nepotism
— Noun
– English
～ favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs)
nepotist
— Noun
– English
～ a powerful person who shows favoritism to relatives or close friends
Neptune
— Noun
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～ a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants; "the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846"
neptune
— Noun
– English
～ (Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon
neptunium
— Noun
– English
～ a radioactive transuranic metallic element; found in trace amounts in uranium ores; a by-product of the production of plutonium
nerd
— Noun
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～ an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
nerd
— Noun
– English
～ an intelligent but single-minded expert in a particular technical field or profession
Nereid
— Noun
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～ (Greek mythology) any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus
nereus
— Noun
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～ (Greek mythology) a sea god son of Pontus and Gaea; lived in the depths of the sea with his wife Doris and their daughters the Nereids
nergal
— Noun
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～ (Akkadian) god ruling with his consort Ereshkigal the world of the dead
nerita
— Noun
– English
～ a neritid gastropod having a short smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum
neritic
— Adjective
– English
～ of or relating to the region of the sea over the continental shelf which is less than 200 meters deep; "neritic fauna"; "neritic oil"
neritic
— Adjective
– English
～ relating to the region of shallow water adjoining the seacoast; "neritic fauna"
neritid
— Noun
– English
～ operculate seasnail of coastal waters with a short spiral shell
neritid gastropod
— Noun
– English
～ operculate seasnail of coastal waters with a short spiral shell