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1. [**na**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/na.md) adverb (Scottish and Northern English: na); short form in casual speech; chemical symbol Na; also a fragment of words like «gonna», «wanna» 1) (Scotland, Northern England) «Na» means «no» or «not»: «I'm na going». 2) (slang, informal) «Na» or «nah» is a casual way to say «no»…
2. [**naan**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/naan.md) noun (a naan, naans; also nan, naan bread) 1) Naan is a soft, flat bread, often shaped like a teardrop, baked in a hot oven, eaten with curry in Indian, Pakistani and other South…
3. [**nag**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nag.md) verb (nag, nags, nagged, nagging); noun (a nag, nags) To keep asking or telling someone to do something in an annoying way.
4. [**nagging**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nagging.md) adjective (nagging); noun (nagging, uncountable); verb form (-ing of nag: nag, nags, nagged, nagging) Nagging is telling someone again and again to do something, in an annoying way.
5. [**nahuatl**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nahuatl.md) noun (Nahuatl); adjective (Nahuatl) 1) Nahuatl is the language of the Aztecs, still spoken today by over a million people in Mexico.
6. [**nail**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nail.md) noun (nail, nails); verb (nail, nails, nailed, nailing) A nail is a thin, pointed piece of metal you hit with a hammer to join pieces of wood.
7. [**naira**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/naira.md) noun (a naira, naira or nairas) 1) The money of Nigeria; one naira is divided into 100 kobo. Its sign is ₦.
8. [**naked**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/naked.md) adjective 1) Without any clothes on. 2) Without the usual cover: a naked flame, a naked light bulb, naked branches. 3) Not hidden; plain and…
9. [**name**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/name.md) noun (name, names); verb (name, names, named, naming) A name is the word we call a person, pet, place or thing.
10. [**nameless**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nameless.md) adjective Nameless means having no name or whose name is not known.
11. [**namely**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/namely.md) adverb (namely) 1) Namely is used to say exactly who or what you mean, often to give a list or a name.
12. [**namesake**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/namesake.md) noun (a namesake, namesakes) A person or thing that has the same name as another.
13. [**nan**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nan.md) noun (a nan, nans); also nana, nanna; abbreviation NaN (computers) Grandmother; a child's name for their grandma.
14. [**nanna**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nanna.md) noun (a nanna, nannas; Nanna as a name) 1) (informal, Australia, NZ, UK, Ireland) Grandmother; a child's name for their gran. 2) (informal, joking) An old-fashioned or fussy…
15. [**nanny**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nanny.md) noun (a nanny, nannies); adjective use (nanny state — informal) A nanny is a person whose job is to look after a family's children in the family's home.
16. [**nanometre**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nanometre.md) noun (a nanometre, nanometres) 1) A unit of length: one billionth of a metre (0.000000001 m). Symbol: nm.
17. [**nap**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nap.md) noun (nap, naps); verb (nap, naps, napped, napping) 1) A nap is a short sleep in the day. 2) To nap is to take a short sleep. 3) «Catch someone napping» means find them not ready or not…
18. [**napkin**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/napkin.md) noun (napkin, napkins) A napkin is a square piece of cloth or paper used at meals to wipe your mouth and fingers and keep your clothes clean.
19. [**napoleon**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/napoleon.md) noun (Napoleon, a name; a napoleon — a pastry; a napoleon — an old French gold coin) 1) (a name) Napoleon Bonaparte was a French general who made himself Emperor of France and conquered much of Europe before he was defeated…
20. [**napping**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/napping.md) verb form (nap, naps, napped, napping); noun (a nap) Napping means sleeping for a short time, especially during the day.
21. [**nappy**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nappy.md) noun (a nappy, nappies; US diaper) 1) (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ) A thick soft pad of cloth or paper worn by babies around their bottom to catch their wee and poo.
22. [**nara**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nara.md) noun, proper name (Nara) 1) (a name) Nara is a city in Japan that was once the capital; it is famous for its old temples and the tame deer that walk freely in Nara…
23. [**narc**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/narc.md) noun (a narc, narcs); verb (narc, narcs, narced, narcing) — slang A police officer who works to stop illegal drugs.
24. [**narcissus**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/narcissus.md) noun (narcissi, narcissuses) A narcissus is a spring flower with a trumpet-shaped middle, such as the daffodil.
25. [**narrate**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/narrate.md) verb (narrate, narrates, narrated, narrating) To tell a story, describing what happens in order.
26. [**narration**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/narration.md) noun (narration, uncountable; a narration) The telling of a story, especially by a narrator.
27. [**narrative**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/narrative.md) noun (a narrative, narratives); adjective (narrative) 1) A story, or a description of events in order. 2) (adjective) Telling a story (narrative writing, a narrative poem). 3) The way a story…
28. [**narrator**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/narrator.md) noun (a narrator, narrators) The person or voice who tells the story in a book, poem, film or play.
29. [**narrow**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/narrow.md) adjective (narrower, narrowest); verb (narrow, narrows, narrowed, narrowing) Narrow means not wide; with only a small distance from one side to the other.
30. [**narrowboat**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/narrowboat.md) noun (a narrowboat, narrowboats) A long, thin boat made to travel on the narrow canals of Britain, usually about 2 metres wide and up to 22 metres long.
31. [**narrowly**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/narrowly.md) adverb 1) Narrowly means only just, by a small margin: he narrowly missed the bus. 2) Narrowly can mean with close attention: he watched narrowly.
32. [**narrowness**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/narrowness.md) noun (narrowness — uncountable) Being narrow; having little width from side to side.
33. [**narwhal**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/narwhal.md) noun (a narwhal, narwhals) 1) A narwhal is a whale of the Arctic Ocean; the male usually has one very long straight spiral tusk growing from his upper lip, which is…
34. [**nasa**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nasa.md) proper noun (NASA) 1) NASA: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the space agency of the United States, which sends astronauts, rockets and…
35. [**nasal**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nasal.md) adjective (nasal) 1) Nasal means to do with the nose. 2) A nasal voice or sound comes partly through the nose, like when you have a cold. 3) In phonics and…
36. [**nasalise**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nasalise.md) verb (nasalise, nasalises, nasalised, nasalising) 1) To make a speech sound through the nose, letting air come out of the nose as well as the mouth.
37. [**nastiness**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nastiness.md) noun (nastiness — uncountable; a nastiness — rare) 1) Unkind, mean or spiteful behaviour. 2) Being very unpleasant, as in the nastiness of a smell or an illness.
38. [**nasty**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nasty.md) adjective (nasty, nastier, nastiest) Very unpleasant to see, smell, taste or feel: «a nasty smell».
39. [**natal**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/natal.md) adjective; Natal (a name of a place) To do with being born or with the time of birth: «natal day», «natal home».
40. [**natation**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/natation.md) noun (natation — uncountable; formal or French) 1) (formal, rare) Natation is the act or art of swimming. 2) (French) «La natation» is the ordinary French word for swimming as a sport or…
41. [**nation**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nation.md) noun (a nation, nations) A country, with its people, land and government.
42. [**national**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/national.md) adjective; noun (a national, nationals — a citizen) 1) Belonging to, about, or shared by a whole nation or country, not just one part of it: a national holiday, the national anthem, a…
43. [**nationalist**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nationalist.md) noun (a nationalist, nationalists); adjective (nationalist) noun: A person who strongly believes their nation should rule itself, or who thinks their own country is more important than others.
44. [**nationality**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nationality.md) noun (a nationality, nationalities) The legal right of belonging to a particular country; being a citizen: her nationality is Irish.
45. [**nationwide**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nationwide.md) adjective (nationwide); adverb (nationwide) 1) Nationwide means happening or existing in every part of a country. 2) As an adverb, nationwide means across the whole country.
46. [**native**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/native.md) adjective (native); noun (a native, natives) Belonging to a place since long ago, naturally — not brought in from somewhere else (native plants, native animals).
47. [**nativity**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nativity.md) noun (the Nativity; a nativity, nativities) The Nativity is the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, as told in the Gospels; Christians celebrate it at Christmas.
48. [**nato**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nato.md) noun, a name (NATO, written in capitals; UK also Nato) 1) NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an alliance of countries in North America and Europe, including the USA…
49. [**natterjack**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/natterjack.md) noun (a natterjack, natterjacks; natterjack toad) 1) A small toad of Europe, including Britain and Ireland, with a yellow stripe down its back, that runs rather than hops and has a very…
50. [**natural**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/natural.md) adjective (natural, more natural, most natural); noun (a natural — informal) Natural means made by nature, not by people or machines, like natural rock or natural light.
51. [**naturalist**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/naturalist.md) noun (naturalist, naturalists) A naturalist is a person who studies plants, animals and nature, often by watching them carefully in the wild.
52. [**naturally**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/naturally.md) adverb (naturally) In a natural way, without people making or changing it: «naturally sweet».
53. [**nature**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nature.md) noun (nature; a person's nature, natures) Nature is everything in the world not made by people: plants, animals, rocks, rivers, the sky and the weather.
54. [**naught**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/naught.md) noun (naught — uncountable); pronoun (old-fashioned) 1) (old-fashioned, literary) Nothing. 2) (mainly US) Zero, the number 0 (UK and others usually write "nought"). 3) A good-for-naught is a…
55. [**naughtiness**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/naughtiness.md) noun (naughtiness, uncountable) 1) Naughtiness is bad behaviour, especially by children, such as not doing what you are told or being cheeky.
56. [**naughty**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/naughty.md) adjective (naughty, naughtier, naughtiest) Naughty describes a child or pet that behaves badly or does not obey.
57. [**nausea**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nausea.md) noun (nausea — uncountable) 1) The feeling that you are going to be sick (vomit). 2) (formal) A strong feeling of disgust.
58. [**nauseating**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nauseating.md) adjective (nauseating; more nauseating); verb form (present participle of nauseate: nauseate, nauseates, nauseated, nauseating) 1) Making you feel sick, as if you might vomit. 2) (informal) Very annoying or unpleasant, as in "nauseating showing-off".
59. [**nautical**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nautical.md) adjective 1) To do with ships, sailing or sailors. 2) Using things or designs from the sea and ships: nautical stripes.
60. [**nautilus**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nautilus.md) noun (a nautilus, nautiluses or nautili) A sea animal related to the octopus and squid, which lives inside a coiled, striped shell divided into chambers.
61. [**navajo**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/navajo.md) noun (Navajo, the Navajo, Navajos); adjective (Navajo) A Native American people of the south-western USA (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah), who call themselves the Diné.
62. [**naval**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/naval.md) adjective (naval) 1) Naval means to do with a navy, warships or sailors in the armed forces: a naval officer, a naval battle.
63. [**navel**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/navel.md) noun (a navel, navels) The small hollow or bump in the middle of your tummy, left where the umbilical cord was joined before you were born; your belly button.
64. [**navigate**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/navigate.md) verb (navigate, navigates, navigated, navigating) To find the way to a place, using a map, compass, stars or GPS.
65. [**navigation**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/navigation.md) noun (navigation — uncountable) The skill or process of finding your way or planning a route, especially at sea or in the air.
66. [**navigator**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/navigator.md) noun (a navigator, navigators) A person who works out the route of a ship, plane or car and tells the driver or pilot where to go.
67. [**navy**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/navy.md) noun (a navy, navies; the Navy); adjective (navy, navy blue) A navy is the part of a country's armed forces that fights at sea, with ships, sailors and submarines.
68. [**nay**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nay.md) adverb and interjection (nay — old or formal); noun (a nay, nays) 1) (old-fashioned) Nay means «no». 2) (formal) Nay is used to add a stronger word: «It was hard, nay, impossible», meaning «not only that…
69. [**nazi**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nazi.md) noun (a Nazi, Nazis); adjective (Nazi) 1) A member of the political party led by Adolf Hitler that ruled Germany before and during World War Two; it believed some people were…
70. [**nd**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nd.md) abbreviation / fragment (-nd, as in 2nd; also ND, n.d.) -nd: the letters written after a number that ends in 2 (except 12) to make an ordinal number: 2nd = second, 22nd = twenty-second, 102nd.
71. [**ne**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ne.md) adverb (French «ne», part of «ne … pas» = not); abbreviation (NE = north-east) — not an English word 1) (French) «Ne» is the first half of the French way to say «not»: «je ne sais pas» is «I don't know»; the word goes before the verb and…
72. [**neanderthal**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/neanderthal.md) noun (a Neanderthal, Neanderthals); adjective (Neanderthal) A Neanderthal was a kind of early human who lived in Europe and western Asia from about 400,000 to about 40,000 years ago and then died out.
73. [**neap**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/neap.md) noun (a neap, neaps; neap tide); adjective (neap) 1) A neap tide is a tide with the smallest difference between high and low water, which happens twice a month when the Sun and Moon pull…
74. [**near**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/near.md) preposition (near); adjective (near, nearer, nearest); adverb (near); verb (near, nears, neared — to come closer) 1) Near means close, not far away. The shop is near my house. 2) Near can mean close in time: «Summer is near.» 3) To near something is to…
75. [**nearby**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nearby.md) adjective (nearby); adverb (nearby) Nearby means not far away, close to here or close to a place.
76. [**nearly**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nearly.md) adverb 1) Nearly means almost, but not completely. 2) Nearly can mean that something almost happened but did not («I nearly fell»).
77. [**nearness**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nearness.md) noun (nearness — uncountable) 1) Being close in distance. 2) Being close in time, as in "the nearness of the holidays". 3) Being close in a relationship or feeling.
78. [**neat**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/neat.md) adjective (neat, neater, neatest) 1) Tidy and in good order: «a neat bedroom». 2) Done carefully and clearly: «neat handwriting». 3) (informal, especially US) Very good…
79. [**neatly**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/neatly.md) adverb (neatly, more neatly) Neatly means in a tidy, careful way, with everything in order.
80. [**neatness**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/neatness.md) noun (neatness) 1) Neatness is being tidy, clean and well arranged.
81. [**nebula**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nebula.md) noun (a nebula, nebulae or nebulas) A nebula is a huge cloud of gas and dust in space.
82. [**necessarily**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/necessarily.md) adverb (necessarily) 1) Used mostly in «not necessarily»: not always, not in every case. 2) In a way that cannot be different; because it must be so.
83. [**necessary**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/necessary.md) adjective (necessary; more necessary, most necessary) 1) Needed; something you must have or must do. 2) «If necessary» means «if it is needed».
84. [**necessitate**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/necessitate.md) verb (necessitate, necessitates, necessitated, necessitating) To necessitate something is to make it necessary or needed.
85. [**necessity**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/necessity.md) noun (a necessity, necessities) Something that you need and cannot do without: water is a necessity.
86. [**neck**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/neck.md) noun (a neck, necks) The neck is the part of the body that joins the head to the shoulders.
87. [**neckerchief**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/neckerchief.md) noun (neckerchiefs) 1) A neckerchief is a square of cloth worn knotted round the neck, like a small scarf.
88. [**necklace**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/necklace.md) noun (necklace, necklaces) A necklace is a piece of jewellery you wear around your neck, often a chain or a string of beads.
89. [**necktie**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/necktie.md) noun (a necktie, neckties) 1) A long narrow piece of cloth worn around the neck under a shirt collar and tied in a knot at the front; a tie.
90. [**nectar**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nectar.md) noun (nectar — uncountable) The sweet liquid inside flowers that bees, butterflies, moths and some birds drink.
91. [**nee**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nee.md) adjective / preposition-like word (née; also written «nee»; borrowed from French) 1) Née (often written nee) is used before a woman's family name from birth, to show what her surname was before she married: «Mrs Jane…
92. [**need**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/need.md) verb (need, needs, needed, needing); modal (need not, needn't); noun (a need, needs) To need something is to have to have it, because you cannot do well without it.
93. [**needful**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/needful.md) adjective (needful — old-fashioned); noun (the needful — informal) 1) (old-fashioned, formal) Needed or necessary. 2) (informal, UK) The needful is what is needed, often money: Dad will provide the…
94. [**needle**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/needle.md) noun (a needle, needles) A needle is a very thin, sharp piece of metal with a hole (an eye) at one end for thread, used for sewing.
95. [**needless**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/needless.md) adjective (needless); adverb needlessly Not necessary, and often causing harm or waste that could have been avoided: «needless suffering».
96. [**needlework**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/needlework.md) noun (no plural) 1) Needlework is sewing, embroidery or other work done with a needle and thread.
97. [**needy**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/needy.md) adjective (needy, needier, neediest); noun (the needy) Needy people are poor and do not have enough money, food or things they need.
98. [**negate**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/negate.md) verb (negate, negates, negated, negating) To negate something is to cancel it out or make it have no effect.
99. [**negation**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/negation.md) noun (negation, uncountable; a negation, negations) Saying «no» or «not»; making a sentence mean the opposite by adding a word like not, never or no.
100. [**negative**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/negative.md) adjective (negative, more negative); noun (a negative, negatives) A negative number is less than zero, like -3, written with a minus sign.

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