| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| nail-headed | adjective | Having a head like that of a nail; formed so as to resemble the head of a nail. |
| namby-pamby | noun | Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty., Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid. |
| napha water | A perfume distilled from orange flowers. | |
| naphthalate | noun | A salt of naphthalic acid; a phthalate. |
| naphthalene | noun | A white crystalline aromatic hydrocarbon, C10H8, analogous to benzene, and obtained by the distillation of certain bituminous materials, such as the heavy oil of coal tar. It is the type and basis of a large number of derivatives among organic compounds. Formerly called also naphthaline. |
| naphthaline | noun | See Naphthalene. |
| naphthalize | verb t. | To mingle, saturate, or impregnate, with naphtha. |
| napoleonist | noun | A supporter of the dynasty of the Napoleons. |
| narcissuses | plural | of Narcissus |
| narcotizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Narcotize |
| narratively | adverb | In the style of narration. |
| nasicornous | adjective | Bearing a horn, or horns, on the nose, as the rhinoceros. |
| nasofrontal | adjective | Of or pertaining to the nose and the front of the head; as, the embryonic nasofrontal process which forms the anterior boundary of the mouth. |
| nasopalatal | adjective | Alt. of Nasopalatine |
| natalitious | adjective | Of or pertaining to one’s birth or birthday, or one’s nativity. |
| natatorious | adjective | Adapted for swimming; — said of the legs of certain insects. |
| nationalism | noun | The state of being national; national attachment; nationality., An idiom, trait, or character peculiar to any nation., National independence; the principles of the Nationalists. |
| nationalist | noun | One who advocates national unity and independence; one of a party favoring Irish independence. |
| nationality | noun | The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one’s own nation; patriotism., The sum of the qualities which distinguish a nation; national character., A race or people, as determined by common language and character, and not by political bias or divisions; a nation., Existence as a distinct or individual nation; national unity and integrity., The state or quality of belonging to or being connected with a nation or government by nativity, character, ownership, allegiance, etc. |
| nationalize | verb t. | To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation. |
| naturalized | imp. & past participle | of Naturalize |
| naturalness | noun | The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature. |
| naughtiness | noun | The quality or state of being naughty; perverseness; badness; wickedness. |
| near-legged | adjective | Having the feet so near together that they interfere in traveling. |
| nearsighted | adjective | Seeing distinctly at short distances only; shortsighted. |
| necessarian | noun | An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity; a nacessitarian., Of or pertaining to necessarianism. |
| necessarily | adverb | In a necessary manner; by necessity; unavoidably; indispensably. |
| necessaries | plural | of Necessary |
| necessitate | verb t. | To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable., To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel. |
| necessitied | adjective | In a state of want; necessitous. |
| necessitous | adjective | Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty., Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances. |
| necessitude | noun | Necessitousness; want., Necessary connection or relation. |
| necessities | plural | of Necessity |
| neckerchief | noun | A kerchief for the neck; — called also neck handkerchief. |
| necrobiosis | noun | The death of a part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy. |
| necrobiotic | adjective | Of or pertaining to necrobiosis; as, a necrobiotic metamorphosis. |
| necrologist | noun | One who gives an account of deaths. |
| necrologies | plural | of Necrology |
| necromancer | noun | One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard. |
| necromantic | noun | Conjuration., Alt. of Necromantical |
| necrophagan | adjective | Eating carrion., Any species of a tribe (Necrophaga) of beetles which, in the larval state, feed on carrion; a burying beetle. |
| necrophobia | noun | An exaggerated fear of death or horror of dead bodies. |
| necroscopic | adjective | Alt. of Necroscopical |
| nectarizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Nectarize |
| needlestone | noun | Natrolite; — called also needle zeolite. |
| needlewomen | plural | of Needlewoman |
| needlewoman | noun | A woman who does needlework; a seamstress. |
| negligently | adverb | In a negligent manner. |
| negotiating | present participle & vb. noun | of Negotiate |
| negotiation | noun | The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc., Hence, mercantile business; trading., The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, composing difference, etc.; as, the negotiations at Ghent. |
| negotiatory | adjective | Of or pertaining to negotiation. |
| negotiatrix | noun | A woman who negotiates. |
| negotiosity | noun | The state of being busy; multitude of business. |
| neighboring | present participle & vb. n | of neighbor, Living or being near; adjacent; as, the neighboring nations or countries. |
| nemathecium | noun | A peculiar kind of fructification on certain red algae, consisting of an external mass of filaments at length separating into tetraspores. |
| nematoblast | noun | A spermatocyte or spermoblast. |
| nematocalyx | noun | One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidae. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia. |
| nematognath | noun | one of the Nematognathi. |
| nematoidean | adjective & noun | Nematoid. |
| nematophora | noun pl. | Same as Coelenterata. |
| nemophilist | noun | One who is fond of forest or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods. |
| neologistic | adjective | Alt. of Neologistical |
| neomenoidea | noun pl. | A division of vermiform gastropod mollusks, without a shell, belonging to the Isopleura. |
| neoplatonic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Neoplatonism or the Neoplatonists. |
| neotropical | adjective | Belonging to, or designating, a region of the earth’s surface which comprises most of South America, the Antilles, and tropical North America. |
| nephritical | adjective | Of or pertaining to the kidneys or urinary organs; renal; as, a nephritic disease., Affected with a disease of the kidneys; as, a nephritic patient., Relieving disorders of the kidneys; affecting the kidneys; as, a nephritic medicine. |
| nephrostome | noun | The funnelshaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity. |
| nereocystis | noun | A genus of gigantic seaweeds. |
| nervimotion | noun | The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. |
| nervousness | noun | State or quality of being nervous. |
| neithermore | adjective | Lower, nether. |
| neurenteric | adjective | Of or pertaining to both the neuron and the enteron; as, the neurenteric canal, which, in embroys of many vertebrates, connects the medullary tube and the primitive intestine. See Illust. of Ectoderm. |
| neurography | noun | A description of the nerves. |
| neurologist | noun | One who is versed in neurology; also, one skilled in the treatment of nervous diseases. |
| neuropathic | adjective | Of or pertaining to neuropathy; of the nature of, or suffering from, nervous disease. |
| neuropodium | noun | The ventral lobe or branch of a parapodium. |
| neuropodous | adjective | Having the limbs on, or directed toward, the neural side, as in most invertebrates; — opposed to haemapodous. |
| neuropteran | noun | A neuropter. |
| neuropteris | noun | An extensive genus of fossil ferns, of which species have been found from the Devonian to the Triassic formation. |
| neurotomist | noun | One who skilled in or practices neurotomy. |
| neutralized | imp. & past participle | of Neutralize |
| neutralizer | noun | One who, or that which, neutralizes; that which destroys, disguises, or renders inert the peculiar properties of a body. |
| newfanglist | noun | One who is eager for novelties or desirous of change. |
| news-letter | noun | A circular letter, written or printed for the purpose of disseminating news. This was the name given to the earliest English newspapers. |
| news-writer | noun | One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. |
| new zealand | A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. | |
| nickar tree | Same as Nicker nut, Nicker tree. | |
| nicker tree | The plant producing nicker nuts. | |
| nicknackery | noun | See Knickknackery. |
| nicotianine | noun | A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor. |
| nictitation | noun | The act of winking. |
| nidificated | imp. & past participle | of Nidificate |
| niggardness | noun | Niggardliness. |
| niggardship | noun | Niggardliness. |
| nightertale | noun | period of night; nighttime. |
| nightingale | noun | A small, plain, brown and gray European song bird (Luscinia luscinia). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song., A larger species (Lucinia philomela), of Eastern Europe, having similar habits; the thrush nightingale. The name is also applied to other allied species. |
| nigraniline | noun | The complex, nitrogenous, organic base and dyestuff called also aniline black. |
| nigromancie | noun | Necromancy. |
| nimbiferous | adjective | Serving to bring clouds or stormy weather. |
| nine-killer | noun | The northern butcher bird. |
| ninnyhammer | noun | A simpleton; a silly person. |
| nitraniline | noun | Any one of a series of nitro derivatives of aniline. In general they are yellow crystalline substances. |
| nitriferous | adjective | Bearing niter; yielding, or containing, niter. |
| nitrobenzol | noun | Alt. of Nitrobenzole |
| nitrocarbol | noun | See Nitromethane. |
| nitrogenize | verb t. | To combine, or impregnate, with nitrogen or its compounds. |
| nitrogenous | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, nitrogen; as, a nitrogenous principle; nitrogenous compounds. |
| nitroquinol | noun | A hypothetical nitro derivative of quinol or hydroquinone, not known in the free state, but forming a well defined series of derivatives. |
| noctiferous | adjective | Bringing night. |
| noctilionid | noun | A South American bat of the genus Noctilio, having cheek pouches and large incisor teeth. |
| noctilucine | adjective | Of or pertaining to Noctiluca. |
| noctilucous | adjective | Shining in the night. |
| noctivagant | adjective | Going about in the night; night-wandering. |
| noctivagous | adjective | Noctivagant. |
| nocturnally | adverb | By night; nightly. |
| nomenclator | noun | One who calls persons or things by their names., One who gives names to things, or who settles and adjusts the nomenclature of any art or science; also, a list or vocabulary of technical names. |
| nominatival | adjective | Of or pertaining to the nominative case. |
| nomopelmous | adjective | Having a separate and simple tendon to flex the first toe, or hallux, as do passerine birds. |
| nonagesimal | adjective | Of or pertaining to the ninetieth degree or to a nonagesimal., The middle or highest point of the part of the ecliptic which is at any given moment above the horizon. It is the ninetieth degree of the ecliptic, reckoned from the points in which it is intersected by the horizon. |
| nonchalance | noun | Indifference; carelessness; coolness. |
| noncohesion | noun | Want of cohesion. |
| nondelivery | noun | A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery. |
| nondescript | adjective | Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable., A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable. |
| nonelection | noun | Failure of election. |
| nonelectric | adjective | Alt. of Nonelectrical, A substance that is not an electric; that which transmits electricity, as a metal. |
| nonemphatic | adjective | Alt. of Nonemphatical |
| nonentities | plural | of Nonentity |
| nonexistent | adjective | Not having existence. |
| nonjurorism | noun | The doctrines, or action, of the Nonjurors. |
| nonmetallic | adjective | Not metallic., Resembling, or possessing the properties of, a nonmetal or metalloid; as, sulphur is a nonmetallic element. |
| nonplussing | of Nonplus | |
| nonresident | adjective | Not residing in a particular place, on one’s own estate, or in one’s proper place; as, a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands., A nonresident person; one who does not reside in the State or jurisdiction. |
| nonruminant | adjective | Not ruminating; as, a nonruminant animal. |
| nonsensical | adjective | Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. |
| nonsolution | noun | Failure of solution or explanation. |
| nonsolvency | noun | Inability to pay debts; insolvency. |
| nonstriated | adjective | Without striations; unstriped; as, nonstriated muscle fibers. |
| nonunionist | noun | One who does not belong, or refuses to belong, to a trades union. |
| nonvascular | adjective | Destitute of vessels; extravascular. |
| noon-flower | noun | The goat’s beard, whose flowers close at midday. |
| northeaster | noun | A storm, strong wind, or gale, coming from the northeast. |
| northwardly | adjective | Having a northern direction., In a northern direction. |
| northwester | noun | A storm or gale from the northwest; a strong northwest wind. |
| nosological | adjective | Of or pertaining to nosology. |
| notableness | noun | The quality of being notable. |
| nothingness | noun | Nihility; nonexistence., The state of being of no value; a thing of no value. |
| notionality | noun | A notional or groundless opinion. |
| notochordal | adjective | Of or pertaining to the notochord; having a notochord. |
| notodontian | noun | Any one of several species of bombycid moths belonging to Notodonta, Nerice, and allied genera. The caterpillar of these moths has a hump, or spine, on its back. |
| notopodiums | plural | of Notopodium |
| nototherium | noun | An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. |
| nott-headed | adjective | Having the hair cut close. |
| nourishable | adjective | Capable of being nourished; as, the nourishable parts of the body., Capable of giving nourishment. |
| nourishment | noun | The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition., That which serves to nourish; nutriment; food. |
| novatianism | noun | The doctrines or principles of the Novatians. |
| nucleolated | adjective | Having a nucleole, or second inner nucleus. |
| nucleoplasm | noun | The matter composing the nucleus of a cell; the protoplasm of the nucleus; karyoplasma. |
| nullifidian | adjective | Of no faith; also, not trusting to faith for salvation; — opposed to solifidian., An unbeliever. |
| numerically | adverb | In a numerical manner; in numbers; with respect to number, or sameness in number; as, a thing is numerically the same, or numerically different. |
| numismatics | noun | The science of coins and medals. |
| numismatist | noun | One skilled in numismatics; a numismatologist. |
| nummulation | noun | The arrangement of the red blood corpuscles in rouleaux, like piles of coins, as when a drop of human blood is examined under the microscope. |
| nuncupation | noun | The act of nuncupating. |
| nuncupative | adjective | Publicly or solemnly declaratory., Nominal; existing only in name., Oral; not written. |
| nuncupatory | adjective | Nuncupative; oral. |
| nundination | noun | Traffic at fairs; marketing; buying and selling. |
| nutrication | noun | The act or manner of feeding. |
| nutrimental | adjective | Nutritious. |
| nutritional | adjective | Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, nutritional changes. |
| nycthemeron | noun | The natural day and night, or space of twenty-four hours. |
| nyctitropic | adjective | Turning or bending at night into special positions. |
| nympholepsy | noun | A species of demoniac enthusiasm or possession coming upon one who had accidentally looked upon a nymph; ecstasy. |
| nymphomania | noun | Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease. |