English Words: N
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A suburban area in the borough of Ealing, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1384). RAF Northolt is in the neighbouring Borough of Hillingdon.
A ceremonial county of England, the most northerly county of England bordered by County Durham, Cumbria, Tyne and Wear, Scotland and the North Sea.
An isometric-diploidal mineral containing carbon, chlorine, magnesium, oxygen, and sodium.
The intercardinal compass point halfway between west and north; specifically at a bearing of 315°.
The sea route through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, between the Baffin Bay and the Beaufort Sea.
The plan to establish a white ethnostate in the northwestern United States.
A town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6573).
A village and civil parish in Cannock Chase district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0207).
A village and civil parish near Taunton, Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST1925).
An inlet of the Bering Sea on the western coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, south of the Seward Peninsula.
A thought experiment that exhibits a nondeterministic system within the bounds of Newtonian mechanics. It involves an idealized particle initially sitting motionless at the apex of an idealized radially symmetrical frictionless dome of a certain form. The particle may, after an arbitrary period of time, slide down the dome in an arbitrary direction, contrary to intuition.
A theorem which states that any electric circuit between two terminals containing only resistors, voltage sources, and current sources can be equivalently replaced with a single current source and resistor in parallel.
The lignan (3S,4S)-3-hydroxy-3,4-bis[(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)methyl]oxolan-2-one present in Wikstroemia indica
Any compound formally derived from a triterpenoid by removal of a methylene group.
A bicyclic heterocycle derived from tropane by loss of a methylene group; any derivative of this compound.
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 444. 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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