English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 17 of 488
A transfixed look upon a person taken as showing absolute devotion or affection.
Heavenly bamboo or sacred bamboo, an ornamental plant of species Nandina domestica, sole member of genus Nandina (in family Berberidaceae), native to east Asia from the Himalayas to Japan.
An international chain of South African fast-casual restaurants that specialises in Portuguese-style chicken.
A semisynthetic anabolic steroid C₁₈H₂₆O₂ derived from testosterone that is used in the form of its ester derivatives medically especially to treat anemia associated with kidney disease and illicitly (as by athletes and bodybuilders) to increase muscle mass.
A kind of traditional Paraguayan lace, having a matrix of squares, rectangles, or circles with a radiating warp.
A metal bulb filled with nitrous oxide gas, inhaled for its disassociative effects, normally intended as a propellant for whipped cream.
A rural township in Lienchiang County, Taiwan, primarily made up of Matsu (Nangan) Island.
A traditional soapstone oil lamp fuelled by blubber and seal fat, of Eastern Arctic peoples, such as the Inupiat, Yupik, Eskimo, Inuit.
A major subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Jiangsu, China, on the lower Yangtze; a former capital of China.
A person from Nanjing, China, (particularly historical) a foreign resident of the city.
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 17. 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.