English words starting with nem - page 1

Meanings of Nematomorpha:

plural noun

A small phylum that comprises the horsehair worms.

Usage examples:

They concluded that gastrotricha is the sister-taxon of a monophyletic clade comprising nematoda, n…

Meanings of Nembutal:

noun

The drug sodium pentobarbitone.

Usage examples:

He insists that her veins were swimming merrily with a drug called nembutal, which would have made …

Meanings of Nembutsu:

noun

In some forms of japanese buddhism: an invocation of amida (amitabha) chanted to achieve self-purification and spiritual awakening in this life (satori) and rebirth into amida's pure land after death, to express gratitude to amida on realization of enlightenment, or to cancel bad karma.

adjective

Of or relating to the recitation of the nembutsu; belonging to the school of pure land buddhism.

Meanings of Nemean:

adjective

Designating one of the national festivals of ancient greece, held at nemea in the second and fourth years of each olympiad. usually as "nemean games", "nemean festival".

Meanings of Nemertea:

plural noun

A small phylum that comprises the ribbon worms.

Usage examples:

Rouse chose as terminal taxa for his analysis most of the accepted polychaete families, and in addi…

Meanings of Nemertean:

noun

A member of the small phylum nemertea; a ribbon worm.

Usage examples:

Such an association of cells and mechanism of precursor translocation have not been reported from n…

adjective

A member of the small phylum nemertea ; a ribbon worm.

Meanings of Nemertine:

noun

A member of the small phylum nemertea; a ribbon worm.

Usage examples:

Such an association of cells and mechanism of precursor translocation have not been reported from n…

adjective

A member of the small phylum nemertea ; a ribbon worm.

Meanings of Nemeses:

noun

The inescapable agent of someone's or something's downfall.

Usage examples:

Injury, consistently his nemesis, struck him down during the match

proper noun

A goddess usually portrayed as the agent of divine punishment for wrongdoing or presumption (hubris).

Plural of nemesis literary

Meanings of Nemesia:

noun

A plant related to the snapdragon, which is cultivated for its colourful funnel-shaped flowers.

Usage examples:

Petunias, snapdragons and nemesia are good annuals to add in the fall.

Meanings of Nemesis:

noun

The inescapable agent of someone's or something's downfall.

Usage examples:

Injury, consistently his nemesis, struck him down during the match

proper noun

A goddess usually portrayed as the agent of divine punishment for wrongdoing or presumption (hubris).

Meanings of Nemo:

abbreviation

Digital audiotape.

Meanings of Nemocerous:

adjective

Belonging or relating to the group nemocera (now the suborder nematocera) of dipteran flies; nematoceran, nematocerous.

Meanings of Nemophila:

noun

A genus of annual herbaceous plants (family hydrophyllaceae) native to western north america; (also nemophila) a plant of this genus, especially baby-blue-eyes, n. insignis, having cup-shaped blue flowers with a white centre, or a cultivated variety of this.

Meanings of Nemophilist:

noun

A person who loves or is fond of woods or forests.

Meanings of Nemoral:

adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of groves or woods; living in or frequenting groves or woods.