English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 173 of 488
A theoretical major language family spoken mostly along the Nile river and in large parts of the Sahara.
A function of the products of the elements of a nilpotent group and their inverses
Any of the birds in the genus Niltava, found in the China, Southeast Asia and South Asia.
A kimarite in which the attacker kicks away the opponent's ankle while throwing or twisting him onto his side.
A Hopi ceremony celebrating the departing of the kachinas for the San Francisco Peaks at the summer solstice.
Any of a set of number-like objects used in combinatorial game theory, equivalent to the values of heaps in the game of nim.
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 173. 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.