| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| neathouse | noun | A building for the shelter of neat cattle. |
| nebulated | adjective | Clouded with indistinct color markings, as an animal. |
| nebulizer | noun | An atomizer. |
| necessary | adjective | Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable., Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential., Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; — opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed., A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; — used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life., A privy; a water-closet., Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station. |
| necessity | noun | The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness., The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want., That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; — often in the plural., That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality., The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism. |
| neckcloth | noun | A piece of any fabric worn around the neck. |
| necklaced | adjective | Wearing a necklace; marked as with a necklace. |
| neckmould | noun | A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital. |
| neckplate | noun | See Gorget, 1 and 2. |
| necrolite | noun | Same as Necronite. |
| necrology | noun | An account of deaths, or of the dead; a register of deaths; a collection of obituary notices. |
| necronite | noun | Fetid feldspar, a mineral which, when struck, exhales a fetid odor. |
| nectareal | adjective | Nectareous., Of or pertaining to a nectary. |
| nectarean | adjective | Resembling nectar; very sweet and pleasant. |
| nectarial | adjective | Of or pertaining to the nectary of a plant. |
| nectaried | adjective | Having a nectary. |
| nectarine | adjective | Nectareous., A smooth-skinned variety of peach. |
| nectarize | verb t. | To mingle or infuse with nectar; to sweeten. |
| nectarous | adjective | Nectareous. |
| nectaries | plural | of Nectary |
| nectosack | noun | The cavity of a nectocalyx. |
| nectostem | noun | That portion of the axis which bears the nectocalyces in the Siphonophora. |
| neediness | noun | The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence. |
| needleful | noun | As much thread as is used in a needle at one time. |
| needscost | adverb | Of necessity. |
| neem tree | An Asiatic name for Melia Azadirachta, and M. Azedarach. See Margosa. | |
| nefandous | adjective | Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable. |
| nefarious | adverb | Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile. |
| negatived | imp. & past participle | of Negative |
| neglected | imp. & past participle | of Neglect |
| neglecter | noun | One who neglects. |
| negligent | adjective | Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order. |
| negotiant | noun | A negotiator. |
| negotiate | verb i. | To transact business; to carry on trade., To treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm., To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or convention; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences., To intrigue; to scheme., To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange., To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass. |
| negotious | adjective | Very busy; attentive to business; active. |
| negresses | plural | of Negress |
| negroloid | adjective | See Negroid. |
| nehushtan | noun | A thing of brass; — the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses. |
| nemertian | adjective & noun | Nemertean. |
| nemertida | noun pl. | Nemertina. |
| nemertina | noun pl. | An order of helminths usually having a long, slender, smooth, often bright-colored body, covered with minute vibrating cilia; — called also Nemertea, Nemertida, and Rhynchocoela. |
| nemophily | noun | Fondness for forest scenery; love of the woods. |
| neocarida | noun pl. | The modern, or true, Crustacea, as distinguished from the Merostomata. |
| neocomian | noun | A term applied to the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand., Of or pertaining to the lower greensand. |
| neocosmic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the universe in its present state; specifically, pertaining to the races of men known to history. |
| neodamode | noun | In ancient Sparta, one of those Helots who were freed by the state in reward for military service. |
| neodymium | noun | An elementary substance which forms one of the constituents of didymium. Symbol Nd. Atomic weight 140.8. |
| neogamist | noun | A person recently married. |
| neography | noun | A new method or system of writing. |
| neo-latin | adjective | Applied to the Romance languages, as being mostly of Latin origin. |
| neolithic | adjective | Of or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone. |
| neologian | adjective | Neologic; neological., A neologist. |
| neologism | noun | The introduction of new words, or the use of old words in a new sense., A new word, phrase, or expression., A new doctrine; specifically, rationalism. |
| neologist | noun | One who introduces new words or new senses of old words into a language., An innovator in any doctrine or system of belief, especially in theology; one who introduces or holds doctrines subversive of supernatural or revealed religion; a rationalist, so-called. |
| neologize | verb i. | To introduce or use new words or terms or new uses of old words., To introduce innovations in doctrine, esp. in theological doctrine. |
| neonomian | noun | One who advocates adheres to new laws; esp. one who holds or believes that the gospel is a new law., Of or pertaining to the Neonomians, or in accordance with their doctrines. |
| neoplasia | noun | Growth or development of new material; neoplasty. |
| neoplasty | noun | Restoration of a part by granulation, adhesive inflammation, or autoplasty. |
| neoterism | noun | An innovation or novelty; a neoteric word or phrase. |
| neoterist | noun | One ho introduces new word/ or phrases. |
| neoterize | verb i. | To innovate; to coin or introduce new words. |
| nepaulese | adjective | Of or pertaining to Nepaul, a kingdom in Northern Hindostan., A native or natives of Nepaul. |
| nepenthes | noun | Same as Nepenthe., A genus of climbing plants found in India, Malaya, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant. |
| nephalism | noun | Total abstinence from spirituous liquor. |
| nephalist | noun | One who advocates or practices nephalism. |
| nepheline | noun | Alt. of Nephelite |
| nephelite | noun | A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elaeolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash. |
| nephralgy | noun | Neuralgia of the kidneys; a disease characterized by pain in the region of the kidneys without any structural lesion of the latter. |
| nephridia | plural | of Nephridium |
| nephritic | adjective | Alt. of Nephritical, A medicine adapted to relieve or cure disease of the kidneys. |
| nephritis | noun | An inflammation of the kidneys. |
| neptunian | adjective | Of or pertaining to the ocean or sea., Formed by water or aqueous solution; as, Neptunian rocks., Alt. of Neptunist |
| neptunist | noun | One who adopts the neptunian theory. |
| neptunium | noun | A new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite. |
| nereidian | noun | Any annelid resembling Nereis, or of the family Lycoridae or allied families. |
| nervation | noun | The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration. |
| nerveless | adjective | Destitute of nerves., Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. |
| nervosity | noun | Nervousness. |
| nervously | adverb | In a nervous manner. |
| nescience | noun | Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. |
| nestorian | noun | An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. opposed to Eutychian., Of or relating to the Nestorians., relating to, or resembling, Nestor, the aged warior and counselor mentioned by Homer; hence, wise; experienced; aged; as, Nestorian caution. |
| neuralgia | noun | A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion. |
| neuralgic | adjective | Of or pertaining to, or having the character of, neuralgia; as, a neuralgic headache. |
| neuration | noun | The arrangement or distribution of nerves, as in the leaves of a plant or the wings of an insect; nervation. |
| neurility | noun | The special properties and functions of the nerves; that capacity for transmitting a stimulus which belongs to nerves. |
| neurocity | noun | Nerve force. |
| neurocord | noun | A cordlike organ composed of elastic fibers situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids, like the earthworm. |
| neuroglia | noun | The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord. |
| neurology | noun | The branch of science which treats of the nervous system. |
| neuromere | noun | A metameric segment of the cerebro-spinal nervous system. |
| neuropore | noun | An opening at either end of the embryonic neural canal. |
| neuropter | noun | One of the Neuroptera. |
| neurotome | noun | An instrument for cutting or dissecting nerves., A neuromere. |
| neurotomy | noun | The dissection, or anatomy, of the nervous system., The division of a nerve, for the relief of neuralgia, or for other purposes. |
| neutrally | adverb | In a neutral manner; without taking part with either side; indifferently. |
| neuvaines | noun pl. | Prayers offered up for nine successive days. |
| nevermore | adverb | Never again; at no time hereafter. |
| newfangle | adjective | Eager for novelties; desirous of changing., To change by introducing novelties. |
| newfangly | adverb | In a newfangled manner; with eagerness for novelty. |
| newmarket | noun | A long, closely fitting cloak. |
| new-model | verb t. | To remodel. |
| news-book | noun | A newspaper. |
| newspaper | noun | A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies, public announcements, etc. |
| newtonian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, or his discoveries., A follower of Newton. |