English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 4 of 488
The compartment that holds passengers on a dirigible, hot-air balloon, or other aerostat; a gondola.
A theorem used in complex analysis to establish a bound on the growth rates for an analytic function.
A Mexican dish of tortilla chips, covered in melted cheese and sometimes other ingredients.
A wide-scaled flute organ stop with a relatively small mouth, producing a soft but penetrating sound.
A bridged diazabicyclooctane β-lactamase inhibitor [(1R,2S,5R)-2-[(2-aminoethoxy)carbamoyl]-7-oxo-1,6-diazabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-6-yl]oxidanesulfonic acid.
The effect that a candidate for the corresponding political office (especially the office of President of the United States) can have on a close political election, when their candidacy results in the election being won by a candidate dissimilar to them, rather than one similar to them.
An associate or assistant of Ralph Nader and of organizations led by him, who participates in Nader's legal, political, and social activitism.
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 4. 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.