8-letter words starting with n
- newsless — Without news.
- newspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, especially in order to serve a political or ideological cause while pretending to be objective, as in referring to “increased taxation” as “revenue enhancement.”.
- newsreel — a short motion picture presenting current or recent events.
- newsroom — a room in the offices of a newspaper, news service, or broadcasting organization in which the news is processed.
- newswire — a service transmitted especially by teletypewriter and providing late-breaking news stories, stock-market results, or other up-to-the-minute information: We took the story off the newswires.
- newwaver — a member of a new wave
- nextdoor — Also, next door. to, at, or in the next house on the street, especially if it is very close by, or the adjacent apartment, office, room, or the like: Go next-door and get your sister. Your sister is next-door. Her brother lives next-door.
- nextness — The fact or condition of immediate succession or proximity; the quality of being next.
- nextstep — (operating system) The original multitasking operating system that NeXT, Inc. developed to run on its proprietary NeXT computers (informally known as "black boxes"). NEXTSTEP includes a specific graphical user interface, an interface builder, object-oriented application builder, and several "kits" of prebuilt software objects such as the Indexing Kit for databases. This software runs on top of NeXT's version of the Mach operating system on NeXT, 486, Pentium, HP-PA, and Sun SPARC computers. The official spelling changed from "NeXTstep" to "NeXTStep" to "NeXTSTEP", and finally "NEXTSTEP". The last release of NEXTSTEP was 3.3, which NeXT then developed into "OpenStep". See also: GNUStep.
- neyagawa — a city in S Honshu, Japan: a suburb of Osaka.
- ngaliema — Mount, a mountain with two summits, in central Africa, between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo: highest peak in the Ruwenzori group. 16,790 feet (5119 meters).
- ngultrum — a paper money, cupronickel coin, and monetary unit of Bhutan, equal to 100 chetrums.
- niarchos — Stavros Spyros [stahv-raws spee-raws] /ˈstɑv rɔs ˈspi rɔs/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, Greek businessman and shipowner.
- nibblers — Plural form of nibbler.
- nibbling — to bite off small bits.
- nibelung — any of a race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure captured by Siegfried.
- niblicks — Plural form of niblick.
- niblings — Plural form of nibling.
- nice and — pleasingly
- nice one — expressing congratulations or admiration
- niceness — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- niceties — a delicate or fine point; punctilio: niceties of protocol.
- nichiren — (Zennichi; Zenshobo Rencho) 1222–82, Japanese Buddhist monk: founder of Nichiren Buddhism.
- nicholas — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- nichrome — An alloy of nickel with chromium (10 to 20 percent) and sometimes iron (up to 25 percent), used chiefly in high-temperature applications such as electrical heating elements.
- nickeled — Simple past tense and past participle of nickel.
- nickelic — of or containing nickel, especially in the trivalent state.
- nickered — neigh.
- nicklaus — Jack (William) born 1940, U.S. golfer.
- nicknack — an ornamental trinket or gimcrack; a bit of bric-a-brac.
- nickname — a name added to or substituted for the proper name of a person, place, etc., as in affection, ridicule, or familiarity: He has always loathed his nickname of “Whizzer.”.
- nicolson — Sir Harold George, 1886–1968, English diplomat, biographer, and journalist (husband of Victoria Mary Sackville-West).
- nicotian — the tobacco plant, Nicotiana tabacum; tobacco itself
- nicotine — a colorless, oily, water-soluble, highly toxic, liquid alkaloid, C 1 0 H 1 4 N 2 , found in tobacco and valued as an insecticide.
- nidation — implantation of an embryo in the lining of the uterus.
- nidorous — (literary) Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substances.
- niemeyer — Oscar, 1907–2012, Brazilian architect.
- nieveful — a fistful, the quantity that may be contained in a closed fist
- niffnaff — a trifle, knick-knack, or petty detail
- niflheim — a place of eternal cold, darkness, and fog, ruled over by Hel: abode of those who die of illness or old age.
- nigerian — a republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 356,669 sq. mi. (923,773 sq. km). Capital: Abuja.
- nigerien — a republic in NW Africa: formerly part of French West Africa. 458,976 sq. mi. (1,188,748 sq. km). Capital: Niamey.
- niggards — Plural form of niggard.
- niggling — petty; trivial; inconsequential: to quibble about a niggling difference in terminology.
- nighness — The quality or state of being nigh, or near.
- nightcap — Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- nighties — Plural form of nightie.
- nightjar — a nocturnal European bird, Caprimulgus europaeus, of the family Caprimulgidae, having a short bill and a wide mouth and feeding on insects captured in the air.
- nightowl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.