English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 193 of 488
A Japanese man who refused to renounce the Japanese emperor and to serve in the United States armed forces.
Practical, not tolerating from others or concerning oneself with anything silly or unimportant.
A conspiracy theorist who believes that no airplanes were involved in the events of 9/11.
To deny (a person or organisation) the use of platforms (newspaper columns, speaking engagements, etc) to publish their opinions, etc.
Any biting midge (family Ceratopogonidae), small flies (1–4 mm long); sometimes the species Leptoconops torrens in particular.
An absence; failure to show up or to make a scheduled appearance, especially at a hotel or a place of employment.
Under a level of protection where nobody is permitted to remove any fish or other organisms.
A declaration, in bridge and similar games, that a hand is to be played without a trump suit.
The earliest of the Martian geologic epochs, approximately from 3,800 million years ago to 3,500 million years ago, marked by many large impact craters and followed by the Hesperian epoch.
A figure in Abrahamic religions, believed to have built an ark to save his family and members of each species of animal from the Great Flood.
The vessel built by Noah under God's instructions, as described in Genesis and the Quran.
Relating to Noah, especially relating to the time of and after the biblical flood from which only the passengers on his ark survived and to that flood.
A dialect of Bengali (or a language variety akin to it) spoken in the Greater Noakhali region of south-eastern Bangladesh and some parts of the Indian state of Tripura.
Used by the RPM Package Manager to mark software packages that contain only content, such as graphics, documentation or similar data that can be used on any architecture.
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 193. 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.