English Words: N

24,391 words · Page 110 of 488

nestle-cocknoun

The last-hatched chick of a brood, the weakling of a brood.

nestlernoun

One who nestles.

nestlessadj

Without a nest.

nestlessnessnoun

Absence of nests.

nestletnoun

A little nest.

nestlikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a nest.

nestlingnoun

A small, young bird that is still confined to the nest.

nestlinglyadv

So as to nestle.

nestmakingnoun

The construction of a nest.

nestmatenoun

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.

nestohedronnoun

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 (nonzero endpoints of the) standard unit vectors eᵢ for i in S.) Every nestohedron is a generalized permutahedron.

Nestorname

An old and wise king in Homer's Iliad.

Nestorianadj

Relating to teachings or to the followers of Nestorius.

Nestorianismnoun

The Christological doctrine ascribed to Nestorius, condemned as heretical by the Council of Ephesus but later also ascribed to the Church of the East, holding that within Christ there are two distinct hypostases, divine and human.

Nestorianistadj

Of or relating to the Nestorians.

Nestorianizeverb

To teach or follow the Nestorian doctrine.

Nestorianizernoun

One who Nestorianizes.

Nestriganame

Russian spelling of Nestryha.

Nestryganame

Hybrid spelling of Nestryha.

Nestryhaname

A river island in the Dnieper Delta, beginning at the bifurcation of the Rvach from the Dnieper and ending at the confluence of their respective distributaries, the Vilkhova and the Domakha.

neststrawnoun

Any of the plants in the genus Stylocline.

nestwardadv

Towards a nest

nestyadj

Resembling or characteristic of a nest.

netnoun

A mesh of string, cord or rope.

net artnoun

A form of new media art distributed via the Internet.

net ballnoun

Dated form of netball.

net netnoun

A true and final result, after more than the obvious subtractions and allowances.

net worthnoun

The total assets minus total liabilities of an individual or a company.

net-likeadj

Alternative spelling of netlike.

net-neutraladj

Characterized by net neutrality.

net-raisingnoun

Fundraising, soliciting and gathering resources through or with the use of the internet.

net-zeroadj

Resulting in neither a surplus or deficit because gains and losses cancel out.

net.copnoun

Alternative form of netcop.

netanoun

A politician.

netaholicnoun

A person who is addicted to the Internet.

Netanyaname

A city in the Central District, Israel.

Netanyahooname

Nickname for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician.

Netanyahuname

A surname from Hebrew, most notably borne by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

netbacknoun

Revenues received from the sale of oil or gas on spot market minus the costs of extraction, processing and transportation.

netbagnoun

A traditional bag of net-like material used in parts of Oceania; it is also a symbol of womanhood.

netballnoun

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 the opponent's goal, which is a raised hoop with a net at one end of the playing area. Unlike basketball, a player in possession of the ball cannot move until the ball is passed to another player.

netballernoun

A netball player.

netballingadj

Playing or relating to the sport of netball.

netbanknoun

A bank that operates over the Internet.

netblocknoun

A block of IP addresses.

netbooknoun

An economical notebook computer able to access the Internet.

netbootnoun

The booting of a system from a network.

NetBSDname

a Unix-like operating system that is derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), notable for running on 57 different platforms

netburpnoun

A netsplit (type of technical glitch on IRC).

netcamnoun

A video camera whose output may be viewed in real time over a network, especially over the Internet.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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 110. 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.

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