11-letter words starting with n
- newswriting — writing for publication in a newspaper, often reporting current events; journalism.
- next door's — You can use next door's to indicate that something belongs to the person or people who live in the house to the right or left of your own.
- next friend — a person other than a duly appointed guardian who acts on behalf of an infant or other person not fully qualified by law to act on his or her own behalf.
- next of kin — a person's nearest relative or relatives: The newspaper did not publish the names of casualties until the next of kin had been notified.
- niacinamide — nicotinamide.
- nic.ddn.mil — (networking) Defense Data Network's Network Information Center.
- nicey-nicey — trying to be pleasant, but in a way that suggests artifice or exaggeration; ingratiating(ly)
- nicholas ii — (Gérard de Bourgogne) died 1061, pope 1058–61.
- nicholas iv — (Girolamo Masci) died 1292, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1288–92.
- nicht wahr? — isn't that so?
- nickel belt — the area around Sudbury in Northern Ontario, rich in nickel ore
- nickelodeon — an early motion-picture theater where a film or a variety show could be seen, usually for the admission price of a nickel.
- nicol prism — one of a pair of prisms used to produce and analyze plane-polarized light in a polarizing microscope. Also called Nicol. Compare polarizer (def 1).
- nicostratus — a son of Menelaus and Helen who, with his illegitimate brother Megapenthes, expelled Helen from Sparta when Menelaus died.
- nictitating — Winking, blinking.
- nictitation — Winking, blinking.
- niederrhein — a section of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany and the North Sea.
- niersteiner — a white wine from the region around Nierstein, Germany
- nietzschean — the philosophy of Nietzsche, emphasizing the will to power as the chief motivating force of both the individual and society.
- niger-congo — a subfamily of Niger-Kordofanian, that comprises a large number of languages of Africa, as Ewe, Ibo, Yoruba, and the Bantu languages, spoken in nearly all of the equatorial forest region and in much of southern Africa.
- niggardness — Niggardliness.
- niggerheads — Plural form of niggerhead.
- night coach — the class of airline coach at a lower fare than regularly offered, often restricted to late-night journeys.
- night court — a criminal court that convenes at night for the quick disposition of charges and the granting of bail.
- night heron — any of several thick-billed, crepuscular or nocturnal herons of the genus Nycticorax and related genera, as N. nycticorax (black-crowned night heron) of the Old and New Worlds, and Nyctanassa violacea (yellow-crowned night heron) of America.
- night latch — a door lock operated from the inside by a knob and from the outside by a key.
- night light — soft room light left on at night
- night nurse — a nurse whose duty is to look after a patient or patients during the night
- night raven — a bird that cries in the night.
- night shift — the work force, as of a factory, scheduled to work during the nighttime.
- night snake — a nocturnal, mildly venomous New World snake, Hypsiglena torquata, having a gray or yellowish body marked with dark brown spots.
- night stand — small bedside table
- night stick — a special club carried by a policeman; billy.
- night table — a small table, chest, etc., for use next to a bed.
- night watch — a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.
- night-blind — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
- night-light — a usually dim light kept burning at night, as in a child's bedroom.
- night-night — go night-night, Baby Talk. to go to bed or to sleep.
- night-watch — a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.
- nightdreams — Plural form of nightdream.
- nightfaring — journeying at night, travelling abroad by night
- nightingale — Florence ("the Lady with the Lamp") 1820–1910, English nurse: reformer of hospital conditions and procedures; reorganizer of nurse's training programs.
- nightlights — Plural form of nightlight.
- nightmarish — resembling a nightmare, especially in being terrifying, exasperating, or the like: his nightmarish experience in a concentration camp.
- nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
- nightshades — Plural form of nightshade.
- nightshirts — Plural form of nightshirt.
- nightstands — Plural form of nightstand.
- nightsticks — Plural form of nightstick.
- nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.