English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 78 of 488
The analysis of the characters' absence before the regular expression is matched.
The analysis of the preceding characters absence before the regular expression is matched (symbol: ?<!).
A contract between a producer and a studio in which the studio agrees to buy a movie or show at a future date and for a fixed sum.
A type of loan or loan condition in which the borrower agrees with the lender not to allow any other lender or creditor to rank ahead for payment in the event of a liquidation. Such a loan is unsecured (ie. not backed by a charge over specific assets).
The removal of a discouraging stimulus associated with a particular behaviour with the result that it is more likely to be repeated.
A signed magnitude representation of zero in which the sign bit indicates a negative number.
Describing a circuit or component that changes its state only when an input signal becomes low.
The notion that things of a more negative nature have a greater effect on one's psychological state than neutral or positive things.
Thinking about negative possibilities, contemplating failure in such a way that it leads to those negative possibilities as a consequence.
The difference between the entropy of a system and the maximum possible entropy of the same system.
A Dutch-based creole, also incorporating elements of Danish, English, French, Spanish and West African languages, once spoken in what are now the US Virgin Islands.
A member of a people inhabiting the Khabarovsk Krai in Russia, along the Amgun and Amur Rivers.
A Japanese dish of broiled strips of beef marinated in teriyaki sauce and rolled with scallions.
A direction for the musical accompaniment of a psalm that has been interpreted as "stringed instruments".
Any of a class of reactions in which an organic halide reacts with an organometallic zinc compound under the control of a catalyst; R-X + R'-Zn-X' => R-R'
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 78. 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.