English Words: N
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Synonym of reredorter: a monastery's latrine, outhouse, or lavatory, typically located behind the dormitory.
Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
An unfavorable thing that must be done or accepted, especially because the available alternative courses of action or inaction would be worse.
An outhouse: an outbuilding used for the "necessary" business of urination and defecation.
A place used for the business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.
A stool or seat used for the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: a chamber pot or toilet.
An outhouse: an outbuilding used for the "necessary" business of urination and defecation.
Necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature.
The state or condition of impoverishment; material need, especially of an urgent nature.
Alternative form of necessity is the mother of invention.
A person who is in great need of something will find a way to obtain it, and violate the law if needed.
A river that arises on the Nechako Plateau east of the Kitimat Ranges of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, and flows north toward Fort Fraser, then east to Prince George where it enters the Fraser River.
A monoclonal antibody and antineoplastic that binds to EGFR, under investigation for the treatment of cancer.
A type of neckwarmer that can easily be pulled over the mouth and nose to offer a degree of masking for warmth and (to a limited extent) respiratory droplet suppression (albeit without fine filtration).
Τhe junction where the neck (fretted or unfretted) meets the body of a stringed instrument.
The verse formerly read to entitle a party to the benefit of clergy, said to be the first verse of the fifty-first Psalm, "Miserere mei," etc.
a type of gable in vogue between the 17th and the 18th centuries in the Netherlands with a rectangular body (resembling a neck, hence the name) in place of the usual triangular shape found with a regular gable
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