English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 135 of 488
A device that is used for the determination of vibration sensitivity threshold on parts of the body
A severe form of nerve injury in which both the axon and its encapsulating connective tissue lose their continuity.
A toxin that specifically acts upon neurons, their synapses, or the nervous system in its entirety.
Any substance, such as acetylcholine or dopamine, responsible for sending nerve signals across a synapse between two neurons.
The transplantation of neural material (typically, embryonic mesencephalic tissue) as a possible cure for Parkinson's disease
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 135. 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.