English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 141 of 488
A former town in Pennsylvania, British North America, now divided into Upper and Lower Chichester.
The day of the week on which new comic books go on sale (conventionally Wednesday).
A micronation that has a serious intention of being internationally recognised.
A movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle of the 20th century, emphasizing close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work functions as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object.
A series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 in response to the Great Depression, focusing on relief, recovery, and reform.
The politics associated with the New Deal, a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 in response to the Great Depression, focusing on relief, recovery, and reform.
The capital of the short-lived Scottish colony of New Caledonia (1698–1700), now Sukunya, a.k.a. Puerto Escocés (Spanish for “Port Scotland”).
A suburb in the borough of Greenwich and borough of Bexley, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4472).
A geographic region of the northeastern United States, consisting of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
A comfort food dish that originated in the New England region of the United States.
A variety of English that has come into being in a region where English was a former colonial language or is a foreign language.
A group of former French colonies in North America, existing from 1534 to 1763 in much of modern eastern Canada and the United States.
A transgressive group of films by French directors at the turn of the 21st century, having themes of sex, violence, and mental derangement.
The option to play again through a previously completed game, carrying over characters, attributes, or equipment from the previous play session.
A historical province in colonial South America corresponding to present-day Colombia and Ecuador.
A large island in the Pacific Ocean north of Australia, in Oceania, whose territory is divided between Indonesia in the west and Papua New Guinea in the east.
A native or resident of the state of New Hampshire in the United States of America.
One of 100 counties in North Carolina, United States. County seat: Wilmington.
One of 8 counties in Connecticut, United States. There is now no county seat or government; the city of New Haven was the county seat until 1960.
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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 141. 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.
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