English words starting with nis

Meanings of Nis:

proper noun

A historically dominant industrial city in south-eastern serbia, on the nišava river near its confluence with the morava river; population 172,900 (est. 2008).

Meanings of Nisan:

noun

(in the jewish calendar) the seventh month of the civil and first of the religious year, usually coinciding with parts of march and april.

Usage examples:

An extra month is intercalated every three years, just before the month of nisan.

Meanings of Nisei:

noun

An american or canadian whose parents were immigrants from japan.

Usage examples:

Besides the chief instructor, most of the senior students were nisei or sansei and several of them …

Meanings of Niseis:

noun

An american or canadian whose parents were immigrants from japan.

Usage examples:

Besides the chief instructor, most of the senior students were nisei or sansei and several of them …

Meanings of Nisi:

adjective

(of a decree, order, or rule) that takes effect or is valid only after certain conditions are met.

Usage examples:

An order nisi

Meanings of Nispero:

noun

Any of several trees resembling the medlar tree, or which produce fruits resembling the medlar; specifically (a) any of various tropical american trees of the genus manilkara, especially the sapodilla, m. zapota; (b) the loquat or japanese medlar, eriobotrya japonica.

Meanings of Nisqualli:

adjective

Of, relating to, or designating a north american indian people inhabiting the lower nisqually river south of the puget sound in washington state, now resident in thurston county, washington state.

noun

A member of the nisqually people.

Meanings of Nisse:

noun

In scandinavian folklore: a kind of spirit, similar to a brownie or goblin, which frequents barns, stables, and other buildings.

Meanings of Nisus:

noun

Effort, endeavour; (now) especially impulse, tendency.