English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 164 of 488
A small island in the northern part of Shelburne Bay in far north Queensland, Australia.
A hidden motive, influence or factor; a concealed (potential) snag; something suspicious.
A racial assault by a group of white people, typically bored youths in a truck or car, on one or more black people, typically a random pedestrian.
Any form of thinking or reasoning that is considered erroneous, illogical, or based in fantasy.
The act, practice or result of a black person seeking damages in response to a crime committed against them.
A white person considered excessively fond towards, protective of, or considerate to blacks.
A moment in which emotion or ignorance overpowers one's rationality, causing an outburst of irrational aggression.
Living ostentatiously; spending money recklessly, especially a limited supply of money.
Strong, rough tobacco of the kind issued to Aboriginal labourers on a rural property.
A Caribbean grouper, yellowfish, coney (Cephalopholis fulva) (syn. Epinephelus punctatus, Enneacentrus punctatus (family Serranidae)).
The group of young African-American artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.
Something that is characteristically spoken or written by a black person, especially if considered difficult to understand.
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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 164. 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.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "N" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.