Phrase Hound found 33 phrases and 29 compound words that contain nova. The most common are listed below. Open nova in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 33
- Nova ScotiaA province in eastern Canada. Capital: Halifax.
- Nova KakhovkaA city in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine.
- Lingua Franca NovaA constructed language created by C. George Boeree based on French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan using either Latin or Cyrillic alphabets with grammar based on that of Romance Creoles.
- Nova OdesaA city in Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine.
- Nova ScotianOf, from or relating to the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Nova GoricaA town in Slovenia that lies next to Gorizia in Italy.
- Balsa NovaA town and municipality of Paraná, Brazil.
- Terra NovaA town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- Nova Scotia peninsulaA peninsula in Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Nova SintraA city being the capital and the most populous Brava, Cape Verde.
- Nova ZemblaFormer name of Novaya Zemlya: an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
- Nova Scotian Sign LanguageSynonym of Maritime Sign Language: An endangered sign language descended from Old British Sign Language used in Atlantic Canada.
- Nova BukovicaA municipality of Croatia.
- Nova GradiškaA city in Croatia.
- Nova IorqueA municipality of Maranhão, Brazil.
- Nova KapelaA municipality of Croatia.
- Nova RačaA municipality of Croatia.
- ars novaA musical style that flourished in the Kingdom of France and its surroundings during the Late Middle Ages, particularly between the preparation of the Roman de Fauvel (1310s) and the death of composer Guillaume de Machaut in 1377.
- dwarf novaA cataclysmic variable star consisting of a close binary star system in which one of the components is a white dwarf that accretes matter from its companion.
- stellar novaSynonym of nova: Any sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star.
- quark novaA hypothetical violent explosion resulting from the conversion of a neutron star to a quark star
- recurrent novaA type of nova in which the sudden brightening and gradual diminishing is repeated (for any of several reasons)
- Nova PoltavkaA village in Illinivka rural hromada, Kramatorsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
- Nova Scotia salmonA kind of lox cured with a mild brine and then cold-smoked.
- nova remnantThe ejected material left behind by novae.
Compound words 29
- micronovaA stellar outburst about one millionth the strength of a classical nova.
- kilonovaA type of supernova that is underluminous, caused by the merger of two neutron stars
- macronovaSynonym of kilonova: A type of supernova that is underluminous, caused by the merger of two neutron stars
- novalikeResembling or characteristic of a nova.
- unnovaThe collapse of a star which cannot explode in a supernova.
- supernovaA powerful and bright explosion of a massive star, which afterwards becomes a neutron star or a black hole, or is destroyed.
- casanovaAlternative letter-case form of Casanova.
- novationReplacement of a contract with one or more new contracts, in particular in financial markets the replacement of a contract between a particular buyer and seller with contracts between the clearing house and each party.
- VillanovaA surname.
- hypernovaThe gravitational collapse of a massive star to form a black hole.