5-letter words containing n, a
- nhisa — National Health Interview Survey Association
- nicad — nickel-cadmium battery.
- nicam — near-instantaneous companding system: a technique for coding audio signals into digital form
- nicar — Nicaragua
- nidal — a nest, especially one in which insects, spiders, etc., deposit their eggs.
- nigga — a term used to refer to or address a black person.
- nigra — (offensive, ethnic slur) A negro person.
- nikah — a marriage contract
- nikau — Rhopalostylis sapida, a palm tree of New Zealand.
- nilas — Newly frozen sea ice in the form of smooth thin sheet less than 10 centimeters (4 inches) thick.
- nilla — Short form of vanilla.
- ninja — a person who is expert or highly skilled in a specified field or activity (often used attributively): marketing ninjas; ninja gamers.
- niqab — A veil worn by some Muslim women in public, covering all of the face apart from the eyes.
- nisan — the seventh month of the Jewish calendar.
- nitra — a city in W Slovakia, on the Nitra River: historic religious sites.
- nitta — A tropical tree of the genus Parkia, having edible pods and seeds, especially Parkia filicoidea or Parkia biglobosa.
- nival — of or growing in snow: nival flora.
- nizam — the title of the ruler of Hyderabad from the beginning of the 18th century to 1950.
- nodal — pertaining to or of the nature of a node.
- noema — (philosophy) The perceived as perceived.
- nogai — a member of a people living in the Caucasus region.
- nogay — Nogai.
- nolan — Michael Patrick, Baron. 1928–2007, British judge; chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life (1994–97)
- nomad — a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- noman — Not a person; Not a human.
- nona- — nine
- nonad — A collection, or series of nine things.
- nonda — Parinari nonda, a shrub or small tree of northern Australia and New Guinea, with edible plum-like fruit.
- nonna — (dialectal) grandmother.
- nopal — any of several cacti of the genus Nopalea, resembling the prickly pear.
- norad — a joint U.S.-Canadian air force command responsible for detecting aircraft and space vehicles deemed a threat to the continental airspace.
- noria — a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- norma — an opera (1831) with music by Vincenzo Bellini.
- notal — Of or pertaining to the back; dorsal.
- notam — A written notification issued to pilots before a flight, advising them of circumstances relating to the state of flying.
- novae — a star that suddenly becomes thousands of times brighter and then gradually fades to its original intensity.
- novas — Plural form of nova.
- novia — a fiancée or bride.
- noway — in no way, respect, or degree; not at all; nowise: He was noway responsible for the accident.
- noxal — (in law, esp Roman law) of or relating to damage done by a person (usually a slave) or animal belonging to or in the charge of another
- noyau — A liqueur made of brandy flavored with fruit kernels.
- nsaid — a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, as ibuprofen.
- ntalk — (chat) ("new talk") An update of the Unix "talk" program, old versions of "talk" being referred to as "old talk". New talk and old talk are generally incompatible, and attempts to get them to communicate result in entirely unhelpful error messages. On most modern Unix systems, the program "talk" is new talk, with some SunOS versions being a notable and annoying exception to this.
- nuaaw — National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers: a former trade union in the United Kingdom representing agricultural labourers, etc
- nubia — a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
- nucha — nape.
- nugae — a number of unimportant matters or japes
- nvram — Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
- nyaff — a small or contemptible person
- nyala — an antelope, Tragelaphus angasii, of southeastern Africa, the male of which has a grayish body marked with white stripes.