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nitruration: nitriding (of a metal surface)
nitrure: nitride
nitrurer: to nitride
nitré: nitrated
niv: abbreviation of niveau
niv.: alternative spelling of niv
nival: snow
nivation: nivation
niveau: level (general); level (measuring instrument); level, the stage of a video game
niveau de difficulté: difficulty level
niveau de la mer: sea level
niveau de service: service level
niveau de vie: standard of living
niveau à bulle: spirit level, bubble level
niveau à lunette: surveyor's level
nivelable: levelable (able to be levelled)
niveler: to level, level out (ground); to even, even out (put on the same level)
niveleur: leveler (all senses)
niveleuse: grader (road-making vehicle)
nivellement: leveling out, leveling
nivellement analogique: paradigm leveling, morphological leveling, analogical leveling
nivellement par le bas: dumbing down, lowering of the standards, reducing to the lowest common denominator, levelling down, race to the bottom, downwards harmonisation
nivernais: of Nièvre
nivo-glaciaire: nivoglacial
nivo-pluvial: nivopluvial
nivologie: the study of snow
nivologue: someone who studies snow, snowologist
nivéal: nival
nivéole: snowflake (Leucojum)
nivôse: Nivôse (the fourth month of the French Republican Calendar)
nixe: nixie
niçard: of Nice
niçois: of, from or relating to the city of Nice, the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
nièce: niece
no: abbreviation of numéro (“number”)
no comment: no comment (a refusal to say the obvious impolite retort)
no-go zone: no-go zone
nobeltussois: of, from or relating to the village of Toussus-le-Noble, Yvelines department, Île-de-France, France
nobiliaire: nobility
nobilité: nobleness; nobility
noble: noble (person who is noble)
noble: noble, aristocratic; nonsynthetic, natural; fine; noble, worthy (thoughts, cause etc.)
noblement: nobly (in a noble way)
noblesse: nobility
noblesse de robe: In the Ancien Régime, a status of nobility due to one's office, such as that of a judge, an arbiter, etc.
noblesse oblige: noble or more generally high-ranked people have honourable obligations towards lower-ranked or less fortunate ones, and should behave nobly towards them
nobliau: noble, nobleman
nobélisable: worth of a Nobel prize
nobélisé: who has won a Nobel prize
nobélium: nobelium
noce: wedding; wedding party, reception; party, knees-up
noces: plural of noce; wedding
noces d'or: golden wedding
noceur: party animal, reveller; one who sleeps late or not at all; or, one who stays out late to revel or party
nocher: ferryman
nocicepteur: nociceptor
nocif: harmful, bad for one's health
nocivement: harmfully
nocivité: noxiousness, harmfulness
noctambule: night owl (one who stays up late at night or goes to bed late)