English Words: N

In the ninth place; ninth in a row.

plural of ninth

The video game company Nintendo.

A Mesopotamian god associated with farming, healing, hunting, law, scribes, and war

Initialism of Northern Ireland Office.

Any salt, XNbO₃, of the weak niobic acid.

Containing niobate anions.

A daughter of Tantalus, said to have turned into stone while weeping for her children.

Of or relating to the mythical Niobe.

Containing niobium

Relating to niobium.

Containing or producing niobium.

A chemical element (symbol Nb) with an atomic number of 41: a light grey, crystalline, ductile transition metal used in superconducting materials.

An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing carbon, niobium, and tantalum.

A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing fluorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, titanium, zinc, and zirconium.

A triclinic brown mineral containing fluorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and titanium.

Of or pertaining to niobium.

One of 23 counties in Wyoming, United States. County seat: Lusk.

A monoclinic-domatic light yellow mineral containing calcium, fluorine, niobium, oxygen, and silicon.

A commune, the capital of Deux-Sèvres department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in western France.

A vesicle composed of a nonionic surfactant and cholesterol

To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.

So evenly matched that the advantage shifts from one to the other, and the outcome is uncertain.

To remove a bud (from a plant) to prevent flower and fruit from forming.

The brief accidental exposure of a woman's breast, usually partially and on the side.

A palm tree of the species Nypa fruticans.

Distichlis palmeri, a saltgrass native to the Sonoran Desert of Mexico and the United States, also known as Palmer's grass.

Synonym of methylparaben.

A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.

A delivery that pitches outside the line of off stump then deviates off the seam, moving towards the batter.

Synonym of miser.

A histamine antagonist, proposed as a treatment for excessive gastric acidity but withdrawn after human trials showed liver damage.

A miser.

Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

snow blindness

A member of the Nipissing First Nation, a people of Ojibwa and Algonquin descent whose ancestors lived in the area of Lake Nipissing in Ontario, Canada.

A district of Ontario, Canada.

A mechanical, geometrically-operating image scanning device, a fundamental component of early mechanical television.

With a nip or nips (in various senses).

Any of a people descended from the indigenous Algonquian peoples of Nippenet, corresponding to central Massachusetts and immediately adjacent portions of Connecticut and Rhode Island.

An exposed nipple or nipples.

One who, or that which, nips.

A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

A small cup or other vessel, of perhaps 1/8 pint in volume.

third-person singular simple present indicative of nip

A nipple, usually of a woman.

In a nippy way; quickly.

The condition of being nippy.

The act or sensation of giving a nip.

In a nipping manner.