English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 472 of 488
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.
To wipe a computer's hard disk and reinstall everything, as a drastic fix for problems.
To suddenly include a strange or illogical event, often leading to radical and often disappointing changes to the narrative of the film.
A Japanese visual novel genre featuring sexually explicit content for the sole purpose of masturbation or sexual gratification.
A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral copper red mineral containing copper, iron, and sulfur.
The capital city of the autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan, within the Republic of Uzbekistan.
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.
Stored in memory followed by a null character, so that its length can be detected without having to be explicitly stored.
The principle that a person shall receive no punishment unless he has committed an offence as explicitly defined in a law.
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.
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.
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