English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 441 of 488
A suburban area of London in borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, separated by Notting Hill from Kensington itself.
A country in East Asia, whose territory consists of the northern part of Korea. Official name: Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Capital: Pyongyang.
A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of North Macedonia. Capital and largest city: Skopje. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992. The current name was adopted in 2019 to resolve a naming dispute with Greece.
A language of the Middle East, native to Iraq (Mesopotamia), Syria, Turkey, Iran, Kuwait, Jordan, and parts of northern and eastern Arabia. Language code: ayp.
A local government district of Norfolk, England, created in 1974, with its headquarters in Cromer.
Northern Canada, usually including the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon, approximately above the 60th parallel north.
The northern part of the state of Queensland, loosely defined as being north of either Rockhampton or Mackay.
The most populous of the 16 component states of Germany, located in the west of the country.
A marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean between Britain (in the west), Scandinavia (in the east) and Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France (in the south).
An island in the Andaman Islands, that is inhabited by the Sentinelese. The island is a forbidden island, where no contact is allowed with the outside world; outsiders may be executed on arrival.
A town in North Tyneside borough, Tyne and Wear, England, on the north bank of the Tyne (OS grid ref NZ3568).
A borough in Alaska, United States, the equivalent of a county in other US states, and the northernmost borough in Alaska. The borough seat is in Utqiagvik.
The current northern pole star, the star nearest the northern celestial pole, which has been Polaris for the last 1500 years.
Language composed of several mutually-intelligible dialects within the Coast Salish language family spoken in western Washington and British Columbia.
A small town and civil parish with a town council in West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6601).
A creek in the Parting of the Waters region, Two Oceans Pass region, Wyoming, United States, along the Continental Divide; which splits into two distributaries, Pacific Creek and Atlantic Creek at Parting of the Waters, eventually reaching both oceans. During spring flood, water levels rise enough to allow fish to swim across the continental divide.
A river in Northumberland, England, which meets the South Tyne near Hexham and becomes the River Tyne.
A former Communist country in Southeast Asia that governed northern Vietnam from 1945 to 1975. Official name: Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
An administrative region of England, consisting of the counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.
A community and rural municipality of Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
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 441. 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.