French Words: N
1,563 words · Page 17 of 32
Il n’est guère usité que dans la locution familière sainte nitouche (une personne qui prend hypocritement des airs offensés).
Ester du glycérol et de l’acide nitrique de formule brute C₃H₅N₃O₉ qui se présente comme une huile jaunâtre, corrosive, extrêmement toxique et d’une grande force explosive, qui peut également avoir un usage médical comme vasodilatateur.
Autre nom du niveau à bulle d’air. Notamment quand il s’agit d’un dispositif servant à régler à l’horizontal un autre appareil de mesure.
Quatrième mois du calendrier républicain, qui commençait, suivant les années, le 21 ou le 22 décembre.
Organisme d'État soviétique équivalent à un ministère de l’intérieur et une police politique, ayant existé de 1934 à 1946.
Symbole du nanomètre, unité de mesure de longueur du Système international (SI), valant 0,000000001 mètre (10⁻⁹ mètre).
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The French alphabetical index for the letter N contains 1,563 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 32 pages, and you are currently viewing page 17. 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 French 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.