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. |