5 Letter Words That Start With N

naive

Adjective : Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.

Adjective : Not having been exposed to something.

Noun : A naive person; a greenhorn.

numen

Noun : A divinity, especially a local or presiding god.

Noun : An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendent.

noble

Adjective : Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.

Adjective : Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.

Noun : An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.

nexus

Noun : A form or state of connection.

Noun : A connected group; a network, a web.

Noun : (Canada, US, finance, law) The relationship between a vendor and a jurisdiction for the purpose of taxation, established for example by the vendor operating a physical store in that jurisdiction.

novel

Noun : A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.

Adjective : Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.

Adjective : Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.

nitid

Adjective : Bright; lustrous; shining.

Adjective : (obsolete, of a person) Festively or smartly dressed; spruce; fine.

noise

Noun : (uncountable) Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.

Noun : Any sound.

Verb : (intransitive) To make a noise; to sound.

nadir

Noun : (figuratively) The lowest point; time of greatest depression.

Noun : The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation.

Noun : (astronomy) The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.

niche

Noun : (by extension) Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in business.

Noun : Any similar position, literal or figurative.

Noun : (ecology) A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited.

nymph

Noun : (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grotto, wind, etc.

Noun : A young girl, especially one who is attractive, beautiful or graceful.

Noun : (entomology) The larva of certain insects.

nidus

Noun : A place of infection in an organism.

Noun : A nest for insects or small animals.

Noun : An origin (originating point) for a phenomenon.

nihil

Noun : (uncountable, chiefly philosophy) nothingness, nonbeing

Noun : (countable, law) A nihil dicit.

nasty

Adjective : Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).

Adjective : Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive.

Adjective : Spiteful, unkind.

nonce

Adjective : One-off; produced or created for a single occasion or use. Denoting something occurring once.

Noun : (lexicography) A nonce word.

Noun : (cryptography) A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.

needy

Adjective : In need; poor.

Adjective : Desiring constant affirmation; lacking self-confidence.

Adjective : (archaic) Needful; necessary.

nudge

Noun : A gentle push.

Verb : (transitive) To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal.

Noun : (behavioral economics) The use of positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions as ways to influence.

noted

Adjective : Well known because of one's reputation; famous, celebrated.

nifty

Adjective : (colloquial, somewhat dated) Good, smart; useful or beneficial, often in an impressively clever way.

Adjective : (colloquial, somewhat dated) Stylish.

Noun : (colloquial, dated) A trick.

negus

Noun : An English surname of unknown derivation.

Noun : A drink made of wine, often port, mixed with hot water, oranges or lemons, spices and sugar.

Noun : (historical) A ruler of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the king of Ethiopia before 1974.

naked

Adjective : Bare, not covered by clothing.

Adjective : (figuratively) Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.

Adjective : (of a setting or situation) Involving naked people.

nervy

Adjective : (US) Having nerve; bold; brazen.

Adjective : (British) Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated.

Adjective : (technical) Jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics.

navel

Noun : (anatomy) The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of placental mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.

Noun : The central part or point of anything; the middle.

Noun : A navel orange.

night

Noun : (countable) The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.

Noun : (uncountable) Nightfall.

Noun : (uncountable) Darkness (due to it being nighttime).

nerve

Noun : Courage; boldness; audacity; gall.

Noun : Patience; stamina; endurance, fortitude.

Noun : (in the plural) Mental agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotions.

natty

Adjective : (informal) Smart and fashionable.

Adjective : (slang, sports, particularly bodybuilding) Natural, as opposed to steroid enhanced.

Noun : (slang, sports, particularly bodybuilding) Someone whose muscle gains are natural and not aided by the use of steroids.

noisy

Adjective : Making a noise, especially a loud unpleasant sound

Adjective : Full of noise.

Adjective : Unpleasant-looking and causing unwanted attention

nippy

Adjective : (informal, weather) Rather cold.

Adjective : (UK, informal) Fast; speedy.

Adjective : Inclined to nip; bitey.

nitty

Adjective : (Excessively) detailed or specific; fastidious, fussy, nit-picky.

Adjective : (chiefly British, slang) Foolish, inane.

Noun : (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang) A dope fiend, a druggie.

naïve

Adjective : Alternative spelling of naive. [Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.]

Noun : Alternative spelling of naive. [A naive person; a greenhorn.]

nibba

Noun : (slang, euphemistic) Nigger or nigga.

nobly

Verb : In a noble manner.

notch

Noun : (informal) A level or degree.

Noun : A V-shaped cut.

Noun : Such a cut, used for keeping a record.

nurse

Noun : A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:

Noun : (informal) Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession.

Noun : A medical worker performing this role, typically someone trained to provide such care but having credentials and rank below a doctor or physician assistant.

nomad

Noun : (anthropology) A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.

Noun : (figuratively) Synonym of wanderer: an itinerant person.

Noun : (figuratively) A person who changes residence frequently.

naiad

Noun : (Greek mythology) A female deity (nymph) associated with water, especially a spring, stream, or other fresh water.

Noun : (entomology) The aquatic larva (nymph) of a dragonfly or damselfly.

Noun : Any of various aquatic plants of the genus Najas.

newsy

Adjective : Containing lots of news; informative.

Adjective : Chatty, gossipy.

Noun : (informal, chiefly Canada, US) A journalist, especially a reporter.

nisus

Noun : A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.

Noun : The contraction of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles to evacuate faeces or urine.

Noun : The periodic procreative desire manifested in the spring by birds, etc.

noone

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Obsolete form of noon. [The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.]

nanny

Noun : A child's nurse.

Verb : (intransitive, transitive) To serve as a nanny.

Noun : (colloquial) A grandmother.

nappy

Noun : (British, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand) 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.

Verb : (transitive) To put a nappy on.

Adjective : (US, informal, sometimes offensive) Of hair: tightly curled or twisted; frizzy (often specifically in reference to Afro textured hair)

newel

Noun : (architecture) A central pillar around which a staircase spirals.

Noun : (architecture) A sturdy pillar at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, supporting the handrail.

Noun : (obsolete) A novelty; a new thing.

ninny

Noun : (informal) A silly or foolish person.

nacre

Noun : A pearly substance made mainly of stacked layers of aragonite and organic matter which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl.

Noun : (obsolete) A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl.

nosey

Adjective : Alternative spelling of nosy. [Prying, inquisitive or curious in other’s affairs; tending to snoop or meddle.]

Verb : Alternative spelling of nosy. [(informal, with into) To pry into something.]

Noun : Alternative spelling of nosy. [(UK, slang) A look at something to satisfy one's curiosity.]

nappe

Noun : (cooking) The ability of a sauce or other relatively thick liquid to coat food, the back of a spoon, etc.

Verb : (cooking) To coat (a food) with liquid.

Noun : The profile of a body of water flowing over an obstruction in a vertical drop.

nooky

Adjective : Like a nook; small and secluded or cosy.

Noun : Alternative spelling of nookie. [(slang) Sex or other sexual activity, especially if illicit.]

novum

Noun : A new feature, a novelty.

Noun : (narratology, science fiction) An innovation which is fictional, but, following the logic of cognitive estrangement (characteristic of science fiction), is afforded plausibility by the assumption that the fictional setting is scientifically consistent.

Noun : (obsolete, uncountable) A game of dice, properly called novem quinque, the two principal throws being nine and five.

noema

Noun : (philosophy) The perceived as perceived

Noun : (philosophy) That which is perceived in the noesis/noema duality

Noun : (rhetoric) An obscure and subtle speech.

newco

Noun : (business) A new company, especially one spun-off from or replacing an existing company as a legal fiction to maintain ownership over an entity while separating it from the old company financially.

Noun : (law, finance) A placeholder name for a business in textbooks.

naval

Adjective : (nautical) Of or relating to a navy.

Adjective : (nautical) Of or relating to ships in general.

Noun : A municipality, the capital of Biliran, Eastern Visayas, Philippines.

noose

Noun : An adjustable loop of rope, such as the one placed around the neck in hangings, or the one at the end of a lasso.

Verb : (transitive) To tie or catch in a noose; to entrap or ensnare.

norma

Noun : A female given name originating as a coinage.

Noun : (astronomy) An inconspicuous constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a carpenter's square. It lies south of the constellations Scorpius and Centaurus.

Noun : A norm.

nelly

Noun : (derogatory, slang) An effeminate homosexual man.

Adjective : (slang) Unmanly; effeminate.

Noun : (British, slang) A silly person.

nixie

Noun : A piece of mail returned as undeliverable.

Noun : A female nix, a water-spirit.

nylon

Noun : Originally, the DuPont company trade name for polyamide, a copolymer whose molecules consist of alternating diamine and dicarboxylic acid monomers bonded together; now generically used for this type of polymer.

Noun : (in the plural) A stocking originally fabricated from nylon; also used generically for any long, sheer stocking worn on a woman's legs.

Noun : (perjoratively, by comparison to silk) A Queen's Counsel, King's Counsel or Senior Counsel who was appointed as a courtesy, rather than on merit.

negro

Noun : (dated, now offensive) A person of black African ancestry.

Adjective : (dated, now offensive) Relating to a black ethnicity.

Adjective : (dated, now offensive) Black or dark brown in color.

notes

Noun : Acronym of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery.

ninja

Noun : (figurative) A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.

Noun : (video games, fandom slang, in the plural) A notional draconian arm of a corporation (originally Nintendo), tasked with dealing with individuals that infringe on its rights or do not comply with its regulations.

Noun : (euphemistic, African-American Vernacular) Synonym of nigga as a friendly term of address.

noddy

Adjective : (England, regional) Foolish, silly, stupid.

Noun : Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genus Anous found in tropical seas, especially the brown noddy or common noddy (Anous stolidus).

Noun : (MLE, slang) Synonym of fellatio.

nubia

Noun : The region of the upper Nile valley now part of Sudan and far-southern Egypt.

Noun : (by extension) The former polity ruling that region.

Noun : A light, knitted headscarf worn by women.

nigra

Noun : (now offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.

Noun : (Southern US) Alternative form of Negro.

ninon

Noun : A sheer fabric of silk, rayon, or nylon made in a variety of tight smooth weaves or open lacy patterns.

norms

Noun : That which is normal or typical.

Noun : A rule that is imposed by regulations and/or socially enforced by members of a community.

Noun : (chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.

naled

Noun : A particular organophosphate insecticide.

Noun : A sheet-like layered mass of ice formed in freezing temperatures from the freezing of successive flows of ground water over previously formed layers of ice.

nenia

Noun : (Ancient Rome) A funeral song; an elegy.

nigel

Noun : A male given name from Latin, of mostly British usage.

Noun : (Australia, derogatory, youth slang) Synonym of dweeb (“boring or socially inept person”).

Noun : (slang, derogatory) An Englishman.

neger

Noun : (rare, often offensive) Synonym of nigger.

nigro

Noun : Obsolete spelling of negro. [(dated, now offensive) A person of black African ancestry.]

nulla

Noun : Alternative form of nullah (“stream-bed, ravine”). [(chiefly South Asia) A stream-bed, ravine, or other watercourse; a drain for rain or floodwater.]

Noun : Alternative form of nulla-nulla (“Australian war club”). [(Australia) A war club used by Aboriginal Australians]

nip at

Verb : (idiomatic) To sip a drink (usually alcoholic) in small amounts.

Verb : To bite or pinch with small actions.

Verb : (of poor weather) To be cold; to be bitingly cold.

nerdo

Noun : (slang, derogatory) A nerd (socially inept person).

niggy

Noun : (offensive, ethnic slur) A nigger (black person).

nutil

Adjective : (UK dialectal) Useless.

Adjective : (UK dialectal) Effeminate.

nutty

Adjective : (slang) Barmy: eccentric, odd; crazy, mad, insane.

Adjective : Containing nuts.

Adjective : Resembling or characteristic of nuts.

natal

Adjective : Of or relating to birth.

Adjective : (medicine, zoology) Of or relating to the buttocks.

Noun : A municipality, the state capital of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

nares

Noun : the plural of naris, meaning nostril.

never

Verb : At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance.

Verb : Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously.

Verb : (colloquial) Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely).

nabob

Noun : (by extension) Someone of great wealth or importance.

Noun : (by extension) A person with a grandiose style or manner.

Noun : (historical) An Indian ruler within the Mogul empire.

nates

Noun : The buttocks.

Noun : (anatomy, medicine) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.

Noun : (zoology) The umbones of a bivalve shell.

nival

Adjective : Abounding with snow; snowy; snow-covered (now especially in reference to plant habitats).

Adjective : (botany) Found or thriving in snowy conditions.

narco

Noun : (uncountable, colloquial) Narcotics.

Noun : (crime, countable) A Latin American drug baron, usually from Colombia or Mexico.

Noun : (pathology) Someone suffering from narcolepsy.

neddy

Noun : A donkey or ass.

Noun : (UK, Australia, slang) A horse, especially a racehorse.

Noun : (Australia, slang, in the plural, with "the") The horse races.

nicer

Noun : Initialism of Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, a future NASA Explorers program Mission of Opportunity.

nigga

Noun : (slang, often offensive, but tolerated in African-American Vernacular) A black person (usually a male friend), especially an African American.

Noun : (slang, often offensive, but also often used affectionately in African-American Vernacular) A close and loyal friend.

Noun : (slang, often offensive, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Any person, though chiefly male.

neven

Verb : (UK dialectal, transitive) To utter; mention the name of.

Verb : (UK dialectal, Scotland, intransitive) To tell or make mention of (a person or thing); specify; designate.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To mention; speak of; give an account of; tell.

nonne

noxal

Adjective : (law) Relating to wrongful injury.

nakba

Noun : In Arab contexts: a catastrophe; a grave setback.

Noun : (politics) The dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs occuring since the 1948 Palestine war and establishment of the State of Israel.

Noun : Alternative letter-case form of Nakba. [(politics) The dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs occuring since the 1948 Palestine war and establishment of the State of Israel.]

narry

Verb : Alternative form of nary. [(somewhat dated) Not, never.]

needs

Verb : (archaic) Either directly or indirectly preceded or followed by an auxiliary verb, often must: of necessity or need; necessarily, indispensably.

Noun : A surname.

nimby

Noun : (usually derogatory) Someone who objects to the building of an undesirable structure in their neighborhood, especially in public policy debate.

Adjective : Not wanting to have to deal with unpleasant or distasteful things near them.

Noun : (uncountable) Opposition to something deemed harmful or unpleasant being located in one's own neighborhood.

neigh

Noun : The cry of a horse.

Verb : (of a horse) To make its cry.

Verb : To make a sound similar to a horse's cry.

newly

Verb : Very recently/lately; in the immediate past.

nancy

Noun : (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, US, derogatory, slang, offensive) An effeminate man, especially a homosexual.

Noun : A female given name.

Noun : A city in Meurthe-et-Moselle department, Grand Est, north-eastern France.

nafta

Noun : Acronym of North American Free Trade Agreement

Noun : (economics, UK) Alternative letter-case form of NAFTA (“North American Free Trade Agreement”).

nicad

Noun : (electronics) rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery

Noun : Alternative letter-case form of nicad. [(electronics) rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery]

niobe

Noun : (Greek mythology) A daughter of Tantalus, said to have turned into stone while weeping for her children.

Noun : (astronomy) 71 Niobe, a main belt asteroid.

Noun : A crying woman; a woman who is bereaved or inconsolable.

nizam

Noun : (historical) The hereditary sovereign of Hyderabad, a former state of India.

Noun : (obsolete) The Turkish regular army; a soldier in the Turkish army.

neath

Noun : A town and community with a town council in Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS7597).

Noun : A river in Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, which flows into Baglan Bay.

necro

Verb : (Internet) To make a new post to a forum discussion that has been dormant for a long time, making the thread visible in the list of active topics; to bump.

Verb : (Internet, video games and card games slang) To practice necromancy; to bring back from the dead.

Noun : (Internet, video game and card game slang) Necromancer.

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