English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 70 of 488
A move in which the gymnast starts by lying on his or her back, moves as if into a backwards roll, but then whips the legs upward and forward while pushing off to land on the feet.
An American annual weed (Veronica peregrina), with small white flowers and a roundish pod.
A yoke which touches or surrounds the carrier's neck, rather than just resting on the shoulders.
The investigation of the chemical structures, reactions, processes and parameters of a dead organism.
A single dead cell, either part of a protective dead cell layer, or a component of an unwanted condition.
A person who specifies that their body or an organ may be given to someone after their death
A paraphilia in which sexual gratification is derived from corpses or parts of corpses.
Posthumous marriage, a legal state where a deceased person is retroactively considered to have been married for legal purposes, such as inheritance.
The act or practice of beating a dead horse, i.e. persisting beyond a reasonable point.
The act or practice of beating a dead horse, i.e. persisting beyond a reasonable point.
Any of a class of hormones, present in plant and animal tissue, that promote healing after injury
memorial service (an obituary or pre-burial event consisting of eulogies and songs, especially over a deceased celebrity or public figure)
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 70. 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.