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Nut hand
Nut hand, or the nuts: the best possible poker hand on a given board in community-card games like Hold'em and Omaha. Changes each street; related terms include second nuts, nut flush, nut blocker, and nut advantage.
NUT midline carcinoma
NUT midline carcinoma, now called NUT carcinoma, is a rare aggressive squamous cell cancer driven by NUTM1 gene fusions, usually BRD4-NUT, arising along the body midline with median survival under one year.
Nut Projector (JmGO)
Nut Projector, also known as JMGO (坚果投影), is a Chinese smart-projector brand founded in Shenzhen in 2011 by Hu Zhenyu, ranked third in China's projector market in 2021.
Nut rage incident
The nut rage incident was a 2014 event in which Korean Air executive Cho Hyun-ah ordered a flight to return to the gate over the service of macadamia nuts.
Nutaarmiut
Nutaarmiut, a Greenlandic settlement (bygd) on Nutaarmiut Island in Baffin Bay, Avannaata municipality, north of Upernavik; name means 'the people in the new place'; about 30-38 inhabitants, economy based on halibut fishing and sealing.
Nutan (नूतन)
Nutan (नूतन, Nutan Samarth Bahl, 1936–1991) was an Indian film actress of Hindi cinema, daughter of Shobhna Samarth, who won a record five Filmfare Best Actress awards for Seema, Sujata, Bandini, Milan, and Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki before Kajol broke the record in 2011.
Nutanix
Nutanix is an American enterprise cloud software company based in San Jose, California. Founded in 2009, it pioneered hyperconverged infrastructure combining compute, storage, and virtualization.
Nutation
Nutation is a small periodic nodding of Earth's rotation axis, superimposed on its 26,000-year precession, caused by the gravitational torque of the Sun and Moon.
Nutbush City Limits
Nutbush City Limits: 1973 funk-rock single by Ike & Tina Turner, written by Tina Turner about her Tennessee hometown, produced by Ike at Bolic Sound; UK #4, US #22, and source of Australia's Nutbush line dance.
Nutbush, Tennessee
Nutbush, Tennessee: unincorporated Haywood County farming community on Highway 19, 12 miles west of Brownsville, settled early 1800s; childhood home of Tina Turner, subject of "Nutbush City Limits."
Nutchamai Thanombooncharoen
Nutchamai Thanombooncharoen is a Thai businesswoman who cofounded Carabao Group and chairs the SET-listed company, whose Carabao Dang energy drink is sold in over 40 countries.
Nutcracker
A nutcracker is a tool that cracks nut shells to free the kernel, using lever, screw, or percussion designs, often made as decorative German figures.
Nutcracker syndrome
Nutcracker syndrome: symptomatic compression of the left renal vein between the aorta and superior mesenteric artery, causing hematuria, flank pain, and proteinuria; treated conservatively or by LRV transposition, stenting, or autotransplantation.
Nutcracker Therapeutics
Nutcracker Therapeutics is a biotechnology company in Emeryville, California, founded in 2018 by Igor Khandros and Benjamin Eldridge, developing mRNA therapeutics and automated biochip-based RNA manufacturing.
Nutcrackers (film)
Nutcrackers (2024) is a Christmas comedy-drama directed by David Gordon Green, written by Leland Douglas, starring Ben Stiller as a Chicago developer caring for orphaned nephews played by the real Janson brothers; it opened TIFF 2024 and streamed on Hulu from November 29, 2024.
Nutella
Nutella, the Ferrero hazelnut-cocoa spread launched in 1964 from Pietro Ferrero's wartime Giandujot paste; seven ingredients including 13% hazelnuts and palm oil; sold in 170 countries, about 365,000 tonnes yearly, with RSPO-certified palm oil since 2013.
Nuthatch
Nuthatches (genus Sitta, family Sittidae) are small Northern Hemisphere passerine birds that climb down trunks headfirst and wedge nuts in bark to open them; 24 species, most diverse in southern Asia, with six Eurasian nuthatch lineages.
Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang
Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang, also styled Ain't Nothin' But a "G" Thang, is a 1992 Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg G-funk single from The Chronic, built on Leon Haywood's "I Want'a Do Something Freaky to You," reaching number two pop in 1993.
NUTM1
NUTM1, also known as NUT or C15orf55, is a human gene on chromosome 15, normally active in testicular germ cells, whose rearrangement with BRD4 drives aggressive NUT carcinoma.
Nutmeg
Nutmeg, the dried seed kernel of Myristica fragrans (mace is its red aril), a tropical spice native to the Banda Islands of Indonesia, once a Dutch VOC monopoly, traded for Manhattan in 1667, and toxic via myristicin in large doses.
Nutmeg & Mistletoe
Nutmeg & Mistletoe is a 2026 American Christmas comedy feature film directed by Peter Herro, starring Madeleine Arthur, Sarah Jeffery, Maia Kealoha, and Nia Vardalos; filmed in Palmdale and Santa Clarita, financed by Abyssal Films, released December 25, 2026.
Nutraceutical
Nutraceutical: term coined 1989 by Stephen DeFelice for foods or food-derived compounds, such as omega-3 supplements, claimed to prevent or treat disease; no agreed definition, no US regulatory category, marketed as dietary supplements.
Nutraloaf
Nutraloaf (food loaf, disciplinary loaf) is a bland, nutritionally complete baked loaf served to misbehaving US prisoners for days to months; courts generally upheld it under the Eighth Amendment, with exceptions such as LeMaire's use limits, Borden's hearing requirement, and Prude v. Clarke.
Nütram
Nütram, also spelled ngütram, is a Mapuche oral genre: true narratives of past events told in conversation to pass family and community memory across generations.
Nutri-Score
Nutri-Score is a five-level, color-coded front-of-pack nutrition label (A to E) developed by Santé publique France and introduced in France in 2017, now used voluntarily in several European countries, scoring foods per 100 g or 100 mL from nutrients to limit and recommended nutrients.
Nutria
The nutria (Myocastor coypus), also called the coypu, is a large semi-aquatic rodent native to South America, introduced to the United States for fur farming and now an invasive wetland pest.
NutriAsia
NutriAsia is a Philippine food company headquartered in Taguig and owned by the Campos family of Unilab, whose brands include Datu Puti, UFC, Silver Swan, and Mang Tomas.
Nutrien
Nutrien Ltd. is a Canadian crop-inputs company formed on January 2, 2018 through the merger of Agrium and PotashCorp, and is the world's largest potash producer with about 20 percent global market share.
Nutrient
Nutrient: element or compound an organism needs for growth, development, and health; essential nutrients must be consumed. Covers DRI/RDA/AI/UL derivation, macronutrients vs micronutrients, absorption, ecosystem limitation, and 2024–2025 reference-value revisions.
Nutrient criteria
Nutrient criteria are numerical water quality values for total phosphorus, total nitrogen, and response variables like chlorophyll a, set to prevent and assess eutrophic conditions.