English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 84 of 488
A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal black mineral containing calcium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.
Any of the genus Nelumbo of aquatic plants with large, showy flowers resembling water lilies, the lotuses.
A variety of brucite, occurring in slender fibers which are elastic and easily separated, having a color of white with a shade of yellow and a highly silky luster.
A river in Eastern Europe, flowing through Belarus, Lithuania and Russia to the Baltic Sea.
A kind of fructification on certain red algae, consisting of an external mass of filaments that separate into tetraspores.
A kind of cup or calicle containing nematocysts, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidae.
Of or relating to the Nematocera, a suborder of elongated flies with thin, segmented antennae and mostly aquatic larvae, consisting of the mosquitoes, crane flies, gnats, and midges.
A capsule, in certain cnidarians, containing a barbed, threadlike tube that delivers a paralyzing sting
One of the dimorphic forms of the species of Dicyema, which produce vermiform embryos; opposed to rhombogen.
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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 84. 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.
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