English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 39 of 488
The act of performing quick mathematics often as a means of estimation, as if done on the back of a napkin (or in one's head).
A port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Naples and the region of Campania, Italy.
Either of a pair of special points associated with a plane triangle. (See Wikipedia for detailed definitions.)
The series of wars (1803–1815) between France (ruled by Napoleon) and other European countries.
A Polish type of cream pie made of two layers of puff pastry, filled with whipped cream, crème pâtissière, thick milk kisel enriched with melted butter, or sometimes egg white cream, and usually sprinkled with powdered sugar, but can also be decorated with cream or covered with a layer of icing.
A Japanese dish styled on Neapolitan food; spaghetti topped with ketchup or tomato sauce, onion, button mushrooms, green peppers, bacon and Tabasco sauce.
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 39. 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.