English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 443 of 488
A species of wombat, Lasiorhinus krefftii, now found only in Queensland, Australia.
A constituent country and province of the United Kingdom, situated in the northeastern part of the island of Ireland.
The Republic of Northern Macedonia, formerly known as the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
A person from the Northern Marianas or of descent of the Northern Mariana Islands.
An archipelago, commonwealth and dependent territory (technically, an unincorporated territory) of the United States in the Pacific Ocean. Official name: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
A variety of Min Chinese, spoken in northern Fujian, represented by the Jian'ou dialect.
A species of squirrel, Funambulus pennantii, native to the Indian subcontinent.
A former protectorate of the United Kingdom, existing from 1911 to 1964, now called Zambia.
A member of species Arabis petraea, a kind of rockcress, growing in central and northern Europe.
A music and dance movement of northern England in the late 1960s, mainly based around black American soul music.
The language spoken in the northern region of Thailand (closely related to Thai and Lao).
A region of Central America consisting of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
A species of wolffish, Anarhichas denticulatus, found in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans.
A native or inhabitant of the north of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as one of the northern United States, the north of Norway, etc.
A village and civil parish in Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU568733).
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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 443. 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.
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