13-letter words starting with n
- niggardliness — The state of being niggardly.
- nigger heaven — peanut gallery (def 1).
- night and day — the period of darkness between sunset and sunrise.
- night crawler — an earthworm.
- night fighter — an interceptor aircraft used for operations at night
- night jasmine — Also called hursinghar, sad tree, tree of sadness. a jasminelike, Indian shrub or small tree, Nyctanthes arbor-tristis, of the verbena family, having fragrant, white and orange flowers that bloom at night.
- night journey — the journey in which Muhammad was carried from Mecca to Jerusalem and ascended into heaven.
- night shelter — an organization that provides dormitory-style accommodation for the homeless at night, or the accommodation so provided
- night terrors — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
- night-terrors — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
- nightclubbing — Also, night club. an establishment for evening entertainment, generally open until the early morning, that serves liquor and usually food and offers patrons music, comedy acts, a floor show, or dancing; nightspot.
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- nightmarishly — In a nightmarish manner.
- nightwatchman — Someone who guards a premises at night.
- nightwatchmen — Plural form of nightwatchman.
- nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- nilgiri hills — a plateau in S India, in Tamil Nadu. Average height: 2000 m (6500 ft), reaching 2635 m (8647 ft) in Doda Betta
- nimble-footed — able to move the feet agilely and neatly
- nimble-minded — alert and clever
- niminy-piminy — affectedly delicate or refined; mincing; effeminate: A niminy-piminy shyness makes frankness impossible.
- nimonic alloy — type of nickel-based alloy
- nincompoopery — a fool or simpleton.
- nine-to-fiver — of, relating to, or during the workday, especially the hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when offices are characteristically open for business: the nine-to-five grind.
- ninety-eighth — next after the ninety-seventh; being the ordinal number for 98.
- ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
- ninety-second — next after the ninety-first; being the ordinal number for 92.
- nithiocyamine — Amoscanate.
- nitrification — the act of nitrifying.
- nitrobacteria — Plural form of nitrobacterium.
- nitrogelatine — an explosive, consisting mainly of nitroglycerine, that is used in the production of gelignite
- nitrogen base — Chemistry, Biochemistry. a nitrogen-containing organic compound that has the chemical properties of a base, especially a pyrimidine or purine: Four nitrogen bases are present in a DNA molecule.
- nitrogenation — to combine with nitrogen or add nitrogenous material to.
- nitrogenizing — Present participle of nitrogenize.
- nitroglycerin — a colorless, thick, oily, flammable, highly explosive, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 5 N 3 O 9 , prepared from glycerol with nitric and sulfuric acids: used chiefly as a constituent of dynamite and other explosives, in rocket propellants, and in medicine as a vasodilator in the treatment of angina pectoris.
- nitrolic acid — any of several weak acids formed when nitrous acid reacts with a nitroparaffin
- nitromannitol — mannitol hexanitrate.
- nitroparaffin — any of a class of compounds derived from the methane series in which a hydrogen atom is replaced by a nitro group.
- nitroprusside — (inorganic chemistry) Any salt, of the hypothetical nitroprussic acid, that contains a pentacyanonitrosylferrate anion.
- nitroso group — the univalent group O=N–.
- nitrous ether — ethyl nitrite.
- nitrous oxide — a colorless, sweet-smelling, sweet-tasting, nonflammable, slightly water-soluble gas, N 2 O, that sometimes produces a feeling of exhilaration when inhaled: used chiefly as an anesthetic in dentistry and surgery, in the manufacture of chemicals, and as an aerosol.
- nits-and-lice — a yellow-flowered plant, Hypericum drummondii, of the central U.S.
- nitwittedness — The quality of being nitwitted.
- nizam al-mulk — title of Abu Ali Hasan Ibn Ali. ?1018–92, Persian statesman; vizier of Persia (1063–92) for the Seljuk sultans: assassinated
- nizhniy tagil — city in W Russia, in the EC Urals: pop. 429,000
- no entry sign — a sign, esp a traffic sign, that prohibits entry into a place
- no fewer than — You use no fewer than to emphasize that a number is surprisingly large.
- no man's land — an area between opposing armies, over which no control has been established.
- no such thing — You can say there is no such thing as something to emphasize that it does not exist or is not possible.