Nouns in english starting with N

• nap — Noun – English ～ a soft or fuzzy surface texture
• napa — Noun – English ～ plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery; used as a vegetable in east Asia
• Napaea — Noun – English ～ one species: glade mallow
• Napaea dioica — Noun – English ～ tall coarse American herb having palmate leaves and numerous small white dioecious flowers; found wild in most alluvial soils of eastern and central United States
• napalm — Noun – English ～ gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps; highly incendiary liquid used in fire bombs and flamethrowers
• nape — Noun – English ～ the back side of the neck
• napery — Noun – English ～ linens for the dining table
• naphazoline — Noun – English ～ vasoconstrictor (trade names Privine and Sudafed) used in nasal sprays to treat symptoms of nasal congestion and in eyedrops to treat eye irritation
• naphtha — Noun – English ～ any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures; used chiefly as solvents
• naphthalene — Noun – English ～ a white crystalline strong-smelling hydrocarbon made from coal tar or petroleum and used in organic synthesis and as a fumigant in mothballs
• naphthol — Noun – English ～ either of two phenols derived from naphthalene
• naphthoquinone — Noun – English ～ a fat-soluble vitamin that helps in the clotting of blood
• Napier — Noun – English ～ Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617)
• Napier's bones — Noun – English ～ a set of graduated rods formerly used to do multiplication and division by a method invented by John Napier
• Napierian logarithm — Noun – English ～ a logarithm to the base e
• napkin — Noun – English ～ garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement
• napkin — Noun – English ～ a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth and to cover the lap in order to protect clothing
• naples — Noun – English ～ a port and tourist center in southwestern Italy; capital of the Campania region
• Naples garlic — Noun – English ～ European onion with white flowers
• napoleon — Noun – English ～ a rectangular piece of pastry with thin flaky layers and filled with custard cream

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