8-letter words starting with n
- nephtali — Naphtali.
- nepionic — of or relating to the juvenile period in the life cycle of an organism
- nepotism — 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.
- nepotist — 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.
- nerdgasm — a feeling of intense excitement felt by someone considered to be a nerd, esp. when caused by something relating to his or her leisure interests such as a new piece of technology, computer game, science fiction film, etc.
- nerdiest — Slang. of or like a nerd.
- neronize — to characterize (a person) as resembling Nero.
- nervelet — a small, delicate nerve
- nervular — of or pertaining to nervules in a plant
- nervures — Plural form of nervure.
- nescient — lack of knowledge; ignorance.
- neshness — softness, feebleness, faint-heartedness
- nest box — a box in a henhouse in which domestic chickens lay eggs
- nest egg — money saved and held in reserve for emergencies, retirement, etc.
- nestable — 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.
- nestling — a young bird not yet old enough to leave the nest.
- net cord — a cord that passes along and supports the top of a tennis net
- net loss — A net loss is the difference between gross profit on sales and operating expenses if gross profit is less than operating expenses.
- net play — play made from a position close to the net
- net silk — raw silk that has been reeled and twisted into yarn.
- netbacks — Plural form of netback.
- netizens — Plural form of netizen.
- netlingo — (computing) An on-line dictionary of more than 3000 terms, started in 1995 and updated monthly. NetLingo contains simple explanations and comprehensive coverage, including chat acronyms and smilies. It is also available in dead tree form.
- netnanny — (networking) A small program for children to block access to certain sites.
- netphone — A telephone that connects through the internet.
- netpipes — (networking) A package by Robert Forsman <[email protected]> to manipulate BSD Unix TCP/IP stream sockets. The netpipes package makes TCP/IP streams usable in shell scripts. It can also simplify client-server code by allowing the programmer to skip all the tedious programming related to sockets and concentrate on writing a filter/service.
- netrebko — Anna. born 1971, Russian operatic soprano
- netroots — Grassroots political activism on the internet, especially on blogs.
- netscape — 1. Netscape Navigator. 2. Netscape Communications Corporation.
- netspeak — internet jargon
- netsplit — netburp
- nettable — net income, profit, or the like.
- nettings — Plural form of netting.
- nettling — Present participle of nettle.
- networks — Plural form of network.
- neumatic — 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.
- neurally — of or relating to a nerve or the nervous system.
- neuraxon — axon.
- neuritic — inflammation of a nerve.
- neuritis — inflammation of a nerve.
- neuromas — Plural form of neuroma.
- neuronal — Cell Biology. a specialized, impulse-conducting cell that is the functional unit of the nervous system, consisting of the cell body and its processes, the axon and dendrites.
- neurones — Plural form of neurone.
- neuropil — A dense network of interwoven nerve fibers and their branches and synapses, together with glial filaments.
- neurosal — of or relating to neurosis; afflicted by a neurosis
- neuroses — Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.
- neurosis — Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- neurulae — Plural form of neurula.
- neurular — of or relating to a neurula