English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 172 of 488
Former name of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur: A town in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, on the Amur River.
A clinical dermatological sign where slight rubbing of the skin results in exfoliation of the outermost layer.
A venomous viper, Vipera nikolskii, endemic to Ukraine, eastern Romania, and southwestern Russia.
A large group of photographers simultaneously capturing images of a celebrity, producing numerous photographic flashes along with an accompanying din of clicking camera shutters.
A follower of the main current of the Russian Orthodox Church, which accepted the reforms undertaken during the reign of Patriarch Nikon.
A method of preserving both the shell and the body intact, by using hot water on a live specimen to separate the two.
The system of optional diacritics attached to Hebrew letters that indicate vowels and consonant variations.
A cold spring in Salton Trough, Imperial County, California, United States; a carbon dioxide bubbling mudpot that is the only known moving mudpool in the world.
Newly frozen sea ice in the form of a smooth sheet less than ten centimeters (four inches) thick.
A large river in Africa flowing through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea, usually considered to be the longest river in the world.
A quotient space of a nilpotent Lie group modulo a closed subgroup, or (equivalently) a homogeneous space with a nilpotent Lie group acting transitively on it.
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 172. 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.