English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 147 of 488
One of the historic seven gates of the London Wall around the City of London, dating back to Roman times.
A monument in County Meath, Ireland. A prehistoric neolithic monument, a circular ceremonial burial mound structure with astronomical alignments
A progressive subgenre of bluegrass music, typically incorporating electric instruments, non-traditional chord progressions, and lengthy improvisation.
An unincorporated community in Wharton County, Texas, United States, first built as a company town.
An industrial suburb of Truro, Cornwall, England, located on the Truro River (OS grid ref SW8343).
A small village in Newholm-cum-Dunsley parish, Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ8610).
The character or character sequence that indicates the end of a line of text and transition to the next line; or, a control code or escape sequence used in a programming language to denote this character.
Any of a number of protocols to induce lactation in humans, by means of birth control pills (to mimic the hormone levels of pregnancy), domperidone to stimulate milk production, use of a breast pump, etc.
A rearrangement reaction in which the aryl group of an O-aryl thiocarbamate migrates from the oxygen atom to the sulfur atom, forming an S-aryl thiocarbamate.
A follower of the doctrines of John Henry Newman; hence, up to his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1845, a member of the Oxford movement.
To translate in a manner that makes use of archaisms and which tends to closely follow the original rather than modernize the language in the translation.
A market town and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in Forest Heath district, with a famous racecourse (OS grid ref TL6463).
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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 147. 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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