Word Type

Adjective

Adjective

Noun

The word "nuclear" can be used as adjective, adjective and noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

conventional

Capable Of

destroy lives

Derived Terms

anti-nuclear antibody anti-nuclear factor anuclear astronuclear binuclear bionuclear burning nuclear plasma centronuclear circumnuclear corticonuclear cytonuclear dinuclear effective nuclear charge electronuclear endonuclear extranuclear geonuclear go nuclear hadronuclear heptanuclear heteronuclear hexanuclear homonuclear hypernuclear infranuclear internuclear intranuclear isonuclear juxtanuclear macronuclear micronuclear mitonuclear mononuclear morphonuclear multinuclear myonuclear neuronuclear nonnuclear nuclear Overhauser effect nuclear age nuclear airburst nuclear aircraft nuclear artillery nuclear autumn nuclear battery nuclear binding energy nuclear block nuclear body nuclear bomb nuclear button nuclear cataract nuclear certifiable nuclear certified nuclear chain reaction nuclear charge nuclear chemistry nuclear code nuclear cytoplasm nuclear data nuclear decay nuclear democracy nuclear deterrence nuclear deterrent nuclear disintegration nuclear electric rocket nuclear emulsion nuclear energy nuclear envelope nuclear explosion nuclear fallout nuclear family nuclear famine nuclear fission nuclear football nuclear force nuclear forensics nuclear fratricide nuclear fuel nuclear fusion nuclear gene nuclear halo nuclear hardness nuclear hazard nuclear hydrogen detection meter nuclear incident nuclear inclusion body nuclear intelligence nuclear isomer nuclear lamina nuclear magnetic moment nuclear magnetic pulse nuclear magnetic resonance nuclear magneton nuclear material nuclear matrix nuclear medicine nuclear meltdown nuclear membrane nuclear nation nuclear navy nuclear notation nuclear operator nuclear ophthalmoplegia nuclear option nuclear parity nuclear pasta nuclear photonic rocket nuclear physicist nuclear physics nuclear pile nuclear plasma nuclear poison nuclear pore complex nuclear power nuclear power plant nuclear power station nuclear pulse propulsion nuclear quadropole resonance nuclear quadrupole resonance nuclear radiation nuclear reaction nuclear reactor nuclear response function nuclear rocket nuclear sclerosis nuclear sharing nuclear spectrum nuclear submarine nuclear summer nuclear technology nuclear terrorism nuclear test nuclear testing nuclear transfer nuclear triad nuclear umbrella nuclear underground burst nuclear underwater burst nuclear vulnerability assessment nuclear war nuclear warfare nuclear waste nuclear weapon nuclear winter nuclear yield nuclear-armed nuclear-electric rocket nuclear-free nuclear-free zone nuclear-pulse rocket nuclear-thermal rocket nuclear-thermoelectric rocket nuclearic nuclearisation nuclearise nuclearism nuclearist nuclearite nuclearity nuclearize nuclearly nuplex oligonuclear paranuclear pentanuclear perinuclear photonuclear piezonuclear polymorphonuclear polynuclear postnuclear prenuclear pro-nuclear pronuclear pycnonuclear radionuclear ribonuclear small nuclear ribonucleoprotein somatic cell nuclear transfer strong nuclear strong nuclear force strong nuclear interaction subnuclear supranuclear tetranuclear thermonuclear trinuclear uninuclear weak nuclear weak nuclear force weak nuclear interaction

Derived From

nucleus

Etymologically Related To

muscle muscular nucular

Context

biology metaphoric physics

Type Of (IsA)

apocalypse holocaust

Related Terms

nuclei nucleo nucleus

Related Terms

atomic cell central centre destruction nuclear energy nuclear family nuclear power nuclear power plant nuclei nucleus pivotal

Similar Terms

central central thermonuclear thermonuclear

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