Words that start with N

Nails are small pieces of metal with one sharp end and one end that is flat. You use nails to stick things to other things, like nailing a piece of wood to another piece of wood. You use a hammer to hit the flat end of the nails with to push them through something.

Nail varnish, sometimes called nail polish, is a kind of special paint that you put on your fingernails or toenails to make them look pretty.

Nairobi is the capital of Kenya. It has a population of around 3.1 million.

A name is a word, or group of words, that someone or something is known by. Things that are named include people, pets, streets and cities.

Namibia is a country in southern Africa. The capital of Namibia is Windhoek. People in Namibia speak a variety of languages, including English, Afrikaans, and German.

A nap, sometimes called a kip, snooze or siesta, is a short sleep, usually in the middle of the day after lunch.

A gap between two things is narrow if the two things are quite close together and there is not a lot of room between them. The street in the picture is very narrow. The opposite of narrow is wide.

Narwhals are a kind of medium sized whale that has a long tusk growing from the middle of their head, like a unicorn's horn. They live in the northern part of the world, in the arctic waters.

Nashville is the capital of the state of Tenessee in the United States of America. It has a population of around 1.6 million.

Nassau is the capital of the Bahamas. It has a population of around 250,000.