noun

• (South Africa) Initialism of National Party.
• (Philippines) Initialism of Nacionalista Party.
• Initialism of notary public. [(law) An officer who can administer oaths and statutory declarations, witness and authenticate documents and perform certain other acts varying from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.]
• Initialism of nurse practitioner. [(medicine) A professional nursing designation recognized in some jurisdictions, denoting an individual who is fully qualified as a nurse and who has additional qualifications and authorization to provide diagnoses and/or treatments, including writing prescriptions .]
• Initialism of national park. [An area of land that is not built upon, but reserved by the national government for conservation of nature and usually also for recreational use.]
• (linguistics) Initialism of noun phrase. [(grammar) A phrase that has a noun (or indefinite pronoun) as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun.]
• (nanotechnology) Initialism of nanoparticle. [Any microscopic particle less than about 100 nanometers (nm) in diameter.]
• (computing theory) Abbreviation of nondeterministic polynomial, the complexity class of computational problems that a nondeterministic Turing machine can solve in polynomial time.
• (medicine, pathology) Abbreviation of nosocomial pneumonia.