English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 18 of 488
Obsolete form of Nanking, former name of Nanjing: a prefecture-level city, the capital of Jiangsu, China.
wood of the tree Phoebe nanmu (or several other similar) that was once used for boat building, architectural woodworking and wood art in China
A video camera installed in a residence that allows the householder to see what a babysitter does when the householder is away.
A Jamaican heroine, 18th-century leader of a community of formerly enslaved Africans in a guerrilla war against the British.
A state whose government institutions are authoritative and over-paternalistic, interfering with and controlling people's lives.
Any of various political scandals involving the hired nannies of politicians, e.g. where taxes are unpaid or a visa not obtained.
In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10⁻⁹ (short scale billionth or long scale milliardth). Symbol: n
The use of a very small subset of the Component Object Model, focused exclusively on the Application Binary Interface (ABI) aspects that enable function and method calls across independently compiled modules.
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 18. 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.