| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| nibbling | present participle & vb. noun | of Nibble |
| niceness | noun | Quality or state of being nice. |
| niceties | plural | of Nicety |
| nickelic | adjective | Pertaining to, or containing, nickel; specifically, designating compounds in which, as contrasted with the nickelous compounds, the metal has a higher valence; as nickelic oxide. |
| nicknack | noun | See Knickknack. |
| nickname | noun | A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation., To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname. |
| nicotian | noun | Tobacco., Pertaining to, or derived from, tobacco. |
| nicotine | noun | An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous. |
| nidering | adjective | Infamous; dastardly. |
| nidorose | adjective | Nidorous. |
| nidorous | adjective | Resembling the smell or taste of roast meat, or of corrupt animal matter. |
| nidulant | adjective | Nestling, as a bird in itss nest., Lying loose in pulp or cotton within a berry or pericarp, as in a nest. |
| nidulate | verb i. | To make a nest, as a bird. |
| nidulite | noun | A Silurian fossil, formerly supposed to consist of eggs. |
| niellist | noun | One who practices the style of ornamentation called niello. |
| niggardy | noun | Niggardliness. |
| niggling | present participle & vb. noun | of Niggle |
| nighness | noun | The quality or state of being nigh. |
| nightcap | noun | A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress., A potion of spirit drank at bedtime. |
| nightish | adjective | Of or pertaining to night. |
| nightjar | noun | A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker. |
| nightmen | plural | of Nightman |
| nightman | noun | One whose business is emptying privies by night. |
| nihilism | noun | Nothingness; nihility., The doctrine that nothing can be known; scepticism as to all knowledge and all reality., The theories and practices of the Nihilists. |
| nihilist | noun | One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist., A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions. |
| nihility | noun | Nothingness; a state of being nothing. |
| nimbless | noun | Nimbleness. |
| nimbuses | plural | of Nimbus |
| ninefold | adjective | Nine times repeated. |
| ninepins | noun pl. | A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling. |
| nineteen | adjective | Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months., The number greater than eighteen by a unit; the sum of ten and nine; nineteen units or objects., A symbol for nineteen units, as 19 or xix. |
| nineties | plural | of Ninety |
| nitrated | adjective | Combined, or impregnated, with nitric acid, or some of its compounds., Prepared with nitrate of silver. |
| nitriary | noun | An artificial bed of animal matter for the manufacture of niter by nitrification. See Nitrification, 2. |
| nitrogen | noun | A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. It is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life (hence the name azote still used by French chemists); but it forms many important compounds, as ammonia, nitric acid, the cyanides, etc, and is a constituent of all organized living tissues, animal or vegetable. Symbol N. Atomic weight 14. It was formerly regarded as a permanent noncondensible gas, but was liquefied in 1877 by Cailletet of Paris, and Pictet of Geneva. |
| nitrolic | adjective | Of, derived from, or designating, a nitrol; as, a nitrolic acid. |
| nitroso- | (/ / /). (Chem.) A prefix (also used adjectively) designating the group or radical NO, called the nitroso group, or its compounds. | |
| nitrosyl | noun | the radical NO, called also the nitroso group. The term is sometimes loosely used to designate certain nitro compounds; as, nitrosyl sulphuric acid. Used also adjectively. |
| nitroxyl | noun | The group NO2, usually called the nitro group. |
| nittings | noun pl. | The refuse of good ore. |