| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| nibbing | present participle & vb. noun | of Nib |
| nibbled | imp. & past participle | of Nibble |
| nibbler | noun | One who, or that which, nibbles. |
| niblick | noun | A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc. |
| nicagua | noun | The laughing falcon. See under laughing. |
| nicking | present participle & vb. noun | of Nick, The cutting made by the hewer at the side of the face., Small coal produced in making the nicking. |
| nicotic | adjective | Nicotinic. |
| nictate | verb i. | To wink; to nictitate. |
| nidgery | noun | A trifle; a piece of foolery. |
| niggard | noun | A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser., Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy., To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly. |
| niggish | adjective | Niggardly. |
| niggled | imp. & past participle | of Niggle |
| niggler | noun | One who niggles. |
| nighted | adjective | Darkness; clouded., Overtaken by night; belated. |
| nightly | adjective | Of or pertaining to the night, or to every night; happening or done by night, or every night; as, nightly shades; he kept nightly vigils., At night; every night. |
| nigrine | noun | A ferruginous variety of rutile. |
| nilling | present participle & vb. noun | of Nill |
| nilotic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic crocodile. |
| nimbose | adjective | Cloudy; stormy; tempestuous. |
| nimiety | noun | State of being in excess. |
| nimious | adjective | Excessive; extravagant; inordinate. |
| ninnies | plural | of Ninny |
| ninthly | adverb | In the ninth place. |
| niobate | noun | Same as Columbate. |
| niobite | noun | Same as Columbite. |
| niobium | noun | A later name of columbium. See Columbium. |
| nipping | present participle & vb. noun | of Nip, Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind. |
| nippers | noun pl. | Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting., A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form., A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger. |
| nirvana | noun | In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism. |
| nitency | noun | Brightness; luster., Endeavor; rffort; tendency. |
| nithing | noun | See Niding. |
| nitrate | noun | A salt of nitric acid. |
| nitride | noun | A binary compound of nitrogen with a more metallic element or radical; as, boric nitride. |
| nitrify | verb t. | To combine or impregnate with nitrogen; to convert, by oxidation, into nitrous or nitric acid; to subject to, or produce by, nitrification. |
| nitrile | noun | Any one of a series of cyanogen compounds; particularly, one of those cyanides of alcohol radicals which, by boiling with acids or alkalies, produce a carboxyl acid, with the elimination of the nitrogen as ammonia. |
| nitrite | noun | A salt of nitrous acid. |
| nitrose | adjective | See Nitrous. |
| nitrous | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or containing, niter; of the quality of niter, or resembling it., Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of those compounds in which nitrogen has a relatively lower valence as contrasted with nitric compounds. |
| nittily | adverb | Lousily. |
| niveous | adjective | Snowy; resembling snow; partaking of the qualities of snow. |