5-letter words starting with n
- nelda — a female given name.
- nelis — a variety of small, sweet winter pear with yellowish-green freckled skin which becomes golden as it ripens
- nelly — a female given name, form of Helen.
- neman — a river rising in central Byelorussia (Belarus), flowing W through Lithuania into the Baltic. 582 miles (937 km) long.
- nemea — a valley in SE Greece, in ancient Argolis.
- nenni — Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1980, Italian socialist leader and author.
- neons — Plural form of neon (the fish, neon tetras).
- nepad — New Partnership for African Development: an economic development organization set up by the African union in 2001
- nepal — a constitutional monarchy in the Himalayas between N India and Tibet. About 56,830 sq. mi. (147,190 sq. km). Capital: Kathmandu.
- neper — John, Napier, John.
- nepos — Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- neral — a pale yellow, water-insoluble, liquid aldehyde, C 10 H 16 O, having a strong lemonlike odor, consisting in natural form of two isomers (citral a or geranial and citral b or neral) usually obtained from the oils of lemon and orange or synthetically: used chiefly in perfumery, flavoring, and the synthesis of vitamin A.
- nerdo — (slang) An extreme, socially-inept nerd.
- nerds — Plural form of nerd.
- nerdy — Slang. of or like a nerd.
- nerol — a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 1 0 H 1 8 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- nerts — crazy
- nertz — insane; crazy.
- nerva — Marcus Cocceius [kok-see-yuh s] /kɒkˈsi yəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 32?–98, emperor of Rome 96–98.
- nerve — one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
- nervi — Pier Luigi [pyer loo-ee-jee] /pyɛr luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1891–1979, Italian engineer and architect.
- nervy — brashly presumptuous or insolent; pushy: a nervy thing to say; a nervy trick to pull.
- nesta — National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
- nests — Plural form of nest.
- nesty — a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- net.- — (convention, networking, messaging) /net dot/ A prefix used to describe people and events related to Usenet and the Internet. The convention dates from the time before the Great Renaming, when most non-local Usenet newsgroups had names beginning "net.". Includes net.gods, "net.goddesses" (various charismatic net.women with circles of on-line admirers), "net.lurkers" (see lurker), "net.person", "net.parties" (a synonym for boink), and many similar constructs. See also net.police.
- net:x — (company) A Canadian company. Not to be confused with NetX.
- neth. — Netherlands
- netop — a friend, used esp by American colonists of American Indians
- netty — Like a net, or network; netted.
- neume — any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- neur- — neuro-
- neuro — (informal) Neurologist.
- neuse — a river in E central North Carolina, flowing SE to Pamlico Sound. 275 miles (442 km) long.
- neuss — a city W Germany, near Düsseldorf.
- neut. — neuter
- nevel — a stroke or blow with the fist
- neven — (obsolete, transitive) To give as a name to; name; call (someone something).
- never — not ever; at no time: Such an idea never occurred to me.
- neves — granular snow accumulated on high mountains and subsequently compacted into glacial ice.
- nevil — a male given name, form of Neville.
- nevin — Ethelbert Woodbridge, 1862–1901, U.S. composer.
- nevis — one of the Leeward Islands, in the E West Indies: part of St. Kitts-Nevis; formerly a British colony. 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km). Compare St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla.
- nevus — any congenital anomaly of the skin, including moles and various types of birthmarks.
- newar — a member of a Mongoloid people of Nepal.
- newel — newel post.
- newer — of recent origin, production, purchase, etc.; having but lately come or been brought into being: a new book.
- newes — Obsolete spelling of news.
- newie — (informal) Something newly released, such as a song or film.
- newly — recently; lately: a newly married couple.