English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 151 of 488
A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP8431).
A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8898).
A town in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, originally in Wigtownshire (OS grid ref NX4055).
Something that acts as a source of inspiration or triggers an important realization for someone.
A device that demonstrates conservation of momentum and energy via a series of swinging spheres. When a sphere at one end is lifted and released, the resulting force travels through the line and pushes the opposite sphere upward, repeating the process as it swings back down.
A philosophical razor which states that propositions or claims that cannot be resolved through experiment or observation are not worth debating.
A method for finding successively better approximations to the roots (or zeroes) of a real-valued function.
A pattern of interference of light characterized by concentric rings that is caused by light's reflection from two surfaces, one of which is usually round.
Any of a group of formulas for numerical integration (quadrature) based on evaluating the integrand at equally spaced points.
A village and civil parish in Charnwood borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5209).
Shorthand for a number of different cities that start with "New", such as Newcastle, New Haven, or New York
Abbreviation of Navy Exchange, a department-store chain operated by the United States Navy exclusively for the military and their families, allies, and certain other individuals.
A person who represents another person who is under disability or otherwise unable to maintain a suit on their own behalf, and who does not have a legal guardian.
Penultimate, one before the end of a series, placed immediately before the end in a sequence.
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 151. 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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