English words starting with na - page 1

Meanings of Nacho:

plural noun

A dish of tortilla chips topped with melted cheese and often also with other savoury toppings.

Usage examples:

He made us nachos and chicken fajitas

noun

A small piece of fried tortilla (= flat bread made from maize flour), often eaten with melted cheese or a dip

Usage examples:

Dip a nacho in a bowl of salsa., a bag of nachos, to taste real nachos you have to go to mexico., t…

Meanings of Nachschlag:

noun

A grace note, the value of which is deducted from the value of the preceding note.

Meanings of Nacket:

noun

A small, cheeky, or artful boy.

Meanings of Nacre:

noun

Mother-of-pearl.

Usage examples:

The nacre, or mother of pearl, is the innermost layer, which is composed of thin, alternating, lami…

Meanings of Nacred:

adjective

Covered with or surrounded by nacre; having the pearly lustre of nacre.

Meanings of Nacrine:

adjective

Nacreous.

Meanings of Nacrite:

noun

A clay mineral related to kaolinite and usually occurring as masses of tiny colourless or white scales.

Meanings of Nacrous:

adjective

Nacreous.

Meanings of Nad:

abbreviation

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, a coenzyme important in many biological oxidation reactions.

Usage examples:

The nam nucleotide coenzymes nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotid…

noun

A man's testicles.

Meanings of Nada:

pronoun

Nothing.

Usage examples:

She didn't understand any of it… at all… none, nada, zero, zilch.

Meanings of Nadir:

noun

The lowest or most unsuccessful point in a situation.

Usage examples:

Asking that question was the nadir of my career

Meanings of Nadiral:

adjective

Of or relating to a nadir.

Meanings of Nadirs:

noun

The lowest or most unsuccessful point in a situation.

Usage examples:

Asking that question was the nadir of my career

Meanings of Nadorite:

noun

An orthorhombic oxychloride of antimony and lead, pbsbo₂ cl, usually occurring as brown to yellow tabular or prismatic crystals.

Meanings of Nae:

adverb

Scottish form of no (determiner).

Usage examples:

It's nae bother

Meanings of Naevoid:

adjective

Of the nature of or resembling a naevus.

Meanings of Naff:

adjective

Not stylish or fashionable

Usage examples:

His haircut was a bit naff.

Meanings of Naff off:

phrasal verb

Used to rudely tell someone to go away because they are annoying you

Meanings of Nag:

verb

Harass (someone) constantly to do something that they are averse to.

Usage examples:

She constantly nags her daughter about getting married

noun

A person who nags someone.

Usage examples:

We don't want to be perceived as nags or, worse still, incompetent.

Meanings of Nag at:

phrasal verb

If doubts or worries nag (away) at you, you think about them all the time

Usage examples:

The same thought has been nagging away at me since last week.

Meanings of Naga:

noun

(in indian mythology) a member of a semi-divine race, part human, part cobra in form, associated with water and sometimes with mystical initiation.

Usage examples:

His canvasses have lustrous buddhas, among nagas, dragons, animals and birds.

adjective

Relating to the nagas or their language.

Usage examples:

From the color of their sarongs and the way they wear their machetes in a shoulder scabbard, i know…

Meanings of Nagaika:

noun

A short, thick, plaited leather whip, probably of nogai origin, traditionally used in russia (especially by cossacks).

Meanings of Nagami:

noun

In full "nagami kumquat". the oval or oblong fruit of a cultivated type of kumquat of the species fortunella margarita; the shrub or small tree bearing this fruit.

Meanings of Nagana:

noun

A disease of cattle, antelope, and other livestock in southern africa, characterized by fever, lethargy, and oedema, and caused by trypanosome parasites transmitted by the tsetse fly.

Usage examples:

The tsetse fly carries the trypanosome parasite, which causes sleeping sickness in humans and nagan…

Meanings of Nagara:

noun

In south asia: a bowl-shaped drum, typically played with a stick, often as one of a pair and frequently in military or ceremonial contexts; a kettledrum.