English dictionary: words starting with n - page 170

Meanings of Nutrients:

noun

A substance that provides nourishment essential for the maintenance of life and for growth.

Usage examples:

Fish is a source of many important nutrients, including protein, vitamins, and minerals

Meanings of Nutrify:

verb

Provide with nutrients; nourish.

Usage examples:

Burrowing crabs oxygenate and nutrify the peaty substrate

Meanings of Nutriment:

noun

Nourishment; sustenance.

Usage examples:

The bees reprocess the food and extract the last particle of nutriment from it

Meanings of Nutriments:

noun

Nourishment; sustenance.

Usage examples:

The bees reprocess the food and extract the last particle of nutriment from it

Meanings of Nutritial:

adjective

Of or relating to nutrition; nutritional.

Meanings of Nutrition:

noun

The process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.

Usage examples:

A guide to good nutrition

Meanings of Nutritional:

adjective

Relating to the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.

Usage examples:

Genetic engineering can alter the nutritional value of food

Meanings of Nutritionally:

adverb

In a way that relates to nutrition (= the substances that you take into your body as food and the way that they influence your health)

Usage examples:

So many snack foods are bad for you, nutritionally speaking., the school always tries to provide nu…

Meanings of Nutritionist:

noun

A person who studies or is an expert in nutrition.

Usage examples:

A nutritionist and a fitness expert will develop a personalised weight-loss diet plan and an exerci…

Meanings of Nutritionists:

noun

A person who studies or is an expert in nutrition.

Usage examples:

A nutritionist and a fitness expert will develop a personalised weight-loss diet plan and an exerci…

Meanings of Nutritious:

adjective

Efficient as food; nourishing.

Usage examples:

Home-cooked burgers make a nutritious meal

Meanings of Nutritive:

adjective

Relating to nutrition.

Usage examples:

The food was low in nutritive value

Meanings of Nutritory:

noun

Nourisher; (sometimes) specifically a foster-parent, a guardian.

Meanings of Nutriture:

noun

Condition with respect to nourishment; the state or condition resulting from nutrition.

Meanings of Nuts:

adjective

Mad.

Usage examples:

The way he turns on the television as soon as he walks in drives me nuts

exclamation

An expression of contempt or derision.

Usage examples:

Keep up the good work, and nuts to everyone who doesn't like it

verb

A fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel.

Usage examples:

He was cracking nuts with his teeth

noun

An rude word for testicles (= round male sex organs that produce sperm)

Meanings of Nuts-about:

idiom

To be very enthusiastic about an object, activity, or person

Usage examples:

Sophie's nuts about dinosaurs., i'm nuts about this band.

Meanings of Nuts-and-bolts:

phrase

The basic practical details.

Usage examples:

The nuts and bolts of making a movie

idiom

The practical facts about a particular thing, rather than theories or ideas about it

Usage examples:

When it came to the nuts and bolts of running a business, he was clearly unable to cope.

Meanings of Nutshell:

noun

The hard woody covering around the kernel of a nut.

Usage examples:

Similarly, hickory, walnut, and acorn nutshells have been recovered from late paleoindian and early…

Meanings of Nutshells:

noun

The hard woody covering around the kernel of a nut.

Usage examples:

Similarly, hickory, walnut, and acorn nutshells have been recovered from late paleoindian and early…

Meanings of Nutsy:

adjective

Mad.

Usage examples:

He's this loveable buffoon who at times almost seems unbelievable, but you make him believable and …

Meanings of Nutted:

verb

Butt (someone) with one's head.

Usage examples:

I thought he was going to nut me in the face

noun

A fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel.

Usage examples:

He was cracking nuts with his teeth

proper noun

The sky goddess, thought to swallow the sun at night and give birth to it in the morning.

abbreviation

(in the uk) national union of teachers.

Meanings of Nutter:

noun

A mad or eccentric person.

Usage examples:

No longer will they associate it with nutters, wackos and the irredeemably mad.

Meanings of Nutters:

noun

A mad or eccentric person.

Usage examples:

No longer will they associate it with nutters, wackos and the irredeemably mad.

Meanings of Nuttery:

noun

A place in which nut trees grow or are raised.

Meanings of Nuttier:

adjective

Tasting like nuts.

Usage examples:

Wild rice has a very nutty flavour