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397 words match “NAP”

CANAPE CONFIDENT n.
A sofa having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats.
DINAPHTHYL n.
A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.
EPANAPHORA n.
Same as Anaphora. Gibbs.
GENAPPE n.
A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc. Simmonds.
GNAPHALIUM n.
A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.
HANAP n.
A rich goblet, esp. one used on state occasions. [Obs.]
HANAPER n.
usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper. Hanaper office, an office of the English court of chancery in which writs relating to the business of the public, and the returns to them, were anciently kept in a hanaper or hamper. Blackstone.
INAPATHY n.
Sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy. [R.]
INAPPEALABLE a.
Not admitting of appeal; not appealable. Coleridge.
INAPPEASABLE a.
Incapable of being appeased or satisfied; unappeasable.
INAPPELLABILITY n.
The quality of being inappellable; finality. The inappellability of the councils. Coleridge.
INAPPELLABLE a.
Inappealable; final.
INAPPETENCE; INAPPETENCY n.
Want of appetency; want of desire.
INAPPLICABILITY n.
The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
INAPPLICABLE a.
t applicable; incapable of being applied; not adapted; not suitable; as, the argument is inapplicable to the case. J. S. Mill.
INAPPLICATION n.
Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.
INAPPOSITE a.
Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent. -- In*ap"po*site*ly, adv.
INAPPRECIABLE a.
Not appreciable; too small to be perceived; incapable of being duly valued or estimated. Hallam.
INAPPRECIATION n.
Want of appreciation.
INAPPREHENSIBLE a.
Not apprehensible; unintelligible; inconceivable. Milton.
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