English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 85 of 488
A multicellular motile body found in the gastrovascular cavity of the sea anemone Nematostella
Of or pertaining to Nemea, ancient site in the Peloponnese in Greece, associated with certain myths.
A mythical lion of ancient Nemea that was invulnerable to attack by weapons and was slain by Hercules as one of his labours.
Any of several unsegmented, brightly-coloured worms, of the phylum Nemertea; the ribbon worms
A crater (impact feature) on Charon, the moon or binary companion of the dwarf planet Pluto.
A polycyclic polyprenylated acylphloroglucinol based on a bicyclo[3.3.1]nonane-2,4,9-trione skeleton
The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.
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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 85. 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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