English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 76 of 488
Either directly or indirectly preceded or followed by an auxiliary verb, often must: of necessity or need; necessarily, indispensably.
Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield neem oil, the insecticide azadirachtin.
A small tart with a pastry base and gelatine-set cream filling, covered with icing in two colours, half and half.
A lantern made from a hollowed-out turnip, traditionally used as decoration at Halloween.
A sweet sap extracted from the inflorescence of various species of toddy palm and widely consumed in India and other Asian countries, sometimes fermented to produce toddy.
An extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, made in the shape of a ship.
Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.
In the calendar of Ancient Rome, those days on which business could not be transacted and assemblies and courts could not convene.
A serotoninergic modulating antidepressant that is used in therapy of depression, aggressive behavior and panic disorder.
A triclinic-pedial mineral containing calcium, fluorine, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.
An ancient Egyptian god, who represented the first sunlight and the delightful smell of the Egyptian blue lotus flower
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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 76. 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.