NILE
First name NILE's origin is African. NILE means "from the nile". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with NILE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of nile.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with NILE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming NILE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES NİLE AS A WHOLE:
jennilee onilee nilesNAMES RHYMING WITH NİLE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ile) - Names That Ends with ile:
njemile naile kelile maoltuile murthuile theophile vasile camile cecile granuaile lucile maile odile sile emile gaile jamile kile teofile basileRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (le) - Names That Ends with le:
kifle udele tale adele crocale cybele eriphyle eurayle helle hypsipyle myrtle nephele odele omphale semele kiele rachele akinwole bekele roble sule tekle stille bankole chibale kafele tearle michelle neville scoville somhairle aristotle ercole zale kale daniele emmanuele gamble abbigale abegayle adelle afrodille anabelle angelle annabelle aprille ardelle areille ariele arielle arnelle audrielle belle bernelle bonnibelle brielle camille carole cecille chamyle chanelle channelle chantalle chantelle chavelle chenelle cherelle cherrelle chevelle dale danele danelle danielle dannelle danrelle darelle dawnelle dawnielle denelle donelleNAMES RHYMING WITH NİLE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (nil) - Names That Begins with nil:
nilah nili nilsRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ni) - Names That Begins with ni:
ni'mah ni'mat nia niabi niaire niall niallan niamh nibal nic nicanor nicanora nicea nichele nichol nicholas nichole nicholette nicia nick nicki nickie nickolai nickolas nickolaus nickolette nickson nicky nico nicol nicola nicolaas nicolae nicolai nicolas nicole nicoleta nicolette nicolle nicquel nicson nicu nicul nida nidawi nidra niece niel niels nielsine nien nieve niewheall nigan nigel nigesa nighean nighinn niguel nihal niharika niichaad nijah nijel nijlon nik nikalus nikayla nike nikhil nikita nikiti nikki nikkia nikkie nikko niklas niko nikolas nikolaus nikos nikson nimiane nimue nin nina ninacska ninette nineve nini ninon niobe nipa nira nireta niria niritNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH NİLE:
First Names which starts with 'n' and ends with 'e':
nabirye nadalee nadette nadie nadine naftalie nahcomence nahele nairne najee nancie nanelle nanette nanine nannette nannie nape nareene narolie narve natalee natalie nate nathalee nathalie natuche navarre naylise neale nealie neelie neese nekane nellie nerine neuveville neve nixie noe noele noelene noelle noemie nolene norberte norge norice northcliffe northwode norville nourbese novalee nulte nyasore nycole nye nyke nyle nynette nyneve nyseEnglish Words Rhyming NILE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES NİLE AS A WHOLE:
anile | adjective (a.) Old-womanish; imbecile. |
anileness | noun (n.) Anility. |
campanile | noun (n.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church. |
juvenile | noun (n.) A young person or youth; -- used sportively or familiarly. |
adjective (a.) Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to youth; as, juvenile sports. |
juvenileness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being juvenile; juvenility. |
nile | noun (n.) The great river of Egypt. |
penniless | adjective (a.) Destitute of money; impecunious; poor. |
senile | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness. |
vernile | adjective (a.) Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH NİLE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ile) - English Words That Ends with ile:
abaxile | adjective (a.) Away from the axis or central line; eccentric. |
aedile | noun (n.) A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer. |
aeolipile | noun (n.) Alt. of Aeolipyle |
agile | adjective (a.) Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue. |
ancile | noun (n.) The sacred shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome. |
antifebrile | noun (a. & n.) Febrifuge. |
aquatile | adjective (a.) Inhabiting the water. |
argoile | noun (n.) Potter's clay. |
attractile | adjective (a.) Having power to attract. |
axile | adjective (a.) Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed. |
audile | noun (n.) One whose thoughts take the form of mental sounds or of internal discourse rather than of visual or motor images. |
automobile | noun (n.) An automobile vehicle or mechanism; esp., a self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from about 4 to 50 H. P. for ordinary vehicles, ranging from the run-about to the touring car, up to as high as 200 H. P. for specially built racing cars. Automobiles are also commonly, and generally in British usage, called motor cars. |
benzile | noun (n.) A yellowish crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.CO.C6H5, formed from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a doubled benzoyl radical. |
besaile | noun (n.) Alt. of Besayle |
bevile | noun (n.) A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel. |
bibliophile | noun (n.) A lover of books. |
bile | noun (n.) A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters. |
noun (n.) Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. | |
noun (n.) A boil. |
bipartile | adjective (a.) Divisible into two parts. |
biquintile | noun (n.) An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees. |
bissextile | noun (n.) Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to leap year. |
camomile | noun (n.) Alt. of Chamomile |
chamomile | noun (n.) A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative. |
noun (n.) See Camomile. |
cantabile | noun (n.) A piece or passage, whether vocal or instrumental, peculiarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena. |
adjective (a.) In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando. |
circumfusile | adjective (a.) Capable of being poured or spread round. |
circumscissile | adjective (a.) Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium. |
coctile | adjective (a.) Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick. |
contractile | adjective (a.) tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. |
cortile | noun (n.) An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building. |
crocodile | noun (n.) A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator. |
noun (n.) A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile. |
cubile | noun (n.) The lowest course of stones in a building. |
debile | adjective (a.) Weak. |
decile | noun (n.) An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36¡. |
defile | noun (n.) Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks, etc. |
noun (n.) The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade. | |
verb (v. i.) To march off in a line, file by file; to file off. | |
verb (v. t.) Same as Defilade. | |
verb (v. t.) To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute. | |
verb (v. t.) To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint. | |
verb (v. t.) To injure in purity of character; to corrupt. | |
verb (v. t.) To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate. | |
verb (v. t.) To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute. |
dentile | noun (n.) A small tooth, like that of a saw. |
difficile | adjective (a.) Difficult; hard to manage; stubborn. |
dissimile | noun (n.) Comparison or illustration by contraries. |
distractile | adjective (a.) Tending or serving to draw apart. |
docile | adjective (a.) Teachable; easy to teach; docible. |
adjective (a.) Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child. |
domicile | noun (n.) An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family. |
noun (n.) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode. | |
verb (v. t.) To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate. |
draintile | noun (n.) A hollow tile used in making drains; -- called also draining tile. |
ductile | adjective (a.) Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. |
adjective (a.) Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. |
dysodile | noun (n.) An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning. |
edile | noun (n.) See Aedile. |
eolipile | noun (n.) Same as Aeolipile. |
erectile | adjective (a.) Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated. |
estoile | noun (n.) A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet. |
etoile | noun (n.) See Estoile. |
evangile | noun (n.) Good tidings; evangel. |
exile | noun (n.) Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country. |
noun (n.) The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home. | |
adjective (a.) Small; slender; thin; fine. | |
verb (v. t.) To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away. |
exoptile | noun (n.) A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH NİLE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (nil) - Words That Begins with nil:
nil | noun (n. & a.) Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping. |
verb (v. t.) Will not. |
nilgau | noun (n.) see Nylghau. |
nilling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nill |
nill | noun (n.) Shining sparks thrown off from melted brass. |
noun (n.) Scales of hot iron from the forge. | |
verb (v. t.) Not to will; to refuse; to reject. | |
verb (v. i.) To be unwilling; to refuse to act. |
nilometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood. |
niloscope | noun (n.) A Nilometer. |
nilotic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic crocodile. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH NİLE:
English Words which starts with 'n' and ends with 'e':
niere | noun (n.) One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker. |
noun (n.) A receptacle for rags or shreds. | |
noun (n.) A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers. |
neyne | noun (n.) Same as Meine. |
nacre | noun (n.) A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. [Written also nacker and naker.] See Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl. |
adjective (a.) Having the peculiar iridescence of nacre, or mother-of-pearl, or an iridescence resembling it; as, nacre ware. |
naeve | noun (n.) A naevus. |
naevose | adjective (a.) Spotted; frecled. |
nagyagite | noun (n.) A mineral of blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster, generally of a foliated massive structure; foliated tellurium. It is a telluride of lead and gold. |
naive | adjective (a.) Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks. |
naivete | noun (n.) Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness. |
nale | noun (n.) Ale; also, an alehouse. |
namable | adjective (a.) Capable of being named. |
name | noun (n.) The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class. |
noun (n.) A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts. | |
noun (n.) Reputed character; reputation, good or bad; estimation; fame; especially, illustrious character or fame; honorable estimation; distinction. | |
noun (n.) Those of a certain name; a race; a family. | |
noun (n.) A person, an individual. | |
noun (n.) To give a distinctive name or appellation to; to entitle; to denominate; to style; to call. | |
noun (n.) To mention by name; to utter or publish the name of; to refer to by distinctive title; to mention. | |
noun (n.) To designate by name or specifically for any purpose; to nominate; to specify; to appoint; as, to name a day for the wedding. | |
noun (n.) To designate (a member) by name, as the Speaker does by way of reprimand. |
namesake | noun (n.) One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another. |
nandine | noun (n.) An African carnivore (Nandinia binotata), allied to the civets. It is spotted with black. |
nanpie | noun (n.) The magpie. |
nape | noun (n.) The back part of the neck. |
naphthalate | noun (n.) A salt of naphthalic acid; a phthalate. |
naphthalene | noun (n.) A white crystalline aromatic hydrocarbon, C10H8, analogous to benzene, and obtained by the distillation of certain bituminous materials, such as the heavy oil of coal tar. It is the type and basis of a large number of derivatives among organic compounds. Formerly called also naphthaline. |
naphthalidine | noun (n.) Same as Naphthylamine. |
naphthaline | noun (n.) See Naphthalene. |
naphthene | noun (n.) A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum. |
naphthide | noun (n.) A compound of naphthalene or its radical with a metallic element; as, mercuric naphthide. |
naphthoquinone | noun (n.) A yellow crystalline substance, C10H6O2, analogous to quinone, obtained by oxidizing naphthalene with chromic acid. |
naphthylamine | noun (n.) One of two basic amido derivatives of naphthalene, C10H7.NH2, forming crystalline solids. |
nappe | noun (n.) Sheet; surface; all that portion of a surface that is continuous in such a way that it is possible to pass from any one point of the portion to any other point of the portion without leaving the surface. Thus, some hyperboloids have one nappe, and some have two. |
narceine | noun (n.) An alkaloid found in small quantities in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent taste. It is a narcotic. Called also narceia. |
narcissine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Narcissus. |
narcotine | noun (n.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; -- called also narcotia. |
nardine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to nard; having the qualities of nard. |
nare | noun (n.) A nostril. |
nargile | noun (n.) Alt. of Nargileh |
narine | adjective (a.) Of or belonging to the nostrils. |
narrable | adjective (a.) Capable of being narrated or told. |
narrative | noun (n.) That which is narrated; the recital of a story; a continuous account of the particulars of an event or transaction; a story. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction. | |
adjective (a.) Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous. |
narre | adjective (a.) Nearer. |
narwe | adjective (a.) Narrow. |
nasopalatine | adjective (a.) Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve. |
nasute | adjective (a.) Having a nice sense of smell. |
adjective (a.) Critically nice; captious. |
natchnee | noun (n.) An annual grass (Eleusine coracona), cultivated in India as a food plant. |
native | noun (n.) One who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of France. |
noun (n.) Any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds. | |
adjective (a.) Arising by birth; having an origin; born. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc. | |
adjective (a.) Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries. | |
adjective (a.) Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust. | |
adjective (a.) Conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one; inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius, cheerfulness, simplicity, rights, etc. | |
adjective (a.) Naturally related; cognate; connected (with). | |
adjective (a.) Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver. | |
adjective (a.) Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride. |
natrolite | noun (n.) A zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals, and in masses which often have a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and soda. |
nature | noun (n.) The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. |
noun (n.) The personified sum and order of causes and effects; the powers which produce existing phenomena, whether in the total or in detail; the agencies which carry on the processes of creation or of being; -- often conceived of as a single and separate entity, embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or ordering intelligence. | |
noun (n.) The established or regular course of things; usual order of events; connection of cause and effect. | |
noun (n.) Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artifical, or forced, or remote from actual experience. | |
noun (n.) The sum of qualities and attributes which make a person or thing what it is, as distinct from others; native character; inherent or essential qualities or attributes; peculiar constitution or quality of being. | |
noun (n.) Hence: Kind, sort; character; quality. | |
noun (n.) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life. | |
noun (n.) Natural affection or reverence. | |
noun (n.) Constitution or quality of mind or character. | |
verb (v. t.) To endow with natural qualities. |
naufrage | noun (n.) Shipwreck; ruin. |
nauseative | adjective (a.) Causing nausea; nauseous. |
nautilite | noun (n.) A fossil nautilus. |
navarrese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Navarre; the people of Navarre. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Navarre. |
nave | noun (n.) The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob. |
noun (n.) The navel. | |
noun (n.) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances, or, if there are no transepts, from the choir to the principal entrance, but not including the aisles. |
navigable | adjective (a.) Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river. |
nazarene | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; -- a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians. |
noun (n.) One of a sect of Judaizing Christians in the first and second centuries, who observed the laws of Moses, and held to certain heresies. |
nazarite | noun (n.) A Jew bound by a vow to lave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively. |
naze | noun (n.) A promotory or headland. |
nazirite | noun (n.) A Nazarite. |
neathouse | noun (n.) A building for the shelter of neat cattle. |
nebule | noun (n.) A little cloud; a cloud. |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Nebuly |
nebulose | adjective (a.) Nebulous; cloudy. |
necessitude | noun (n.) Necessitousness; want. |
noun (n.) Necessary connection or relation. |
necklace | noun (n.) A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament. |
noun (n.) A rope or chain fitted around the masthead to hold hanging blocks for jibs and stays. |
neckplate | noun (n.) See Gorget, 1 and 2. |
necktie | noun (n.) A scarf, band, or kerchief of silk, etc., passing around the neck or collar and tied in front; a bow of silk, etc., fastened in front of the neck. |
necrolite | noun (n.) Same as Necronite. |
necronite | noun (n.) Fetid feldspar, a mineral which, when struck, exhales a fetid odor. |
necrophore | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of beetles of the genus Necrophorus and allied genera; -- called also burying beetle, carrion beetle, sexton beetle. |
nectarine | noun (n.) A smooth-skinned variety of peach. |
adjective (a.) Nectareous. |
needle | noun (n.) A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. |
noun (n.) See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic. | |
noun (n.) A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting. | |
noun (n.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus. | |
noun (n.) Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals. | |
verb (v. i.) To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles. |
needlecase | noun (n.) A case to keep needles. |
needlestone | noun (n.) Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite. |
neele | noun (n.) A needle. |
negative | noun (n.) A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception. |
noun (n.) A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no. | |
noun (n.) The refusal or withholding of assents; veto. | |
noun (n.) That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative. | |
noun (n.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture. | |
noun (n.) The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell. | |
adjective (a.) Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative. | |
adjective (a.) Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism. | |
adjective (a.) Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed. | |
adjective (a.) Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative. | |
verb (v. t.) To prove unreal or intrue; to disprove. | |
verb (v. t.) To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill. | |
verb (v. t.) To neutralize the force of; to counteract. |
neglective | adjective (a.) Neglectful. |
negligee | noun (n.) An easy, unceremonious attire; undress; also, a kind of easy robe or dressing gown worn by women. |
negligence | noun (n.) The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness. |
noun (n.) An act or instance of negligence or carelessness. | |
noun (n.) The omission of the care usual under the circumstances, being convertible with the Roman culpa. A specialist is bound to higher skill and diligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability for negligence varies acordingly. |
negligible | adjective (a.) That may neglicted, disregarded, or left out of consideration. |
negoce | noun (n.) Business; occupation. |
negotiable | adjective (a.) Capable of being negotiated; transferable by assigment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange. |
neife | noun (n.) A woman born in the state of villeinage; a female serf. |
nemaline | adjective (a.) Having the form of threads; fibrous. |
nemalite | noun (n.) A fibrous variety of brucite. |
nematode | noun (a. & n.) Same as Nematoid. |
nematogene | noun (n.) One of the dimorphic forms of the species of Dicyemata, which produced vermiform embryos; -- opposed to rhombogene. |
neocene | adjective (a.) More recent than the Eocene, that is, including both the Miocene and Pliocene divisions of the Tertiary. |
neodamode | noun (n.) In ancient Sparta, one of those Helots who were freed by the state in reward for military service. |
neophyte | noun (n.) A new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, esp. to converts from heathenism or Judaism. |
noun (n.) A novice; a tyro; a beginner in anything. |
neossine | noun (n.) The substance constituting the edible bird's nest. |
nepaulese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Nepaul. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Nepaul, a kingdom in Northern Hindostan. |
nepenthe | noun (n.) A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting. |
nepheline | noun (n.) Alt. of Nephelite |
nephelite | noun (n.) A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elaeolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash. |
nephoscope | noun (n.) An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity. |
nephrite | noun (n.) A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. See Jade. |
nephrostome | noun (n.) The funnelshaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity. |
neptune | noun (n.) The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter. |
noun (n.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years. |
nerite | noun (n.) Any mollusk of the genus Nerita. |
nervate | adjective (a.) Nerved. |
nerve | noun (n.) One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body. |
noun (n.) A sinew or a tendon. | |
noun (n.) Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor. | |
noun (n.) Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution. | |
noun (n.) Audacity; assurance. | |
noun (n.) One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf. | |
noun (n.) One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects. | |
verb (v. t.) To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm. |
nervine | noun (n.) A nervine agent. |
adjective (a.) Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement. |
nervose | adjective (a.) Same as Nerved. |
nervure | noun (n.) One of the nerves of leaves. |
noun (n.) One of the chitinous supports, or veins, in the wings of incests. |
nescience | noun (n.) Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. |
nese | noun (n.) Nose. |
neithermore | adjective (a.) Lower, nether. |
nettle | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England. |
verb (v. t.) To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger. |