English Words: N

24,391 words · Page 452 of 488

not worth the candleadj

Not worth the cost or trouble.

not worth the powderphrase

Not worth the time or effort.

not worth writing home aboutadj

Being nothing to write home about; unremarkable and mediocre.

not yetadv

Not at the moment nor anytime before it, although expected or possible later.

not your father'sphrase

Recently changed, made unconventional through modernisation.

not'vecontraction

Contraction of not + have.

not-at-homenessnoun

Of a person, a condition or state of not being at home.

not-for-profitadj

Providing goods or services, but not for the purpose of making a profit.

not-pologynoun

Alternative form of notpology.

not-selfnoun

The negative of self, someone or something that is not the self

not-therenessnoun

The quality of not being there; absence.

not-to-scaleadj

Presented at a size other than to-scale.

nota augensnoun

An Old Irish pronominal clitic added to the end of an accentual unit containing a pronoun, now more commonly called emphatic suffixes.

nota benephrase

Take special note; used to add an aside or warning to a text.

notabilianoun

Things or people worthy of notice.

notabilitynoun

The quality or state of being notable or eminent.

notableadj

Worthy of note; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished.

notablenessnoun

notability; the quality of being notable.

notablestadj

superlative form of notable: most notable

notablyadv

As a pointed example; in a notable manner.

notaeanoun

plural of notaeum

notaeumnoun

The back (upper surface) of a bird.

notaladj

Of or pertaining to the back; dorsal.

notalgianoun

back pain

notandumnoun

Something to be noted or observed; a notable fact.

notaphilicadj

Relating to notaphily.

notaphilistnoun

Someone who studies or collects paper money or banknotes.

notaphilynoun

The study or collecting of paper money or banknotes

notaressnoun

A female notary.

notarialadj

Pertaining to a notary or notaries.

notariallyadv

In a notarial manner; by a notary.

notarikonnoun

A cabalistic method of deriving a phrase from a word, using the letters of the word as initial letters of words in the sentence.

notariseverb

Alternative spelling of notarize.

notariumnoun

A bone formed of fused vertebrae behind the shoulder of many species of birds and pterosaurs.

notarizationnoun

The act or process of notarizing.

notarizeverb

To be witness of the authenticity of a document and its accompanying signatures in one's capacity as notary public.

notarizernoun

One who notarizes.

Notaroname

A surname from Italian.

notarynoun

A lawyer of noncontentious private civil law who drafts, takes, and records legal instruments for private parties, and provides legal advice, but does not appear in court on his or her clients' behalf.

notary publicnoun

An officer who can administer oaths and statutory declarations, witness and authenticate documents and perform certain other acts varying from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

notaryshipnoun

The state of being a notary.

notaspideannoun

A sea slug of the former suborder Notaspidea, now split into clades Umbraculida and Pleurobranchomorpha.

notatableadj

Able to be conveyed through notation.

notateverb

To mark with spots or lines, which are often colored.

notate beneintj

plural of nota bene

notatinnoun

glucose oxidase

notationnoun

The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.

notationaladj

Of or pertaining to notation.

notationallyadv

In terms of notation.

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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 452. 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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