Words starting with N

71 words.

• naches A feeling of contentment at another person's successes.
• nailbourne A chalk stream that only flows intermittently.
• namous To run away; to leave; to depart.
• napery Household linen, especially table linen.
• nappe The profile of a body of water flowing over an obstruction in a vertical drop.
• nasallang A piercing that passes through both sides of the nose and the nasal septum.
• nascency A state of incipiency; a quality of nascence.
• natatorium A swimming pool, especially an indoor one; a building housing one or more swimming pools.
• natick An intersection of two obscure crossword puzzle clues.
• naumachia The recreation of a sea battle staged for entertainment.
• navarch The commander of a fleet.
• nearhand Nearby; close at hand; nigh; adjacent.
• neatish Characteristic of or resembling a neat; bovine.
• nebbish One who is fearful, indecisive and timid, especially in making decisions and plans, in discussions,
• necessitude The state or characteristic of being in need; neediness.
• necronym The name of a person who has died.
• necropolitics The relationship between sovereignty and power over life and death.
• negentropy The difference between the entropy of a system and the maximum possible entropy of the same system.
• negotiosity The ability to negotiate many things at once.
• negotious Engaged in much business; busy.
• nematocyst A capsule, in certain cnidarians, containing a barbed, threadlike tube that delivers a paralyzing st
• nenuphar A water lily, especially the European white water lily (Nymphaea alba) or the yellow water lily (Nup
• neontocracy Any society in which young children are highly valued (despite their relatively low social utility i
• neoteny The retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult.
• neoteric A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
• nephalist One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller
• nepheligenous Producing clouds of smoke.
• nescience The absence of knowledge, especially of orthodox beliefs.
• neven To give as a name to; name; call (someone something).
• neverendum A series of referendums on the same issue held in an attempt to achieve an unpopular result.
• newling One who is new (to something); a newcomer; a novice; a newbie.
• nibling Used especially as a gender-neutral term: the child of one's sibling or sibling-in-law; one's nephew
• nictate To wink or blink; (of certain animals) to close the nictating membrane.
• nidorous Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substa
• niello Any of various black metal alloys, made of sulphur with copper, silver or lead, used to create decor
• nightertale The period of night; nighttime.
• nightgloom Darkness of the night; night gloom.
• nihilartikel A deliberately fictitious entry in an encyclopedia or academic work, generally identifiable as false
• nimisin A neologism (or other word not in common use) in Toki Pona.
• ninnyhammer A foolish person; a simpleton.
• nisus A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.
• nithing A coward, a dastard; a wretch.
• noctambulist One who sleepwalks at night; a somnambulist.
• noctidial Comprising a night and a day.
• noctivagant Walking or wandering in the nighttime, nightwandering.
• nodowa A thrust at the opponent's throat.
• noema The perceived as perceived
• noesis Cognition, the functioning of intellect.
• noirette Especially of a woman: black-haired.
• nomenklatura A list of bureaucratic posts in government and industry in the former Soviet Union and other communi
• noncuple Make nine times greater; multiply by nine.
• nonius A device for adjusting the accuracy of mathematical instruments, later superseded by the vernier.
• nonplace An anthropological space of transience where human beings remain anonymous, such as an airport or sh
• noosphere The sphere of human reason, thought, and consciousness, seen as a theoretical evolutionary stage.
• noria A treadwheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water.
• notarikon A cabalistic method of deriving a phrase from a word, using the letters of the word as initial lette
• notgeld Money issued by an institution in a time of economic or political crisis, usually without official s
• notoungulate Any of several extinct, hoofed, herbivorous mammals of the order †Notoungulata, from Cenozoic South
• noumenon A thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind, postulated by
• noyous Troublesome; harmful, injurious.
• nubble To beat or bruise with the fist.
• nubivagant Wandering in the clouds; moving through the air.
• nudiustertian Of or relating to the day before yesterday; very recent.
• nugacious Trivial, trifling or of little importance.
• nuisant Harmful; of the nature of a nuisance.
• nullah A stream-bed, ravine, or other watercourse; a drain for rain or floodwater.
• numeron A hypothetical nonverbal cognitive representation of a numeric amount.
• numinous Of or relating to a numen (divinity); indicating the presence of a divinity.
• nummulation The arrangement or aggregation of red blood cells into rouleaux, resembling piles of coins.
• nunciature The status or rank of a nuncio (diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church).
• nychthemeron A period of one day and one night, a date: in the West, a period of 24 consecutive hours.