Word origins

• neathouseA building for the shelter of neat cattle.
• neatishCharacteristic of or resembling a neat; bovine.
• neckboneAny bone in the neck; often of poultry, in cooking.
• neckercherA neckerchief.
• needfullyIn a needful or necessary manner; necessarily.
• needfulnessThe property of being needful or necessary; necessity.
• needlyZealously; carefully; earnestly.
• needs-costOf necessity or need; necessarily.
• neezeTo sneeze.
• neighborredVicinity; neighbourhood.
• neighborshipThe state or condition of being neighbors; a community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on living close geographically.
• neighbouredThe state or condition of being a neighbour; neighbourhood; neighbourship.
• neighbouressA female neighbor.
• neighbourheadNeighbourhood.
• neighbourshipThe state or condition of being neighbours; a connection or relationship between people or things which is based simply on living close geographically.
• nephriticOf, relating to, or affected with nephritis or nephritic syndrome.
• nerueEarly Modern English spelling of nerve
• neshSoft; tender; sensitive; yielding.
• -nessAppended in general, often informally, stylistically, or jocularly, for reification of an attribute.
• nethelessNevertheless.
• nether-low, lower, below, under, beneath.
• netherjawThe lower jaw.
• nethermorefarther down; lower
• nethermostFarthest down; lowest.
• nethernessThe state or quality of being nether or beneath; lowness; inferiority.
• netherwardOf or pertaining to the downward or lower part of something; lower; bottom.
• netmakerOne who manufactures nets.
• neumeAny of a set of signs used in early musical notation.
• nevelingOn one's face; face-down.
• neverthemoreNot any more; no longer.
• newfangleEager for novelties; desirous of changing.
• new moonThe phase of the moon when it is in conjunction with the sun and is therefore obscured.
• new wineWine that has fermented for a short amount of time.
• niefA serf or bondsman born into servitude.
• nifleA trifle; something small and insignificant.
• niggardSparing; stinting; parsimonious.
• niggardshipNiggardliness; stinginess.
• niggardyNiggardliness.
• nighenTo come near; approach.
• nightertaleThe period of night; nighttime.
• nightishOf or pertaining to night; nocturnal.
• nightlongLasting a night (i.e. the duration of one night); lasting all night.
• night watchA watch kept on some premises, or on a town, by guards during the night.
• nigromancyNecromancy; magic involving death.
• nithingA coward, a dastard; a wretch.
• Noah's arkA toy consisting of a model boat and animals to put in it.
• nocentCausing injury; harmful.
• no doubtwithout a doubt; surely.
• no lessEven, furthermore, not to mention.
• noli me tangereA picture depicting Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene shortly after his resurrection from the dead (see the etymology).
• no man's landThe ground between trenches where a soldier from either side would be easily targeted.
• no moreNot any more; no further.
• non-Used in the sense of no or none, to show lack of or failure to perform; or in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed.
• nonappearanceA failure to appear, especially at a legal trial.
• nonbeingnonexistence
• noncertainNot certain.
• noncertaintyLack of certainty.
• non-comingA lack or absence of coming; failure to come
• none other thanUsed to qualify a person whose eminence may be more than one would expect in the given situation.
• nonhouseholderOne who is not a householder.
• nonkindnessSynonym of unkindness.
• non-obeisanceLack of obeisance or failure to obey; disobedience
• nonobservanceThe failure to observe a custom, or to conform with a law.
• nonpertinentNot pertinent; irrelevant.
• nonvoluntaryNot voluntary.
• North DownsAn area of chalk downland in Kent and Surrey, in south-east England.
• north starAn aim or a goal, a dependable guiding light in a quickly changing world.
• NorthumberA Northumbrian.
• noselessLacking a nose.
• nosethirlA nostril.
• notefulUseful; serviceable.
• nothing butOnly.
• notitionKnowledge or information.
• nouldWould not.
• noun substantiveA word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
• noutheJust; just now; at present; presently.
• novelnessQuality of being novel; novelty.
• novityAn innovation; a novelty.
• nowhenceFrom no place: from nowhere.
• no whileFor no time; not for any length of time.
• nowhitherTo nowhere; to no place.
• noyanceThe state of being annoyed; distress, irritation.
• noyousTroublesome; harmful, injurious.
• nuchaThe spinal cord.
• nuelProne; tending to.
• nuisantHarmful; of the nature of a nuisance.
• nuncheonA drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals.
• nuncupativeOral; not written.
• nurselessWithout a nurse.
• nut-brownBrown as a ripe and dried nut.
• -oA vocative or exclamative particle appended to street cries, nautical calls, or names to project a hail or shout.
• oakumCoarse fibres separated by hackling from flax or hemp when preparing the latter for spinning.
• oarholea slot or opening in the side of a galley or ship through which an oar is fitted
• oathbreachBreach or breaking of an oath; perjury.
• obelusA symbol resembling a horizontal line (–), sometimes together with one or two dots (for example, ⨪ or ÷), which was used in ancient manuscripts and texts to mark a word or passage as doubtful or spurious, or redundant; an obelisk.
• obnubilousOverclouded, cloudy.
• obsequiousnessThe quality of being obsequious; servile compliance.
• obsequyThe last office for the dead.
• obsidionalPertaining to a siege.
• obstinanceThe characteristic of being obstinate.