English Words: N

24,391 words · Page 47 of 488

Nascimentoname

A surname.

nasciturus rulename

The rule stating that an unborn child, if subsequently born alive, is considered as already in existence whenever it is to its own advantage.

NASDAQname

Alternative letter-case form of Nasdaq.

Nasename

A surname from German.

naseberrynoun

The sapodilla tree.

Nasebyname

A village in Daventry district, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP6878).

nasendoscopenoun

instrument used in nasal endoscopy

nasendoscopicallyadv

In terms of, or by means of, nasendoscopy.

nasendoscopynoun

Alternative form of nasoendoscopy.

Naseyowmaname

A surname from Hopi.

Nashname

A placename

Nash Countyname

One of 100 counties in North Carolina, United States. County seat: Nashville.

Nash equilibriumnoun

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.

Nasheanadj

Of or relating to Thomas Nashe (1567–1601?), English Elizabethan pamphleteer, playwright, poet and satirist.

nasheednoun

An Islamic musical composition, typically performed a cappella, focusing on religious, spiritual, or moral messages.

Nashiname

A northeast wind which occurs in winter on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf.

Nashianadj

Of or relating to John Forbes Nash, Jr. (1928–2015), American mathematician and Nobelist, or his work.

Nashimname

The third order of the Mishnah (also of the Tosefta and Talmud), containing family law.

nashonoun

Military national service, conscription.

Nashvillename

A number of places in the United States:

Nashvilliannoun

A native or resident of Nashville.

nasinoun

Cooked rice.

nasi ambengnoun

A Malay rice platter consisting of an assortment of meat and vegetable dishes, usually shared among four or five people.

nasi gorengnoun

An Indonesian rice dish, often cooked with chicken or shellfish and served with strips of omelette

nasi goreng pattayanoun

A Southeast Asian fried rice dish made with chicken and covered or wrapped in a thin layer of fried egg or omelette.

nasi lemaknoun

A fragrant rice dish cooked with coconut milk and pandan leaf, commonly found in Malaysia and neighbouring areas with significant Malay populations.

nasialadj

Archaic form of nasal.

nasibnoun

An Arabic literary form, 'usually defined as an erotic or amatory prelude to the type of long poem called a qaṣīdah.'

nasibinoun

Someone who hates the family of the Prophet Muhammad.

nasicornousadj

Bearing a horn, or horns, on the nose, as the rhinoceros does.

nasiformadj

nose-shaped

Nasimname

A unisex given name from Arabic.

nasinitenoun

An orthorhombic-pyramidal white mineral containing boron, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.

nasionnoun

The point at the root of the nose where the frontal and two nasal bones meet. (It is a cephalometric landmark.)

Nasirname

A male given name from Arabic.

Nasireanadj

Designating the 1232 work of ethics, Akhlaq-i Nāṣirī (Nasirean Ethics), by the Persian polymath Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1201–1274).

Nasiriyahname

A city in Iraq on the lower Euphrates, founded in the late 19th century.

Naskapinoun

An Innu-speaking First Nation in eastern Quebec and Labrador.

Naskhname

The cursive style of calligraphy most commonly used to write Arabic.

naskyadj

Nasty.

nasledovitenoun

A triclinic snow white mineral containing aluminum, carbon, hydrogen, lead, manganese, oxygen, and sulfur.

Naslundname

A surname from Swedish.

Nasmyth telescopenoun

A kind of reflecting telescope: a modified Cassegrain telescope with light reflected sideways before reaching the primary mirror again.

nasnasnoun

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).

naso-prefix

Relating to the nose.

naso-oraladj

Relating to the nose and mouth.

nasoalveolaradj

Affecting the nasal cartilage and the alveolar ridge.

nasoantorbitaladj

nasal and antorbital

nasobasaladj

Relating to the nose and the base of the skull.

nasobiliaryadj

Describing drainage of bile via a nasal catheter

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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 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.

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