English words: needlelace to negotiability

300 English words, part 17 of 99 of the words starting with N, A to Z. 42 have a page of their own.

English words needlelace to negotiability

needlelace noun: Alternative spelling of needle lace.
needleleaf adjective: Used in the names of plants that have long narrow leaves.
needleless adjective /ˈniːdə(l).ləs/: Without a needle or needles (especially hypodermic needles).
needlelike adjective: Resembling a needle in shape.
needlemaker noun: A manufacturer of needles.
needlemaking noun: The manufacture of needles.
needleman noun: A man who works with a needle; a male embroiderer, sewer, etc.
needlenose adjective: Having a long, thin nose; applied to needlenose pliers.
needlenose pliers noun: A variety of pliers with long, narrow extensions of the gripping faces, used to reach into narrow spaces.
needlenosed pliers noun: Alternative form of needlenose pliers.
needlephobia noun: Alternative form of needle phobia.
needlepoint noun, verb /ˈniːdl̩ˌpɔɪnt/: A craft involving pulling yarn, thread, or floss through a canvas mesh to produce a decorative design.
needlepointer noun: A person who produces needlepoint work.
needleproof adjective: Resistant to being punctured by needles.
needlepunch verb: A technique in textile manufacturing that involves interlocking fibers with needles.
needler noun: Agent noun of needle (verb).
needlescopic adjective: Relating to needlescopy.
needlescopic surgery noun: A surgery that uses instruments with diameters of 3 millimeters or less.
needlescopy noun: Synonym of needlescopic surgery.
needlesickness noun: Alternative form of needle sickness.
needless adjective, adverb /ˈniːdləs/: Not needed; unnecessary.
needless to say adverb: Clearly, obviously.
needlessly adverb: In a needless manner.
needlessness noun: The state or characteristic of being needless.
needlestack noun: A stack of needles. Represents the task of finding one thing among a large number of very similar things.
needlestick noun: Puncture of the skin by a hypodermic needle or other sharp object.
needlestick injury noun: Puncture of the skin by a hypodermic needle or other sharp object.
needlestone noun: natrolite
needlet noun: A wavelet having the form of a needle.
needletail noun: Any of various birds in the genus Hirundapus, related to the swift.
needletalk noun: Alternative form of needle talk.
needletrade noun: Any line of work involving the use of a needle with textiles, such as embroidery or the making of clothes.
needlewise adverb: In the direction of a needle; into a needle.
needlewoman noun: A woman who works with a needle; a female embroiderer, sewer, etc.
needlewood noun: The an Australian tree or shrub, Acacia palustris.
needlework noun /ˈniː.dəl.wɜːk/: The art or process of working with a needle especially in embroidery or needlepoint.
needleworked adjective: Made in needlework.
needleworker noun: One who carries out needlework.
needleworking noun: Needlework.
needlewoven adjective: Made by a process of weaving thread using a needle.
needling noun, verb /ˈniːdlɪŋ/: A needy person.
needlingly adverb: In a way that needles or provokes.
needly adjective, adverb /ˈniːd.li/: Zealously; carefully; earnestly.
needment noun: Something needed or wanted.
needn't verb /niːdn̩t/: Need not.
needn't've contraction: Contraction of need not + have.
needna contraction: need not
neednae contraction: need not
needs adverb, noun, verb /niːdz/: Either directly or indirectly preceded or followed by an auxiliary verb, often must: of necessity or need; necessarily, indispensably.
needs analysis noun: A procedure to assess a learner's needs, in order to plan a course for them.
needs-blind adjective: Of an educational institution: accepting pupils based on academic ability etc., rather than their ability to afford the fees.
needs-cost adverb: Of necessity or need; necessarily.
needs must proverb, verb: Alternative form of must needs.
needs must when the devil drives proverb: There is sometimes no choice but to do some specific thing.
needsly adverb: Of necessity; for some pressing reason.
needsome adjective: Marked by need; needy.
needta contraction: Contraction of need + to.
needways adverb: By or because of necessity; needwise.
needwise adverb: By or because of necessity; according to need; by need.
needworthy adjective: Worthy of a particular need.
needy adjective /ˈniːdi/: In need; poor.
needy mizzler noun: A shabby person; a tramp who runs away without paying for his lodging.
needyhood noun: Alternative form of needihood.
Neel proper noun: A surname.
Néel temperature noun: The temperature above which a material undergoes a phase transition and becomes paramagnetic.
Néel wall noun: A narrow transition region between magnetic domains, such that the magnetization smoothly rotates from the direction of magnetization within the first...
neelaredoxin noun: An iron-binding superoxide-reductase present in the syphilis spirochete, Treponema pallidum.
neeld noun: A needle.
neele noun: A needle.
Neeley proper noun: A surname from Irish.
Neely proper noun: A surname.
neem noun /niːm/: Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield neem oil, the insecticide azadirachtin.
neem cake noun: The by-product obtained in the process of coldpressing of neem tree fruits and kernels.
neem oil noun: A vegetable oil pressed from the fruits and seeds of the neem.
Neemuch proper noun: A district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
neen noun /niːn/: The eyes.
Neenah proper noun /ˈniːnə/: A city in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States.
Neenan proper noun: A surname from Irish.
neener interjection: A hostile taunt, often repeated in a singsong voice.
neenish adjective: Only used in neenish tart and a few related, synonymous phrases.
neenish tart noun: A small tart with a pastry base and gelatine-set cream filling, covered with icing in two colours, half and half.
neeny particle: A nonsense word, often repeated along with other similar nonsense words, such as nyah or na-na.
neep noun: The swede (rutabaga); turnip.
neep lantern noun: A lantern made from a hollowed-out turnip, traditionally used as decoration at Halloween.
Neepawa proper noun /ˈniːpəwə/: A town in central Manitoba, Canada.
neepery noun: Technological jargon.
neeps noun: plural of neep
neer noun: Abbreviation of nominal effective exchange rate.
neera noun: A sweet sap extracted from the inflorescence of various species of toddy palm and widely consumed in India and other Asian countries, sometimes fermented to...
Neeraj proper noun: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
neeramulliya noun: Hygrophila auriculata
Nees proper noun: A surname from German.
neesberry noun: Alternative spelling of naseberry.
neese verb: Alternative form of neeze.
neesiinoside noun: A diphyllin glycoside present in Justicia neesii
neesing noun, verb: Sneezing.
Neeson proper noun /ˈniːsən/: A surname.
neet noun /ˈniːt/: A person not in employment, education, or training.
NEETdom noun: the state of being a NEET
Neethling proper noun: A surname from Dutch.
Neethling virus noun: A virus of the family Poxviridae, the cause of lumpy skin disease in cattle.
neetup noun: Alternative form of netop.
neeze verb: To sneeze.
neezy noun: Nigga.
nef adjective, noun /nɛf/: An extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, made in the shape of a ship.
NEFA noun: Initialism of non-esterified fatty acid.
nefand adjective /nɪˈfænd/: unspeakable; nefandous
nefandous adjective /nɪˈfandəs/: Unspeakable, appalling.
nefarious adjective /nɪˈfɛəɹi.əs/: Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.
nefariously adverb: In a nefarious manner.
nefariousness noun: The state or characteristic of being nefarious.
nefasch noun: Any fish of the genus Distichodus.
nefast adjective: wicked
nefasti noun: In the calendar of Ancient Rome, those days on which business could not be transacted and assemblies and courts could not convene.
nefastous adjective: inauspicious, disastrous, ill-omened
nefazodone noun /nəˈfæz.əˌdoʊn/: A serotoninergic modulating antidepressant that is used in therapy of depression, aggressive behavior and panic disorder.
nefedovite noun: A triclinic-pedial mineral containing calcium, fluorine, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.
Nefertiti proper noun: A queen of Ancient Egypt, the chief consort of the pharaoh Akhenaten.
Nefertiti piercing noun: A female genital piercing that is a combination of a vertical clitoral hood piercing and a Christina piercing.
Nefertitian adjective: Of or relating to Nefertiti (ca. 1370 – ca. 1330 BC), Egyptian queen and chief consort of the pharaoh Akhenaten.
nefesh noun: One of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, related to natural instinct.
Neff proper noun /nɛf/: A surname.
neffy noun: Alternative form of nevvy.
nefiracetam noun /ˌnɛfɪˈɹæsɪtæm/: A nootropic racetam drug with cytoprotective effects.
nefness noun: The quality of being nef.
nefopam noun /ˈnɛfəpæm/: A centrally-acting but non-opioid analgesic drug of the benzoxazocine class, developed in the early 1970s, used for pain relief.
neftgil noun: ozocerite
neg adjective, noun, symbol, verb /nɛɡ/: Clipping of negative.
neg diff verb: To win a fight against another with negative difficulty (extremely little difficulty; less difficulty than no diff)
neg-raising noun: The phenomenon by which certain negated predicates (e.g. think, believe, expect) can give rise to a reading where the negation seems to take scope from an...
nega- prefix: antithesis; polar opposite.
negabent adjective: negatively bent
negabicomplex adjective: Related to a bicomplex value by a power of -1.
negabinary adjective, noun: The base of negative 2.
negacyclic adjective: constacyclic where the constant λ is -1
negadecimal adjective, noun: The base of negative 10.
negafibonacci adjective: Of or pertaining to the Fibonacci sequence extended to negative indices.
negaholic noun: A person who has a persistently negative or pessimistic outlook.
negaholism noun: A persistently negative or pessimistic outlook.
negamax noun: A variant of the minimax search algorithm, relying on the fact that min(a, b) = -max(-b, -a) to simplify the implementation.
negamile noun: A proposed unit of saved travel, equivalent to one mile not travelled.
negand noun: The proposition that is to be negated.
negaquaternary adjective, noun: The base of negative 4.
Negar proper noun /nəˈɡɑː/: A transliteration of the Persian female given name نگار (negâr).
negara noun: A constituent state of Indonesia when it was under Dutch control.
negarchic adjective: Of or relating to negarchy.
negarchical adjective: Of or relating to negarchy.
negarchy noun /ˈnɛɡɑːki/: A form of status quo maintained by the interrelations of power structure and authority.
negarnavirus noun: A negative sense RNA virus
Negash proper noun: A surname from Amharic.
negasphere noun: A spherical antimatter weapon.
negatability noun: The quality of being negatable.
negatable adjective: Capable of being negated.
negate verb /nɪˈɡeɪt/: To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
negatedness noun: The quality of being negated.
negater noun: Alternative form of negator.
negaternary adjective, noun: The base of negative 3.
negation noun /nɪˈɡeɪʃn̩/: The act of negating something.
negational adjective: Of, pertaining to or involving negation; negatory, negative
negationism noun: The revision of history in order to omit something that actually happened.
negationist noun: One who revises history in order to omit something that actually happened.
negatism noun: negativism
negatival adjective: Of or relating to a negative, especially to a word that indicates negation
negativate verb: negate
negativation noun: The act, or the result of negativing
negative adjective, interjection, noun, verb /ˈnɛɡ.ə.tɪv/: Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
negative atheist noun: Synonym of soft atheist.
negative bath noun: A silver solution in which photographic negatives are placed to be sensitized.
negative binomial distribution noun: A discrete probability distribution of the number of successes in a sequence of independent and identically distributed Bernoulli trials before a specified...
negative capability noun: The capacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty, perfection and sublimity even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed...
negative clause noun: a clause that states a negative
negative cost noun: The net expense to produce and shoot a film, excluding such expenditures as distribution and promotion.
negative crystal noun: A uniaxial crystal, such as one of calcite, in which the extraordinary wave travels faster than the ordinary wave
negative cutter noun: A person whose profession is negative cutting and cuts and matches motion picture negatives using film splicers and film cement.
negative deficit noun: profit; surplus
negative edge noun: The point in time when a signal's value becomes low.
negative edge-triggered adjective: Describing a circuit or component that changes its state only when an input signal becomes low.
negative entry noun: entry into the water with negative buoyancy, allowing immediate descent
negative equity noun: The amount by which the market value of a property falls below the amount of the mortgage secured upon it.
negative eugenics noun: The applied science of avoiding the reproduction of members of an animal species with inferior genetics.
negative feedback noun: A situation where some function of the output of a system, process, or mechanism is fed back in a manner that tends to reduce the fluctuations in the...
negative gearing noun: A form of leveraged speculation in which a speculator borrows money to buy an asset, but the income generated by that asset does not cover the interest on...
negative growth noun: Economic decline.
negative hallucination noun: A failure to perceive something (see, hear, feel, smell, taste, etc.) despite the objective presence of the corresponding sensory input; a negative analog...
negative harmony noun: undertone/subharmonic series?
negative ice noun: A shot in which the player curls the stone in the opposite direction in which the stone is expected to curve, due to significant defects in flatness of the...
negative income tax noun: A progressive income tax system in which people earning below a certain amount receive supplemental pay from the government instead of paying taxes to the...
negative indexing noun: The use of a negative integer as an array offset to access from the end of the array. Array[-3] accesses the 3ʳᵈ element from the end of the array, the same...
negative interest noun: A fee deducted from money to be stored in a bank, instead of interest paid on that money.
negative logic noun: The use of the higher(positive) voltage level to represent the Boolean value 0 and the lower voltage(negative) level to represent the Boolean value 1.
negative lookahead noun: The analysis of the subsequent characters absence before the regular expression is matched (symbol: ?!).
negative lookaround noun: The analysis of the characters' absence before the regular expression is matched.
negative lookbehind noun: The analysis of the preceding characters absence before the regular expression is matched (symbol: ?<!).
negative nancy noun: A person who is considered excessively and disagreeably pessimistic.
negative option noun: A business practice in which a customer agrees to have goods or services provided automatically, and must either continue to pay for the service or...
negative-painted adjective: Produced by negative painting.
negative painting noun: The technique of painting a dark background so that the remaining lighter color forms the main design.
negative parliamentarism noun: A type of parliamentary government in which an incoming government may take office unless a parliamentary majority votes against it, rather than needing...
negative pickup noun: A contract between a producer and a studio in which the studio agrees to buy a movie or show at a future date and for a fixed sum.
negative pion noun: Synonym of pi-minus
negative pledge noun: A type of loan or loan condition in which the borrower agrees with the lender not to allow any other lender or creditor to rank ahead for payment in the...
negative pole noun: The pole of a magnet that points southwards.
negative pregnant noun: A denial which implies its affirmative opposite by seeming to deny only a qualification of the allegation and not the allegation itself. For example, "I...
negative pressure noun: Pressure that is less than normal atmospheric pressure
negative priming noun: An implicit memory effect in which prior exposure to a stimulus unfavorably influences the response to the same stimulus.
negative proof noun: A fallacious judgment that, because a premise cannot be proven true, that premise must be false.
negative raising noun: Synonym of neg-raising.
negative reinforcement noun: The removal of a discouraging stimulus associated with a particular behaviour with the result that it is more likely to be repeated.
negative resolution noun: A procedure of the UK government whereby secondary legislation passes into law automatically. To reverse this, a motion to annul the legislation must be...
negative sense adjective: Of an RNA strand, complementary to the positive sense and not transcribed into DNA.
negative side waterproofing noun: An application wherein the waterproofing system and source of hydrostatic pressure are on opposite sides of the structure.
negative space noun: The space around and between the subjects of an image.
negative split noun: A racing strategy that involves completing the second half of a race faster than the first half.
negative-sum adjective: Of a situation in which there is a net loss.
negative theology noun: Apophatic theology, attempting to define God by negative rather than positive assertions.
negative transfer noun: The unsuccessful use by a language learner of a construct from the learner's source language in the target language, such that the resulting utterance in...
negative utilitarian adjective, noun: Pertaining to negative utilitarianism.
negative utilitarianism noun: A form of utilitarianism that says we should minimize the total amount of aggregate suffering, or that we should minimize suffering and then, secondarily,...
negative verb noun: An auxiliary verb used for negation in certain languages.
negative zero noun: A signed magnitude representation of zero in which the sign bit indicates a negative number.
negatively adverb: In a negative manner; so as to be damaging or not positive.
negatively privileged adjective: Lacking benefits or advantages in society.
negativeness noun: The characteristic of being negative; negativity.
negativer noun: One who negatives.
negativisation noun: Alternative form of negativization.
negativism noun: A persistent pessimistic or skeptical attitude.
negativist noun: One who exhibits negativism.
negativistic adjective: passive-aggressive
negativistic personality disorder noun: Synonym of passive-aggressive personality disorder.
negativity noun /ˌnɛɡ.əˈtɪ.vɪ.ti/: The characteristic of being pessimistic or contrarian.
negativity bias noun: The notion that things of a more negative nature have a greater effect on one's psychological state than neutral or positive things.
negativization noun: The process by which a seropositive person becomes seronegative.
negativize verb: To make negative.
negativo particle: No.
negatize verb: To negate or cancel out.
negatome noun: The set of all pairs of noninteracting proteins in an organism
negaton noun: A normal, negatively-charged electron, especially in comparison with a positon
negator noun /nəˈɡeɪtəɹ/: One who, or that which, negates.
negatory adjective, noun /ˈnɛɡəˌtɔɹi/: Negative; negating.
negatoscope noun: A device used to display negatives, now only used to display x-ray images
negatrip noun: A car trip not taken.
negatron noun /ˈnɛɡ.əˌtɹɒn/: Synonym of electron.
negatum noun /nəˈɡeɪtəm/: Something that is negated.
negawatt noun /ˈnɛɡ.ə.wɒt/: A unit of saved energy.
negentropic adjective: Having negative entropy
negentropy noun /ˌnɛɡˈɛntɹɒpi/: The difference between the entropy of a system and the maximum possible entropy of the same system.
Negev proper noun /ˈnɛɡɛv/: A desert region in southern Israel.
negevirus noun: Any insect virus of the genus Negevirus
negger noun: One who negs.
Neghidal noun: Alternative form of Negidal.
negiah noun: Physical contact between the sexes outside of marriage or familial relations.
negid noun: Alternative form of nagid.
Negidal noun: A member of a people inhabiting the Khabarovsk Krai in Russia, along the Amgun and Amur rivers.
negihama noun: A type of sushi, yellowtail and scallion.
negimaki noun: A Japanese dish of broiled strips of beef marinated in teriyaki sauce and rolled with scallions.
neginot noun: Alternative spelling of Neginoth.
Neginoth noun: A direction for the musical accompaniment of a psalm that has been interpreted as "stringed instruments".
Negishi coupling noun: Any of a class of reactions in which an organic halide reacts with an organometallic zinc compound under the control of a catalyst; R-X + R'-Zn-X' => R-R'
neglect noun, verb /nɪˈɡlɛkt/: To fail to care for or attend to something.
neglectability noun: Synonym of negligibility.
neglectable adjective: Small enough or unimportant enough to be neglected; negligible.
neglectably adverb: In a neglectable manner
neglected adjective, verb /nɪˈɡlɛktɪd/: Suffering from neglect; uncared-for.
neglected firm effect noun: The posited phenomenon that lesser-known companies, followed by fewer analysts, tend to produce abnormally high returns on their stocks, perhaps because of...
neglectedly adverb: In an neglected manner.
neglectedness noun: The quality of being neglected.
neglectee noun: One who is neglected.
neglecter noun: A person who neglects, or takes no notice of something
neglectful adjective: Tending to neglect; failing to take care of matters which require attention; forgetful.
neglectfully adverb: In a neglectful manner.
neglectfulness noun: The characteristic of being neglectful.
neglectible adjective: Alternative form of neglectable.
neglectingly adverb: Carelessly; heedlessly.
neglection noun /nəˈɡlɛk.ʃən/: neglect
neglective adjective /nɪˈɡlɛktɪv/: Neglectful.
neglectively adverb: In a neglective manner.
neglector noun: One who or that which neglects.
neglectproof adjective: That will not suffer damage through being neglected.
Negley proper noun: A surname.
negligably adverb: Alternative form of negligibly.
négligé noun: Alternative form of négligée.
negligee adjective, noun /ˈnɛɡlɪʒeɪ/: Carelessly or unceremoniously dressed.
negligeed adjective: Wearing a negligee.
negligence noun /ˈnɛɡlɪd͡ʒəns/: The state of being negligent.
negligence per se noun: An act considered negligent because it violates a statute or regulation.
negligency noun: Negligence.
negligent adjective /ˈnɛɡ.lɪ.d͡ʒənt/: Careless or inattentive.
negligent entrustment noun: A tort cause of action that arises where a party is injured because the other party entrusted a dangerous instrumentality (such as a vehicle or a weapon) to...
negligently adverb: In a negligent manner: carelessly or inattentively.
negligibility noun: The quality of being negligible.
negligible adjective /ˈnɛɡlɪd͡ʒɪbəl/: Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.
negligible set noun: A set that is small enough that it can be ignored for some purpose.
negligibleness noun: The quality of being negligible.
negligibly adverb /ˈnɛɡlɪd͡ʒɪbli/: To a degree that is negligible; so small or slight that it may be ignored.
nego-feminism noun: A form of African feminism that emphasizes negotiation and compromise.
negoce noun: business; occupation or enterprise
negociant noun: A wine merchant who purchases grapes, grape juice, or wine in bulk from vineyards, and bottles the wine for sale.
negolyte noun: A negative electrolyte.
Negombo proper noun: Negombo, a city in Sri Lanka
negotiability noun: The state of being negotiable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under N: 29,582 words, in 99 parts.