English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 179 of 488
The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted.
The situation in which an infant has difficulty in switching between feeding on maternal nipples and artificial nipples (such as feeding bottles or pacifiers), often resulting in ineffective sucking or refusal to breastfeed.
The Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime-show controversy of 2004, in which Justin Timberlake briefly exposed Janet Jackson’s breast on live television.
A chemical element, supposed to be the then-undiscovered technetium, but later identified as rhenium.
The beta blocker 8-(2-hydroxy-3-(isopropylamino)propoxy)-3-chromanol 3-nitrate that has a nitric oxide donative action
A veil which covers the face (except for the eyes), worn by some Muslim women as a part of sartorial hijab.
A low-ranking official responsible for the regulation of irrigation and the distribution of water.
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 179. 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.