black nightshade
— Noun
– English
~ Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
Ballota nigra
— Noun
– English
~ ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers
Betula nigra
— Noun
– English
~ birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark
Brassica nigra
— Noun
– English
~ widespread Eurasian annual plant cultivated for its pungent seeds; a principal source of table mustard
Blue Nile
— Noun
– English
~ a headstream of the Nile; joins the White Nile at Khartoum to form the Nile
Brigit Nilsson
— Noun
– English
~ Swedish operatic soprano who played Wagnerian roles (born in 1918)
Baphia nitida
— Noun
– English
~ small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye
butyl nitrite
— Noun
– English
~ a colorless pungent liquid sometimes used as a stimulant drug by drug abusers
Boehmeria nivea
— Noun
– English
~ tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax
by no means
— Adverb
– English
~ definitely not; "the prize is by no means certain"; "and that isn't all, not by a long sight"
bete noire
— Noun
– English
~ a detested person; "he is an anathema to me"
background noise
— Noun
– English
~ extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal
beurre noisette
— Noun
– English
~ clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with vinegar or lemon juice and capers
breakfast nook
— Noun
– English
~ a place for light meals (usually near a kitchen); "the breakfast nook had a built in table and seats"
bull nose
— Noun
– English
~ a disease of pigs resulting in swelling of the snout
brandy nose
— Noun
– English
~ enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin; often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol
bottle-nosed dolphin
— Noun
– English
~ any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean
binary notation
— Noun
– English
~ any notation that uses 2 characters (usually 0 and 1)