English Words: N

24,391 words · Page 177 of 488

Ningxiangname

A county-level city of Changsha, Hunan, China.

Ningyangname

A county of Tai'an, Shandong, China.

ningyoitenoun

An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing calcium, cerium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and uranium.

Ningyuanname

A county of Yongzhou, Hunan, China.

Ninhname

A surname from Vietnamese.

Ninh Bìnhname

A province of Vietnam.

Ninh Thuậnname

A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).

Ninhursagname

The Sumerian earth and mother goddess, one of the seven great deities of Sumer.

niniintj

Alternative form of night night.

Ninianname

A male given name

Ninian Parkname

A former football stadium in the city of Cardiff, Wales, which was replaced by Cardiff City Stadium. The name is still used by Ninian Park railway station, and a local thoroughfare, Ninian Park Road (OS grid ref ST1675).

Ninilchikname

A town in Alaska, United States.

niningeritenoun

A magnesium-iron-manganese sulfide mineral.

ninjanoun

A person trained in ninjutsu, especially (historical) one used for espionage, assassination, and other tasks requiring stealth during Japan's shogunate period.

ninja copnoun

A police officer involved in the illicit resale of confiscated illegal drugs.

ninja gymnoun

A gym for obstacle course racing training, filled with NinjaWarrior/Sasuke-style obstacles as its exercise equipment.

NINJA loannoun

A subprime loan issued to borrowers with no job, income, or assets.

ninja minernoun

A person who unofficially digs or pans for gold in Mongolia.

ninja vannoun

A pop-up food van that appears during field training to sell food and drinks to soldiers.

ninjaflexnoun

A thermoplastic polyurethane filament used in 3D printing.

ninjalikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a ninja.

ninjas cutting onionsphrase

A lighthearted excuse for why one is crying.

ninjatonoun

A straight-bladed short sword, commonly appearing in works of fiction as a weapon of the shinobi in feudal Japan.

ninjettenoun

A female ninja-like warrior or martial artist; a kunoichi.

ninjutsunoun

A Japanese martial art that is a collection of techniques originally practiced for Japanese espionage purposes, and includes methods of gathering information, nondetection, avoidance, and misdirection techniques. Used by ninja (忍者).

Ninnemanname

A surname from German.

ninnerynoun

Ninnyish behavior; foolery; foolishness.

ninnynoun

A silly or foolish person.

ninny-pinnyadj

Silly, ridiculous, ninnyish.

ninnyhammernoun

A foolish person; a simpleton.

ninnyishadj

silly; foolish

ninnyismnoun

predisposition to act like a ninny

Ninomiyaname

A town in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

ninongnoun

A godfather.

Ninoshkaname

A female given name from Russian.

Ninotchkaname

A female given name from Russian.

Ninotsmindaname

An Armenian-populated town in Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia. Known as Bogdanovka before 1991.

ninponoun

ninjutsu

Nintendinitisnoun

A form of repetitive strain injury affecting frequent video gamers, often from the excessive use of the d-pad on a game controller.

Nintendiumnoun

A fictional material credited for the durability of several Nintendo products.

Nintendoname

A Japanese multinational company that develops, publishes and releases both video games and video game consoles.

Nintendo generationnoun

The generation that came of age playing Nintendo video games in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Nintendo hardadj

Having an extremely high level of difficulty, even at easier difficulties.

Nintendocorenoun

An aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes (“music that samples or emulates the audio capabilities of older sound chips”) and video game music.

Nintendosnoun

plural of Nintendo

Nintendronenoun

A slavish supporter of Nintendo's video games or consoles; a Nintendo fanboy

ninthadj

The ordinal form of the number nine.

ninth gradenoun

The period in school that comes after eighth grade and before tenth grade.

Ninth Monthname

September, the ninth month of the year.

ninth-inningadj

Happening in the ninth inning of a baseball game.

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 177. 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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