Noological - The definition might be rather long-winded. Take a quick look at:
http://www.metamorphus.com/noo.html

noospere - more of the same:
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directory of links to resources on spirituality, consciousness, alternate realities, and religion. Also provides articles on Teilhard de Chardin and the Noosphere.
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nopalry - nopal is cactus. A nopalry is cactus garden.
Starting his botanical researches in 1771, he established a Nopalry (to cultivate the Nopal plant) in Saidapet, its location in today's terms along the western ...
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The Notitia Dignitatum Page. This pages, contains the text of the Roman document "Notitia Dignitatum". The document is a list of ...
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notochord
n.
5prec. + CHORD16
1 an elongated, rod-shaped structure composed of cells, forming the primitive supporting axis of the body in the lowest chordates and lying between the digestive tract and the central nervous system
2 a similar structure in the embryonic stages of higher vertebrates, which later is surrounded and replaced by the vertebral column
no#to[chord$al
adj.

nous 7n1s; also n/s8
n.
5Gr nous, noos6 Philos. mind, reason, or intellect, specif. as a metaphysical principle


novillero
n.,
pl. 3ros 73r/os8 5Sp < novillo, young bull < L (bos) novellus, new (bull): see NOVEL6 a novice bullfighter

novillada sustantivo femenino
(tauromaquia) training fight (bullfight with young bulls and novice bullfighters)


nummular
adj.
5L nummularius < nummulus, dim. of nummus, a coin < Gr nomimos, legal < nomos: see 3NOMY6 coin-shaped; circular or oval


nunatak
n.
5prob. via Dan < Esk6 Geol. an isolated mountain peak protruding through glacial ice


nunciature
n.
5It nunziatura6 the office or term of office of a nuncio


nyctitropism
n.
5prec. + 3TROPISM6 the tendency of the leaves or petals of certain plants to assume a different position at night
nyc#ti[trop$ic 73tr9p4ik8
adj.

nyctitropism

I had a so-called "prayer plant" whose leaves stood up at night. It was a very pretty plant, with variegated leaves with red undersides. However, it was creepy to be studying quietly during the time when the leaves were moving, becase you could hear them move. You'd hear a small swish, and look up, and the plant was wobbling from two leaves having brushed past each other on the way up. Yeesh!

it bothered my mother too! i never noticed the movement or the noise, (none of us kids did, and we thought she was weird to be so bothered by a plant! (and she wasn't studying, and noticed the noise in a house full of kids!)

Nunatak

Nunataks are only common in the Antarctic, but there is one beauty just below the neve of Franz Josef glacier in New Zealand. It's at about 9,500 feet so it's above the bush league, er, line. They're dangerous to get too close to in temperate climates because the rock heats up in the sun and a melt pool of indeterminate depth, but a relatively narrow width, can form around them. A friend of mine tried to climb on to this nunatak and slipped into the melt pool, which was only a foot wide, but he would have gone in over his head but for the fact that he was still wearing his pack, which jammed him against the rock. We hauled him out, wet, but wiser. One very frightened fella!