English Words: N
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A locality in the Armidale council area and the Inverell council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
A literary genre that began in the 1990s, influenced by horror and speculative fiction, but often crossing genre boundaries.
A vision for the world in which greater peace and stability is achieved through a new political order.
Any of the large, arboreal, spiny-furred rodents of the family Erethizontidae, native to forests and wooded regions of North America and northern South America.
An egg, larva, pupa, or adult of genus Cochliomyia, especially of species Cochliomyia hominivorax, which feeds on living tissue, or Cochliomyia macellaria, which does not.
The holiday commemorating (the beginning of) the new year; the holiday time that includes New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
A holiday celebrating the first day of the New Year, celebrated on January 1 in cultures following the Gregorian calendar.
The holiday occurring on the last day of the year, celebrated on December 31st in cultures following the Gregorian calendar; this entire 24-hour calendar day or (often) specifically its evening.
A vow that one makes on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day for the coming year.
Used to indicate a person's intention to adopt significant personal changes or improvements at the start of a new calendar year.
The largest city in the state of New York, and the largest city in the United States, a metropolis extending into neighboring New Jersey in addition to Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
The largest city in the United States, situated in the state of New York at the mouth of the Hudson River on the northeastern Atlantic Coast.
The smallest of the 62 counties in New York, USA. It is coterminous with the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
The act of drawing a second handgun when the first jams or runs out of ammunition, rather than reloading the first, in order to gain a speed advantage.
A kind of Rhode Island food outlet serving wieners made with pork, beef and veal, served in steamed buns.
A country and archipelago of Oceania, to the east of Australia. Official name: New Zealand. Capital: Wellington.
Anthornis melanura, a greenish passerine bird endemic to New Zealand, with a distinctive bell-like song.
A passerine bird of the family Acanthisittidae, including two living and several extinct species in four or five genera.
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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 144. 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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