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say it: nahn-STIK
nonstick is an adjective meaning "(of surfaces especially of cooking utensils) permitting easy removal of adherent food particles". It carries one recorded sense.
(of surfaces especially of cooking utensils) permitting easy removal of adherent food particles
“a frying pan with a nonstick surface”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nonstick come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.