English words: nervature to Netcong

300 English words, part 24 of 99 of the words starting with N, A to Z. 25 have a page of their own.

English words nervature to Netcong

nervature noun: The arrangement of nerves.
nervcited adjective: Nervously excited; both nervous and excited.
nerve noun, verb /nɜːv/: A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.
nerve agent noun: Synonym of nerve gas.
nerve cell noun: A cell of the nervous system which conducts nerve impulses; a neuron.
nerve center noun: A point at which nerves come together for the processing of signals.
nerve centre noun: Standard spelling of nerve center.
nerve cord noun: A dorsal tubular cord of nervous tissue above the notochord of a chordate.
nerve ending noun: The termination of a nerve, at the distal end of an axon
nerve fiber noun: An axon.
nerve fibre noun: An axon
nerve gas noun: A toxic chemical compound and banned weapon of mass destruction which, when inhaled or ingested, impairs nervous system functions, typically causing extreme...
nerve growth factor noun: a functional protein complex required for the survival, growth and specialization of certain types of neurons in vertebrates.
nerve impulse noun: The signal transmitted along a nerve fibre, either in response to a stimulus (such as touch, pain or heat), or as an instruction (such as causing a muscle...
nerve-jangling adjective: Synonym of nerve-racking.
nerve net noun: The simplistic and uncentralized nervous system of cnidarians, ctenophores, echinoderms, and xenoturbellids.
nerve of the pterygoid canal noun: A nerve formed by the union of the greater petrosal and the deep petrosal nerves that passes forward through the pterygoid canal in the sphenoid bone and...
nerve of Wrisberg noun: Synonym of nervus intermedius.
nerve out verb: To freak out; to become very nervous.
nerve palsy noun: A loss of nerve function that causes muscle weakness and often loss of feeling.
nerve rack noun: A state of extreme emotional distress from a nerve-racking experience.
nerve-racked adjective: Experiencing nerve rack.
nerve-racking adjective /ˈnɝv ˌɹækɪŋ/: Intensely irritating or distressing to the nerves.
nerve-rackingly adverb: In a nerve-racking manner
nerve-shredder noun: something very suspenseful
nerve-shredding adjective: Suspenseful.
nerve trunk noun: A bundle of nerve fibres, held together by a sheath of connective tissue, that makes up the main stem of a nerve
nerve up verb: To make anxious.
nerve wrack noun: Alternative form of nerve rack.
nerve-wracked adjective: Alternative form of nerve-racked.
nerve-wreck noun: Alternative form of nerve rack.
nerve-wrecking adjective: Misconstruction of nerve-racking.
nerved adjective, verb: Vigorous, strong; courageous.
nerveless adjective /ˈnɜː(ɹ)vləs/: Lacking nerve: fearful; cowardly.
nervelessly adverb: In a nerveless manner.
nervelessness noun: The characteristic of being nerveless; cowardliness.
nervelet noun: A little nerve, or nervule.
nervelike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of nerves.
nerven verb /ˈnɜː(ɹ)vən/: To innerve.
nerverack noun: Alternative form of nerve rack.
nerveracked adjective: Alternative form of nerve-racked.
nerveracking adjective: Alternative form of nerve-racking.
nerveroot noun: Synonym of yellow lady's slipper
nerves of steel noun: Great bravery, courage, or composure.
nerveway noun: An axon.
nervewrack noun: Alternative form of nerve rack.
nervewracked adjective: Alternative form of nerve-racked.
nervewracking adjective: Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
Nervian adjective, noun /ˈnɜːr.vi.ən/: Of, from or relating to Nervia.
nervicited adjective: Simultaneously nervous and excited.
Nervii noun: One of the most powerful Belgic tribes, living in northern Gaul at the time of its conquest by Ancient Rome.
nervily adverb: In a nervy way.
nervimotility noun: The stimulating effect of the substratum on a growing organ.
nervimotion noun: The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves.
nervimuscular adjective: Alternative form of nervomuscular.
nervine adjective, noun /ˈnɝvin/: Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement.
nerviness noun: The characteristic of being nervy.
nerving noun, verb: An arrangement of nerves or veins in a plant.
nervish adjective: nervous; anxious
nervited adjective: Both nervous and excited.
nervo- prefix: nerve
nervo-bilious adjective: Easily excitable and with energy and strength of mind and body.
nervomuscular adjective: Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles.
nervon noun: A cerebroside present in brain tissue
nervone noun: Alternative form of nervon.
nervonic adjective: Of or pertaining to nervonic acid or its derivatives
nervonic acid noun: The unsaturated fatty acid tetracosa-9-enoic acid that is a constituent of cerebrosides such as nervon
nervoscope noun: Synonym of neurocalometer.
nervose adjective: nerved; having prominent veins.
nervosism noun: A nervous disorder, especially neurasthenia.
nervosity noun: The state of being nervous; nervousness.
nervous adjective /ˈnɜːvəs/: Full of sinews.
nervous as a cat adjective: Very nervous.
nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs adjective /ˈnɜːvəs(ˈ)æz‿ə ˈlɒŋˌteɪld ˈkæt(ˈ)ɪn‿ə ˈɹʊm(ˈ)fʊl ɒv ˈɹɒkɪŋˌt͡ʃɛəz/: Extremely nervous.
nervous breakdown noun: An attack of a psychological disorder such as anxiety or depression which is so severe that it prevents a person from continuing to function normally.
nervous hit noun: A production which receives generally favorable notice, but is not assured of success.
nervous nellie adjective, noun: A person whose personality and behavior are characterized by worry, insecurity, and timidity.
nervous nelly adjective, noun: Alternative spelling of nervous-Nellie.
nervous nineties noun: The set of individual scores between 90 and 99, when a batsman may play badly due to feeling pressure to convert the score into a century.
nervous pudding noun: jello
nervous Purvis noun: A nervous person.
nervous system noun: An organ system whose principal constituent is nervous tissue that coordinates the activities of muscles, monitors organs, constructs and processes data...
nervous tissue noun: The principal constituent of the central and peripheral nervous system comprising neurons and neuroglia cells.
nervous wreck noun: A very stressed and anxious person.
nervously adverb: In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.
nervousness noun: The state or quality of being nervous.
nervular adjective: Relating to a nervule.
nervule noun: A minor, nonsupporting vein in a leaf of a plant; a branch vein of a nervure (supporting vein) or of another nervule.
nervulet noun: A nervule.
nervulose adjective: Having small nerves.
nervuration noun: The arrangement or distribution of nervures.
nervure noun /ˈnəːvj(ʊ)ə/: A vein in the wing of an insect.
nervus acusticus noun: cochlear nerve
nervus intermedius noun /ˌnɝ.vəs ˌɪn.tɚˈmi.di.əs/: The branch of the facial nerve that contains sensory and parasympathetic fibers and that supplies the anterior tongue and parts of the palate and fauces.
nervus vagus noun: Synonym of vagus nerve.
nervy adjective /ˈnɜː.vi/: Having nerve; bold; brazen.
Nery proper noun: A surname.
Nerys proper noun: A female given name from Welsh.
NES noun /ɛn iː ɛs/: Initialism of night eating syndrome.
NESA proper noun /ˈniːsə/: National Eagle Scout Association, an organization of men who have earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.
Nesaean adjective: Alternative form of Nisean.
Nesaian adjective: Alternative form of Nisean.
nesapidil noun: A vasodilator.
NESB noun: Initialism of non-English-speaking background.
nesba noun: Alternative form of nisba.
Nesbit proper noun: A surname.
Nesbitt proper noun: A civil parish without a council in County Durham, England.
Nesby proper noun: A surname from Norwegian.
Nescafé proper noun: A brand of instant coffee
nescience noun /ˈnɛsɪəns/: The absence of knowledge, especially of orthodox beliefs.
nescient adjective, noun /ˈnɛʃənt/: An ignorant person.
nescious adjective: Synonym of nescient (“ignorant”).
Nesean adjective: Alternative form of Nisean.
Nesebar proper noun: A city in Burgas, Bulgaria, on the Black Sea.
nesfatin-1 noun: A neuropeptide produced in the hypothalamus of mammals.
nesh adjective, verb /nɛʃ/: Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding.
neshama noun: The soul.
neshamah noun: Alternative form of neshama.
Neshannock noun: A white-fleshed variety of potato, suitable for table use, which was popular in the 1800s.
neshaw noun /ˈniʃɔ/: A silver eel.
Nesheim proper noun: A surname.
neshen verb: To make tender or soft; mollify.
neshly adverb: In a nesh manner.
Neshnabé noun: Alternative form of Anishinaabe.
neshness noun: The condition of being nesh.
Neshoba proper noun: Neshoba County, Mississippi.
Nesian adjective, noun /ˈniːʒən/: A Pacific Islander.
nesidioblast noun: A kind of cell that is a precursor to the islet cells of the pancreas.
nesidioblastic adjective: Of or relating to nesidioblasts.
nesidioblastoma noun: Islet cell carcinoma
nesidioblastosis noun: A form of hyperplasia in tissue of the islets of Langerhans
Nesin proper noun: A surname.
nesiote adjective: insular; of islands
nesiotic adjective: Synonym of nesiote.
nesiritide noun /nəˈsɪɹ.ɪˌtaɪd/: The recombinant form of the 32-amino acid human B-type natriuretic peptide, used to facilitate cardiovascular fluid homeostasis through counterregulation of...
Nesmith proper noun: A surname from Middle English [in turn originating as an occupation].
Neso proper noun /ˈniːsəʊ/: A moon of Neptune.
Nesoan adjective /niːˈsoʊ.ən/: Of or relating to the Nereid Neso in Greek mythology.
nesodine noun: An alkaloid found in Heimia salicifolia.
Nesogaean adjective: Relating to Nesogaea–Polynesia or Oceania, New Zealand excepted, with regard to the distribution of its animals.
NESOI adjective: Acronym for Not Elsewhere Specified Or Included or Not Elsewhere Specified Or Indicated, used to refer to items exported between countries, usually...
Nesoian adjective /nɪˈsoʊ.iən/: Alternative form of Nesoan.
nesomyid noun: Any rodent in the family Nesomyidae.
nesomyine noun: Any Malagasy rodent of the subfamily Nesomyinae
nesonym noun: A toponym of an island.
nesophontid noun: Any mammal in the family Nesophontidae.
nesosilicate noun: Synonym of orthosilicate.
nesosteine noun: A mucolytic drug.
Nespelem noun: A Native American people of eastern Washington.
Nespelim noun: Alternative form of Nespelem.
nesprin noun: Any of a family of proteins, found in the outer membrane of cell nuclei, that bind to actin or plectin filaments
nesquehonite noun: Magnesium carbonate trihydrate.
ness noun, suffix /nəs/: Appended in general, often informally, stylistically, or jocularly, for reification of an attribute.
Nessa proper noun /ˈnɛsə/: A female given name, nickname of Vanessa.
nessary adjective /ˈnɛsəɹi/: Pronunciation spelling of necessary.
nessberry noun: A cross between a dewberry and a red raspberry.
Nesselrode proper noun: Designating a type of cream, pie, or pudding, constituting an iced dessert made of chestnuts and cream, and typically flavoured with rum.
nesselrode pudding noun: A chestnut-based frozen dessert, generally agreed to contain pureed chestnuts, mixed with cream or egg custard, flavoured with dried fruit, including...
Nessen proper noun: A surname.
Nesser proper noun: A surname from German.
Nessie proper noun /ˈnɛsi/: The Loch Ness monster.
Nessler proper noun: A surname.
Nessler cylinder noun: A laboratory tube used in colorimetric analysis.
Nessler tube noun: Synonym of Nessler cylinder.
nesslerise verb: Alternative form of nesslerize.
nesslerization noun: The process of nesslerizing.
nesslerize verb: To treat or test (a liquid) with a solution of mercuric iodide in potassium iodide and potassium hydroxide (Nessler's reagent) in order to detect the...
nessness noun: The quintessence of being.
Nessus proper noun /ˈnɛsəs/: A centaur killed by Heracles, whose tainted blood in turn killed Heracles.
Nessus shirt noun: A fatal present or inescapable fate.
Nessus sphinx noun: Amphion floridensis, a day-flying sphingid moth.
nest noun, verb /nɛst/: A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
nest box noun: A man-made box provided for wild birds or small animals to nest in.
nest-building noun: Alternative form of nestbuilding.
nest egg noun: A natural or artificial egg placed in a bird's nest, to encourage the bird to lay its own eggs there.
nest of vipers noun: A group of criminals or dangerous, untrustworthy people.
nest scrape noun: A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a scrape.
nest together verb: To fit together snugly; to be part of a compact unit.
nestability noun: The quality of being nestable.
nestable adjective: Capable of being nested (stacked or housed one inside the other).
nestage noun: Nesting; the construction of nests.
nestbox noun: Alternative form of nest box.
nestbuilding noun: The construction of a nest.
nestcam noun: A camera monitoring a bird's nest.
nested adjective, verb: Embedded.
nested class noun: Synonym of inner class.
nestedness noun: A measure of the order in an ecological system
nester noun: One who nests.
nestful noun: As much or many as will fill a nest.
nesthole noun: A hole, either naturally occurring or excavated, in a tree, rockface, termite mound, etc., which is used as a nest.
nesticid noun: Any spider of the family Nesticidae.
nestin noun: A type VI intermediate filament (IF) protein, expressed mostly in nerve cells where it is implicated in the radial growth of the axon.
nesting noun, verb /ˈnɛstɪŋ/: The process by which a bird nests.
nesting box noun: Synonym of nest box.
nesting doll noun: Synonym of Russian doll.
nesting ground noun: The place where an organism nests.
nestitherapy noun: Medical treatment by reducing food intake.
nestle verb /ˈnɛsəl/: To settle oneself comfortably and snugly.
nestle-bird noun: The weakest of a litter (of pigs, dogs, etc.); a runt.
nestle-cock noun: The last-hatched chick of a brood, the weakling of a brood.
nestlecock noun: Alternative form of nestle-cock.
nestler noun: One who nestles.
nestless adjective: Without a nest.
nestlessness noun: Absence of nests.
nestlet noun: A little nest.
nestlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a nest.
nestling noun, verb /ˈnɛstlɪŋ/: A small, young bird that is still confined to the nest.
nestlingly adverb: So as to nestle.
nestmaking noun: The construction of a nest.
nestmate noun: One with which a nest is shared, such as a baby bird and its siblings or figuratively a child with children it is raised with.
nestohedron noun: For a building set B, the Minkowski sum of the simplices Δ_S as S ranges over B. (Here Δ_S is the standard simplex of S, i.e., the convex hull of the...
Neston proper noun: A town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ2977).
nestor noun /ˈnɛstə/: A wise old man, especially one who serves as a counselor or adviser.
Nestorian Acephali noun /nɛstˈɔːɹi͡ən ɐsɪfˈɑːli/: A group of individuals who didn't adhear to the condemnation of Nestorius by John I of Antioch and Cyril of Alexandria at the Council of Ephesus (431 CE).
Nestorianism noun: The Christological doctrine ascribed to Nestorius, condemned as heretical by the Council of Ephesus but later also ascribed to the Church of the East,...
Nestorianist adjective: Of or relating to the Nestorians.
Nestorianize verb: To teach or follow the Nestorian doctrine.
Nestorianizer noun: One who Nestorianizes.
nestorid noun: Any member of family Nestoridae of parrot-like birds of New Zealand.
neststraw noun: Any of the plants in the genus Stylocline.
nestward adverb: Towards a nest
nesty adjective /ˈnɛsti/: Resembling or characteristic of a nest.
net adjective, adverb, interjection, noun, preposition, verb /nɛt/: A mesh of string, cord or rope.
net and rouf noun: An odds of 14:1.
net art noun: A form of new media art distributed via the Internet.
net asset value noun: A measure for the valuation of a fund or trust by its holdings diminished by obligations divided by the total number of shares.
net ball noun: Dated form of netball.
net blotch noun: A plant disease caused by fungi of the genus Pyrenophora, especially a disease of barley caused by P. teres.
net café noun: Synonym of Internet cafe
net café refugee noun: A homeless person in Japan who do not own or rent a residence (thus having no permanent address) and sleeps in 24-hour Internet cafés or manga cafés.
net call sign noun: A call sign that represents all stations within a net.
net-cast verb: Synonym of cast-net
net curtain noun: A thin curtain that allows light into a room but prevents people outside from seeing inside.
net earnings noun: Earnings of a person after deduction of all taxes, social security charges and other obligatory payments; the take-home pay.
net exporter noun: A country or entity that exports more goods or services than it imports over a given period.
net force noun: The combination of all the forces that act on an object.
net gun noun: A weapon designed to fire a net which entangles the target, used e.g. for capturing wildlife.
net importer noun: A country or entity that impors more goods or services than it exports over a given period.
net income noun: Gross profit minus operating expenses and taxes.
net ionic equation noun: An ionic equation in which spectator ions are omitted, i.e. only the reacting ions are included in the equation.
net layer noun: A naval auxiliary ship responsible for laying and maintaining antisubmarine or antitorpedo nets.
net lease noun: An agreement that requires the tenant to pay, in addition to the fixed rent, all of the property expenses which normally would be paid by the owner. For US...
net-leaved poison noun: The plant Gastrolobium glaucum.
net-leaved willow noun: A dwarf willow of the species Salix reticulata, native to the colder parts of Europe, North America, and Northern Asia.
net-like adjective: Alternative spelling of netlike.
net loss noun: Synonym of net operating loss.
net magnetization vector noun: Of magnetic resonance imaging, the summation of all the magnetic moments of the individual hydrogen nuclei.
net margin noun: The amount of money which a business generates after deducting all expenses, including taxes; often expressed as the ratio net margin percent.
net metering noun: An electricity billing arrangement where excess energy (especially renewable energy) generated by an electricity consumer is credited towards their future...
net migration noun: The difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants.
net minder noun: A goalkeeper, player whose role it is to defend the goal.
net net adverb, interjection, noun: A true and final result, after more than the obvious subtractions and allowances.
net-neutral adjective: Characterized by net neutrality.
net neutrality noun: Synonym of network neutrality.
net operating income noun: Income after deducting operating expenses but before deducting for income taxes, interest, and depreciation and amortization.
net operating loss noun: The amount by which the income of a company is less than its expenditure.
net out verb: To add up to a net amount of money.
net pay noun: What remains from gross pay after taxes and other deductions have been taken away
net present value noun: The present value of a project or an investment decision determined by summing the discounted incoming and outgoing future cash flows resulting from the...
net profit noun: The gross revenue minus all expenses.
net-raising noun: Fundraising, soliciting and gathering resources through or with the use of the internet.
net register ton noun: A measure of the cargo capacity of a ship, equal to 100 cubic feet or 2.83 m³.
net run rate noun: The average run rate scored by a team minus the average run rate scored against them.
net sales noun: The value of sales generated by a company after deduction of returns, discounts and the value of damaged or lost goods.
net tangible assets noun: The total assets of a company, less any intangible asset such as goodwill, patents, and trademarks, less all liabilities and the par value of preferred stock.
net-veined adjective: Having reticulate veins.
net weight noun: The weight of a product (especially food) without the (tare) weight of its packaging.
net-winged adjective: Having net-veined wings, as the Neuroptera do.
net-winged beetle noun: Any beetle in the family Lycidae
net worth noun: The total assets minus total liabilities of an individual or a company.
net wt. noun: Abbreviation of net weight.
net zero adjective, noun: Resulting in neither a surplus or deficit because gains and losses cancel out.
neta noun: A politician.
netaholic noun: A person who is addicted to the Internet.
netaholism noun: Addiction to the Internet.
-netant suffix /nət.ənt/: Used to form names of neurokinin NK₃ receptor antagonists.
Netanya proper noun: A city in the Central District, Israel.
Netanyahu proper noun /ˌnɛtənˈjɑːhuː/: A surname from Hebrew, most notably borne by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
netazepide noun: The benzodiazepine derivative 1-((3R)-1-(3,3-dimethyl-2-oxobutyl)-2-oxo-5-(pyridin-2-yl)-2,3-dihydro-1H-1,4-benzodiazepin-3-yl)-3-(3-(methylamino)phenyl)urea
netback noun: Revenues received from the sale of oil or gas on spot market minus the costs of extraction, processing and transportation.
netbag noun: A traditional bag of net-like material used in parts of Oceania; it is also a symbol of womanhood.
netball noun /ˈnɛtbɔːl/: A (usually women's) team sport derived from basketball, with seven players on each side who attempt to score goals by passing a ball and throwing it into...
netballer noun /ˈnɛtbɔːlə/: A netball player.
netballing adjective /ˈnɛtbɔːlɪŋ/: Playing or relating to the sport of netball.
netbank noun: A bank that operates over the Internet.
netblock noun: A block of IP addresses.
netblotch noun: Alternative form of net blotch.
netbook noun: An economical notebook computer able to access the Internet.
netboot noun, verb: The booting of a system from a network.
NetBSD proper noun: a Unix-like operating system that is derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), notable for running on 57 different platforms
netburp noun: A netsplit (type of technical glitch on IRC).
netbush noun: Any of various plants of the genus Calothamnus.
netcam noun: A video camera whose output may be viewed in real time over a network, especially over the Internet.
netcast noun, verb: A broadcast transmitted over the Internet, such as a podcast.
netcaster noun: The creator or broadcaster of a netcast.
netcentric adjective: Pertaining to client/server architecture that is used throughout an enterprise's entire lines of business.
netch-azmud noun: ajwain
netco noun: The part of a telco that operates the network infrastructure.
netcode noun: The program code that handles interactions over a network.
Netcong proper noun: A borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

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.