6-letter words starting with ne
- nepers — Plural form of neper.
- nephew — a son of one's brother or sister.
- nepho- — concerning cloud or clouds
- nephr- — nephro-
- nepman — (in the Soviet Union) a person who engaged briefly in private enterprise during the New Economic Policy of the 1920s.
- nepmen — (in the Soviet Union) a person who engaged briefly in private enterprise during the New Economic Policy of the 1920s.
- nereco — NEtwork REmote COmmunications.
- nereid — (sometimes lowercase) Classical Mythology. any of the 50 daughters of Nereus; a sea nymph.
- nereis — clamworm.
- nereus — a sea god, the son of Pontus and Gaea and father of the Nereids.
- nergal — (in Akkadian mythology) the god ruling, with Ereshkigal, the world of the dead.
- nerine — any of several bulbous plants belonging to the genus Nerine, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having funnel-shaped red, pink, or white flowers.
- nerite — any member of the family of small sea snail or freshwater snail Neritidae
- nernst — Walther Herman [vahl-tuh r her-mahn] /ˈvɑl tər ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1941, German physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1920.
- neroli — An essential oil distilled from the flowers of the Seville orange, used in perfumery.
- neruda — Pablo [pah-vlaw;; English pah-bloh] /ˈpɑ vlɔ;; English ˈpɑ bloʊ/ (Show IPA), (Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto) 1904–73, Chilean poet and diplomat: Nobel Prize in literature 1971.
- nerval — neural.
- nerved — Simple past tense and past participle of nerve.
- nerver — something that gives one courage, esp an alcoholic drink
- nerves — one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
- nesbit — E(dith) 1858–1924, English children's author, novelist, and poet.
- nesses — a headland; promontory; cape.
- nessie — Loch Ness monster.
- nessus — a centaur who, on attempting to seduce Deianira, the wife of Hercules, was shot by Hercules with a poisoned arrow. Before Nessus died, he gave to Deianira the poisoned tunic that ultimately caused Hercules' death.
- nested — (of an ordered collection of sets or intervals) having the property that each set is contained in the preceding set and the length or diameter of the sets approaches zero as the number of sets tends to infinity.
- nester — a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- nestle — to lie close and snug, like a bird in a nest; snuggle or cuddle.
- nestor — the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- netbsd — (operating system) An open source Unix clone that aims for platform independance by a clean separation between the hardware and the the kernel. It has been ported to many platforms from embedded systems to 64-bit computers.
- netbui — (spelling) It's spelled "NetBEUI".
- netcdf — Network Common Data Form. A machine-independent, self-describing file format for scientific data.
- netful — the quantity of fish that can be held by a net
- nether — lying or believed to lie beneath the earth's surface; infernal: the nether regions.
- nethou — Pic de [French peek duh] /French pik də/ (Show IPA) a mountain in NE Spain: highest peak of the Pyrenees. 11,165 feet (3400 meters).
- netlag — (networking) A condition that occurs when the delays in the IRC network, a MUD connection, a telnet connection, or any other networked interactive system, become severe enough that servers briefly lose and then reestablish contact, causing messages to be delivered in bursts, often with delays of up to a minute. (Note that this term has nothing to do with mainstream "jet lag").
- netman — a tennis player.
- netrek — (games) A 16-player graphical real-time battle simulation with a Star Trek theme. The game is divided into two teams of eight (or less), who dogfight each other and attempt to conquer each other's planets. There are several different types of ships, from fast, fragile scouts up to big, slow battleships; this allows a great deal of variance in play styles. Netrek is played using a client to connect to one of several Netrek servers on the Internet. There is a metaserver which distributes details of games in progress on other servers. See also ogg.
- netted — net income, profit, or the like.
- netter — A fisherman who uses nets to catch fish.
- nettie — (Tyneside, and, Wearside) toilet.
- nettle — any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs. Compare nettle family.
- neumes — Plural form of neume.
- neumic — any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- neural — of or relating to a nerve or the nervous system.
- neuro- — Neuro- is used to form words that refer or relate to a nerve or the nervous system.
- neuron — artificial neural network
- neuter — Grammar. noting or pertaining to a gender that refers to things classed as neither masculine nor feminine. (of a verb) intransitive.
- neutra — a city in W Slovakia, on the Nitra River: historic religious sites.
- nevada — a state in the W United States. 110,540 sq. mi. (286,300 sq. km). Capital: Carson City. Abbreviation: NV (for use with zip code), Nev.
- nevers — a former province in central France. Capital: Nevers.