English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 192 of 488
Condition of being pointless, useless, not worth doing, especially because it is not likely to succeed.
A broad musical and artistic movement originating in the mid-1970s in New York City, typified by experimentation and performance art.
Rude, insensitive, or harmful behavior, especially when directed toward a female.
conditional fee agreement, a form of lawsuit for which the hired legal representative charges no fees to the plaintiff if the plaintiff does not win.
You won't die if you do not seek death; you will not get into trouble if you do not seek trouble.
An easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution, task, etc.; something requiring little or no thought.
A software crack for a program that usually requires the presence of the original compact disc (to prove that it is a legally-acquired copy), allowing it to run without the disc.
(of a development environment) Involving a graphical user interface rather than a text-based one.
Of or relating to a class of workers, such as artists, who privilege passion and personal growth over financial gain.
To determine that an alleged crime, especially a sexual assault or rape, should not be prosecuted as a crime (e.g. because the victim has withdrawn their complaint).
A confidential list containing the names of people who are not permitted to board an aircraft, prepared by government authorities in various jurisdictions and distributed to commercial airlines.
A contemptible or undesirable person, especially a contemptible or undesirable boyfriend.
A theorem postulating that all black hole solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations in general relativity can be completely characterized by only three externally observable classical parameters: mass, electric charge, and angular momentum.
Allowing police to enter a property without immediate prior notification of the residents, as by knocking or ringing a doorbell.
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 192. 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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