All English words - page 3562

Meanings of Nils:

noun

Nothing, especially as the score in certain games; zero.

Usage examples:

They beat us three-nil

adjective

Non-existent.

Usage examples:

His chance of survival was virtually nil

Meanings of Nim:

noun

A game in which two players alternately take one or more objects from one of a number of heaps, each trying to take, or to compel the other to take, the last remaining object.

Usage examples:

Also at high school a friend of his father gave him a mechanical device with switching circuits tha…

Meanings of Nimb:

noun

Nimbus.

Meanings of Nimbed:

adjective

Having a nimbus or halo.

Meanings of Nimbi:

noun

A luminous cloud or a halo surrounding a supernatural being or a saint.

Usage examples:

A nimbus of power played around him, brighter than lightning

Meanings of Nimble:

adjective

Quick and light in movement or action; agile.

Usage examples:

With a deft motion of her nimble fingers

Meanings of Nimbleness:

noun

The quality of being nimble.

Usage examples:

He is not noted for his nimbleness

Meanings of Nimbler:

adjective

Quick and light in movement or action; agile.

Usage examples:

With a deft motion of her nimble fingers

Meanings of Nimblest:

adjective

Quick and light in movement or action; agile.

Usage examples:

With a deft motion of her nimble fingers

Meanings of Nimbly:

adverb

In a nimble way.

Usage examples:

The monkey leapt nimbly from rock to rock

Meanings of Nimbose:

adjective

Stormy; cloudy.

Meanings of Nimbostratus:

noun

Cloud forming a thick uniform grey layer at low altitude, from which rain or snow often falls (without any lightning or thunder).

Usage examples:

Lesser values can be recorded in between the main storm cores and from the nimbostratus.

Meanings of Nimbus:

noun

A luminous cloud or a halo surrounding a supernatural being or a saint.

Usage examples:

A nimbus of power played around him, brighter than lightning

Meanings of Nimbuses:

noun

A luminous cloud or a halo surrounding a supernatural being or a saint.

Usage examples:

A nimbus of power played around him, brighter than lightning

Meanings of Nimiety:

noun

The state of being more than is necessary or desirable; excess.

Usage examples:

Coleridge criticized schiller for what he called the nimiety of his blank verse

Meanings of Niminy-piminy:

adjective

Very formal and correct in behaviour, often in a way that is not sincere

Usage examples:

The chef had no patience with customers making niminy-piminy comments about his dishes., he adopts …

Meanings of Nimious:

adjective

Considerable, great, excessive.

Meanings of Nimkish:

noun

A member of a north american indian people of the kwakiutl group inhabiting northern vancouver island.

adjective

Of or relating to the nimpkish.

Meanings of Nimrod:

noun

A skilful hunter.

Usage examples:

Nimrods take to the field after everything from prairie dogs to grizzly bears

Meanings of Nimrodian:

adjective

Resembling nimrod, especially in being an accomplished hunter; characteristic of or connected with nimrod.

Meanings of Nimrodic:

adjective

= nimrodian .

Meanings of Nimrods:

noun

A skilful hunter.

Usage examples:

Nimrods take to the field after everything from prairie dogs to grizzly bears

Meanings of Niña:

noun

The cooling of the water in the central and eastern pacific ocean that happens every few years and that affects the weather in many places

Meanings of Nincom:

noun

Nincompoop.

Meanings of Nincompoop:

noun

A foolish or stupid person.

Usage examples:

And, as a reader recently suggested, it would allow movie watchers to gang up on the nincompoops wh…