(Britain) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
(Northern England, Scotland) A cup, bowl.
(uncountable, card games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.
verb
(cooking) To cover (something) with a sauce. (usually in the passive)
(figuratively) To be off one's guard.
(obsolete) To grab; to nab.
To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
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ncp
ndp
ndp
Proper noun
New Democratic Party, a Canadian political party.
The Nortel Discovery Protocol. (now Avaya)
National Defense Panel
nep
nep
noun
(UK, dialect) A knot in a fibre of cotton.
(US, slang, derogatory) One who engages in nepotism, usually referring to the one who benefits from it.
Catmint, catnip; Nepeta cataria.
nip
nip
noun
(Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario) A hamburger.
(mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
(nautical) A short turn in a rope.
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A pickpocket.
(papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
(slang, vulgar) A nipple, usually of a woman.
A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
A pinch with the nails or teeth.
A playful bite.
A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
Briskly cold weather.
verb
(Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
(informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
(obsolete) To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To steal; especially to cut a purse.
To annoy, as by nipping.
To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
To taunt.
nlp
nnp
nop
nop
intj
(informal, rare) Alternative form of nope
noun
(programming) A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
verb
(programming) To replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.
npa
npc
npc
Verb
To act as an in a game.
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npi
npl
npn
npp
npr
npt
npv
nsp
ntp
nyp
pan
pan
adj
(informal) Pansexual.
noun
(Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
(South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
(carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
(especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
(figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
(firearms) The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
(fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
(geology) Short for hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
(geology, obsolete South Africa) Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.
(music) Short for steelpan.
(obsolete) The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
(roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
(slang) A human face, a mug.
A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
A leaf of gold or silver.
A loaf of bread.
A part; a portion.
A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
Short for salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
Strong adverse criticism.
The contents of such a receptacle.
The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
verb
(audio) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
(intransitive, imaging) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
(intransitive, of a camera, etc.) To turn horizontally.
(intransitive, photography) To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
(intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
(transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
(transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
(transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
To join or fit together; to unite.
pcn
pdn
pen
pen
noun
(baseball) The bullpen.
(colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
(figurative) A writer, or their style.
(now rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
(poetic) A wing.
(slang) Penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
(soccer, slang) Penalty.
(zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
A female swan.
A light pen.
A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
verb
(transitive) To enclose in a pen.
(transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
pin
pin
noun
(UK, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
(US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
(archery) The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
(chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
(curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
(electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
(engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
(golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
(informal) A pinball machine.
(informal, in the plural) A leg.
(locksmithing) A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
(medicine, obsolete) Caligo.
(obsolete) A mood, a state of being.
(wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
A thing of small value; a trifle.
One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
The tenon of a dovetail joint.
verb
(chess, usually passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
(computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
(often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
(programming, transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
(transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
(wrestling) To pin down (someone).
Alternative form of peen
To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
pna
pnb
pnp
pon
pon
prep
Alternative spelling of 'pon.
ppn
prn
prn
Adverb
As needed.
psn
ptn
pun
pun
noun
(Korean units of measure) Alternative form of bun: a Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.
A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.
verb
(intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.
(transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
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qnp
rpn
snp
snp
Noun
A single base pair of DNA which is polymorphic with respect to a population.
Noun
A particular vasodilator, the nitroprusside of sodium.