Words that start with N

Naan bread is a soft, leavened flatbread made from wheat flour, water, and often yogurt. It is usually round or oval, with a chewy texture and browned spots from cooking.

Naan bread is from South and Central Asia. Traditionally, it is cooked on the hot inside wall of a tandoor, or clay oven, and served with curries, vegetables, or meat. Garlic naan is a common variation.

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.

A name tag is a small label that shows a person's name, and is usually worn on a cord around your neck or pinned to your chest. Sometimes they also display a person's role or position. Name tags help you to know who you are talking to.

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.