11-letter words starting with na
- narrow down — refine, limit
- narrow seas — the channels between Great Britain and the Continent and Great Britain and Ireland
- narrowboats — Plural form of narrowboat.
- nasal drops — Nasal drops are medicine that you put directly in your nose one drop at a time.
- nasal gleet — gleet (def 2).
- nasal index — Craniometry. (of the skull) the ratio of the distance from nasion to the lower margin of the nasal aperture to that of the maximum breadth of the nasal aperture.
- nasal spray — a liquid medication that can be atomized and inhaled into or through the nose.
- naseberries — Plural form of naseberry.
- nasi goreng — a dish, originating in Malaysia, consisting of rice fried with a selection of other ingredients
- nasofrontal — of or relating to the nasal and frontal bones
- nasogastric — of, relating to, or involving the nose and stomach.
- nasological — the scientific study of noses.
- nasopharynx — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
- nastistical — (humour, mathematics) A description of a method, thought by the programmer to be correct statistics, but which is not. An example is averaging together several averages of samples of different sizes. The correct way to do this is to average together all of the individual samples.
- nasturtiums — Plural form of nasturtium.
- natal chart — the horoscope based on an individual's birth.
- nathan hale — (character) An asterisk ("*", see also splat, ASCII). Notionally, from "I regret that I have only one asterisk for my country!" ("life to give" -> "ass to risk" -> "asterisk"), a misquote of the famous remark uttered by Nathan Hale just before he was hanged. Hale was a (failed) spy for the rebels in the American War of Independence.
- nation-wide — extending throughout the nation: The incident aroused nationwide interest.
- nationalise — To bring a private company under the control of a specific government.
- nationalism — spirit or aspirations common to the whole of a nation.
- nationalist — a person devoted to nationalism.
- nationality — the status of belonging to a particular nation, whether by birth or naturalization: the nationality of an immigrant.
- nationalize — to bring under the ownership or control of a nation, as industries and land: a movement to nationalize the oil industry.
- native bush — indigenous forest
- native-born — born in the place or country indicated: a native-born Australian.
- natriuresis — excretion of sodium in the urine.
- natriuretic — excretion of sodium in the urine.
- natterjacks — Plural form of natterjack.
- natural gas — a combustible mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons that accumulates in porous sedimentary rocks, especially those yielding petroleum, consisting usually of over 80 percent methane together with minor amounts of ethane, propane, butane, nitrogen, and, sometimes, helium: used as a fuel and to make carbon black, acetylene, and synthesis gas.
- natural law — a principle or body of laws considered as derived from nature, right reason, or religion and as ethically binding in human society.
- naturalised — (British) Simple past tense and past participle of naturalise.
- naturalists — Plural form of naturalist.
- naturalized — Simple past tense and past participle of naturalize.
- naturalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of naturalize.
- naturalness — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
- nature walk — a walk on a nature trail, especially with an experienced guide.
- naturopaths — Plural form of naturopath.
- naturopathy — a system or method of treating disease that employs no surgery or synthetic drugs but uses special diets, herbs, vitamins, massage, etc., to assist the natural healing processes.
- naughtiness — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
- naupliiform — shaped like a nauplius larva
- naval brass — an alloy of about 60 percent copper and 40 percent zinc, with traces of lead, tin, arsenic, and iron, used in marine and steam-generating equipment.
- navigatable — Navigable.
- navratilova — Martina, born 1956, U.S. tennis player, born in the former Czechoslovakia.
- nay pyi taw — the official capital of Myanmar (Burma), built in the centre of the country near Pyinmana in 2005–2006, and superseding Yangon (Rangoon) for main government functions. Pop: officially approaching 1 000 000 in 2007
- nazca plate — a tectonic division of the earth's crust, coincident with the suboceanic Peru Basin, and bounded on the north by the Cocos Plate, separated from the South American Plate by the Peru-Chile Trench, from the Pacific Plate by the East Pacific Rise, and from the Antarctic Plate by the Chile Rise.