Elementary Vocabulary
36,007 words and 29 expressions at the elementary level.
The fourteenth letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.
Abbreviation of noise and vibration.
A writing system invented for the Manding languages of West Africa.
Abbreviation of nearly.
plural of n
Censored spelling of Nazi.
Indicating an arbitrary number of elements.
Abbreviation of Next Eleven.
Having multiple document pages per actual printed page.
Abbreviation of nitrogen vacancy.
Abbreviation of note.
Initialism of not applicable.
Alternative letter-case form of n.b..
Initialism of North Carolina: a state of the United States.
Initialism of North Dakota: a state of the United States.
Initialism of New Hampshire: a state of the United States, as used in case citations.
Alternative form of NI (“Northern Ireland”).
Initialism of New Jersey: a state of the United States, as used in case citations.
Initialism of Newfoundland and Labrador: a province of Canada.
Initialism of New Mexico: a state of the United States, as used in case citations.
Used as a substitute for an unknown name or one that the writer wishes not to reveal.
Abbreviation of New Orleans.
Abbreviation of no place.
Abbreviation of new series.
Alternative form of NV.
Initialism of New York: a state of the United States.
Abbreviation of New Zealand.
not applicable
Initialism of non-drinker.
Initialism of non-smoker.
The rotational speed of the low-pressure spool of a multiple-spool gas turbine engine, expressed as a percentage of a certain reference rotational speed.
N100 standard
plural of N1
The rotational speed of the high-pressure spool of a two-spool gas turbine engine or the intermediate-pressure spool of a three-spool gas turbine engine, expressed as a percentage of a certain reference rotational speed.
Abbreviation of non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder.
plural of N2
Abbreviation of Nintendo 64.
plural of N64
Abbreviation of Negeri Sembilan.
The N95 standard.
plural of N95
N99 standard
Initialism of nerve agent.
Abbreviation of nail
Alternative spelling of knaa.
A surname.
The taking of property for the purpose of compensation.
A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.
A town in County Kildare, in eastern Ireland.
poetry in praise of the prophet Muhammad
The summit of a hill.
Used to form names of cannabinoid receptor agonists.
A surname from Spanish.
A prophet of Islam.
Either of two thorny shrublike trees, of the genus Ziziphus, from North Africa and the Middle East; Ziziphus spina-christi is supposed to be the plant from which Christ's crown of thorns was made.
Alternative form of nabk.
third-person singular simple present indicative of nab
The ancient Mesopotamian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes, and wisdom.
Alternative spelling of nabby.
Initialism of Native American Church.
Initialism of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Initialism of Navy and Army Canteen Board, predecessor to NAAFI.
Acronym of nucleus accumbens.
Initialism of National Association of Chemical Distributors.
A surname.
Initialism of National Aeronautical Charting Group.
A single tortilla chip from a dish of nachos.
Acronym of National Advisory Committee on Immunization.
To acknowledge negatively; to send a NAK signal to.
Sodium chloride; table salt.
Acronym of North American Charging Standard, an electric vehicle charging standard for the interface between vehicle and charging point; for high power DC and AC charging; the North American Tesla charging cable, plug, receptacle, and interface.
noun animate dependent
Initialism of National Arbor Day Foundation.
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) carrying two electrons and bonded with a hydrogen (H) ion; the reduced form of NAD.
A tourist city Fiji.
Initialism of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate.
Initialism of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide synthetase.
Initialism of N-acyl-ethanolamine.
National Average Earnings Index, a measure of inflation based on the change in population salaries.
plural of NAE
Initialism of National Arbitration Forum.
Initialism of National Association of Free Clinics.
An English surname.
The self; the psyche, ego, or soul.
A loincloth.
A surname.
A member of a Yoruba people living in coastal regions of modern-day Benin and Nigeria, especially one taken to the Caribbean or South America as a slave.
Initialism of National Association for Gun Rights.
plural of nag
A Hungarian ethnic surname from Hungarian, equivalent to English Grand.
here! (when giving something).
Abbreviation of Nahum.
The capital city of Okinawa, Japan.
Initialism of National Association of Home Builders.
A gewog of Wangdue Phodrang District, Bhutan.
Initialism of National Association of Head Teachers.
barber.
Initialism of National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.
A deputy.
A group of Sino-Tibetan languages that include Naxi, Na, Shixing, and Namuyi.
Archaic form of naiad.
Alternative spelling of naïf.
Archaic form of naik.
A lord or governor in South Asia.
The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
A surname.
A grandmother.
Myoporum sandwicense, a flowering plant in the figwort family.
A member of a group of Indian Hindu castes originating from Kerala.
plural of nai
To refuse; deny; disclaim.
A member of the Naja genus of venomous snakes; cobras
The central region of Saudi Arabia.
A surname.
A negative ACK; a response indicating that a message was not fully received, or that there was a problem with the message.
A place where workers assemble to seek employment.
To make naked; to bare.
The state or condition of being naked; nudity; bareness; defenselessness; undisguisedness.
A group of languages within Northeast Caucasian, spoken chiefly by the Chechens and Ingush in the North Caucasus within Southern Russia.
plural of nak
Used to form names of opioid receptor antagonists or agonists related to normorphine.
Alternative form of nullah (“ravine, waterbed”).
Obsolete form of nail.
An awl.
Acronym of National Association for Law Placement.
Initialism of Native American myopathy.
A Khoisan language of Namibia.
Initialism of National Alliance on Mental Illness.
A sandfly of the genus Austrosimulium.
Synonym of name (“yam”).
Alternative spelling of naan.
Initialism of nonadrenergic, noncholinergic.
Alternative letter-case form of NAND.
A mother goddess of Armenia, the goddess of war and wisdom, equated with the Greek Athena.
A county of Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
To serve as a nanny.
Clipping of nanotechnology.
Initialism of North American Numbering Plan.
plural of nan
A Spanish or Portuguese carrack.
sodium hydroxide
plural of naos
The inner part of an ancient Greek temple, containing a statue of the temple's deity and surrounded by a colonnaded portico; (by extension) the Roman cella, which it later gave rise to.
Pronunciation spelling of now.
Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, a kind of Chinese cabbage.
A province in Ecuador. Capital: Tena. It is named after the river.
A surname.
An absorbent garment worn by a baby or toddler who does not yet have voluntary control of their bladder and bowels or by someone who is incontinent; a diaper.
plural of nap
Initialism of North American Poker Tour.
A greater mouse-deer (Tragulus napu).
A river in Norfolk, England, tributary to the Great Ouse.
Alternative form of naras.
A nostril
Acronym of not a real gentleman.
A television or movie scene that is portrayed as serious but unintentionally seen as funny.
A surname from Italian.
A shirt.
Alternative spelling of gnar.
One who narrates or tells stories.
Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
Any of a race of giant heroes in the folklore of the peoples of the North Caucasus (notably the Circassians, Ossetians, Abkhazians, and Vainakhs).
Initialism of naval air station.
Acronym of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
Initialism of New American Standard Bible.
Initialism of National Agricultural Safety Database.
A surname from German.
A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7834).
Cooked rice.
Initialism of National Air and Space Museum.
Initialism of National Association of School Nurses.
An indigenous people of Panama and Costa Rica.
A surname.
Alternative form of Ness.
A surname.
Lack of cleanliness.
A hamlet in Great Munden parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3524).
A town and district of Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.
Initialism of National Association of Social Workers.
Abbreviation of National Party.
Abbreviation of natural.
A Bantu language of Tanzania
A diminutive of the male given names Nathan, Nathanael and Nathaniel, and also a female given name Natalie.
A diminutive of the male given name Nathaniel or Nathan.
Damnation.
Pertaining to a nation or country, especially as a whole; affecting, shared by, or existing throughout all of a nation.
Extending throughout an entire nation.
Acronym of North Atlantic Treaty Organization
plural of nat
A surname.
Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned.
The way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and flora and fauna as distinct from human conventions, art, and technology.
Synonym of carrack.
the state of being naughty
Acronym of National Association of Underwater Instructors.
plural of nau
A feeling of illness or discomfort in the digestive system, usually characterized by a strong urge to vomit.
Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
Acronym of net asset value.
Abbreviation of navigation.
A town in central Asturias, in northern Spain.
third-person singular simple present indicative of nav
A country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel.
Initialism of North Africa and West Asia.
Pronunciation spelling of north.
A barangay of Paranas, Samar, Philippines.
An awl.
Measure of the National Assembly for Wales; a type of legislation passed by the (then) National Assembly for Wales - now the Senedd - between 2008 and 2011; still used despite the change of name.
A surname.
A Sino-Tibetan people living in the city of Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
No.
plural of nay
A promontory or headland.
Alternative form of Nazi.
Naive.
Initialism of nota bene; used in written English to introduce something to be noted.
Initialism of National Basketball Association.
Initialism of National Broadcasting Company: U.S. television and radio network.
Initialism of New Brunswick Court of Appeal.
plural of NBC
Initialism of next business day.
Initialism of National Basketball Association Development League, former name of an organization within the National Basketball Association.
Abbreviation of north by east.
Initialism of National Bureau of Economic Research.
Initialism of nearest block first, a disk scheduling algorithm or approach
Initialism of non-bank financial company.
Initialism of non-bank financial institution.
von Neumann-Bernays-Gödel (axiomatic) set theory
Abbreviation of non-black hole (any theoretical alternative to black holes).
Abbreviation of neighborhood.
plural of NBH
Initialism of neutral-beam injection.
Initialism of National Basketball League.
Initialism of nil by mouth (“nothing may be eaten or drunk”).
Initialism of NATO basic military requirement.
Initialism of National Broadband Network.
Abbreviation of Natural bond orbital.
Abbreviation of National Bank of Pakistan.
Initialism of National Black Police Association.
Initialism of New Brunswick Provincial Court.
Initialism of New Black Panther Party.
Initialism of New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench.
Initialism of not believed relevant.
plural of NBR
plural of NB
Initialism of Northern bleached softwood kraft.
Initialism of non-breaking space.
Initialism of narrow-bandwidth television.
Abbreviation of north by west.
Initialism of North Carolina: a state of the United States.
Initialism of National Cheerleaders Association.
Initialism of National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Abbreviation of National Committee for the Administration of Gaza.
Initialism of New Car Assessment Program.
Initialism of National Central Bank (specific banks).
Initialism of National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Initialism of nanocrystalline cellulose.
Initialism of National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
Initialism of National Conference for Community and Justice.
plural of NCC
Initialism of no-claims discount.
plural of NCD
Initialism of National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
Initialism of new college graduate.
plural of NCG
Initialism of non-crime hate incident.
Alternative form of NICI (“negative ion chemical ionization”).
Initialism of National Crime Information Center.
Acronym of National Center for Infectious Diseases.
Initialism of non-consensual intimate imagery.
Initialism of National Commission on Indigenous Peoples.
Initialism of Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
North Coast Inland Trail.
Initialism of National Council of Jewish Women.
Abbreviation of nidopallium caudolaterale.
Initialism of No Child Left Behind, an American educational reform.
Initialism of National Churchill Library and Center.
plural of NCL
Initialism of noncirculating legal tender.
Initialism of nickel-cobalt-manganese, a type of lithium cell chemistry.
Initialism of National Commission on Muslim Filipinos.
Initialism of National Center for Medical Intelligence.
Initialism of non-committal makeout, a one-time kiss without a relationship or sex.
Abbreviation of non-constituency Member of Parliament, an opposition Member of Parliament who performed as one of the best losers following a general election
Initialism of neither confirm nor deny (“a secret service policy”).
Initialism of no-call-no-show.
Initialism of numerically controlled oscillator.
plural of NCO
Initialism of noncustodial parent.
plural of NCP
Initialism of no carbon required (of duplicating paper).
Initialism of National Cancer Research Institute.
Initialism of National Center for Research Resources.
plural of NCR
Initialism of neotenic complex syndrome.
Initialism of National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Abbreviation of National Cyber Security Centre.
Initialism of National Center for Science Education.
Initialism of National Center for Software Technology.
Northern Cities Vowel Shift
Initialism of National Car Test: a roadworthiness test for cars that must be periodically undertaken once the vehicle is more than three-and-a-half years old.
Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture
Initialism of National Center for Transgender Equality.
plural of NCT
Initialism of noncontact therapeutic touch.
Initialism of National Conference of University Professors.
Initialism of net calorific value.
Initialism of navigation control for XML applications.
Initialism of North Dakota: a state of the United States.
Initialism of non-disclosure agreement.
Initialism of National Defense Authorization Act.
plural of NDA
Initialism of non-directional beacon, a type of radiobeacon used in air navigation which transmits an omnidirectional radio signal containing no encoded information about the direction from an aircraft to the beacon.
plural of NDB
Initialism of National Defence College (Bangladesh).
Initialism of National Defense Cadet Corps.
plural of NDC
Initialism of nature-deficit disorder.
Initialism of near-death experience.
Alternative form of NDEer.
plural of NDE
Initialism of non-deliverable forward, a cash-settled FX forward.
Initialism of non-depository financial institution
Initialism of National Democratic Front of the Philippines.
plural of NDF
Initialism of Notre Dame de Grace: a district of Cote-des-Neiges---Notre-Dame-de-Grace borough, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Abbreviation of nordihydroguaiaretic acid.
Initialism of nondestructive inspection.
Initialism of Network Driver Interface Specification.
Initialism of Native Development Kit.
Abbreviation of needle.
plural of NDL
non-driving motor
Initialism of nitrosodimethylamine, particularly N-nitrosodimethylamine.
plural of NDM
Native American; Indian.
nuclear DNA (the DNA found within the nucleus of eukaryotic cells)
plural of NDN
A language spoken on Yos Sudarso Island, Papua, Indonesia.
Initialism of net domestic product.
Initialism of non-departmental public body.
Initialism of no deforestation, no peat, no exploitation: an ethical approach to the supply of certain natural resources.
plural of NDP
Initialism of norepinephrine dopamine reuptake inhibitor.
plural of NDR
plural of ND
Initialism of North Dakota State University
Initialism of nondestructive testing.
Initialism of National Disease and Therapeutic Index.
Abbreviation of Nebraska: a state of the United States.
Abbreviation of northeast.
Initialism of near-Earth asteroid.
A surname from Middle English.
Alternative form of nief (“fist”).
A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic] derived from Niall.
Alternative form of eam (“uncle”).
Physically close.
The state of being near; closeness; intimacy.
plural of NEA
Used to signify a job well done.
To make (someone or something) neat; to arrange (people or things) in an orderly, tidy way; to tidy.
The state of being neat.
Abbreviation of Nebraska: a state of the United States.
A surname.
Abbreviation of northeast by east.
Abbreviation of northeast by north.
Abbreviation of Nebraska.
plural of neb
Initialism of not elsewhere classified, used in classification codes such as Standard Industrial Classification, International Standard Classification of Occupations, DSM-IV-TR, DSM-5, ICD-9, and ICD-10.
Abbreviation of necessary.
Initialism of nitrogen oxide emission control area.
Initialism of Navy Expeditionary Combat Command.
Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
A strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front.
plural of NEC
The drink of the gods.
A cultivar of the peach with smooth rather than fuzzy skin.
A medieval diminutive of the male given name Edward.
A municipality of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
Initialism of New European Driving Cycle.
A surname.
plural of ned
Alternative spelling of née.
A kind of spirit according to Hmong beliefs.
To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
A craft involving pulling yarn, thread, or floss through a canvas mesh to produce a decorative design.
In need; poor.
A surname.
Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield neem oil, the insecticide azadirachtin.
The eyes.
The swede (rutabaga); turnip.
Abbreviation of nominal effective exchange rate.
A surname from German.
Initialism of National Eligibility Entrance Test.
An extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, made in the shape of a ship.
Initialism of non-esterified fatty acid.
A surname.
plural of nef
Clipping of negative.
Abbreviation of negative.
Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
third-person singular simple present indicative of neg
Initialism of The New English Hymnal.
Abbreviation of Nehemiah.
A female given name from Hindi, of mainly Indian usage.
Initialism of National Eye Institute.
A woman born in the state of serfdom; a female serf.
The cry of a horse.
US standard spelling of neighbour.
The residential area near one's home.
A male given name from Irish.
Alternative form of Najd.
Initialism of The New England Journal of Medicine.
A col (a dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks).
A catgirl or catboy.
plural of nek
A surname
Initialism of narrow emission-line galaxy.
A diminutive of the female given names Eleanor, Ellen, or Helen
Initialism of net energy/electricity/electrical/electric metering.
Acronym of National Electrical Manufacturers Association.
Acronym of not emanating from main office, i.e. broadcast from some remote location instead.
Initialism of nuclear electromagnetic pulse.
The ichneumon, or Egyptian mongoose.
Initialism of non-emergency medical transportation.
A surname.
none
The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.
plural of Nen
Initialism of near-Earth object.
new
The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The second of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.
plural of NEO
Initialism of New Economic Policy.
Initialism of National Environmental Policy Act.
A son of one's sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either a son of one's brother (fraternal nephew) or a son of one's sister (sororal nephew).
plural of nep
Initialism of named-entity recognition.
A warrior of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
Initialism of Natural Environment Research Council.
Initialism of nonerosive reflux disease.
To bump lightly, whether accidentally or purposefully.
A surname from Italian.
Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
Full of sinews.
The state or quality of being nervous.
A surname.
Initialism of night eating syndrome.
National Eagle Scout Association, an organization of men who have earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.
Initialism of non-English-speaking background.
Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding.
A moon of Neptune.
An Ulster princess and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa and Findchoem in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide. Also the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar mac Nessa.
To build or settle into a nest.
A mesh of string, cord or rope.
A politician.
In Ancient Greek musical theory, the highest-pitched fixed note in the farther tetrachord on a lyre, always pitched a perfect fourth above the paramese, with two movable notes between them, the trite (lower in pitch) and the paranete (higher in pitch). The paramese was higher-pitched than the mese (the highest-pitched fixed note in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre) by a ratio of 9:8.
A surname.
Nasal irrigation performed using a neti pot as part of Hatha yoga.
plural of net
Alternative spelling of net (remaining after expenses or deductions).
Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
A surname from German.
Abbreviation of neuroglioblastoma cell line.
A corner; a nook. A fairy fiddler frae the neuk, [nook] - "Robert Burns", by William Allan Neilson (1917)
Alternative form of neume.
plural of Neu
Abbreviation of neuter.
A diminutive of the male given name Neville.
Abbreviation of Nevada: a state of the United States, as used in case citations.
Pronunciation spelling of never.
Nephew.
plural of nevus
plural of NEV
Alternative form of nevvy (“a nephew”).
newly, recently
Synonym of Newar.
Recently born.
University of Newcastle, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
One who has recently come to a community; a recent arrival.
Archaic spelling of new.
A recently married person.
The property of being new; novelty; recency.
To report; to make known.
A boy, or by extension a man, who sells and/or delivers newspapers.
A broadcast of the news; a news report that is transmitted over the air for television, radio, etc.
A male reporter; a male person in the profession of providing news.
A publication, usually published daily or weekly, containing news and other articles. Traditionally a print publication typically printed on cheap, low-quality paper; today usually digital and often also available in print.
A man who works in the production of the text of a newspaper; a reporter, editor, etc.
A woman who works in the production of the text of a newspaper; a reporter, editor, etc.
The office of a news organisation, especially that part of it where the journalists work and news stories are processed.
A small lizard-like amphibian in the subfamily Pleurodelinae that lives in the water as an adult.
Archaic form of next.
Alternative spelling of next.
Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
A type of endblown flute.
plural of ney
Initialism of Newfoundland and Labrador, a Canadian province.
Initialism of no fixed abode.