nucleus
- nucleomegaly noun: enlargement of a nucleus
- nucleometallation noun: nucleophilic metallation
- nucleomitophobia noun: Fear of nuclear radiation, now especially atomic bombs.
- nucleomodulin noun: Any of a particular class of bacterial modulin
- nucleomorph noun: A small vestigial eukaryotic nucleus found between the inner and outer pairs of membranes in certain plastids.
- nucleon noun /ˈn(j)uːkliɒn/: A proton (uud) or a neutron (udd).
- nucleon number noun: Synonym of mass number.
- nucleonic adjective: Of, pertaining to, or composed of nucleons.
- nucleonics noun: The study of nucleons, or of atomic nuclei
- nucleopetal adjective: Directed toward a nucleus.
- nucleophagy noun: A form of autophagy in which parts, or all of the cell nucleus is removed.
- nucleophile noun: A compound or functional group that is attractive to centres of positive charge, and donates electrons, especially donating an electron pair to an...
- nucleophilic adjective: of, or relating to a nucleophile
- nucleophilic substitution noun: in aliphatic organic chemistry, a form of substitution reaction in which the leaving functional group is replaced with a nucleophile
- nucleophilically adverb: In a nucleophilic manner.
- nucleophilicity noun: The condition of being nucleophilic
- nucleophosmin noun: A protein associated with nucleoli
- nucleophosphatase noun: Synonym of nucleotidase.
- nucleophosphoprotein noun: Any complex of a nucleic acid and a phosphoprotein
- nucleoplasm noun: The protoplasm of a cell nucleus
- nucleoplasmatic adjective: Relating to or composed of nucleoplasm.
- nucleoplasmic adjective: Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm.
- nucleoplasmically adverb: By means of, or with respect to nucleoplasm
- nucleoplasmin noun: A chaperone protein that functions in the building of nucleosomes
- nucleoplastic adjective: Relating to nucleoplasties
- nucleoplasty noun: Repair of vertebral disc by means of radiofrequency radiation
- nucleopleomorphic adjective: Relating to nucleopleomorphisms
- nucleopleomorphism noun: A nuclear pleomorphism
- nucleopolyhedravirus noun: A baculovirus that infects moths and butterflies.
- nucleopolyhedrosis noun: nuclear polyhedrosis
- nucleopolyhedrovirus noun: Any of the viruses formerly in the genus Nucleopolyhedrovirus, now in genera Alphabaculovirus, Gammabaculovirus, and Deltabaculovirus (family...
- nucleoporate verb: To subject to nucleoporation.
- nucleoporation noun: electroporation of nuclei
- nucleoporator noun: A device used in nucleoporation
- nucleopore noun: A nuclear pore.
- nucleoporin noun: Any of a family of porins that facilitates transport through nuclear pores in the nuclear envelope of cells
- nucleoproteic adjective: Relating to or composed of nucleoprotein.
- nucleoproteid noun: nucleoprotein
- nucleoprotein noun: Any complex of a nucleic acid and a protein.
- nucleoproteinaceous adjective: Relating to a nucleoprotein
- nucleoredoxin noun: A thioredoxin that is involved in cell growth and differentiation
- nucleorhabdovirus noun: Any virus of the genus Nucleorhabdovirus
- nucleoriboprotein noun: A riboprotein in the nucleus of a cell
- nucleoribosomal adjective: Relating to nuclear ribosomes
- nucleosidase noun: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a nucleoside, separating the base and the sugar
- nucleosidation noun: Reaction with, or conversion to, a nucleoside
- nucleoside noun /ˈn(j)u(ː)kliəˌsaɪd/: an organic molecule in which a nitrogenous heterocyclic base (or nucleobase), which can be either a double-ringed purine or a single-ringed pyrimidine, is...
- nucleosidic adjective: Relating to a nucleoside
- nucleoskeletal adjective: Of or pertaining to a nucleoskeleton.
- nucleoskeleton noun: The framework of the cell nucleus, supporting DNA replication, transcription, chromatin remodeling, signaling, and mRNA synthesis, processing and transport.
- nucleosol noun: The colloidal suspension of materials within a cell's nucleus
- nucleosolic adjective: Relating to or composed of a nucleosol.
- nucleosomal adjective: Of or pertaining to a nucleosome.
- nucleosome noun: Any of the subunits that repeat in chromatin; a coil of DNA surrounding a core of eight histones.
- nucleosomic adjective: Synonym of nucleosomal.
- nucleostemin noun: A protein that regulates the cell cycle and affects cell differentiation.
- nucleosyl noun: Any univalent radical derived from a nucleoside
- nucleosynthesis noun: Any of several processes that lead to the synthesis of heavier atomic nuclei.
- nucleosynthetic adjective: Of or pertaining to nucleosynthesis
- nucleosynthetically adverb: By means of, or in terms of, nucleosynthesis.
- nucleotidase noun: Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a nucleotide to a nucleoside and phosphate
- nucleotide noun /ˈn(j)u(ː)kliəˌtaɪd/: The monomer constituting DNA or RNA biopolymer molecules. Each nucleotide consists of a nitrogenous heterocyclic base (or nucleobase), which can be either a...
- nucleotidic adjective: Of or pertaining to a nucleotide
- nucleotidyl noun: The univalent radical derived from a nucleotide
- nucleotidylation noun: Reaction with a nucleotidyl radical or a nucleotide derivative
- nucleotidylexotransferase noun: A specialized DNA polymerase expressed in immature, pre-B, pre-T lymphoid cells, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma cells, which adds N-nucleotides...
- nucleotidyltransferase noun: Any enzyme that transfers nucleotide residues
- nucleotomy noun: The relief of intervertebral disc herniation by decompression of its nucleus
- nucleotransfection noun: Synonym of nucleofection.
- nucleotropic adjective: That migrates towards the nucleus of a cell
- nucleotropism noun: The condition of being nucleotropic
- nucleotype noun: Any of a group of organisms that have the same nucleotypic properties
- nucleotypic adjective: Describing any effect due solely to the size of an organism's (nuclear) genome
- nucleus noun /ˈnjuː.kli.əs/: The core, central part of something, around which other elements are assembled.
- nucleus accumbens noun: A dopaminergic nucleus found near the most anterior portion of the caudate nucleus. It is connected to the ventral tegmental area and the prefrontal cortex...
- nucleus ambiguus noun: A group of large motor neurons situated deep in the medullary reticular formation. It contains the cell bodies of nerves that innervate the muscles of the...
- nucleus globosus noun: A mass of grey matter between the fastigatum and the embolus in the cerebellum.
- nucleus pulposus noun: The gel-like centre of an intervertebral disc.
- nucleus ruber noun: Synonym of red nucleus.
- nucleuslike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a nucleus.
- nuclide noun /ˈn(j)uːklaɪd/: An atomic nucleus specified by its atomic number and atomic mass.
- nuclidic adjective: Of or pertaining to nuclides.
- nuculane noun: Synonym of nuculanium.
- nuculanid noun: Any clam in the family Nuculanidae.
- nuculanium noun: A drupaceous or baccate fruit containing more than one stone or seed.
- nucular adjective /ˈnukjəlɚ/: Pronunciation spelling of nuclear.
- nucule noun: A section of a compound fruit; a nutlet; a small nut.
- nuculid noun: Any member of the family Nuculidae of nut clams.
- nuculiform adjective: Shaped like a nucule.
- nuculoid adjective: Resembling a nucule.
- nuda scriptura noun: The evangelical view that scripture is the only rule of faith, to the exclusion of all other sources.
- nudan noun: Any of the taxonomic class Nuda of beroids.
- nudation noun: The act of stripping, or making bare or naked.
- Nudd proper noun: A surname
- nudder determiner: Pronunciation spelling of another.
- nuddie noun: Only used in in the nuddie (“naked”)
- nuddy adjective, noun: Nude, or pertaining to or portraying nudity.
- nude adjective, noun /n(j)uːd/: Without clothing or other covering of the skin; without clothing on the genitals or female nipples.
- nude beach noun: nudist beach
- nude-in noun: A form of peaceful protest involving nudity originating in 1960s counterculture.
- nude number noun: A positive integer that is divisible by every one of its digits.
- nude pact noun: Synonym of nudum pactum.
- nude run noun: A prank in which one runs through a public place wearing little or no clothing, usually to amuse others.
- Nudelman proper noun: A surname.
- nudely adverb: In a nude manner.
- nudeness noun: Synonym of nudity.
- nudey adjective /ˈnuːdi/: Alternative spelling of nudie (all senses).
- nudez noun: Informal spelling of nudes; plural of nude.
- nudge noun, verb /nʌd͡ʒ/: A gentle push.
- nudge ahead verb: To increase slightly; to experience a token increase.
- nudge nudge wink wink interjection /ˈnʌdʒ nʌdʒ ˌwɪŋk wɪŋk/: A phrase used to hint that the speaker is euphemistically referring to something else.
- nudge out verb: To expel, knock out by a small margin.
- nudge theory noun: The idea of using small suggestions to influence behavior and decision making.
- nudgeable adjective: That which can be nudged
- nudger noun: One who, or that which, nudges.
- nudging noun, verb: The act of giving a nudge; pushing, touching.
- nudgingly adverb: With, or as if with, a nudge.
- nudgy adjective: of, or related to a nudge
- nudi noun /ˈnuːdi/: A nudibranch.
- nudibranch noun /ˈn(j)uːdɪˌbɹæŋk/: A sea slug belonging to the order Nudibranchia.
- nudibranchian adjective, noun: Of or relating to the nudibranchs.
- nudicaudate adjective: Having a hairless tail.
- nudicauline noun: A toxic alkaloid found in some larkspurs.
- nudicaulous adjective: Having a naked stem; not leafy.
- nudie adjective, noun /ˈnuːdi/: Entertainment involving naked people, especially women.
- nudie-cutie noun: A film in which cute, mischievous young women are portrayed nude, a popular genre of the 1960s.
- nudie rudie adjective, adverb: Alternative spelling of nudy rudy.
- nudie run noun: A nude run; a streak.
- Nudie suit noun: A decorative rhinestone-covered suit of the kind made by Nudie Cohn (Nuta Kotlyarenko; 1902–1984), Ukrainian-born American tailor.
- nudification noun: The act of making nude or bare.
- nudifidian noun: One who relies on faith alone without works for salvation.
- nudifier noun: An artificial intelligence program that generates a nude picture of a person, given a clothed picture.
- nudiflorous adjective: Having the flowers destitute of hairs, glands, etc.
- nudify verb: To make nude or bare.
- nudily adverb: In a nudy manner.
- nudiness noun: The state, quality, or condition of being nudy.
- nudipleuran noun: Any marine gastropod mollusk of the clade Nudipleura
- nudish adjective: More or less nude; wearing very few clothes.
- nudism noun /ˈnjuːdɪzəm/: The belief in or practice of going nude in social, nonsexualized and frequently mixed-gender groups specifically in cultures where going nude in the social...
- nudist adjective, noun /ˈnudɪst/: A person who practices nudism.
- nudist beach noun: A beach where full nudity in public is permitted.
- nudist colony noun: A locality in which a group of nudists live temporarily or permanently separated from the rest of the community
- nuditarian adjective, noun /ˌnju.dɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/: Supporting nudity, especially in artistic depictions.
- nuditarianism noun: The support of nudity, especially in artistic depictions.
- nudity noun /ˈnjudɪˌti/: The state or quality of being without clothing on the body; specifically, the quality of being without clothing on the genitals.
- nudiustertian adjective /n(j)ʊdi.əsˈtɜʃɪən/: Of or relating to the day before yesterday; very recent.
- nudivirus noun: Any of several DNA viruses found in arthropods.
- nudle verb: To walk quickly with the head bent forward.
- nudnick noun: Alternative form of nudnik.
- nudnik noun /ˈnʊdnɪk/: A person who is very annoying; a pest, a nag, a jerk.
- Nudo proper noun: A surname from Italian.
- nudum pactum noun: In common law, a promise that is not legally enforceable due to lack of consideration.
- nudy adjective: Alternative spelling of nudie.
- nudy rudy adjective, adverb: Naked.
- Ñudzahui adjective: Synonym of Mixtec (“relating to the Mixtec people or languages”)
- nudzh noun, verb: A whiner; a complainer.
- Nueces proper noun: A river in Texas which flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
- nuée ardente noun: A pyroclastic flow.
- Nueir adjective, noun: Alternative form of Nuer.
- nuel adjective: Prone; tending to.
- Nuer adjective, noun /ˈnuːə/: Any member of a pastoral confederation of tribes located in South Sudan and western Ethiopia, forming one of the largest ethnic groups of East Africa.
- nueva trova noun: A movement in Cuban music that emerged around 1967/68 after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, combining traditional folk music idioms with progressive and often...
- nuevo adjective: New or novel, usually in reference to Latin American culture.
- nuevo sol noun: The currency of Peru (symbol PEN; currency sign S/).
- nufenoxole noun: An antidiarrheal drug.
- nuff adverb, determiner /nʌf/: Enough.
- 'nuff said phrase: Used either to end a discussion, or to imply that further discussion is not needed.
- Nuffield proper noun: Ellipsis of Nuffield College, Oxford.
- nuffieldite noun: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal pale creamy white mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, and sulfur.
- nuffin pronoun: Pronunciation spelling of nothing.
- nuffink pronoun: Pronunciation spelling of nothing.
- nug noun: A lump; a block.
- nugacious adjective: Trivial, trifling or of little importance.
- nugacity noun: futility; trifling talk or behaviour; drollery
- nugation noun: The act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial or inconsequential.)
- nugatorily adverb: In a nugatory manner.
- nugatoriness noun: Quality of being nugatory.
- nugatory adjective /ˈn(j)uːɡətɔɹi/: Trivial, trifling or of little importance.
- Nugent proper noun /njuːd͡ʒɛnt/: A surname from Norman.
- nugg noun: Alternative spelling of nug.
- nuggar noun: An Arab sailing boat used for trading and transporting supplies.
- nuggbud noun: A dirtybud (“mediocre earbud”), especially one paired with a cheap, low-quality or knockoff MP3 player.
- nugger noun: An Egyptian sailing boat with a square sail that is tilted at an angle to the mast.
- nugget noun, verb /ˈnʌɡət/: A small, compact chunk or clump.
- nugget of truth noun: A small amount of truth in a generally untrue statement.
- nuggetlike adjective: Resembling a nugget.
- nuggets interjection, noun: plural of nugget
- nuggetty adjective: Alternative form of nuggety.
- nuggety adjective: Full of nuggets.
- nuggie noun /ˈnʊɡi/: Alternative form of noogie (“head-rubbing prank”).
- nuggy noun: Alternative form of noogie (“head-rubbing prank”).
- nugifying adjective: Rendering trifling or futile; making silly.
- nugu adjective, noun: Unknown; unpopular.
- nugudom noun: The state of quality of being nugu.
- Nugumiut noun: An Inuit group living in the Baffin Island area.
- nuh interjection, noun, verb /ˈnɐː/: no, nah
- nuh uh interjection /ˈnʌˌʔʌ/: No; uh-uh.
- nuhou noun: News, gossip.
- NUI noun: Initialism of natural user interface.
- nuigurumi noun: A stuffed toy, (especially) a small one depicting an anime-style character in chibi proportions.
- nuikatsu noun: Bringing nuigurumi along on outings.
- nuisance noun /ˈnjuː.səns/: A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
- nuisance call noun: An unsolicited, annoying telephone call, such as one originating from a telemarketer, robocaller, or prankster or one that is obscene or harassing.
- nuisance caller noun: a person who makes nuisance calls.
- nuisance candidate noun: A candidate for election meant to present the election process as a mockery or disrepute or to cause confusion among voters (e.g. via similarity of names of...
- nuisance fee noun: A nominal fee, fine or penalty charged to deter an action (rather than to compensate for the costs of that action).
- nuisance ground noun: landfill, waste heap, dump
- nuisance parameter noun: A parameter of the distribution of a population that is not directly relevant to solving the significance test or estimate problem under consideration.
- nuisanceless adjective: Free from nuisance.
- nuisancer noun: Someone who makes or causes a nuisance.
- nuisant adjective: Harmful; of the nature of a nuisance.
- nuit blanche noun: An all-night celebration or festival.
- Nuits proper noun: A commune in Yonne department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
- nujazz noun: Alternative form of nu jazz.
- Nujeeb noun: A kind of half-disciplined infantry soldier under some of the native governments; also at one time a kind of militia under the British, receiving this...
- Nujib noun: Alternative form of Nujeeb.
- nuk interjection, verb: The sound of a pacifier being suckled on.
- nukable adjective: Able or suitable to be nuked.
- nukacin noun: Any of a group of bacteriostatic lantibiotics produced by Staphylococcus warneri.
- nukage noun: The process of nuking something, in various senses.
- Nukahivan adjective, noun: Alternative form of Nuku Hivan.
- nuke noun, verb /njuːk/: A nuclear weapon.
- nuke and pave verb: To wipe a computer's hard disk and reinstall everything, as a drastic fix for problems.
- nuke family noun: A nuclear family.
- nuke it from orbit verb: To completely eliminate a dangerous or undesirable thing.
- nuke it out verb: To overthink a problem; to apply an overcomplicated solution to a problem.
- nuke plant noun: Alternative form of nuclear power plant.
- nuke the fridge verb: To suddenly include a strange or illogical event, often leading to radical and often disappointing changes to the narrative of the film.
- nukeable adjective: Capable of, or suitable for, being attacked with nuclear weapons.
- nukelike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a nuclear bomb.
- nuker noun: One who nukes.
- nukespeak noun: A form of misleading language used to present nuclear weapons in a positive light.
- nukewar noun: A situation where a single release is nuked or unnuked more than four times in total.
- nukige noun: A Japanese visual novel genre featuring sexually explicit content for the sole purpose of masturbation or sexual gratification.
- nukta noun /ˈnʊktə/: Alternative spelling of nuqta
- Nuku'alofa proper noun /ˌnuku.əˈloʊfə/: The capital city of Tonga.
- Nuku Hivan adjective, noun: Of or relating to Nuku Hiva.
- Nukuhivan adjective, noun: Alternative form of Nuku Hivan.
- nukundamite noun: A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral copper red mineral containing copper, iron, and sulfur.
- nukupuu noun: Any of the birds of the genus Hemignathus.
- nul point noun: Rare spelling of nul points.
- nul points noun /nʊl ˈpwɑː(n)/: No points (as a score); zero, nothing.
- Nuland proper noun: A surname.
- nulede noun: A new lede.
- nulhomotopic adjective: Homotopic to a constant map.
- nuliparous adjective: Alternative form of nulliparous.
- null adjective, noun, verb /nʌl/: A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
- null anaphora noun: An implied (but omitted) anaphora.
- null and void adjective: Invalid, cancelled, unenforceable.
- null character noun: A control character with the value zero and no visual representation.
- null determiner noun: A grammatical constituent that appears with certain types of nouns, such as bare plurals and mass nouns.
- null device noun: A type of device file that discards all written data in it.
- null edit noun, verb: A blank edit action that results in no actual change to the page's content and may not be recorded in its revision history.
- null-grav adjective, noun: Relating to, producing, or designed for a condition of zero gravity.
- null-homotopic adjective: Homotopic to a constant map.
- null hypothesis noun: A hypothesis set up to be nullified or refuted in order to support an alternative hypothesis. When used, the null hypothesis is presumed true until...
- null infinity noun: In a closed space-time, especially for an Einstein cylinder, null infinity for a given point is the limit of convergence of the light cone most distant from...
- null matrix noun: A zero matrix.
- null modem noun: A means of directly connecting two pieces of equipment (computer, printer, etc.) using a serial cable.
- null morpheme noun: A morpheme that has no phonetic form, represented as the empty set symbol ∅.
- null object noun: An object that is both an initial and terminal object.
- null path length noun: The path length from a given node to its nearest descendant null node in a binary tree.
- null persistent adjective: persistent with infinite expected return time.
Part 94 · Part 96 · English words: N
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under N: 29,582 words, in 99 parts.