English Words: N
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A coastal town in East Lothian council area, Scotland, north-west of Berwick-upon-Tweed, England (OS grid ref NT5585).
A geographic region constituting the north part of Britain in the United Kingdom, specifically Scotland.
A township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States; south of New Brunswick, north of South Brunswick, west of East Brunswick.
A local government area in eastern Queensland, Australia; in full, North Burnett Region.
One of the two halves of Caloocan, Metro Manila, Philippines; the other being South Caloocan.
A state of the United States, situated on the east coast of the North American mainland north of South Carolina and south of Virginia. Capital: Raleigh.
A legal tactic in court proceedings, intended to place the opponent on to the wrong foot by unethical use of court procedures
A large alluvial plain of northern China, bordered to the north by the Yanshan Mountains, to the west by the Taihang Mountains and Funiu Mountains, to the southwest by the Dabie Mountains and Tongbai Mountains, and to the east by the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, and merging with the Jianghuai Plains to the south.
The northern part of a particular country or region (variously conceived as a region so called by a proper name or a vaguely demarcated, adjectivally described region).
A state in the Upper Midwest region of the United States. Capital: Bismarck. Largest city: Fargo.
One of nine official administrative regions of England, comprising Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and County Durham as well as a small part of North Yorkshire.
A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF9820).
A river in Angus council area and Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, which flows into the North Sea.
A large village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, on the River Humber (OS grid ref SE9825).
A county and region in northern Karelia, in southeast Finland. (Since 2022, the English term officially prescribed as the name for the Finnish administrative unit long known as a “region” was changed to be called a “county”, although reference to counties as regions is still common. See Counties of Finland.)
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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 440. 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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