Words that start with N

A nightmare is a bad dream. Nightmares can be extremely frightening, and make you wake up scared. You might also use nightmare to describe a particularly bad event, for example "we had a nightmare vacation".

There are nine sunglasses in the picture. The number before nine is eight. The number that comes after nine is ten.

Something is ninth if it is the number nine item in a list. Ninth comes after eighth and before tenth.

Nipped is the past tense of nip, for example "her behaviour was nipped in the bud".

Nits is the common name given to the eggs of human head lice. The lice lay their eggs attached to the hair, which you can see in the picture. Nits aren't much thicker than your hair, and can me mistaken for dandruff.