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“N” Words

Care and encouragement given to help someone or something grow and develop.

Caring and supportive, especially in a way that encourages growth or development.

A hard-shelled seed or dry fruit, often edible.

Informal: a crazy, eccentric, or foolish person.

A brand of chocolate and hazelnut spread.

Informal and offensive: a psychiatric hospital, or figuratively, any chaotic place.

The aromatic seed of the nutmeg tree, ground and used as a spice.

A substance that provides nourishment needed for growth and the maintenance of life.

The process by which living things take in and use food for growth and health.

Relating to nutrition or the nourishment food provides.

A professional who studies or advises on diet and nourishment.

Full of nutrients; good for you to eat.

Informal: crazy, irrational, or wildly excited.

The hard outer covering of a nut.

British informal: an eccentric or mentally unstable person.

Tasting or smelling of nuts.

An exclamation used to express smug or childish triumph over someone, often paired with a taunting gesture.

A city and municipality in central Denmark, on the island of Funen.

An old-fashioned or dialectal spelling of "nice."

A group of pheasants, especially when on the ground rather than in flight.

No — used to represent a Russian-style blunt refusal.

A small, densely structured spot found on the wings of certain insects, whose exact biological function is not fully understood.

A strong, synthetic polymer used to make fabric, rope, and plastic parts.

Sheer stockings made of nylon fabric.

In mythology, a minor female nature spirit linked to rivers, woods, or mountains.

Informal, often derogatory, short form of nymphomaniac.

A dated, often disparaging term for a woman said to have an unusually strong sex drive.

Any tree of the genus Nyssa, commonly known as tupelo, often found in wetlands of North America and Asia.

In Greek mythology, the primordial goddess personifying night.