5-letter words starting with n
- navel — umbilicus (def 1).
- naves — Plural form of nave.
- navie — Archaic spelling of navy.
- navvy — an unskilled manual laborer.
- nawab — Also, nabob. a viceroy or deputy governor under the former Mogul empire in India.
- naxos — a Greek island in the S Aegean: the largest of the Cyclades group. 169 sq. mi. (438 sq. km).
- nayed — Simple past tense and past participle of nay.
- nazca — of or relating to a pre-Incan culture of SW Peru, dating from c200 b.c., characterized by polychrome pottery and the employment of irrigation techniques in agriculture.
- nazir — (in Muslim countries) the title of any of various public officials.
- nazis — a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler and advocated totalitarian government, territorial expansion, anti-Semitism, and Aryan supremacy, all these leading directly to World War II and the Holocaust.
- nbfcp — NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol
- nc-17 — a film rating meaning “no children under seventeen admitted”: it indicates that no one under the age of seventeen may be admitted to see the film
- ndola — a city in N Zambia.
- ne'er — never.
- neaps — Plural form of neap.
- near- — nearly; almost
- neare — Obsolete spelling of near.
- nears — close; to a point or place not far away: Come near so I won't have to shout.
- neath — beneath.
- neato — neat1 (def 5).
- neats — Plural form of neat.
- nebby — (Geordie) Overly inquiring; nosey.
- nebel — a Hebrew harp-like instrument
- nebr. — Nebraska
- necho — Prince of Sais and Prince of Memphis, flourished 633? b.c, chief of the Egyptian delta lords (father of Psamtik I).
- necke — Archaic spelling of neck.
- necks — Plural form of neck.
- necro — (Internet) To make a new post to a forum discussion that has been dormant for a long time, making the thread visible in the list of active topics; to bump.
- nedda — a female given name.
- neddy — British Informal. donkey.
- needs — of necessity; necessarily (usually preceded or followed by must): It must needs be so. It needs must be.
- needy — in a condition of need or want; poverty-stricken; impoverished; extremely poor; destitute.
- neeld — (obsolete) A needle.
- neems — Plural form of neem.
- neeps — Plural form of neep.
- neese — Alternative form of neeze.
- neeze — (intransitive, UK dialectal, or, archaic) To sneeze.
- nefud — Nafud
- negeb — a partially reclaimed desert region and district in S Israel, bordering on the Sinai Peninsula. 4700 sq. mi. (12,173 sq. km). Capital: Beersheba.
- negev — a partially reclaimed desert region and district in S Israel, bordering on the Sinai Peninsula. 4700 sq. mi. (12,173 sq. km). Capital: Beersheba.
- negro — Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) a member of the peoples traditionally classified as the Negro race, especially those who originate in sub-Saharan Africa.
- negus — a title of Ethiopian royalty.
- neher — Erwin, born 1944, German physicist: Nobel prize 1991.
- nehru — Jawaharlal [juh-wah-her-lahl] /dʒəˈwɑ hər lɑl/ (Show IPA), 1889–1964, Hindu political leader in India: first prime minister of the republic of India 1947–64 (father of Indira Gandhi).
- neibp — National Elevator Industry Benefit Plans
- neice — Misspelling of niece.
- neigh — to utter the cry of a horse; whinny.
- neill — A(lexander) S(utherland). 1883–1973, Scottish educationalist and writer, who put his progressive educational theories into practice at Summerhill school (founded 1921)
- neist — Alternative form of next.
- neiva — a city in W Colombia.