English words: nigre to nimustine

300 English words, part 37 of 99 of the words starting with N, A to Z. 24 have a page of their own.

English words nigre to nimustine

nigre noun: In soapmaking, the lower layer of liquid produced by pitching, which contains most of the impurities.
nigredo noun: A process of putrefaction or decomposition, one of the four major stages of the alchemical magnum opus.
nigrescence noun /naɪˈɡrɛsəns/: The process of becoming black or dark; blackening.
nigrescent adjective /nɪˈɡɹɛsənt/: Approaching blackness; blackish, dark-coloured.
nigrescigenin noun: A cardenolide found in Cryptolepis nigrescens.
nigress noun: Synonym of niggeress.
nigric noun: The black text of a liturgical book indicating the text which is to be read out loud by the celebrant.
nigricant adjective: Of a blackish colour.
nigrification noun: The act or process of making black.
nigrify verb: To make black in colour; to blacken.
nigrin noun: Any of a class of lectin isolated from the bark of elderberry (Sambucus nigra)
nigrine noun: A black ferruginous variety of rutile, or a compound of rutile and ilmenite.
nigrita noun: Any member of genus Nigrita, certain estrildid finches.
nigrite noun: An insulating material consisting of the impure residuum obtained in the distillation of paraffin.
Nigritian adjective, noun: An inhabitant of Nigritia (present-day Niger).
Nigritic adjective: Alternative form of Negritic.
nigritude noun: Blackness; the state of being black.
nigritudinous adjective: Black in color.
nigromancer noun: Alternative form of necromancer.
nigromancy noun /ˈnɪɡɹə(ʊ)mansi/: Necromancy; magic involving death.
nigromant noun: Alternative form of necromancer.
nigrometer noun: An instrument used to measure the blackness of a color.
nigropallidal adjective: Relating to the substantia nigra and the globus pallidus.
nigroside noun: A particular steroid glycoside.
nigrosin noun: A mixture of synthetic black dyes made by heating a mixture of nitrobenzene, aniline and aniline hydrochloride in the presence of a copper or iron catalyst;...
nigrosine noun: A dark blue synthetic dyestuff of the induline group.
nigrosomal adjective: relating to nigrosomes
nigrosome noun: A small cluster of dopaminergic cells within the substantia nigra
nigrostriatal adjective: Pertaining to a neural connection between the substantia nigra and the striatum.
nigrostriatally adverb: In a nigrostriatal way.
nigrostriatum noun: The boundary between the substantia nigra and the striatum
nigrothalamic adjective: relating to the substantia nigra and the thalamus
nigrous adjective: Black.
nigroviriditoxin noun: A toxin in the venom of the snake Bothriechis nigroviridis
nigrumnin noun: A particular steroid glycoside.
nigua noun /ˈniː.ɡwə/: A tropical flea, the chigoe.
niguldipine noun: A calcium channel blocker and a1-adrenergic receptor antagonist.
nigun noun /niːˈɡuːn/: A type of Ashkenazi Jewish worship song.
NIH adjective: Initialism of not invented here.
Nihal proper noun: Beta Leporis, the second-brightest star in the constellation of Lepus.
Nihang noun: A member of an armed Sikh order who dominated early Sikh military history.
nihari noun: A South Asian stew of slow-cooked beef or lamb with bone marrow.
Niharika proper noun: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
nihil noun /ˈnɪ.hɪl/: A nihil dicit.
nihil album noun: Synonym of zinc oxide, particularly white forms.
nihil debet noun: The general issue in certain actions of debt.
nihil dicit noun: A declinature by the defendant to plead or answer.
nihil obstat noun /ˈnɪhɪl ˈɒbstæt/: A declaration of no objection; (specifically) a declaration used by the Catholic Church to indicate a book, initiative, or appointment to an office has been...
nihilartikel noun /ˈnaɪ.(h)ɪlˌɑɹt.ɪkl̩/: A deliberately fictitious entry in an encyclopedia or academic work, generally identifiable as false, usually included to brand the intellectual property so...
nihilate verb: To annul.
nihilation noun: The act of nihilating.
nihilator noun: That which nihilates.
nihilhood noun: nullness or negation
nihilianism noun: A doctrine stating that, Christ's essence being divine, his human nature was nothing.
nihilianist noun: A proponent of nihilianism.
nihilianistic adjective: Of or relating to nihilianism.
nihilification noun: Synonym of nothingization.
nihilify verb: Synonym of nothingize.
nihilism noun /ˈnaɪ.(h)ɪ.lɪz.m̩/: The view that all endeavours are devoid of objective meaning.
nihilist adjective, noun /ˈnaɪ.(h)ɪl.ɪst/: A person who accepts or champions nihilism.
Nihilist cipher noun: A symmetric cipher in which a Polybius square using a mixed alphabet is used to convert both the plain text and a keyword to a series of two-digit numbers,...
nihilistic adjective /ˈnaɪ.(h)ɪl.ɪs.tɪk/: Of or relating to nihilism.
nihilistically adverb: In a nihilistic manner.
nihility noun: The state or fact of being nothing; nothingness, nullity; nonexistence.
NIHL noun: Initialism of noise-induced hearing loss.
Nihoa proper noun /niːˈhoʊ.ə/: The tallest of ten islands and atolls in the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Nihon proper noun: Japan.
Nihonbashi proper noun: A business district of Chūō, Tokyo prefecture, Japan, surrounding a famous bridge of the same name
nihonga noun: paintings made in a traditional Japanese style, typically executed with brushes on washi paper or silk
Nihongo noun: Synonym of Japanese: the Japanese language.
nihonium noun /nɪˈhoʊ.ni.əm/: The synthetic transactinide chemical element with atomic number 113.
Nihonjinron noun: A genre of texts that focus on issues of Japanese national and cultural identity and how Japan and the Japanese should be understood.
Nihung noun: Alternative form of Nihang.
NII noun: A Soviet scientific research institute.
Niigaki proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
Niigata proper noun: A prefecture of Japan.
niigataite noun: A particular epidote mineral.
Niihau proper noun /ˈniːhaʊ/: The westernmost and smallest of the inhabited islands of Hawaii.
niiice adjective: Elongated form of nice.
Niijima proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
Niikawa-Kuroki syndrome noun: Synonym of kabuki syndrome.
niiko noun /ˈniːkəʊ/: A folk dance from southern Somalia similar to twerking, generally performed by women.
NIISe noun /ˈnaɪ̯s/: Initialism of National Integrated Immigration System (digital immigration ecosystem for the Malaysian government)
Niitsitapi noun: Alternative form of Niitsitapi
Nijinskian adjective: Of or pertaining to Vaslav Nijinsky (1890–1950), Russian ballet dancer and choreographer.
Nijinsky proper noun: A surname
Nijmegen proper noun: A city in Gelderland, Netherlands.
Nijmegen breakage syndrome noun: A rare congenital disorder causing chromosomal instability.
nikaah noun: Alternative form of nikah.
nikab noun: Alternative spelling of niqab.
nikah noun: A Muslim wedding.
nikahnama noun: An Islamic matrimonial deed, setting out the partners' rights to divorce, polygamy, etc.
nikau noun: A New Zealand palm, Rhopalostylis sapida, with edible pith and leaves used for building and thatching.
Nike noun /ˈnaɪkiː/: An athletic shoe or other piece of athletic gear produced or licensed by athletic brand Nike.
Nikes noun /ˈnaɪki(ː)z/: Sports shoes of the brand Nike.
nikethamide noun: A stimulant which mainly affects the respiratory cycle.
Nikhil proper noun: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Niki Lauda noun: Cocaine.
niki-niki noun: Chewing tobacco.
nikischerite noun: A trigonal-rhombohedral green mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, sodium, and sulfur.
Nikita proper noun: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
nikka noun /ˈnɪkə/: A bowdlerization of nigga used as a reclaimed sense of nigger.
nikkah noun: Alternative spelling of nikka.
nikkei adjective, noun /ˈniːkeɪ/: Alternative letter-case form of Nikkei.
Nikkei index noun /ˈniːkeɪ ˈɪndɛks/: A Japanese stock market index; normally refers to the Nikkei 225, which is calculated by aggregating the share prices of 225 large Japanese companies quoted...
nikkeijin noun: A nikkei; a Japanese immigrant or descendant not resident in Japan.
nikker noun: Alternative form of nicker (“A sea devil.”).
Nikki proper noun /ˈnɪki/: A diminutive of the female given names Nicole, Nichole, Nicola, and Nichola, variant of Nicky.
nikko noun: A felt-tip pen, of the Nikko brand or of any other brand, or the marks left by such a pen.
Nikko fir noun: Abies homolepis, a fir native to the mountains of central and southern Honshū and Shikoku, Japan.
nikkomycin noun: Any of a group of compounds that inhibit chitin synthase.
nikkud noun: Alternative spelling of nikud.
Nikky proper noun: A female given name; Alternative spelling of Nicky.
Niko proper noun: A diminutive of the male given names Nikola, Nikolas, and Nikolaos, from Greek.
Nikola proper noun: A transliteration of the Bulgarian, Macedonian, or Serbo-Croatian male given name Никола (Nikola), equivalent to Nicholas
Nikolai proper noun: A city in Alaska.
Nikolais proper noun: A surname.
nikolaitism noun: Alternative form of Nicolaitism.
Nikolaos proper noun: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Νικόλαος (Nikólaos) used in Greece. The equivalent female name is Nikoleta.
Nikolas proper noun: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Νικόλας (Nikólas), used in Greece.
Nikolayev proper noun /nɪkəˈlaɪ.ɪf/: A transliteration of the Russian surname Никола́ев (Nikolájev)
Nikole proper noun /nɪˈkəʊl/: A female given name.
Nikolic proper noun: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
Nikolina proper noun: A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Николина (Nikolina)
Nikolov proper noun: A surname from Bulgarian.
Nikolsky proper noun: A transliteration of the Russian surname Нико́льский (Nikólʹskij).
Nikolsky's viper noun: A venomous viper, Vipera nikolskii, endemic to Ukraine, eastern Romania, and southwestern Russia.
nikomycine noun: The antifungal agent and antibiotic...
Nikon proper noun: A surname
Nikon choir noun /ˈnɪkɒn kwaɪə(ɹ)/: A large group of photographers simultaneously capturing images of a celebrity, producing numerous photographic flashes along with an accompanying din of...
Nikon chorus noun: Synonym of Nikon choir.
Nikonian adjective, noun /nɪˈkəʊ.ni.ən/: A follower of the main current of the Russian Orthodox Church, which accepted the reforms undertaken during the reign of Patriarch Nikon.
Nikonite adjective, noun /ˈnɪkənaɪt/: A supporter of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow in the Raskol.
Nikonov proper noun: A surname from Russian.
Nikopol proper noun /nɪˈkoʊpɒl/: A miskrada in Nikopol Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, established in 2020.
Nikos proper noun: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Νίκος (Níkos) used in Greece. It is the most common form of the name Nikolaos, the Greek cognate of Nicholas.
niku-nuki noun: A method of preserving both the shell and the body intact, by using hot water on a live specimen to separate the two.
nikud noun: The system of optional diacritics attached to Hebrew letters that indicate vowels and consonant variations.
nikujaga noun: A Japanese dish of meat, potatoes and onion stewed in sweetened soy sauce.
nikuman noun: A (Japanese) baozi with meat filling; a Chinese steamed stuffed bun with meat.
Nikumaroro proper noun: uninhabited atoll in the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati
nil determiner, noun, prefix /nɪl/: Nothing; zero.
nil by mouth phrase: Synonym of nil per os (“nothing may be eaten or drunk”).
nil desperandum interjection /nɪl dɛspəˈɹændəm/: Do not despair.
nil disease noun: Minimal change disease.
nil per os phrase: Nothing by mouth: Nothing may be eaten or drunk.
Nila proper noun /nilə/: A vanara, brother of Nala and son of Agni in Ramayana.
nilable adjective: Able to be set to nil, or no value.
niladic adjective: Of an operator or function in a program, having no arguments.
Niland proper noun: A surname.
nilas noun: Newly frozen sea ice in the form of a smooth sheet less than ten centimeters (four inches) thick.
Nilay proper noun: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Nile proper noun /naɪl/: A large river in Africa, usually considered to be the longest river in the world; its basin covers Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic...
Nile blue adjective, noun: A pale greenish blue colour.
Nile cabbage noun: Any of various aquatic plants of the genus Pistia.
Nile crocodile noun: A large fierce carnivorous semi-aquatic African crocodile of species (Crocodylus niloticus).
Nile fox noun: A subspecies of red fox found in Egypt; Vulpes vulpes niloticus.
Nile goose noun: Synonym of Egyptian goose
Nile green adjective, noun: A yellowish green colour.
nile monitor noun: A large type of monitor lizard of the species Varanus niloticus, found across sub-Saharan Africa.
Nile perch noun: Lates niloticus, a species of freshwater fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes.
Nile red noun: A lipophilic stain with applications in cell biology, prepared through acid hydrolysis by boiling a solution of Nile blue with sulphuric acid.
Nile tamarisk noun: Tamarix nilotica
Nile tilapia noun: A fish of species Oreochromis niloticus.
Nilean adjective, noun /naɪ̯lən/: Nilotic; from, residing or located by, or pertaining to the river Nile.
nileiform adjective: Of the facial sutures of a trilobite, having a pattern in which they converge and meet before the anterior margin, running parallel to the anterior border.
nileprost noun: A prostaglandin analogue.
Niles proper noun: A surname.
nilestriol noun: A synthetic steroidal estrogen, the 3-cyclopentyl ether of 17α-ethinyl estriol.
NILF noun /nɪlf/: Acronym of not in labor force.
nilgai noun /ˈnɪlɡaɪ/: A large antelope, of species Boselaphus tragocamelus, of India; blue bull.
nilgau noun: Alternative form of nilgai.
nilghai noun: Alternative form of nilgai.
nilghau noun: Alternative form of nilgai.
Nilgiri proper noun: A mountain range forming part of the Western Ghats in western Tamil Nadu, India.
Nilgiris proper noun: A district of Tamil Nadu, India.
Nili proper noun: The capital of Nili district, Daykundi, Afghanistan, and also capital of Daykundi.
nilium noun: Synonym for neutronium
nill noun, verb /nɪl/: To be unwilling; will not (+ infinitive).
nilla noun: Clipping of vanilla.
nillable adjective: Alternative form of nilable.
nillae noun: A kind of blue cotton cloth from India.
nilly-willy adjective, adverb /ˌnɪliˈwɪli/: Synonym of willy-nilly.
nilmanifold noun: A quotient space of a nilpotent Lie group modulo a closed subgroup, or (equivalently) a homogeneous space with a nilpotent Lie group acting transitively on it.
Nilo- prefix: Of or pertaining to the Nile.
Nilo-Hamite noun: A member of a group of East African pastoralist peoples, including the Maasai, Teso, and Kalenjin, who share linguistic, traditional, and cultural...
Nilo-Hamitic adjective: Of or pertaining to a Nilo-Hamite.
Nilo-Saharan adjective: Belonging to the Nilo-Saharan language family, or pertaining to its associated peoples.
Nilo-Saharanist noun: A linguist who specializes in studying Nilo-Saharan languages.
nilometer noun: a device used to measure the rise of water in the Nile at the flood
nilometric adjective: Relating to the nilometer.
Niloscope noun: Synonym of nilometer.
Nilot noun: A Nilotic person.
Nilote noun: A member of any several indigenous peoples primarily located in Sudan and other areas of eastern Africa.
Nilotic adjective /naɪˈlɒtɪk/: Of or pertaining to the Nile or the people who live on its banks.
nilotica noun: Synonym of Nile tilapia.
Niloticist noun: A linguist who specialises in studying Nilotic languages.
nilotinib noun: A drug used to treat cancer.
Niloto- prefix: Alternative form of Nilo-.
Niloto-Hamite noun: Alternative form of Nilo-Hamite
Niloto-Hamitic adjective: Alternative form of Nilo-Hamitic
nilpotence noun: The quality of being nilpotent.
nilpotency noun: The quality of being nilpotent.
nilpotent adjective, noun /nɪlˈpəʊtənt/: Such that, for some positive integer n, xⁿ = 0.
nilpotently adverb: In a nilpotent fashion.
nilprogression noun: A function of the products of the elements of a nilpotent group and their inverses
nilradical noun: The set of nilpotent elements of an algebraic structure such as an ideal
Nilsen proper noun: A surname from Norwegian.
nilsequence noun: A sequence of zero elements
nilsoliton noun: A certain type of left-invariant metric on a nilpotent Lie group.
Nilson proper noun: A surname.
nilspace noun: The maximum subspace of a representation space R on which a representation of a group G applied to a subgroup of G is unipotent.
nilsystem noun: A topological system (H,X) such that a nilpotent Lie group G = acts transitively on X.
niltava noun: Any of the birds in the genus Niltava, found in the China, Southeast Asia and South Asia.
niludipine noun: A calcium channel blocker.
nilutamide noun /naɪˈlu.təˌmaɪd/: An antiandrogen medication used in the treatment of advanced-stage prostate cancer.
nilvadipine noun: A calcium channel blocker.
nim noun, verb /nɪm/: To take or seize.
nim-witted adjective: Alternative form of nimwitted.
Nimadi noun: An Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Nimar region of India.
nimaigeri noun: A kimarite in which the attacker kicks away the opponent's ankle while throwing or twisting him onto his side.
nimb noun /nɪm/: A nimbus or halo.
Nimba proper noun: A county of Liberia. Capital: Sanniquellie.
nimbate adjective: nimbed, haloed
nimbated adjective: Alternative form of nimbate.
nimbecile noun: An imbecile.
nimbed adjective /nɪmd/: Having a nimb or halo.
nimber noun /ˈnɪm.bə/: Any of a set of number-like objects used in combinatorial game theory, equivalent to the values of heaps in the game of nim.
nimbidin noun: A mixture of tetranortriterpenes that is the bitter principle of neem
nimbidol noun: An antifungal constituent of neem
nimbiferous adjective: Foreboding clouds or stormy weather.
nimbification noun: The formation of clouds.
nimbility noun: nimbleness
Nimbin proper noun: A locality in the Lismore council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
nimble adjective, verb /ˈnɪmbəl/: Adept at taking or grasping.
nimble-chops noun: A talkative person; used mainly as a form of address
nimble-fingered adjective: Thieving, thievish.
nimble will noun: Alternative form of nimblewill.
nimble-witted adjective: Quick-witted.
nimble-wittedness noun: The characteristic of being nimble-witted, mental sharpness.
nimbleness noun /ˈnɪm.bəl.nɪs/: The quality of being nimble.
nimblesome adjective: Characterised or marked by nimbleness
nimbless noun: Nimbleness.
nimblewill noun: A slender North American grass (Muhlenbergia sylvatica or Muhlenbergia schreberi). It is often used for grazing
nimbly adverb: in a nimble manner
nimbo noun: The neem tree.
nimbocumulus noun: A cumulonimbus cloud.
nimbolide noun: A triterpene limonoid, obtained from Azadirachta indica, that is used in traditional medicine and has some anticancer properties
nimbose adjective: cloudy
nimbostratus noun: A mid-level cloud, generally formless and dark grey in color, associated with precipitation. Abbreviated Ns.
nimbus noun /ˈnɪmbəs/: A circle of light; a halo.
nimbused adjective: Furnished with a nimbus, or halo.
nimbuslike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a nimbus or halo.
nimby adjective, noun, phrase /ˈnɪm.bi/: Not in my backyard (in objection to an undesirable structure built locally).
nimbyish adjective, noun: In the manner of a nimby.
nimbyism noun: The ideology of a nimby.
nimbyist adjective, noun: Synonym of nimby.
NIMCRUT noun: Acronym of net income/makeup charitable remainder unitrust.
Nîmes proper noun /niːm/: A city, the capital of Gard department, Occitania, southern France, formerly in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon.
nimesulide noun: A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug with analgesic and antipyretic properties.
nimetazepam noun: A benzodiazepine drug with hypnotic, anxiolytic, sedative, and skeletal muscle relaxant properties, generally used to treat insomnia.
nimgimmer noun: A physician, especially one who cures venereal diseases.
NiMH noun: Initialism of nickel–metal hydride, a type of rechargeable battery.
nimidane noun: A pesticide.
nimiety noun /nɪˈmaɪ ɪ ti/: State of being in excess, more than is needed.
nimini-pimini adjective, noun: Alternative form of niminy-piminy.
niminy-piminy adjective, noun: Overtly or excessively prim.
niminy-priminy adjective: Alternative form of niminy-piminy.
nimious adjective: Excessive; extravagant; inordinate; vexatious.
nimiously adverb: Excessively; extravagantly; inordinate.
nimisin noun /ˈnimisin/: A neologism (or other word not in common use) in Toki Pona.
nimite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic yellow green mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, nickel, oxygen, and silicon.
Nimitz proper noun /ˈnɪmɪts/: A surname from German.
nimmer noun: A petty thief.
Nimmo proper noun: A surname.
nimnod noun: Alternative form of nimrod.
nimodipine noun /nɪˈməʊ.dɪ.piːn/: A dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker originally developed for the treatment of high blood pressure and now mostly used to prevent vasospasm.
nimona noun: A traditional curry of Uttar Pradesh, made from coarsely ground fresh green peas (or sometimes green chickpeas) slow-cooked with potatoes and spices.
Nimonic noun: Any of a family of nickel-based high-temperature low-creep superalloys, typically consisting of more than 50% nickel and 20% chromium with additives such as...
nimono noun: Any of various stewed dishes in Japanese cuisine.
nimorazole noun: A particular nitroimidazole antiinfective.
nimotuzumab noun: A monoclonal antibody used to treat squamous cell carcinoma, head and neck cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, and glioma.
Nimoy proper noun /ˈniːmɔɪ/: A surname.
nimp noun: A nymph.
nimpingang noun: A whitlow.
Nimpkish noun: Dated form of 'Namgis.
NIMPLY noun: A logic gate that implements material nonimplication.
nimps adjective, noun: Easy.
nimptopsical adjective: Drunk.
nimravid noun /ˌnɪmˈreɪvɪd/: Any of the large extinct feliforms of the family Nimravidae, of the Middle to Late Miocene (40–7 million years ago).
nimrod noun /ˈnɪmrɒd/: A foolish person; an idiot.
Nimrodian adjective: Relating to the legendary hunter Nimrod.
Nimrodic adjective: Relating to the legendary hunter Nimrod.
Nimrodical adjective: Alternative form of Nimrodic.
Nimrud proper noun: An ancient Assyrian city located in modern Iraq.
nimshi noun: Alternative form of nimshy (“a fool”).
nimshy noun: A fool.
nimtree noun: Synonym of neem (“Indian tree”).
Nimule proper noun: A town in South Sudan.
nimustine noun: A particular drug designed for use in chemotherapy.

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.