| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| nibbed | adjective | Having a nib or point. |
| nibble | verb t. | To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits., To bite upon something gently or cautiously; to eat a little of a thing, as by taking small bits cautiously; as, fishes nibble at the bait., A small or cautious bite. |
| nicely | adverb | In a nice manner. |
| nicene | adjective | Of or pertaining to Nice, a town of Asia Minor, or to the ecumenial council held there A. D. 325. |
| nicery | noun | Nicety. |
| nicety | noun | The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.)., Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision., A delicate expression, act, mode of treatment, distinction, or the like; a minute distinction. |
| niched | adjective | Placed in a niche. |
| nicked | imp. & past participle | of Nick |
| nickel | noun | A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6., A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece. |
| nicker | verb t. | One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence., The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored. |
| nickle | noun | The European woodpecker, or yaffle; — called also nicker pecker. |
| nidary | noun | A collection of nests. |
| nidget | noun | A fool; an idiot, a coward. |
| niding | noun | A coward; a dastard; — a term of utmost opprobrium. |
| niello | noun | A metallic alloy of a deep black color., The art, process, or method of decorating metal with incised designs filled with the black alloy., A piece of metal, or any other object, so decorated., An impression on paper taken from an ancient incised decoration or metal plate. |
| nigged | noun | Hammer-dressed; — said of building stone. |
| nigger | noun | A negro; — in vulgar derision or depreciation. |
| niggle | verb t. | To trifle with; to deceive; to mock., To trifle or play., To act or walk mincingly., To fret and snarl about trifles. |
| nighly | adverb | In a near relation in place, time, degree, etc.; within a little; almost. |
| nilgau | noun | see Nylghau. |
| nilled | imp. & past participle | of Nill |
| nimmed | of Nim | |
| nimble | superl. | Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift. |
| nimbly | adverb | In a nimble manner; with agility; with light, quick motion. |
| nimbus | noun | A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc.; a halo. See Aureola, and Glory, n., 5., A rain cloud; one of the four principal varieties of clouds. See Cloud. |
| nimmer | noun | A thief. |
| ninety | adjective | Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men., The sum of nine times ten; the number greater by a unit than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects., A symbol representing ninety units, as 90 or xc. |
| niobic | adjective | Same as Columbic. |
| nipped | imp. & past participle | of Nip |
| nipper | noun | One who, or that which, nips., A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number., A satirist., A pickpocket; a young or petty thief., The cunner., A European crab (Polybius Henslowii). |
| nipple | noun | The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap., The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged., Any small projection or article in which there is an orifice for discharging a fluid, or for other purposes; as, the nipple of a nursing bottle; the nipple of a percussion lock, or that part on which the cap is put and through which the fire passes to the charge., A pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other fittings. |
| nitric | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen; specifically, designating any one of those compounds in which, as contrasted with nitrous compounds, the element has a higher valence; as, nitric oxide; nitric acid. |
| nitro- | A combining form or an adjective denoting the presence of niter., A combining form (used also adjectively) designating certain compounds of nitrogen or of its acids, as nitrohydrochloric, nitrocalcite; also, designating the group or radical NO2, or its compounds, as nitrobenzene. | |
| nitrol | noun | Any one of a series of hydrocarbons containing the nitro and the nitroso or isonitroso group united to the same carbon atom. |
| nitrum | noun | Niter. |
| nitryl | noun | A name sometimes given to the nitro group or radical. |
| nitter | noun | The horselouse; an insect that deposits nits on horses. |
| nivose | noun | The fourth month of the French republican calendar [1792-1806]. It commenced December 21, and ended January 19. See VendEmiaire. |