English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 10 of 488
A kind of rug constructed using the Persian knot, with flowing designs such as flowers and tendrils.
The official currency of Nigeria. Equal to 100 kobo. (The naira replaced the pound in 1973.)
A historical county in northeastern Scotland, which was absorbed into Highland Region in 1975.
Any of the genus Nairovirus (now Orthonairovirus) of tick-borne bunyaviruses with circular, negative-sense single-stranded RNA.
Having only its forepart shown, especially if because it is issuing from an ordinary or division of the field. (Compare issuant.)
An invalid scientific philosophy in which any single instance of refuting data is enough to falsify the entire claim.
A chess opening variation arising from the Sicilian Defence characterized by the moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6.
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The English alphabetical index for the letter N contains 24,391 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 488 pages, and you are currently viewing page 10. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "N" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.