English Words: N
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A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing lithium, manganese, oxygen, potassium, and silicon.
Describing a former professorship in divinity at the University of Cambridge, later merged into the post of Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity.
A city and municipality in Östergötland, eastern Sweden, the tenth-largest city in Sweden.
The most northern of Sweden's three lands (landsdelar), the other being Götaland and Svealand.
The most northern of the English kings-of-arms, whose jurisdiction lay north of the Trent. Since 1943, the jurisdiction is Norroy and Ulster.
The religion of Heathenry, a modern faith inspired by the ancient pagan beliefs of the Germanic tribes, Anglo-Saxons and Norse peoples.
Pertaining to the Viking raiders who settled Ireland and western Scotland and assimilated into the local Gaelic culture
Any compound formally derived from a sesquiterpene by the removal of a methylene or methyl group
Any compound formally derived from a sesquiterpenoid by removal of a methylene group.
The triamine N-(3-aminopropyl)propane-1,3-diamine that occurs in some plants and bacteria
Any compound derived from a named steroid by removing elements of a side chain or ring
A mountainous department, in the north-east of Colombia, whose capital is Cúcuta.
A genre of Mexican music related to polka and corridos, emerged in the late 19th century.
The direction towards the pole to the left-hand side of someone facing east, specifically 0°, or (on another celestial object) the direction towards the pole lying on the northern side of the invariable plane.
The continent forming the northern part of the Americas; that part east of the Pacific Ocean, west of the Atlantic Ocean, north of South America and south of the Arctic Ocean.
A member of one of the indigenous peoples of North America (but not a member of the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, or Yupik).
A small carnivorous mammal with a distinctive black-and-white ringed tail, native to the southwestern United States and Mexico; Bassariscus astutus.
Any of a species of wheel bug (Arilus cristatus), commonly found across North America and more specifically the United States.
Non-Oxford British spelling of North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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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 439. 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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