English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 456 of 488
A roll, list, or register: a catalogue of public functionaries, with their districts: a list of episcopal sees.
A flexible rodlike structure that forms the main support of the body in the lowest chordates; a primitive spine.
In Latreille's system, a brachyurous decapod crustacean, such as a crab of the genera Homola, Dorippe, Dromia, Dynomene, Ranina.
Having the radicle of the embryo lying against the back of one of the cotyledons; incumbent.
A member of the Notosuchia, a suborder of primarily Gondwanan mesoeucrocodylian crocodylomorphs that lived during the Cretaceous period.
Any of several extinct, hoofed, herbivorous mammals of the order †Notoungulata, from Cenozoic South America.
A large bay on the north coast of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
A region of central England thought to resemble the Cotswolds but to be less expensive to live in.
A suburb of London in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2480).
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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 456. 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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