| ANGINOSE | • anginose adj. (Dated) Relating to angina; anginous. • ANGINOSE adj. relating to angina. |
| BLUENOSE | • bluenose n. (Informal) A prude. • bluenose n. (Slang) A person from Nova Scotia, Canada. • bluenose n. (US, naval slang) A person who has crossed the Arctic Circle. |
| BULLNOSE | • bullnose n. (Construction) rounded ceramic trim, especially in masonry and ceramic tile. • bullnose n. (Uncountable) A bacterial disease of suckling or weanling pigs, characterized by sores in the mouth or upon the lips. • BULLNOSE n. swine snout disease. |
| CONENOSE | • conenose n. Conenose bug. • CONENOSE n. a bloodsucking insect. |
| DIAGNOSE | • diagnose v. (Transitive, medicine) To determine which disease is causing a sick person’s signs and symptoms; to… • diagnose v. (By extension) To determine the cause of a problem. • DIAGNOSE v. to identify a disease by symptoms. |
| FARINOSE | • farinose adj. Yielding or related to farina. • farinose adj. (Botany, zoology) Covered with a sort of white, mealy powder, like the leaves of some poplars, and the… • FARINOSE adj. resembling or yielding flour. |
| FURANOSE | • furanose n. (Chemistry) any cyclic hemiacetal form of a monosaccharide having a five-membered ring (the tetrahydrofuran skeleton). • FURANOSE n. a sugar having four carbon atoms and one oxygen. |
| HARDNOSE | • hardnose n. Alternative form of hard-nose. • hardnose adj. Alternative form of hard-nosed. • hard-nose n. A hard-nosed person; one who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment. |
| HAWKNOSE | • hawknose n. A nose shaped like a hawk’s beak. • hawk-nose n. Alternative form of hawknose. • hawk␣nose n. Alternative form of hawknose. |
| HOOKNOSE | • hooknose n. An aquiline nose. • hooknose n. Someone with such a nose, especially Jews. • hooknose n. A fish, the armed bullhead. |
| LACUNOSE | • lacunose adj. Full of gaps or lacunae. • LACUNOSE adj. marked by shallow depressions. |
| LAMINOSE | • LAMINOSE adj. composed of laminae, also LAMINOUS. |
| PRODNOSE | • prodnose n. (Slang) Synonym of busybody. • prodnose v. (Slang) To meddle; to interfere where one is unwelcome. • PRODNOSE n. an inquisitive person. |
| PROGNOSE | • prognose v. (Medicine) To make a prognosis. • PROGNOSE v. to forecast the probable course of a disease. |
| PRUINOSE | • pruinose adj. (Botany) Having a very fine whitish powder (bloom) on a surface. • pruinose adj. (Zoology, entomology) Covered with a very fine whitish layer of wax particles. • PRUINOSE adj. having a powdery covering. |
| PYRANOSE | • pyranose n. (Chemistry) any cyclic hemiacetal form of a monosaccharide having a six-membered ring (based on tetrahydropyran). • PYRANOSE n. a sugar present in pyran. |
| RHAMNOSE | • rhamnose n. (Biochemistry) A methyl-pentose, 6-deoxy-L-mannose, which occurs in the leaves and flowers of poison… • RHAMNOSE n. a sugar found in plants. |
| STARNOSE | • starnose n. Star-nosed mole. • STARNOSE n. a curious American mole having the nose expanded at the end into a stellate disk. |
| TUBENOSE | • tubenose n. Any of the Procellariiformes, an order of seabirds including albatrosses, petrels, and shearwaters. • tubenose n. A small, thin fish of Japanese and Korean coastal waters, Aulichthys japonicus. • TUBENOSE n. a bird with tubular nostrils. |
| VENENOSE | • venenose adj. Alternative form of venenous (“venomous; poisonous”). • VENENOSE adj. poisonous. |