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.

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.

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.

Nasturtiums are a common plant grown for their pretty flowers. Nasturtium's leaves and flowers are edible and can be used in salads. Nasturtiums attract good insects to the garden and repel bad ones like some caterpillars and are often grown as companion plants around a vegetable garden.
Some people call a kind of watercress a nasturtium.

Nausea is a very bad sick feeling in your stomach, like you want to vomit.
People generally get nausea when they are pregnant, have food poisoning or other poisoning or when they are sick.

Your navel is the little dent on a person or animal's belly where the umbilical cord used to be attached. It is commonly called the belly button.

Something is neat if it is clean, ordered, and nice to look at.
The opposite of neat is messy.
The woman in the picture has very neat hair.

Your neck is between your head and your body. Your neck is sometimes called your throat. It has several bones in it, and can turn in a variety of directions. People like to wear jewellery around their necks.

Nectar is the sweet, sticky stuff found in the centre of flowers. It is there to attract insects like bees to the flowers so the bees will pollinate the flowers. Bees use the nectar to make honey, most other birds and insects just eat the nectar as they find it.

A needle is a small piece of metal that is sharp at one end and has a hole, or eye, at the other end. You thread the needle using very fine cotton thread, and use the needle to stitch things together.
The type of needle that is used for giving injections is called a syringe.