English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 150 of 488
A woman who works in the production of the text of a newspaper; a reporter, editor, etc.
The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc and designed to restrict the words, and thereby the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania in the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
A class of relational database management systems that seek to provide the scalability of NoSQL for online transaction processing (OLTP) read-write workloads while still maintaining the ACID guarantees of a traditional database.
A short film containing news or current affairs; especially one of several shown in sequence.
The office of a news organisation, especially that part of it where the journalists work and news stories are processed.
An open stall, often on a street, where newspapers and magazines are on sale to the public.
Television news presented in a sensationalist manner, intended more to entertain than to inform.
A television or radio programme in which host conversation with guests or audience members is mixed with news programming.
The industry that produces and sells news, as in newspapers, magazines, television broadcasts, etc.
A van operated by a press company, transporting reporters and photographers to the scene of an event so that they can report on it.
A small lizard-like amphibian in the subfamily Pleurodelinae that lives in the water as an adult.
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of force; the force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram by one metre per second per second.
A part of a court case in which a judge, sitting alone and without a jury, hears evidence on factual points disputed between prosecution and defence.
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 150. 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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