English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 8 of 488
A local administrative division consisting of a number of small towns or villages in some Muslim countries, including (historical) parts of Europe under the Ottoman Empire.
A member of a group of people indigenous to Central Mexico, spanning multiple tribal groups and including the Aztecs.
A lake in Nahuel Huapi National Park, Los Lagos department, Neuquén province and Bariloche department, Río Negro province, Argentina.
A female deity (nymph) associated with water, especially a spring, stream, or other fresh water.
A weapon made by hammering nails into a wooden baseball bat, used for offense or defense.
A small file made of soft metal, or a board covered with fine sandpaper, for filing and shaping one's fingernails and toenails.
A power tool used to drive nails into a surface easily. It is powered pneumatically, electrically, or in some cases with a propellant cartridge; conceptually akin to air guns and firearms.
A convex (or flat) piece of iron with hole(s) in it, used by a blacksmith in production of iron nails.
A private home whose owner refuses to move to clear way for new real estate developments despite offers of small monetary sums from a private developer or expropriation attempts by the government.
To do something that is impossible or very difficult, with connotations of pointlessness.
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 8. 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.