English Words: N

24,391 words · Page 472 of 488

nuisantadj

Harmful; of the nature of a nuisance.

nuissancenoun

Misspelling of nuisance.

nuit blanchenoun

An all-night celebration or festival.

Nujeebnoun

A kind of half-disciplined infantry soldier under some of the native governments; also at one time a kind of militia under the British, receiving this honorary title as being gentlemen volunteers.

Nujiangname

A Lisu autonomous prefecture in Yunnan, China.

nukintj

The sound of a pacifier being suckled on.

nukableadj

Able or suitable to be nuked.

nukacinnoun

Any of a group of bacteriostatic lantibiotics produced by Staphylococcus warneri.

nukagenoun

The process of nuking something, in various senses.

nukenoun

A nuclear weapon.

nuke and paveverb

To wipe a computer's hard disk and reinstall everything, as a drastic fix for problems.

nuke familynoun

A nuclear family.

nuke it from orbitverb

To completely eliminate a dangerous or undesirable thing.

nuke the fridgeverb

To suddenly include a strange or illogical event, often leading to radical and often disappointing changes to the narrative of the film.

nukeableadj

Capable of, or suitable for, being attacked with nuclear weapons.

nukelikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a nuclear bomb.

nukernoun

One who nukes.

nukesnoun

plural of nuke

nukespeaknoun

A form of misleading language used to present nuclear weapons in a positive light.

nukewarnoun

A situation where a single release is nuked or unnuked more than four times in total.

nukigenoun

A Japanese visual novel genre featuring sexually explicit content for the sole purpose of masturbation or sexual gratification.

Nuku'alofaname

The capital city of Tonga.

nukundamitenoun

A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral copper red mineral containing copper, iron, and sulfur.

nukupuunoun

Any of the birds of the genus Hemignathus.

Nukusname

The capital city of the autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan, within the Republic of Uzbekistan.

nul pointsnoun

No points (as a score); zero, nothing.

NuLabname

New Labour.

nuledenoun

A new lede.

nullnoun

A non-existent or empty value or set of values.

null anaphoranoun

An implied (but omitted) anaphora.

null and voidadj

Invalid, cancelled, unenforceable.

null characternoun

A control character with the value zero and no visual representation.

null infinitynoun

In a closed space-time, especially for an Einstein cylinder, null infinity for a given point is the limit of convergence of the light cone most distant from the given point. That is, it is the limit of a set of points that each have a time-like separation from every point that has a space-like separation from the given point.

Null Islandname

The location at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude (0°N 0°E).

null persistentadj

persistent with infinite expected return time.

null prefixnoun

Synonym of zero prefix.

null recurrencenoun

The quality of being null recurrent.

null recurrentadj

Recurrent with infinite expected return time.

null suffixnoun

Synonym of zero suffix.

null-terminatedadj

Stored in memory followed by a null character, so that its length can be detected without having to be explicitly stored.

nullanoun

Alternative form of nullah (“stream-bed, ravine”).

nulla bonaphrase

No goods; used to indicate that a search has found no seizable property.

nulla pœna sine legephrase

The principle that a person shall receive no punishment unless he has committed an offence as explicitly defined in a law.

nulla-nullanoun

A club used by Aboriginal Australians for hunting and fighting; a waddy.

nullabilitynoun

The state or property of being nullable.

nullableadj

That may be nullified; nullifiable.

nullaginitenoun

A monoclinic mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, nickel, and oxygen.

nullahnoun

A stream-bed, ravine, or other watercourse; a drain for rain or floodwater.

nullah-nullahnoun

Alternative form of nulla-nulla.

nullaradj

Pertaining to a language form referring to none of something; compare singular used for one and plural for more than one.

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 472. 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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