English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 55 of 488
Of, or relating to a Mesolithic-era hunter-gatherer people in the Mediterranean area around Levant, at about 13,000 to 11,000 BC.
One whose foolishness is not a pretend performance, but rather often stemming from intellectual disability.
A mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons associated with petroleum deposits; mostly methane with smaller amounts of ethane, propane and butane; principally used as a fuel.
hydrocarbons heavier than methane harvested from natural gas wells, generally, ethane, propane, butanes, pentanes.
a sound produced by lightly touching the string as opposed to pressing it against the fingerboard, usually with the actual pitch notated
Any cell that expresses cell surface receptors that deliver signals to either activate or inhibit a response as part of the innate immune system.
A field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages, especially computational analysis and processing of large amounts of natural language data.
The set of universal legal or moral principles said to be discernible from nature by reason alone; one of these principles.
Light as supplied by nature (non-manmade light sources), such as (especially) the Sun or (sometimes) the Moon and the stars.
The logarithm in base e: either the function that given x returns y such that eʸ = x, or the value of y given by the function.
A type of minor scale with the 3rd, 6th, and 7th notes lowered by one semitone, with the interval pattern
The objective study of nature in the widest sense; science or the protoscience that led to it; (later especially) physics.
A price for a good or service that is equal to the cost of production, augmented by the average profit rate.
Religion that arises from human reason and experience, as opposed to that which is based on miraculous or supernatural revelation.
Any source of wealth that occurs naturally, especially surface water, groundwater, minerals, fossil fuels, timber, wild game, soil quality, and air quality.
Any science involved in studying phenomena or laws of the physical world: physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and so on.
A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.
A male biological offspring, whether legitimate or illegitimate, as opposed to one adopted.
The stupidity of a human, as opposed to the intelligence of a well-programmed machine (artificial intelligence).
Decrease of workforce caused by non-replacement of retiring or voluntarily resigning employees and not by deliberate layoffs.
Having an innate aptitude for something, from (or as if from) the time of one's birth.
A person with Afro-textured hair who embraces their natural hairstyle; a follower of the natural hair movement.
The fallacious belief that something is automatically good because it is natural or automatically bad because it is unnatural.
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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 55. 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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