Crossword clues for nasal
nasal
- About the nose
- ____ spray
- ___ spray (inhaled medication)
- ___ spray (Afrin, for example)
- Type of spray or congestion
- Type of congestion
- Type of cavity or spray
- Type of air passage
- Twangy, as voices go
- Twangy sounding
- Twangy in speech
- Said with a pinched nose
- Place for spectacles
- Of the schnoz
- Marked by a twang
- Like some speech
- Like some medicinal sprays
- Like Neil Young's voice
- Like Dylan's singing
- Like a cold-sufferer's voice
- Like a cold sufferer's voice
- Kind of passage
- Describing the nose passages
- Word with spray or passage
- Word with passage or voice
- Word with cavity or spray
- With a vocal twang
- Whiny, as a voice
- Type of sound
- Twangy, vocally
- Twangy, like Willie Nelson's voice
- Tone or passage
- Spoken with a twang
- Spoken through the nose
- Sounding whiny
- Sounding stuffed
- Sounding like one has a cold
- Some passages
- Relating to a facial organ
- Penetrating, as a voice
- Of the hooter
- Llike a "Hunh?" sound
- Like Willie Nelson vocals
- Like twangy voices
- Like twangy speech
- Like the voice of someone who's stuffed up
- Like the ng sound
- Like the nanny's voice on "The Nanny"
- Like the FluMist spray
- Like the first two consonants in "namaste"
- Like Steve Urkel's voice
- Like some unwanted hair
- Like some French consonants
- Like some cold symptoms
- Like Ray Romano's voice
- Like Miley Cyrus's voice
- Like lots of telephone operator impersonations
- Like Fran Fine's voice on "The Nanny"
- Like ens
- Like ems and ens
- Like decongestant sprays
- Like Bob Dylan's singing
- Like all the vowel sounds in "un bon vin blanc"
- Like Adrock's voice
- Like Adam Levine's voice
- Like a twang
- Like a stuffy-sounding voice
- Like a facial cavity
- Like "m" or "n," phonetically
- Like "hunh"
- Like 'm' and 'n' sounds
- Kind of twang
- Kind of spray or passage
- Duct or cartilage
- Drescherlike in tone
- Descriptor for M and N
- Country descriptor, sometimes
- Concerning the nose
- Cavity opening?
- A kind of twang
- "m" or "n," in phonetics
- "M," e.g
- ___ twang (speech characteristic)
- ___ spray (medicine used for stuffiness)
- ___ spray (medicine taken during allergy season)
- ___ spray (drugstore purchase)
- ___ polyps
- ___ passage
- __ vowels (feature of French)
- __ passage
- __ decongestant
- __ cavity
- Twangy, as a voice
- Countryish, in a way
- Twang type
- Stuffy, in a way
- Helmet guardpiece
- Like Fran Drescher's voice
- Kind of spray for allergies
- Certain speech sound
- Kind of cavity or twang
- Kind of passages
- Like the sound "ng"
- Kind of decongestant
- Like a whiny voice
- Stuffy-sounding
- Sounding like one has a cold, say
- Mont Blanc feature?
- Congested-sounding
- Like some country sounds
- Like spoken n's
- Like an "eh," maybe
- Vocally twangy
- Like "m" or "n," to linguists
- ___ congestion (stuffiness that might be caused by a cold)
- Like Bob Dylan's voice
- Like the first of May or the end of June?
- Like some cavities
- Twangy-sounding
- Like some blocked passages
- Pinched, perhaps
- Like certain passages
- Like the "ng" sound
- Like some French vowels
- Snooty?
- ___ decongestant (Sudafed, for example)
- Like some sprays
- ___ passages
- Like some country-and-western singing
- Like one's voice when one has a cold, maybe
- ___ congestion (cold symptom)
- Word before congestion or spray
- Like the sounds "m" and "n"
- A continuant consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed
- An elongated rectangular bone that forms the bridge of the nose
- Kind of drip
- Of the nose
- Reedy
- Like Down East speech
- Speech sound
- Like Ozarks speech
- Helmet's nosepiece
- Like hillbilly speech
- Guard on a helmet
- Of a facial feature
- Like the sound of French vowels
- Contributing to klaxon, as a lover of hooters
- Of the smelling organ
- Such passages that are often blocked partly in a sale
- Sort of organ that sometimes needs a blow
- Alan's wrong to be nosy
- Like hooter US space administrators lacked at first
- Like first of nurses taking city hospital round
- Alan's unusual manner of speaking?
- Rocketry experts taking line regarding nose
- Relating to the nose
- Bunch of scientists left sounding adenoidal
- Through the nose?
- Type of spray
- Like a twangy voice
- Like some passages
- Sounding stuffy
- Sounding congested
- Like some vowels
- Like some accents
- Like Willie Nelson's voice
- Type of cavity
- Sounding like a cold sufferer
- Twangy, as speech
- Of noses
- Like some voices
- ___ cavity
- __ spray: decongestant
- Said with a twang
- Type of tone or passage
- Type of spray or passages
- Like Willie Nelson's singing
- Like some congestion
- Like a cold sufferer
- Kind of sound
- Kind of congestion
- Having a twang
- Flu symptom, ... congestion
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nasal \Na"sal\, n.
An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.
(Med.) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine. [Archaic]
(Anc. Armor) Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
(Anat.) One of the nasal bones.
(Zo["o]l.) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
Nasal \Na"sal\ (n[=a]"zal), a. [F., from L. nasus the nose. See Nose.]
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the nose.
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(Phon.) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.
Nasal bones (Anat.), two bones of the skull, in front of the frontals.
Nasal index (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the transverse the base of the aperture to the nasion, which latter distance is taken as the standard, equal to 100.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "of the nose," from French nasal, from Latin nasus "nose, the nose, sense of smell," from PIE *nas- (see nose (n.)). Of speech sounds, attested from 1660s. As a noun, "nasal letter or sound," from 1660s. Related: Nasality; nasalization.
Wiktionary
a. (context anatomy English) Of or pertaining to the nose. n. 1 An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously, such as ''m'' and ''n''. 2 (context medicine archaic English) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine. 3 (context phonetics English) A nasal vowel or consonant. 4 (context now historical English) Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard. 5 (context anatomy English) One of the nasal bones. 6 (context zoology English) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
WordNet
n. a continuant consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed [syn: nasal consonant]
an elongated rectangular bone that forms the bridge of the nose [syn: nasal bone, os nasale]
Wikipedia
Nasal (noun) is the medieval term for the nose guard of a helmet. Cf. Nasal helm.
Nasal (adjective) refers to the nose, part of human or animal anatomy. It may be also be shorthand for the following uses in combination:
- With reference to the human nose:
- Nasal administration, a method of pharmaceutical drug delivery
- Nasal emission, the abnormal passing of oral air through a palatal cleft, or from some other type of velopharyngeal inadequacy
- Nasal hair, the hair in the nose
- With reference to linguistics:
- Nasalization, lowering of the velum, allowing air to escape through the nose. The resulting speech sound is either a nasal consonant or a nasal vowel.
- With reference to the nose of humans or other animals:
- Nasal bone, two small oblong bones placed side by side at the middle and upper part of the face, and form, by their junction, "the bridge" of the nose
- Nasal cavity, a large air filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face
- Nasal concha, a long, narrow and curled bone shelf which protrudes into the breathing passage of the nose
- Nasal scale of reptiles
Usage examples of "nasal".
The anatomy of the nasal passages, and the various chambers and tubes that communicate therewith, is such that they cannot be reached with fluid administered with any kind of syringe or inhaling tube, or with any instrument, except one constructed to apply it upon the principle above stated.
The Catarrh Remedy may be administered by means of the Nasal Douche, if the case is complicated by Nasal catarrh.
One treatment that was administered for nasal catarrh, from which I continued to be affected, caused erosion of the mucous membrane, and destruction of the bony septum which separates the two nostrils.
Selecting a long-stemmed goblet of greenish wine and a stylish little Perkup nasal inhaler, Alacrity sighed.
And immediately after her prayer breaks forth, soars upward in a shrill nasal falsetto, like a morning alarum when the hour for waking has come, the mechanical noise of a spring let go and running down.
Seregil asked in a haughty, slightly nasal voice, giving Alec an elaborate bow.
Conscious that the human organism, normally capable of sustaining an atmospheric pressure of 19 tons, when elevated to a considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when proposing this problem for solution, he had conjectured as a working hypothesis which could not be proved impossible that a more adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of beings might subsist otherwise under Martian, Mercurial, Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian, Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vanity.
The instrument was, however, too large to be an aural or nasal speculum but too small to be anything else.
Reader, if you suffer from chronic nasal catarrh, do not expect to be very speedily cured, especially if your case is one of long standing.
She could smell the spicy Diton cooking and hear the nasal voice of an evening teacher above the conversations.
Parliamentary Olympus, ennobled brewers, nasal fanatics, all the machinery to hand.
And Folkish was what they were speaking, though it was a strangely slurred Folkish, very nasal, not at all familiar.
However, Guthrie Featherstone was a tall man, with a good calf in a silk stocking, and he took with him Marigold, his lady wife, who was young enough, and I suppose pretty enough, for Henry our junior clerk to eye wistfully, although she had the sort of voice that puts me instantly in mind of headscarves and gymkhanas, that high pitched nasal whining which a girl learns from too much contact with the saddle when young, and too little with the Timsons of this world in later life.
He took care to breathe solely through his nose, letting his vast nasal cavities humidify and warm the crisp air before it was drawn into his lungs.
All three men saw it at once and for the moment could only stare at the ivory-hued jawless irregular sphere with its great black orbits and triangular nasal opening.