English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 72 of 488
Power over life and death, or over deadly activities and products such as assassination, weapons, the death penalty, etc.
Sexual arousal or gratification derived from the mutilation or humiliation of dead bodies; sadism towards the dead.
Security (social order) obtained via the mass killing or mass death (from the spread of preventable disease, etc) of otherized people, especially people of other racial groups.
The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.
A type of anthropogenic soil commonly found at burial sites, characterised by the presence of human remains.
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 72. 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.