6-letter words starting with n
- needer — A person who requires or needs something.
- needle — a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- needly — (archaic) Zealously; carefully; earnestly.
- neenah — a city in E Wisconsin.
- nefand — (obsolete) unspeakable; nefandous.
- nefast — nefarious, wicked
- negate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
- negros — an island of the central Philippines. 5043 sq. mi. (13,061 sq. km).
- neibor — Obsolete form of neighbour.
- neighs — Plural form of neigh.
- neilah — the Jewish religious service marking the conclusion of Yom Kippur.
- neinei — a New Zealand shrub, Dracophyllum latifolium, with clusters of long narrow leaves
- neisse — a river in N Europe, flowing N from the NW Czech Republic along part of the boundary between Germany and Poland to the Oder River. 145 miles (233 km) long.
- nekkid — (of a person) naked.
- nekton — the aggregate of actively swimming aquatic organisms in a body of water, able to move independently of water currents.
- neliac — Navy Electronics Laboratory International ALGOL Compiler. An Algol variant designed for numeric and logical computations and based on IAL. 1958-1959. Version: BC NELIAC.
- nellie — a female given name, form of Helen.
- nelson — Viscount Horatio, 1758–1805, British admiral.
- nemean — a valley in SE Greece, in ancient Argolis.
- nemine — no one dissenting; unanimously.
- nemrod — Nimrod (def 1).
- nenets — a member of a reindeer-herding Uralic people of far northern European Russia and adjacent areas of Siberia as far as the Yenisei River delta.
- neocon — a neoconservative.
- neoned — lit with neon lights
- nepali — Also, Nepalese. an Indic language spoken in Nepal.
- nepean — a former city in SE Ontario, Canada, now part of Ottawa.
- nepers — Plural form of neper.
- nephew — a son of one's brother or sister.
- nepho- — concerning cloud or clouds
- nephr- — nephro-
- nepman — (in the Soviet Union) a person who engaged briefly in private enterprise during the New Economic Policy of the 1920s.
- nepmen — (in the Soviet Union) a person who engaged briefly in private enterprise during the New Economic Policy of the 1920s.
- nereco — NEtwork REmote COmmunications.
- nereid — (sometimes lowercase) Classical Mythology. any of the 50 daughters of Nereus; a sea nymph.
- nereis — clamworm.
- nereus — a sea god, the son of Pontus and Gaea and father of the Nereids.
- nergal — (in Akkadian mythology) the god ruling, with Ereshkigal, the world of the dead.
- nerine — any of several bulbous plants belonging to the genus Nerine, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having funnel-shaped red, pink, or white flowers.
- nerite — any member of the family of small sea snail or freshwater snail Neritidae
- nernst — Walther Herman [vahl-tuh r her-mahn] /ˈvɑl tər ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1941, German physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1920.
- neroli — An essential oil distilled from the flowers of the Seville orange, used in perfumery.
- neruda — Pablo [pah-vlaw;; English pah-bloh] /ˈpɑ vlɔ;; English ˈpɑ bloʊ/ (Show IPA), (Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto) 1904–73, Chilean poet and diplomat: Nobel Prize in literature 1971.
- nerval — neural.
- nerved — Simple past tense and past participle of nerve.
- nerver — something that gives one courage, esp an alcoholic drink
- nerves — 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.
- nesbit — E(dith) 1858–1924, English children's author, novelist, and poet.
- nesses — a headland; promontory; cape.
- nessie — Loch Ness monster.
- nessus — a centaur who, on attempting to seduce Deianira, the wife of Hercules, was shot by Hercules with a poisoned arrow. Before Nessus died, he gave to Deianira the poisoned tunic that ultimately caused Hercules' death.