English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 36 of 488
A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, cesium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, lithium, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.
A metal or plastic cylinder that can be closed remotely in order to sample water at depth.
The prefecture of the department of Loire-Atlantique, France; the capital city of the region of Pays de la Loire, in historical Brittany.
A village in Taff's Well community, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1285).
A member of an indigenous American Algonquian people whose traditional homelands are in Chesapeake Bay and Delaware.
A village in Llanllyfni community, Gwynedd, Wales, the United Kingdom (OS grid ref SH5053).
A village and community in Powys, Wales, historically in Radnorshire (OS grid ref SO0366).
A resort island south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States, formerly a major whaling port.
one of 14 counties in Massachusetts, USA, located on the island of Nantucket and two other islands. It is coterminous with the town of Nantucket, and is known as the Town and County of Nantucket.
An instance of the dragging of a whaleboat across the surface of a body of water by a harpooned whale.
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 36. 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.