English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 155 of 488
A member of a supernatural underground race that guarded treasures and gold searched for and eventually seized by Siegfried.
A village in Westerleigh parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST693822).
A metal-headed golf club with a large highly lofted head. Replaced by a sand iron or wedge in a modern set of clubs.
A shot traversing a short distance that requires the use of a sand wedge, typically taken from a bunker.
Used especially as a gender-neutral term: the child of one's sibling or sibling-in-law; one's nephew or niece.
Japanese dried infant sardines, used in snacks and as seasoning for soup stocks and other foods.
A metal alloy made of nickel, bronze and aluminium, often used for underwater parts of ships and boats, such as propellors, stabilizers, and foils.
Acronym of network interface card or network interface controller, used to interface a computer to a network.
Former name of Iznik: a town in Bursa Province, Turkey, famed for the 325 CE church council that composed the Nicene Creed.
A male given name from Latin Nicander [in turn from Ancient Greek Νίκανδρος (Níkandros)].
A period of armed conflict in Nicaragua from 1978 to 1990 between the socialist Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and the ruling Somoza dictatorship. After 1979 it also involved the Contras.
An inoffensive adult male who desires romantic companionship but who is too bland and uninspiring to be attractive.
A phenomenon in which a man thinks that he deserves romantic or sexual attention from women by virtue of being nice.
People who are decent, friendly, and agreeable tend to be unsuccessful because they are outmaneuvered or overwhelmed by others who are not so decent, friendly, or agreeable.
A farewell for when the speaker thinks or knows that they will never see the recipient again; goodbye forever.
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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 155. 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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