English words starting with nep

Meanings of Nepa:

noun

A genus of predatory aquatic bugs (family nepidae), having a flattened, oval body, raptorial front legs, and a thin, tail-like breathing tube; (also nepa) a bug of this genus, a water scorpion.

Meanings of Nepal:

proper noun

A mountainous landlocked country in southern asia, in the himalayas (and including mount everest); population 28,500,000 (estimated 2015); official language, nepali; capital, kathmandu.

noun

A country in south asia

Meanings of Nepalese:

adjective

Relating to nepal or its people.

Usage examples:

The nepalese material is extraordinarily rich and invariably reliable.

noun

A native or inhabitant of nepal, or a person of nepalese descent.

Usage examples:

Many nepalese have established records on everest

Meanings of Nepali:

noun

A native or inhabitant of nepal.

Usage examples:

Today ten nepalis have made history and shown our bravery and strength

adjective

Relating to nepal or its language or people.

Usage examples:

A team of nepali guides became the first to climb mount k2 in winter

Meanings of Nepenthe:

noun

A drug described in homer's odyssey as banishing grief or trouble from a person's mind.

Usage examples:

Alcohol and morphine - nepenthe means numbing the soul, numbing your soul.

Meanings of Nepenthean:

adjective

Of or relating to nepenthe or its properties.

Meanings of Nepenthes:

noun

A drug described in homer's odyssey as banishing grief or trouble from a person's mind.

Usage examples:

Alcohol and morphine - nepenthe means numbing the soul, numbing your soul.

Meanings of Neper:

noun

A unit of measurement used in comparing voltages, currents, and power levels, especially in communication circuits. the difference between two values in nepers is equal to the natural logarithm of their ratio for voltages and currents or to half of this for power differences.

Usage examples:

The dielectric loss in each case is rated in nepers of attenuation at some arbitrary frequency, 0.

Meanings of Nepeta:

noun

A plant of a genus that includes catmint and several kinds cultivated for their spikes of blue or violet flowers.

Usage examples:

Others are tiny and quite dainty - like the many nepetas and campanulas, or veronica peduncularis ‘…

Meanings of Nephanalysis:

noun

Analysis of the amounts and kinds of cloud present over an area, now usually based on satellite images; a map or chart showing the results of such an analysis.

Meanings of Nepheline:

noun

A colourless, greenish, or brownish mineral consisting of an aluminosilicate of sodium (often with potassium) and occurring as crystals and grains in igneous rocks.

Usage examples:

All basalt chemical compositions can be plotted in the basalt tetrahedron, which has normative quar…

Meanings of Nephelinic:

adjective

Relating to or resembling nepheline; containing nepheline.

Meanings of Nephelinite:

noun

A fine-grained basaltic rock containing nepheline in place of plagioclase feldspar.

Usage examples:

Geochemically, the pyroxene nephelinite is highly enriched in lile compared with the first one.

Meanings of Nephelinitic:

adjective

Containing, resembling, or characteristic of nephelinite.

Meanings of Nephelite:

noun

Nepheline.

Meanings of Nepheloid:

adjective

Of sea or lake water: turbid. chiefly in "nepheloid layer" noun a layer of water, typically near the bottom, containing suspended mineral particles and organic matter.

Meanings of Nephelometer:

noun

An instrument for measuring the size and concentration of particles suspended in a liquid or gas, especially by means of the light they scatter.

Usage examples:

In the present study, we investigated the technical feasibility of using the nephelometer to measur…

Meanings of Nephelometric:

adjective

Of, relating to, or measured by nephelometry.

Meanings of Nephelometry:

noun

Measurement of the turbidity of a liquid or gas, specifically by the use of a nephelometer.

Meanings of Nepheloscope:

noun

James pollard espy's name for: an instrument for compressing and expanding moist air, used to study the formation of clouds.

Meanings of Nephew:

noun

A son of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law.

Usage examples:

He held up his little nephew in his arms

Meanings of Nephews:

noun

A son of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law.

Usage examples:

He held up his little nephew in his arms

Meanings of Nephology:

noun

The study or contemplation of clouds.

Usage examples:

The word ‘nephology’ has derived from the greek word, ‘nephos’ that literally means cloud.

Meanings of Nephometer:

noun

An instrument for measuring the extent of cloud cover.

Meanings of Nephoscope:

noun

An instrument used to determine the direction of motion of clouds and their angular velocity relative to a given point on the ground.