English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 152 of 488
The state, quality, or condition of being next to someone or something; adjacentness; proximity.
The continual process of predicting what is likely to happen next, based on external stimuli.
An object-oriented, multitasking operating system developed by NeXT Computer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, based on UNIX.
A contract in early Ancient Rome in which the debtor pledged his own person as collateral should he default on his loan (thus risking becoming a slave to the creditor).
A monoclinic-prismatic galena white mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, silver, and sulfur.
A lemma stating that when performing a hypothesis test between two point hypotheses H₀: θ = θ₀ and H₁: θ = θ₁, then the likelihood-ratio test which rejects H₀ in favour of H₁ when Λ(x)=(L(θ₀∣x))/(L(θ₁∣x))≤η where P(Λ(X)≤η∣H_0)=α is the most powerful test of size α for a threshold η.
A Native American people who live in the Pacific Northwest region (Columbia River Plateau) of the United States.
A town in Kashgar, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, formerly a township.
A small river in Belgorod Oblast, Russia, near Ukraine. The town of Shebekino sits near the mouth of the Nezhegol where it flows into the Donets.
Initialism of no fucking (freaking) idea, expressing lack of knowledge on the subject matter.
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 152. 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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