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noctambule: late-night
noctambulisme: noctambulism
noctiluque: noctiluca
noctiluque: noctilucent
noctule: noctule
nocturne: opening hours at night; match of sport at night
nocturne: nocturne
nocturne: nocturnal; night
nocturnement: nocturnally
nodal: nodal
nodulaire: nodular
nodule: nodule, lump
noethérien: Noetherian / noetherian
noeud: nonstandard spelling of nœud
noeud vital: alternative spelling of nœud vital
noeuds: nonstandard spelling of nœuds
nogaï: Nogai (language)
nohantais: of Nohant-Vic
noir: black in colour; dark; drunk; inebriated; black, of black ethnicity
noir: a black person; a person whose hair is dark; dark; darkness
noir comme dans un four: dark to the point where one can't see, pitch-dark
noir comme l'ébène: black as ebony, pitch-black, jet-black
noir comme poix: pitch-black, jet-black, black as coal
noir de fumée: lampblack
noir de jais: jet-black
noir de monde: black, heaving, packed, crammed, overcrowded
noir et blanc: black-and-white (displaying images in shades of grey/gray)
noir marron: maroon
noir sur blanc: in black and white, explicitly
noir-marron: alternative spelling of noir marron
noiraud: swarthy
noirceur: blackness; black stain or mark; blackness; darkness (quality of being bad or evil); darkness
noirci: blackened
noircir: to blacken (to make black); to get drunk
noircir le tableau: to paint a bleak picture of a situation, to make something seem worse than it really is
noircissement: blackening, darkening
noircisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of noircir
noire: quarter note
noirette: black-haired woman; noirette; Black woman
noirien: pinot noir (grape variety, wine)
noirâtre: blackish
noise: quarrel, argument
noisetier: hazel, hazel tree
noisette: hazelnut; noisette; knob (of butter etc.); espresso with a little milk
noix: walnut; any nut; knob, pat (of butter); cushion (round fillet of meat); testicle
noix d'Amazonie: synonym of noix du Brésil
noix de Grenoble: walnut
noix de Saint-Jacques: great scallop; king scallop
noix de cajou: cashew nut (the seed of the cashew tree)
noix de coco: coconut
noix de macadamia: macadamia nut
noix de muscade: nutmeg (seed)
noix de pin: pine nut
noix de pécan: pecan (nut)
noix du Brésil: brazil nut
noix vomique: nux vomica, fruit of the strychnine tree
nokhchi: Chechen (language)
nolisé: charter; chartered
nom: name; noun; noun or adjective; used in nom adjectif and nom substantif
nom abstrait: abstract noun