Word origins

• MünchnerA native or inhabitant of the city of Munich, capital of Bavaria, Germany.
• MünsterA city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
• Münsterlanda region in Westphalia
• Münsterländischthe Low German dialect of the Münsterland
• murky bassIntervals, each containing a low note followed by the pitch that is one octave higher, played on a keyboard, especially a harpsichord
• MusbachA surname from German.
• MuschA surname.
• MuschelkalkA sequence of sedimentary rock strata in central and western Europe, consisting of limestone and dolomite beds.
• mushroom bodyEither of a pair of structures in the brains of insects and some other arthropods thought to be involved in learning and memory.
• MusolfA surname from German.
• MussmanA surname from German.
• mustard gasA highly cytotoxic vesicant, C₄H₈Cl₂S, used in World War I that is known to cause skin burns, blisters, inflammation, edema, and potentially other respiratory effects.
• myogelosisA palpable area of hardening, stiffness or swelling in a muscle, usually painful on pressure, now considered to be correlated with a myofascial trigger point.
• myrmecophyteA plant that lives in association with a colony of ants. The degree of association varies and is assumed to be symbiotic in some cases.
• n-Indicating an arbitrary number of elements.
• NachbaurA surname from German.
• NachlassWritings remaining unpublished at an author's death.
• nachlebenThe "afterlife" or "post-life" of an author, work, culture, etc, in the sense of the author's posthumous published work or reputation, the culture's influence, etc.
• NachreinerA surname from German.
• NachschlagA kind of ornament consisting of one or two additional notes after a note or trill.
• NachthornA wide-scaled flute organ stop with a relatively small mouth, producing a soft but penetrating sound.
• nadingA surname from German.
• NaegerA surname from German.
• NaegleA surname from German.
• NaeglerA surname from German.
• NagengastA surname from German.
• NagoldA river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
• narcisticNarcissistic.
• NatheA diminutive of the male given name Nathaniel or Nathan.
• National BolshevismA marxist-leninist ultranationalist ideology primarily that combines strong elements of ultranationalism with economical communism.
• National SocialismThe ideology of the Nazi Party, including an authoritarian government, ethnic nationalism (including but not limited to Pan-Germanism) and adequate territory (Lebensraum), and economic cooperation between the state and capital.
• national socialistAn adherent of National Socialism; a Nazi.
• NatzkeA surname from German.
• NaussA surname from German.
• NawrathA surname.
• NeandertalerSynonym of Neanderthal.
• nebenionAny ion near another one that is involved in transport through a membrane, and that is influencing its transport properties (especially one that assists, rather than counters, the transport of another ion)
• nebenkernA mass or shred of chromatin-staining material outside of the nucleus in the cytoplasm.
• NehmzowA surname from German.
• NeidertA surname from German.
• NeidigA surname from German.
• NeifertA surname from German.
• NeisesA surname from German.
• NeislerA surname from German.
• NeiswenderA surname from German.
• NelkenA surname.
• NemmersA surname from German.
• NenningerA surname from German.
• neogrammarianA member or follower of a 19th-century school of German linguists who first advanced the theory of regular sound change.
• Neo-Middle EgyptianThe form of Middle Egyptian archaizingly used as a literary language after the vernacular language had changed into Late Egyptian, and later Demotic and Coptic.
• NeslerA surname from German.
• NettesheimA surname from German.
• NeubeckerA surname from German.
• Neue Deutsche HärteA genre of German hard rock/heavy metal/industrial metal music originating in the 1990s, incorporating elements of dance music and electronica
• NeuhoffnungA former colony, the administrative centre of Neuhoffnung volost, Berdiansk povit, Taurida Governorate, the Russian Empire, founded by Evangelical Lutherans from Württemberg in 1822; now the western part of present-day Osypenko.
• NeukamA surname from German.
• NeuköllnA borough of Berlin, Germany.
• NeumillerA surname from German.
• neunbeinSynonym of ennead.
• NeunubelA surname.
• NeunuebelA surname.
• NeurothA surname from German.
• Neustadt in HolsteinA town in Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
• Neutz-LettewitzA village in Saalekreis district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
• never change a running systemOne should not change something while it is working (because there is a risk of breaking it).
• NewbauerA surname from German.
• New EmpireSynonym of New Kingdom.
• NewhardA surname from German.
• New KingdomEgypt after the Second Intermediate Period but before the Third Intermediate Period, from the time of the overthrow of the Hyksos under Ahmose I at the start of the 18th Dynasty to its de facto disintegration at the end of the 20th Dynasty.
• New ObjectivityA German anti-expressionist artistic movement of the first half of the twentieth century that espoused direct, unadorned, matter-of-fact aesthetics.
• New SwabiaA region in the East of Antarctica first explored by a German expedition in 1939.
• NeyhartA surname from German.
• NidifferA surname from German.
• NiebauerA surname from German.
• NiebergA surname from German.
• NiederhauserA surname from German.
• NiederkornA town in Luxembourg, in the commune of Differdange, in the canton of Esch-sur-Alzette.
• NiederwaldA village in Goms municipality, Valais canton, Switzerland.
• NiersteinerA variety of Rhine wine from Nierstein, near Mainz.
• NifongTo make a self-serving, politically-motivated accusation or prosecution.
• Night of Broken GlassSynonym of Kristallnacht.
• night of the long knivesA purge, in which opponents of a regime or political party are killed or removed.
• night watchman stateGovernment that is limited to a bare minimum of functions, usually just military, police, and courts.
• NihartA surname from German.
• nihilartikelA deliberately fictitious entry in an encyclopedia or academic work, generally identifiable as false, usually included to brand the intellectual property so copies can be identified.
• NimtzA surname from German.
• NinnemanA surname from German.
• NirostaA form of stainless steel typically used to make blades.
• NistlerA surname from German.
• NiswanderA surname.
• NitzelA surname from German.
• NoeckerA surname from German.
• NordmeyerA surname from German.
• NorrodA surname from German.
• Nosferatu spiderZoropsis spinimana, a relatively large hunting spider originally from southern Europe.
• NostraticA conjectural and not widely accepted grouping of languages including the Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Eskimo-Aleut, Dravidian, Elamite, Sumerian, Kartvelian, and Afroasiatic languages, and less commonly including the Aegean and Ainu languages as well.
• NotestineA surname from German.
• notgeldMoney issued by an institution in a time of economic or political crisis, usually without official sanction from the central government.
• notnameA standard name invented for an artist or author whose identity is unknown.
• noumenonA thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind, postulated by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable.