8-letter words starting with na
- natation — an act or the skill of swimming.
- natatory — pertaining to, adapted for, or characterized by swimming: natatorial birds.
- nathalie — a female given name.
- nathless — Alternative form of natheless.
- natiform — resembling the buttocks; buttock-shaped
- national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- natively — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- nativism — the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
- nativist — the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
- nativity — birth.
- nattered — Simple past tense and past participle of natter.
- natufian — designating or of a Mesolithic culture of the Near East characterized by microliths, sickles, pestles, etc.: it offers the first evidence of reaping and grinding cereals
- naturall — Obsolete spelling of natural.
- naturals — Plural form of natural.
- naturing — Present participle of nature.
- naturism — a person who appreciates the beauty and benefits of nature.
- naturist — a person who appreciates the beauty and benefits of nature.
- naufrage — (obsolete) shipwreck; ruin.
- naughtly — (obsolete) naughtily; wrongly.
- naumachy — naumachia.
- nauplial — of or relating to nauplius larva
- nauplius — (in many crustaceans) a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg.
- nauseant — producing nausea.
- nauseate — to affect with nausea; sicken.
- nauseous — affected with nausea; nauseated: to feel nauseous.
- nausicaä — a daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians, who assisted the shipwrecked Odysseus after discovering him on a beach
- nautches — Plural form of nautch.
- nautical — of or relating to sailors, ships, or navigation: nautical terms.
- nautilus — Also called chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus. any cephalopod of the genus Nautilus, having a spiral, chambered shell with pearly septa.
- navalism — the promotion of naval interests
- navarchy — experience of or skill in nautical matters
- navarino — a seaport in the SW Peloponnesus, in SW Greece: Turkish and Egyptian fleets defeated near here in a naval battle 1827.
- navicert — A form of passport permitting a neutral ship to traverse a blockade in wartime.
- navicula — an incense holder or incense boat
- naviform — Shaped like a boat.
- navigate — to move on, over, or through (water, air, or land) in a ship or aircraft: to navigate a river.
- navy cut — tobacco finely cut from a block
- naxalite — a member of an extreme Maoist group in India that originated in 1967 in West Bengal and which employs tactics of agrarian terrorism and direct action
- naxcivan — an autonomous republic, an exclave of Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. 2124 sq. mi. (5500 sq. km). Capital: Nakhichevan.
- naysayer — a person who habitually expresses negative or pessimistic views: Despite a general feeling that things were going well, a few naysayers tried to cast gloom.
- nazarene — a native or inhabitant of Nazareth.
- nazareth — a town in N Israel: the childhood home of Jesus.
- nazarite — (among the ancient Hebrews) a person who had taken certain strict religious vows, usually for a limited period.
- nazimova — Alla [ah-luh] /ˈɑ lə/ (Show IPA), 1879–1945, Russian actress in the U.S.
- nazirite — (among the ancient Hebrews) a person who had taken certain strict religious vows, usually for a limited period.