English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 83 of 488
It is not good to borrow money from anybody, lest you will lose their trust and friendship.
Not easily categorized; not rightly belonging or fitting well in a given group or situation; also, not having the advantages of the various options.
Alternative form of neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring (synonym of neither fish nor fowl).
Synonym of neither fish nor fowl (“not easily categorized; not rightly belonging or fitting well in a given group or situation; also, not having the advantages of the various options”).
used for showing that something is not true of two or more people, things, actions, qualities, or ideas (This entry is a translation hub.)
An online drinking game, typically involving a person uploading a video of themselves drinking a pint of an alcoholic beverage (most commonly beer) in one gulp, then nominating two or more others to do the same.
A triclinic-pedial pearl white mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
An isometric-hextetrahedral reddish brown mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, iron, sulfur, tin, vanadium, and zinc.
A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral brown mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and zinc.
An antiretroviral drug (trademark Viracept) of the protease inhibitor class that is used in the form of its mesilate C₃₂H₄₅N₃O₄S·CH₄O₃S to treat HIV infected patients.
A diminutive of the female given names Eleanor, Ellen, Helen, or Chanel; popular as a formal given name at the turn of the 20th century.
The rapid enlargement of a pituitary adenoma that occurs after the removal of both adrenal glands.
Knowledge which is attributed to a person who has engaged in willful ignorance of that knowledge and ought to have known it.
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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 83. 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.
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