English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 195 of 488
The honourable obligation that is the responsibility of those of high rank; in American English this often includes the expectation of benevolent actions such as helping those less fortunate.
A city, the county seat of Hamilton County, Indiana, United States, possibly named after James Noble (senator).
Americans, as a group, are not especially intelligent and can be readily entertained or fooled to produce a financial benefit for someone.
Americans, as a group, do not have good taste or sophistication and can be easily amused or distracted to produce financial benefit for someone.
A person who is not easily deceived or victimized; one who is perceptive, clever, or thoroughly common-sensical.
Used when someone's mistakes or flaws are acknowledged, to remind that everyone else makes mistakes and has flaws.
A type of Japanese banner, originally used to identify waring factions, but now used as advertising etc.
Indian corn parched and pounded into meal (powder), used as food by Native Americans, sometimes mixed with maple sugar.
An SNP (in an individual) for which insufficient information is available to determine genotype.
An infectious disease affecting either the lungs or the whole body, caused by infection by bacteria of the genus Nocardia.
A substance which a patient experiences as harmful due to a previous negative perception, but which is in fact pharmacologically (medicinally) inactive.
A sensory receptor that sends signals that cause the perception of pain in response to a potentially damaging stimulus.
Of, pertaining to, or resulting from plasticity, of a kind analogous to neuroplasticity, in parts of the central nervous system concerned with nociception.
Heightened responsiveness to sensory input, thought to result from dysfunction in the processing of pain signals by the central nervous system.
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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 195. 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.
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