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- English Word Nephritis Definition An inflammation of the kidneys.
- English Word nephrolithic Definition Of or pertaining to gravel, or renal calculi.
- English Word Nephrology Definition A treatise on, or the science which treats of, the kidneys, and their structure and functions.
- English Word Nephrostome Definition The funnelshaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.
- English Word Nephrotomy Definition Extraction of stone from the kidney by cutting.
- English Word Nepotal Definition Of or relating to a nephew.
- English Word Nepotic Definition Of or pertaining to npotism.
- English Word Nepotism Definition Undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim.
- English Word Nepotist Definition One who practices nepotism.
- English Word Neptune Definition The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.
- English Word Neptune Definition The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years.
- English Word Neptunian Definition Of or pertaining to the ocean or sea.
- English Word Neptunian Definition Formed by water or aqueous solution; as, Neptunian rocks.
- English Word Neptunian Definition Alt. of Neptunist
- English Word Neptunicentric Definition As seen from Neptune, or having Neptune as a center; as, Neptunicentric longitude or force.
- English Word Neptunist Definition One who adopts the neptunian theory.
- English Word Neptunium Definition A new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite.
- English Word Ner Definition nearer.
- English Word Nere Definition Were not.
- English Word Nereid Definition A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish.
- English Word Nereid Definition Any species of Nereis. The word is sometimes used for similar annelids of other families.
- English Word Nereides Definition of Nereid
- English Word Nereides Definition of Nereis
- English Word Nereidian Definition Any annelid resembling Nereis, or of the family Lycoridae or allied families.
- English Word Nereids Definition of Nereid
- English Word Nereis Definition A Nereid. See Nereid.
- English Word Nereis Definition A genus, including numerous species, of marine chaetopod annelids, having a well-formed head, with two pairs of eyes, antennae, four pairs of tentacles, and a protrusile pharynx, armed with a pair of hooked jaws.
- English Word Nereites Definition Fossil tracks of annelids.
- English Word Nereocystis Definition A genus of gigantic seaweeds.
- English Word Nerfling Definition The id.