| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| nacreous | adjective | Consisting of, or resembling, nacre; pearly. |
| nailless | adjective | Without nails; having no nails. |
| nainsook | noun | A thick sort of jaconet muslin, plain or striped, formerly made in India. |
| naissant | adjective | Same as Jessant. |
| namation | noun | A distraining or levying of a distress; an impounding. |
| nameless | adjective | Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star., Undistinguished; not noted or famous., Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer., Unnamable; indescribable; inexpressible. |
| namesake | noun | One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another. |
| naperies | plural | of Napery |
| naphthol | noun | Any one of a series of hydroxyl derivatives of naphthalene, analogous to phenol. In general they are crystalline substances with a phenol (carbolic) odor. |
| naphthyl | noun | A hydrocarbon radical regarded as the essential residue of naphthalene. |
| naperian | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Napier, or Naper. |
| napiform | adjective | Turnip-shaped; large and round in the upper part, and very slender below. |
| napoleon | noun | A French gold coin of twenty francs, or about $3.86. |
| narceine | noun | An alkaloid found in small quantities in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent taste. It is a narcotic. Called also narceia. |
| narcosis | noun | Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic. |
| narcotic | adjective | Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic., A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. |
| nargileh | noun | An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible tube, and the smoke is drawn through water. |
| nariform | adjective | Formed like the nose. |
| narrable | adjective | Capable of being narrated or told. |
| narrated | imp. & past participle | of Narrate |
| narrator | noun | One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions. |
| narrowed | imp. & past participle | of Narrow |
| narrower | noun | One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. |
| narrowly | adverb | With little breadth; in a narrow manner., Without much extent; contractedly., With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly., With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly; barely; only just; — often with reference to an avoided danger or misfortune; as, he narrowly escaped., Sparingly; parsimoniously. |
| nasality | noun | The quality or state of being nasal. |
| nasalize | verb t. | To render nasal, as sound; to insert a nasal or sound in., To utter words or letters with a nasal sound; to speak through the nose. |
| nascency | noun | State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin. |
| nasiform | adjective | Having the shape of a nose. |
| nataloin | noun | A bitter crystalline substance constituting the essential principle of Natal aloes. Cf. Aloon. |
| natantly | adverb | In a floating manner; swimmingly. |
| natation | noun | The act of floating on the water; swimming. |
| natatory | adjective | Adapted for swimming or floating; as, natatory organs. |
| natchnee | noun | An annual grass (Eleusine coracona), cultivated in India as a food plant. |
| nathless | conj. | Nevertheless. |
| nathmore | adverb | Not the more; never the more. |
| naticoid | adjective | Like or belonging to Natica, or the family Naticidae. |
| national | adjective | Of or pertaining to a nation; common to a whole people or race; public; general; as, a national government, language, dress, custom, calamity, etc., Attached to one’s own country or nation. |
| natively | adverb | By natural or original condition; naturally; originally. |
| nativism | noun | The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries., The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation. |
| nativist | noun | An advocate of nativism. |
| nativies | plural | of Nativity |
| nativity | noun | The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc., A picture representing or symbolizing the early infancy of Christ. The simplest form is the babe in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born., A representation of the positions of the heavenly bodies as the moment of one’s birth, supposed to indicate his future destinies; a horoscope. |
| naturism | noun | The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent. |
| naturist | noun | One who believes in, or conforms to, the theory of naturism. |
| naturity | noun | The quality or state of being produced by nature. |
| naturize | verb t. | To endow with a nature or qualities; to refer to nature. |
| naufrage | noun | Shipwreck; ruin. |
| naughtly | adverb | Naughtily; wrongly. |
| naumachy | noun | A naval battle; esp., a mock sea fight., A show or spectacle representing a sea fight; also, a place for such exhibitions. |
| nauplius | noun | A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body. |
| nauscopy | noun | The power or act of discovering ships or land at considerable distances. |
| nauseant | noun | A substance which produces nausea. |
| nauseate | verb i. | To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust., To affect with nausea; to sicken; to cause to feel loathing or disgust., To sicken at; to reject with disgust; to loathe. |
| nauseous | adjective | Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine. |
| nautical | adjective | Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill. |
| nautilus | noun | The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata., The argonaut; — also called paper nautilus. See Argonauta, and Paper nautilus, under Paper., A variety of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants. |
| navajoes | noun pl. | A tribe of Indians inhabiting New Mexico and Arizona, allied to the Apaches. They are now largely engaged in agriculture. |
| navarchy | noun | Nautical skill or experience. |
| navigate | verb i. | To joirney by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail., To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to navigate the Atlantic., To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen; as, to navigate a ship. |
| nazarene | noun | A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; — a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians., One of a sect of Judaizing Christians in the first and second centuries, who observed the laws of Moses, and held to certain heresies. |
| nazarite | noun | A Jew bound by a vow to lave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively. |
| nazirite | noun | A Nazarite. |