English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 196 of 488
To navigate through a game environment with collisions disabled, so as to be able to pass through solid walls, etc.
Shining or glowing at night, especially of very high-altitude clouds that reflect sunlight long after sunset; nightshining.
Clouds characterized by their electric-blue or silvery-white, wispy streaks, filaments, or ripples high in the twilight sky; Earth's highest clouds, glowing at the edge of space, serving as indicators of climate change, showing increased frequency and visibility linked to human activities like methane emissions and rocket launches; maintain unique formation in frigid summer mesosphere, from ice crystals on meteoric dust, providing scientists with high-altitude atmospheric window into changes in upper atmospheric water vapor and dynamics.
A nitrogenous substance in fireflies, glowworms and marine animals, once believed to be responsible for their luminescence.
Nocturnal enuresis: involuntary urination (urinary incontinence) at night, especially during sleep.
The night office of the Christian liturgy of the Hours, such as is performed in monasteries.
A state of agitation or confusion, especially in elderly patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia, which begins daily at nightfall and which is alleviated by daylight.
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 196. 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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