7-letter words starting with n
- neocons — Plural form of neocon.
- neogaea — a biogeographical division comprising the Neotropical region.
- neogene — noting or pertaining to an interval of time corresponding to the Miocene and Pliocene epochs and accorded the status of a period when the Tertiary is considered an era. Compare Paleogene.
- neolith — a Neolithic stone implement.
- neology — neologism.
- neolyte — a durable, semiflexible synthetic material used for the heels and soles of shoes.
- neonate — a newborn child, or one in its first 28 days.
- neosoul — a style of popular music combining traditional soul music with elements from other genres
- neoteny — Also called pedogenesis. the production of offspring by an organism in its larval or juvenile form; the elimination of the adult phase of the life cycle.
- neotype — a specimen selected to replace a holotype that has been lost or destroyed.
- neozoic — of or formed at any time after the end of the Mesozoic era
- nephele — a woman formed from a cloud by Zeus as a counterfeit of Hera, in order to deceive the lustful Ixion: mother by Ixion of the centaurs.
- nephews — Plural form of nephew.
- nephric — renal.
- nephro- — kidney or kidneys
- nephron — the filtering and excretory unit of the kidney, consisting of the glomerulus and tubules.
- nephros — (anatomy) A kidney-like organ.
- nepotic — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
- neptune — the ancient Roman god of the sea, identified with the Greek god Poseidon.
- nerdier — Comparative form of nerdy.
- nerdish — Like a nerd; having the traits of a nerd.
- nereids — Plural form of nereid.
- nerfing — Present participle of nerf.
- neritic — of or relating to the region of water lying directly above the sublittoral zone of the sea bottom.
- neritid — (zoology) Any member of the Neritidae.
- nerthus — goddess of fertility, described by Tacitus in his Germania: later appeared in Scandinavian mythology as the god Njord.
- nervate — (of leaves) having veins.
- nervily — In a nervy way.
- nervine — of or relating to the nerves.
- nerving — 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.
- nervous — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- nervule — a small branch of a nerve in the wing of an insect.
- nervure — Botany, Zoology. a vein, as of a leaf or the wing of an insect.
- nessary — Eye dialect of necessary.
- nestbox — Alternative spelling of nest box.
- nesters — Plural form of nester.
- nestful — As much or many as will fill a nest.
- nesting — 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.
- nestled — Simple past tense and past participle of nestle.
- nestler — One that nestles.
- nestles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nestle.
- net ton — Also called net register ton. Nautical. one gross ton registered as taxable.
- net-net — (of an outcome) with no possibility of further revision
- net.god — (person) /net god/ Accolade referring to anyone who satisfies some combination of the following conditions: has been visible on Usenet for more than 5 years, ran one of the original backbone sites, moderated an important newsgroup, wrote news software, or knows Gene, Mark, Rick, Mel, Henry, Chuq, and Greg personally. Net.goddesses such as Rissa or the Slime Sisters have (so far) been distinguished more by personality than by authority. See demigod.
- netback — a calculation of the price of crude-oil products based on the price of crude oil.
- netball — Tennis. a ball, on a return shot, that hits the top of the net and drops on the other side of the court, thus remaining in play.
- netbeui — NetBIOS Extended User Interface. The network transport protocol used by all of Microsoft's network systems and IBM's LAN Server based systems. NetBEUI is often confused with NetBIOS. NetBIOS is the applications programming interface and NetBEUI is the transport protocol.
- netbios — An applications programming interface (API) which activates network operations on IBM PC compatibles running under Microsoft's DOS. It is a set of network commands that the application program issues in order to transmit and receive data to another host on the network. The commands are interpreted by a network control program or network operating system that is NetBIOS compatible. See NetBOLLIX.
- netbook — a small, lightweight laptop computer used especially for Internet access and email.
- netburp — (networking, chat) (Or "netsplit") When netlag gets really bad, and delays between IRC servers exceed a certain threshhold, the network effectively becomes partitioned for a period of time, and large numbers of people seem to be signing off at the same time and then signing back on again when things get better. An instance of this is called a "netburp" (or, sometimes, netsplit).