5-letter words starting with n
- namur — a province in S Belgium. 1413 sq. mi. (3660 sq. km).
- namus — (in Arab countries) A concept of virtue and honor within a family, typically relating to chastity of female family members.
- nanai — Nanay.
- nanak — ("Guru") 1469–1539, Indian religious leader: founder of Sikhism.
- nanas — Plural form of nana.
- nanay — a member of a Tungusic people, traditionally hunters and fishermen, who inhabit the lower Amur Valley in southeastern Siberia and northeastern Manchuria.
- nance — Offensive. an effeminate male.
- nancy — a department in NE France. 2038 sq. mi. (5280 sq. km). Capital: Nancy.
- nandi — a member of an agricultural people of southwestern Kenya.
- nandu — Any of three species of South American ratites of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia.
- nanna — the Sumerian god of the moon: the counterpart of the Akkadian god Sin.
- nanny — a person, usually with special training, employed to care for children in a household.
- nano- — /nan'oh/ 1.
A prefix meaning 10^-9 or one billionth. Used loosely to mean "small", e.g. nanotechnology, or (rarely), following "nanosecond", to mean a short time, e.g. "I'll be with you in a nano". - naomi — the mother-in-law of Ruth and the great-grandmother of David. Ruth 1.
- naped — Simple past tense and past participle of nape.
- napes — the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- napoo — (UK, army, slang) Finished; gone; non-existent.
- nappa — a very soft glove leather made from the skin of a sheep, kid, or goat.
- nappe — Geology. a large mass of rock thrust a considerable distance along a nearly horizontal fault plane or in an overturned anticlinal fold.
- nappy — liquor, especially ale.
- napss — Numerical Analysis Problem Solving System. Purdue ca. 1965.
- narco — narc.
- narcs — a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- nards — an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- nares — The nostrils.
- narew — a river in NE Poland, flowing S and SW into the Bug River: battle 1915. 290 miles (465 km) long.
- naric — relating to the nares or nostrils
- naris — A nostril.
- narks — a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- narky — (UK, Australia, slang) Irritated, in a bad mood; disparaging.
- narre — nearer, closer
- narva — a city in NE Estonia: Swedish defeat of Russians 1700.
- nasal — of or relating to the nose: the nasal cavity.
- nasby — Petroleum V. pen name of David Ross Locke.
- nasca — of or relating to a pre-Incan culture of SW Peru, dating from c200 b.c., characterized by polychrome pottery and the employment of irrigation techniques in agriculture.
- nashe — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- nashi — an Asian tree also cultivated in Australia and New Zealand, Pyrus pyrifolia, of the rose family, having apple-shaped, pear-colored, juicy fruit.
- nasho — compulsory military training; conscription
- nasik — a city in W Maharashtra, in W central India: pilgrimage city of the Hindus.
- naso- — nose
- nasty — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
- natal — of or relating to a person's birth: celebrating one's natal day.
- natch — of course; naturally.
- nates — buttocks; rump.
- natta — Giulio [joo-lyaw] /ˈdʒu lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1903–79, Italian chemist and engineer: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1963.
- natty — neatly or trimly smart in dress or appearance; spruce: a natty white uniform.
- naunt — (nonstandard, proscribed, dated) aunt, mine aunt.
- nauru — Republic of, an island republic in the Pacific, near the equator, W of the Gilbert Islands: administered by Australia before 1968. 8¼ sq. mi. (21 sq. km).
- naval — of or relating to warships: a naval battle; naval strength.
- navar — a system of air navigation in which a ground radar station relays signals to each aircraft indicating the relative positions of neighbouring aircraft