English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 47 of 488
The rule stating that an unborn child, if subsequently born alive, is considered as already in existence whenever it is to its own advantage.
The set of choices of players' strategies for which no player can benefit by changing his or her strategy assuming that the other players keep theirs unchanged.
Of or relating to Thomas Nashe (1567–1601?), English Elizabethan pamphleteer, playwright, poet and satirist.
An Islamic musical composition, typically performed a cappella, focusing on religious, spiritual, or moral messages.
Of or relating to John Forbes Nash, Jr. (1928–2015), American mathematician and Nobelist, or his work.
A Malay rice platter consisting of an assortment of meat and vegetable dishes, usually shared among four or five people.
An Indonesian rice dish, often cooked with chicken or shellfish and served with strips of omelette
A Southeast Asian fried rice dish made with chicken and covered or wrapped in a thin layer of fried egg or omelette.
A fragrant rice dish cooked with coconut milk and pandan leaf, commonly found in Malaysia and neighbouring areas with significant Malay populations.
An Arabic literary form, 'usually defined as an erotic or amatory prelude to the type of long poem called a qaṣīdah.'
The point at the root of the nose where the frontal and two nasal bones meet. (It is a cephalometric landmark.)
Designating the 1232 work of ethics, Akhlaq-i Nāṣirī (Nasirean Ethics), by the Persian polymath Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1201–1274).
A triclinic snow white mineral containing aluminum, carbon, hydrogen, lead, manganese, oxygen, and sulfur.
A kind of reflecting telescope: a modified Cassegrain telescope with light reflected sideways before reaching the primary mirror again.
A monstrous creature related to the jinn, said to resemble the left or right half of a human being (with half a head, half a body, one arm and one leg).
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 47. 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.