English words starting with no - page 1

Meanings of No-point:

noun

The stage in a process when it is too late to change what you are doing so that you must continue

Usage examples:

Once the contract is signed, we’ve reached the point of no return.

Meanings of No-purpose:

noun

An intention or aim; a reason for doing something or for allowing something to happen

Usage examples:

[ c ] for budgeting purposes, you really have to start estimating costs now., [ c ] the delay reall…

Meanings of No-rhyme-or-reason-to:

phrase

Logical explanation or reason.

Usage examples:

Without rhyme or reason his mood changed

Meanings of No-room-to-swing-a-cat:

phrase

Used in reference to a very confined space.

Usage examples:

There's not even room to swing a cat!

idiom

Said about a place or space that is very small

Meanings of No-stranger-to:

idiom

To be familiar with a particular experience or activity

Usage examples:

He is no stranger to hard work.

Meanings of No-thanks:

idiom

Used to say that you are grateful to someone for offering something but that you do not want to accept the offer; sometimes used humorously when you are not really grateful

Usage examples:

Former vice president al gore said thanks but no thanks to another run for the presidency., the sin…

Meanings of No-time-at-all:

idiom

Very quickly

Usage examples:

Now that we’re on the highway, we’ll be there in no time.

Meanings of No-way:

idiom

Infml no or not in any way

Usage examples:

No way was i going to pay that much for an old, beat-up car., "can i go with you guys?" "no way – t…

Meanings of Noa:

adjective

(in maori society) not subject to religious or superstitious restriction; allowed.

Usage examples:

The smoke consumed is classified as food and is noa

Meanings of Noachian:

adjective

Relating to the biblical patriarch noah or his time.

Usage examples:

He believed in a recent, six 24-hour-day creation and a global catastrophic noachian deluge, which …

Meanings of Noachic:

adjective

Noachian.

Meanings of Noah:

noun

A shark.

proper noun

(in the bible) a hebrew patriarch represented as tenth in descent from adam. according to a story in genesis he made the ark which saved his family and specimens of every animal from the flood.

Meanings of Noahic:

adjective

Noachian.

Meanings of Nob:

noun

A person of wealth or high social position.

Usage examples:

It was quite a do—all the nobs were there

Meanings of Nobackspace:

noun

A key on a typewriter or computer keyboard used to cause the carriage or cursor to move backwards.

Usage examples:

I've been digging through pictures cursing myself for not documenting my work better, typing the de…

verb

Move a typewriter carriage or computer cursor backwards.

Usage examples:

The < bs > markers show where i hit the backspace key - note that the text i was backspacing over r…

Meanings of Nobble:

verb

Try to influence or thwart by underhand or unfair methods.

Usage examples:

An attempt to nobble the jury

Meanings of Nobbled:

verb

Try to influence or thwart by underhand or unfair methods.

Usage examples:

An attempt to nobble the jury

Meanings of Nobbles:

verb

Try to influence or thwart by underhand or unfair methods.

Usage examples:

An attempt to nobble the jury

Meanings of Nobbling:

verb

Try to influence or thwart by underhand or unfair methods.

Usage examples:

An attempt to nobble the jury

Meanings of Nobbut:

adverb

Nothing but; just.

Usage examples:

He looked a lot like his uncle when he was nobbut a lad

Meanings of Nobel:

noun

An international prize given each year for achievements in literature, physics, chemistry, medicine, economics, and world peace

Meanings of Nobelist:

noun

A winner of a nobel prize.

Usage examples:

Several people suggested two nobelists, severo ochoa de albornoz and santiago ramón y cajal, and 16…

Meanings of Nobelists:

noun

A winner of a nobel prize.

Usage examples:

Several people suggested two nobelists, severo ochoa de albornoz and santiago ramón y cajal, and 16…

Meanings of Nobelium:

noun

The chemical element of atomic number 102, a radioactive metal of the actinide series. nobelium does not occur naturally and was first produced by bombarding curium with carbon nuclei.

Usage examples:

The german proposal of ‘meitnerium ‘for 109 was allowed to stand, as were the names proposed for el…

Meanings of Nobeliums:

noun

The chemical element of atomic number 102, a radioactive metal of the actinide series. nobelium does not occur naturally and was first produced by bombarding curium with carbon nuclei.

Usage examples:

The german proposal of ‘meitnerium ‘for 109 was allowed to stand, as were the names proposed for el…