4-letter words starting with n
- norf — Norfolk
- nori — a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- nork — (slang, chiefly in plural) A woman's breast.
- norm — a standard, model, or pattern.
- norn — any of three goddesses of fate, the goddess of the past (Urd) the goddess of the present (Verdandi) and the goddess of the future (Skuld)
- nos. — numbers
- nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- nosh — to snack or eat between meals.
- nosy — unduly curious about the affairs of others; prying; meddlesome.
- not- — noto-
- nota — a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- note — a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- nott — (obsolete) Bald.
- noun — any member of a class of words that can function as the main or only elements of subjects of verbs (A dog just barked), or of objects of verbs or prepositions (to send money from home), and that in English can take plural forms and possessive endings (Three of his buddies want to borrow John's laptop). Nouns are often described as referring to persons, places, things, states, or qualities, and the word noun is itself often used as an attributive modifier, as in noun compound; noun group. See also noun adjunct, noun clause, noun phrase. Synonyms: substantive, name.
- noup — a promontory; a steep headland; an overhang
- nous — Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
- nov. — Nov. is a written abbreviation for November.
- nova — a star that suddenly becomes thousands of times brighter and then gradually fades to its original intensity.
- novi — a town in SE Michigan.
- nown — Obsolete. own.
- nows — at the present time or moment: You are now using a dictionary.
- nowt — an ox.
- nowy — noting a partition line or charge in which one or more curves interrupt a normally straight line or lines, usually halfway along their length: per fess nowy; a cross nowy.
- noxa — Lb medicine Anything that exerts a harmful influence, such as trauma, poison, etc.
- nppl — Network Picture Processing Language. An interactive language for manipulation of digraphs.
- nrem — non-REM; non-rapid eye movement.
- nren — National Research and Education Network
- nrma — National Roads and Motorists Association
- nrsv — New Revised Standard Version (of the Bible)
- nrzi — Non Return to Zero Inverted
- nsdi — National Spatial Data Infrastructure
- nsrd — National Software Reuse Directory
- nstu — Nova Scotia Teachers Union (Canada)
- nswu — National Security Workers Union
- nteu — National Treasury Employees Union
- ntfs — NT File System
- ntsb — National Transportation Safety Board
- ntsc — National Television Standards Committee
- ntub — National Trade Union Bodies
- ntuc — National Trade Union Congress
- nuba — a member of a formerly warlike Nilotic people living chiefly in the hills of S central Sudan
- nubs — Plural form of nub.
- nuby — An article of clothing similar to a scarf or a shawl.
- nuch — (surfing, slang, dated) Not much, hardly, barely, to an insignificant degree.
- nude — naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.
- nuer — a member of a tribal people who live along the Nile in southern Sudan and subsist chiefly by raising cattle.
- nuff — enough.
- nugs — Plural form of nug.
- nuke — a nuclear or thermonuclear weapon.
- null — without value, effect, consequence, or significance.