TOP 10 N WORDS THAT STARTS WITH LETTER N
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We have a huge list of unusual words beginning with N, these are the top 10 n words that are the most popular n letter words in the world. Learn more about words and meaning.
10.nice
9.nine
8.nickel
7.Norbert
6.nothing
5.number
4.Nike
3.North
2.Normal
1.Nail
ANOTHER TOP TEN N WORDS YOU MAY WANT TO KNOW
Number 10: Negative
Number 9: Nevada
Number 8: Nissan
Number 7: Number
Number 6: Nine
Number 5:?No
Number?4: Nick
Number 3:?Nigeria
Number 2: Noob
Number 1: Nice
LIST OF UNUSUAL WORDS BEGINNING WITH N
| Word | Definition |
| nabalism | churlishness |
| nabalitic | churlish |
| nacarat | bright orange-red |
| nacelle | structure on wing of airplane containing engine |
| nacket | snack; light lunch |
| nacre | mother-of-pearl |
| nacreous | of or resembling mother-of-pearl |
| nadir | lowest point; point diametrically opposite the sun |
| naevous | spotted; freckled |
| naevus | birthmark |
| nagor | reedbuck of equatorial Africa |
| naiant | swimming horizontally |
| nail | old measure of two and a quarter inches |
| nailage | charge for nailing up a package opened for customs inspection |
| nainsook | fine cotton fabric |
| naissance | new development; birth |
| naissant | nascent, rising or coming forth |
| nakedize | to go naked |
| nancifully | in an effeminate manner |
| nanism | the condition of being dwarfed or being a dwarf |
| nanity | condition of deficiency in some respect |
| nanization | artificial dwarfing |
| nankeen | buff-coloured; durable buff-coloured cotton |
| nanocephalous | having an extremely small head |
| nanoid | dwarf-like |
| naology | study of church or temple architecture |
| naos | temple; inner cell of a temple |
| napaea | nymph that inhabits wooded dells |
| napifolious | having leaves like a turnip |
| napiform | shaped like a turnip |
| napoh | southeast Asian mouse deer |
| napoo | to destroy; to kill |
| nappe | sheet of water flowing over a weir |
| nappe | ability of a liquid to coat the back of a spoon |
| napper | one who naps cloth after it is fulled |
| narcocracy | government by those who control the drug trade |
| narcohypnia | numbness experienced upon awakening |
| narcolepsy | pathological drowsiness |
| narcology | study and treatment of narcotic abuse |
| narcomancy | divination using sleep |
| narcomania | uncontrollable craving for narcotics |
| narcose | experiencing a hallucinogenic stupor |
| nares | the nostrils |
| narial | of, like or pertaining to the nostrils |
| naricorn | horny termination of a bird’s nostril |
| nariform | shaped like the nostrils or like the human nose |
| narquois | mocking; malicious |
| narratology | study of narrative structure of texts |
| narrischkeit | foolishness; nonsense |
| narrowback | one who does not engage in manual labour |
| narrowcast | to transmit a program aimed at a small segment of the populace |
| narthecal | of or relating to fennel |
| narthex | small entrance or porch to a church |
| nary | not a one; not at all |
| nasal | nosepiece of a helmet |
| nasard | organ mutation stop |
| nascent | immature; in process of birth |
| nasicornous | having a horn on the nose |
| nasillate | to speak in a nasal manner |
| naskin | prison |
| nasology | study of the nose |
| nason | oak flute-stop for an organ |
| nasute | keen-scented; critically discriminating; having a big nose |
| nasutiform | shaped like a nose |
| natable | able to float; able to be sailed |
| natalitial | of, like or pertaining to a birthday |
| natation | swimming |
| natational | of or relating to swimming |
| natatorium | swimming-pool |
| nates | the buttocks |
| natheless | nevertheless; notwithstanding |
| naticide | one who kills one’s own child |
| natiform | shaped like buttocks |
| nativism | belief that the mind possesses inborn thoughts |
| natricine | of, like or pertaining to water-snakes |
| natron | sodium bicarbonate |
| natuary | hospital maternity ward |
| naturalism | belief that the world can be explained in terms of natural forces |
| naturelle | pale pink or beige colour |
| naturism | communal nudism |
| naucify | to despise; to hold in low esteem |
| naucrary | one of forty-eight local divisions of the citizens of ancient Athens |
| naufrageous | in a state of danger or ruin; threatened |
| naufrague | shipwrecked person |
| naumachy | mock sea-battle |
| naupathia | sea sickness |
| naupegical | of or relating to shipbuilding |
| nauscopy | purported method for observing ships or land beyond the horizon |
| nauseant | producing nausea |
| nautics | art of navigation |
| nautiliform | having the shape of a nautilus |
| navalism | cult of naval supremacy or seapower |
| navarchy | rulership over the seas |
| nave | largest part of church where congregation sits |
| navette | pointed oval shape; jewel cut in this shape |
| navicular | boat-shaped |
| navifauna | the fauna aboard a ship |
| naviform | boat-shaped |
| navigerous | bearing or able to bear a ship |
| naze | headland or cape |
| neanic | of, like or pertaining to the adolescent period; young |
| neap | tidal period of least difference between high and low tides |
| nearabout | nearby; in the vicinity |
| nearhand | nearly; almost |
| neatherd | cowherd |
| nebbich | colourless; inconsequential person |
| nebel | ancient Hebrew harp or dulcimer |
| nebelwerfer | six-barrelled rocket mortar |
| nebris | skin of a fawn worn as a garment in antiquity |
| nebulaphobia | fear of fog |
| nebule | wavy moulding |
| nebulist | artist whose style has indistinct lines |
| nebulize | to reduce to spray |
| necation | an act of killing |
| nécessaire | ornamental small case for personal objects |
| necessarianism | theory that actions are determined by prior history; fatalism |
| necessitudinarian | determinist |
| neckatee | scarf worn around the neck or head |
| necrobiosis | death of cells |
| necrogenic | deriving from dead animals |
| necrographer | obituary writer |
| necrolatry | worship of the dead |
| necrologue | obituary |
| necrology | obituary list |
| necromania | sexual obsession with dead bodies; necrophilia |
| necrophagous | feeding on the dead |
| necrophobia | fear of corpses |
| necropolitan | of or relating to a necropolis or cemetery; mournful; funereal |
| necropsy | post-mortem examination |
| necroscopy | examination of a dead body |
| necrotic | undergoing death of part of the body |
| necrotomy | dissection; cutting open of a dead body |
| necrotype | organism formerly but no longer present in a locality |
| nectareal | of or like nectar |
| nectariferous | producing nectar |
| nectarivorous | feeding on nectar |
| nectopod | limb used for swimming |
| necyomancy | divination by summoning Satan |
| needlecord | thinly ribbed cotton |
| needledom | the world of sewing |
| needs | of necessity; necessarily |
| neencephalon | evolutionarily newer part of the vertebrate brain |
| nef | ornamental stand in shape of ship for holding salt or cutlery |
| nefandous | abominable; despicable |
| nefastous | wretched; miserable |
| negaholic | habitually pessimistic |
| negannepaut | coarse cotton Indian fabric |
| negatory | no; expression of negation |
| negentropy | measurement of order or information of a system |
| négociant | wine merchant |
| negotiosity | habitual state of being occupied with business |
| negrophile | one who is sympathetic towards black people |
| negrophobia | fear of blacks |
| nekton | assemblage of swimming organisms in a body of water |
| nelly | large South Pacific petrel |
| nemaline | of or like a thread |
| nematology | the study of nematodes |
| nembutsu | Buddhist invocation chanted to achieve enlightenment |
| nemesism | self-directed frustration |
| nemophilist | one who loves the woods |
| nemoral | of a wood or grove |
| nemoricolous | living in forests or groves |
| nemorivagant | wandering through forests |
| nemorous | wooded |
| nene | Hawaiian goose |
| neoblastic | of, like or pertaining to new growth |
| neocatastrophism | doctrine that natural catastrophic events shaped the evolution of life |
| neocolonialism | continued exercise of economic and social power over former colonial states |
| neocracy | government by new or inexperienced rulers |
| neogamist | newlywed |
| neogenesis | producing regeneration of tissue |
| neogrammarian | linguist who contends that phonetic laws are exceptionless |
| neoist | one who favours novelty |
| neolagnium | puberty |
| neolatry | worship of novelty |
| neolocal | of a married couple, living independently of either spouse’s family |
| neological | of or relating to the coining of new words |
| neology | practice of coining new words; neologism |
| neomenia | period of the new moon |
| neomorphic | developed suddenly and not inherited |
| neomort | brain-dead individual |
| neonate | newly born child |
| neonaticide | killing or killer of a newborn infant |
| neonatology | study of newborn babies |
| neonomianism | theory that the gospel abrogates earlier moral codes |
| neontology | study of extant or recently living organisms |
| neophile | one who loves novelty and trends |
| neophobe | one who fears change or novelty |
| neophobia | fear of novelty |
| neophrastic | of, like or pertaining to neologisms |
| neophron | small Egyptian vulture |
| neoprimitivism | artistic movement favouring return to earlier or unsophisticated values |
| neorama | view of interior of building |
| neoslave | one who is re-enslaved or employed at near-slavery conditions |
| neossology | study of nestling birds |
| neossoptile | soft or downy feathers of a bird |
| neotechnic | of or relating to development of new technology |
| neotectonics | study of more recent changes in the earth’s crust |
| neoteny | retention of juvenile characteristics in a mature organism |
| neoteric | of recent origin; modern |
| neoterism | introduction of new things, especially words |
| neottious | resembling a bird’s nest |
| neovitalism | theory that total material explanation is impossible |
| nep | small lump on cotton fibre |
| nepenthe | something, such as a drink, capable of making one forget suffering |
| neper | unit for expressing ratio of two currents or voltages |
| nephalism | total abstinence from alcoholic drinks |
| nepheligenous | discharging smoke in clouds |
| nephelococcygia | act of finding shapes in clouds |
| nephelognosy | observation of clouds |
| nepheloid | cloudy |
| nephelometer | instrument for measuring cloudiness |
| nephelometry | measurement of cloudiness of liquids |
| nephogram | photograph of clouds |
| nephograph | instrument for photographing clouds |
| nephology | study of clouds |
| nephoscope | instrument for observing direction and velocity of clouds |
| nephralgia | kidney pain |
| nephrectomy | removal of one or both kidneys |
| nephric | of, like or pertaining to the kidneys |
| nephrography | description or imagery of the kidneys |
| nephroid | kidney-shaped |
| nephrolith | kidney stone |
| nephrology | study of the kidneys |
| nepionic | of, like or pertaining to the embryonic period of development |
| nepotal | of, like or pertaining to one’s nephew |
| nepotation | riotous behaviour; profligacy |
| neritic | belonging to the shallow waters near land |
| nerka | sockeye salmon |
| nervifolious | having leaves with prominent veins |
| nervine | quieting; soothing nervous excitement |
| nervure | vein of a leaf |
| nescience | lack of knowledge; ignorance |
| nesh | soft; delicate; tender |
| nesiote | living on an island |
| nessberry | small soft North American fruit like a loganberry |
| nestitherapy | medical treatment by reducing food intake |
| nettlesome | irritable; difficult |
| neuralgiform | like or shaped like a nerve |
| neurergic | of, like or pertaining to the function or action of the nerves |
| neurism | “nerve-force” acting on evolution |
| neurobiology | study of anatomy of the nervous system |
| neurogenesis | production or generation of nerves |
| neuroid | like a nerve |
| neuropath | one who believes in nervous origin of most diseases |
| neuropsychology | study of relation between brain and behaviour |
| neurypnology | study of hypnotism |
| neuston | minute organisms floating or swimming pool on water’s surface |
| neutrologistic | expressing neither praise nor disapproval |
| neutrosophy | study of the origin and nature of philosophical neutralities |
| névé | granular snow; field of granular snow |
| nevosity | state of being speckled |
| nevus | birthmark |
| newel | upright column in middle of circular staircase; post at end of stairs |
| nexal | of or pertaining to a nexus |
| nexility | compactness of speech |
| nexus | a bond; a linked group |
| niaiserie | simplicity; foolishness |
| niccolic | made of, like or pertaining to nickel |
| nickeliferous | bearing nickel |
| nicotian | of, like or pertaining to tobacco |
| nictate | to wink or blink |
| nidamental | nest-forming |
| nidatory | of, like or pertaining to nests |
| niddering | one who shows shameful fear or timidity |
| nidicolous | reared in a nest; sharing a nest |
| nidificate | to construct a nest |
| nidifugous | leaving the nest soon after hatching |
| nidify | to build a nest |
| nidology | study of nests |
| nidor | strong smell or fume of animal cooking |
| nidulation | nest-building |
| nidus | place where something originates or develops; nest |
| niello | ornamenting metal by placing black compound in engravings |
| nieve | hand or fist |
| niff | an unpleasant smell |
| nigh | nearly; almost |
| nightjar | nocturnal insectivorous Old World migratory bird |
| nightpiece | work of art describing a night scene |
| nigrescence | blackness; dark colouring or pigmentation |
| nigricant | of a blackish colour |
| nigrine | black |
| nigrities | exceptionally dark coloration |
| nigroglobulate | to blackball |
| nigrosine | blackish coal-tar colour dye |
| nihilism | denial of all reality; extreme scepticism |
| nihility | nothingness; a mere nothing |
| nil | nothing; not at all; in no way |
| nill | to refuse; to be unwilling |
| nim | to steal; to pilfer |
| nimbose | cloudy |
| nimiety | excess |
| nimonic | of alloys used in high-temperature work |
| ninon | silk voile or other thin fabric |
| nippitatum | exceptionally good and strong ale |
| nipter | ecclesiastical ceremony of washing the feet |
| niramiai | period of stamping and glaring to cow sumo opponent |
| nisus | effort; striving; impulse |
| nitency | brightness; lustrousness |
| nitency | effort; impulse; tendency |
| nithing | infamous person; abject coward; traitor |
| nitid | bright; shining; merry |
| nitriary | artificial bed of animal matter used to produce nitre |
| nitrometer | instrument for measuring nitrogen and its compounds |
| nitrophilous | flourishing in or preferring locations with abundant nitrogen |
| nivellate | to level or plane |
| niveous | snowy; white |
| nivial | growing among snow |
| nobbut | except; unless |
| nobiliary | of, like or pertaining to nobility |
| nobilitate | to ennoble |
| nocent | hurtful; guilty; harmful |
| nociceptive | sensitive to pain; causing pain |
| noctambulation | sleep-walking |
| noctidiurnal | comprising one day and one night |
| noctiflorous | flowering at night |
| noctilucent | phosphorescent; glowing in the dark |
| noctivagant | wandering in the night |
| noctuary | record of one night’s thoughts |
| nocuous | hurtful; noxious |
| nodality | knottedness; state of being nodal |
| nodated | knotted |
| noddy | plain two-wheeled horse-drawn cart |
| noddypeak | fool; imbecile |
| nodose | having knots or nodules; knotty |
| nodosity | knottiness; a knotty swelling |
| nodus | a knotty point; difficulty; complication |
| noegenesis | production of knowledge |
| noema | stating something obscurely, forcing listeners to work it out |
| noesis | intellectual activity; purely intellectual perception |
| noetics | laws or rules of logic |
| noils | short pieces of fibre separated from longer ones by combing |
| noisette | small piece of lamb cut off the bone and rolled |
| nolition | adverse action of will; unwillingness |
| nomancy | divination by examining letters of name |
| nomenclator | lexicon; word-list; one who assigns names |
| nomiatrist | lawyer specializing in medical cases |
| nomic | customary; conventional |
| nominalism | doctrine that naming of things defines reality |
| nominatim | by name; expressly |
| nominative | indicating subject of a verb |
| nomism | view that moral conduct consists in observance of laws |
| nomistic | based on law or a sacred book |
| nomocracy | government based on legal system; rule of law |
| nomogeny | origin of life according to natural law |
| nomographer | a writer of laws |
| nomography | writing or formulation of laws |
| nomology | the science of the laws; especially of the mind |
| nomothetical | giving laws; legislative |
| nonage | legal infancy; minority; time of immaturity |
| nones | prayer service held at 3 p.m. |
| nonobstant | notwithstanding |
| nonpareil | thing of unequalled excellence; paragon |
| nonparous | not having given birth |
| nonpathogenic | not causing disease |
| noogenesis | evolution of the mind |
| noology | science of the intellect |
| noometry | mind-measurement |
| noosphere | sum of human intellectual activities |
| nootropics | cognitive enhancers; mind drugs |
| normalism | state of being normal |
| norsel | short piece of line for fastening fishing nets and hooks |
| nosebag | food bag hung over a horse’s head |
| nosegay | bouquet of fragrant flowers |
| nosism | use of royal “we”; assumption of role of group mouthpiece |
| nosocomial | of, like or pertaining to a hospital |
| nosocomium | hospital |
| nosography | description of diseases |
| nosology | study of diseases |
| nosomania | delusion of suffering from a disease |
| nosophobia | fear of disease |
| nostology | study of senility |
| nostomania | abnormal desire to go back to familiar places |
| nostopathy | fear of returning to familiar places |
| nostrification | acceptance of foreign university degrees on par with native |
| nostrum | secret or quack medicine |
| notabilia | notable sayings; things worthy of notice |
| notalgia | back pain |
| notandum | something to be specially noted or observed |
| notaphily | collecting of bank-notes and cheques |
| notarikon | making words from letters taken from throughout a sentence |
| nothingarian | person who has no particular belief |
| nothous | spurious; bastard |
| notitia | roll, list or register |
| notonectal | swimming on the back |
| noumenalism | belief in existence of noumena |
| noumenon | object whose reality defined by reason rather than perception |
| nous | pure intellect or reason |
| novalia | lands newly brought under cultivation |
| novantique | both new and old through repair or imitation |
| novation | substitution of a new obligation for an existing one |
| novena | series of Catholic church services held on nine successive days |
| novenary | of, like or pertaining to the number nine |
| novendial | festival lasting nine days |
| novercal | of, like or pertaining to a stepmother |
| novercaphobia | fear of one’s stepmother |
| novity | innovation; newness |
| nowise | not at all |
| noxal | of, like or pertaining to wrongful injury by object or animal of another |
| noyade | execution by drowning |
| nubecula | a cloudiness |
| nubiferous | cloud-bringing |
| nubiform | cloudlike |
| nubigenous | cloud-born |
| nubilate | to obscure |
| nubilous | cloudy |
| nucal | of, like or pertaining to nuts |
| nucha | the nape of the neck |
| nuchal | of, like or pertaining to the nape of the neck |
| nuciferous | nut-bearing |
| nuciform | shaped like a nut |
| nucivorous | nut-eating |
| nucule | a nutlet |
| nudation | the act of making bare |
| nugacious | unimportant; trifling; trivial |
| nugament | nonsense; trifle |
| nugatory | inconsequential; inoperative; futile; trifling |
| nullibicity | state of being nowhere |
| nullibilism | denial that the soul exists in space |
| nullifidian | having no faith; one who is faithless |
| nulliparous | having not borne children |
| nullism | belief that reality does not exist; nihilism |
| nullity | the state of being null or void |
| nulliverse | universe devoid of any plan or organizing principle |
| numbat | termite-eating anteater-like marsupial with white stripes |
| numen | presiding deity |
| numenism | belief in local deities or spirits |
| numinous | of, like or pertaining to a deity; suffused with religious awe |
| numismatics | study of coins |
| numismatography | systematic description of coins |
| nummamorous | money-loving |
| nummary | of, like or pertaining to coins or money |
| nummet | light meal or luncheon |
| nummiform | shaped like a coin |
| numquid | an inquisitive person |
| nunciative | bearing messages |
| nuncio | one who brings tidings; high-ranking papal legate |
| nuncius | messenger |
| nuncle | to defraud |
| nuncupate | to utter as a vow; to declare verbally |
| nuncupative | oral; designative |
| nundinal | of, like or pertaining to a fair or market |
| nundination | trading; mercantile commerce |
| nunnation | addition of a final n in the declension of nouns |
| nupson | simpleton; fool |
| nuptiality | marriage-rate |
| nuque | nape of the neck |
| nutant | nodding; drooping |
| nutarian | person who believes that nuts are the best kind of food |
| nutation | fluctuation or nodding in movement of earth’s pole |
| nutria | amphibious South American rodent |
| nutrication | nourishment |
| nutrice | nurse |
| nutricial | of, like or pertaining to nurses |
| nyala | large south African antelope |
| nyatiti | eight-stringed lyre used by Luo people |
| nychthemeral | of, like or pertaining to a nychthemeron or 24-hour period |
| nychthemeron | a full night and a day; 24 hours |
| nyctalopia | night-blindness |
| nyctanthous | flowering at night |
| nyctograph | device for recording ideas at night or when not fully awake |
| nyctophobia | fear of the night or darkness |
| nymphean | of, like or pertaining to a nymph |
| nympholepsy | emotional frenzy, as that inspired in men by nymphs |
| nymphology | study of nymphs |
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