5-Letter Words Starting with N

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5-Letter Words Starting with N (30 words)
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5-Letter Words (30):
nails (5 points)
Picture hangers maybe
Members of the board (wordplay)
Catches cold (wordplay)
N·1+A·1+I·1+L·1+S·1 = 5 pts
naled (6 points)
An insecticide
N·1+A·1+L·1+E·1+D·2 = 6 pts
nasal (5 points)
Like an "eh," maybe
Like an eh maybe
Maybe nosy spacemen first to land
N·1+A·1+S·1+A·1+L·1 = 5 pts
natal (5 points)
Place of birth (wordplay)
On delivery (wordplay)
The born adjective (wordplay)
N·1+A·1+T·1+A·1+L·1 = 5 pts
naval (8 points)
Like the Village People (wordplay)
Related to shipping (wordplay)
From the shipping department (wordplay)
N·1+A·1+V·4+A·1+L·1 = 8 pts
navel (8 points)
Spot for a ring, perhaps
Lint collector of sorts
Piercing site, perhaps
N·1+A·1+V·4+E·1+L·1 = 8 pts
nelly (8 points)
Nice person (wordplay)
'Not on your - - !' (sl.)
Let not poor - starve (Charles II)
N·1+E·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 8 pts
nerol (5 points)
Alcohol used in perfumes
Perfumer's alcohol
Rosy ingredient in perfume
N·1+E·1+R·1+O·1+L·1 = 5 pts
newel (8 points)
Support for one's flight (wordplay)
Pillar of the establishment (wordplay)
Support for ones flight
N·1+E·1+W·4+E·1+L·1 = 8 pts
newly (11 points)
One way to be married (wordplay)
Start to wed (wordplay)
Wed head (wordplay)
N·1+E·1+W·4+L·1+Y·4 = 11 pts
nicol (7 points)
Williamson of Spawn
Williamson of stage and screen
Williamson of Excaliber
N·1+I·1+C·3+O·1+L·1 = 7 pts
nidal (6 points)
Of spider nests
Like a nest
Of a nest
N·1+I·1+D·2+A·1+L·1 = 6 pts
nihil (8 points)
Zero for Nero (wordplay)
Gaius' goose egg (wordplay)
dicit he says nothing
N·1+I·1+H·4+I·1+L·1 = 8 pts
nills (5 points)
Is unwilling.
Is unwilling Archaic
Is unwilling: Archaic.
N·1+I·1+L·1+L·1+S·1 = 5 pts
nival (8 points)
Growing in snow
Abounding in snow.
Abounding with snow
N·1+I·1+V·4+A·1+L·1 = 8 pts
noble (7 points)
Why A is not able (wordplay)
Posh bloke? The French count, perhaps
Earl-y (wordplay)
N·1+O·1+B·3+L·1+E·1 = 7 pts
nobly (10 points)
How earls should behave (wordplay)
How earls should behave?
How a prince is born
N·1+O·1+B·3+L·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
nodal (6 points)
On lad (anagram)
Knotty (wordplay)
Relating to a knot.
N·1+O·1+D·2+A·1+L·1 = 6 pts
noels (5 points)
Porch songs (wordplay)
Cold airs (wordplay)
House-to-house offerings, maybe
N·1+O·1+E·1+L·1+S·1 = 5 pts
noils (5 points)
Shreds of wool or silk
Knots of wool.
Short fibers combed from long ones
N·1+O·1+I·1+L·1+S·1 = 5 pts
noily (8 points)
Fuzzy, as wool
Fuzzy as wool
N·1+O·1+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 8 pts
nolos (5 points)
Court pleas, for short
Courtroom pleas, for short
Legal pleas informally
N·1+O·1+L·1+O·1+S·1 = 5 pts
nonyl (8 points)
Alcohol of perfumery
N·1+O·1+N·1+Y·4+L·1 = 8 pts
nopal (7 points)
A cactus, the prickly pear
Prickly pear cactus.
Prickly pear cactus
N·1+O·1+P·3+A·1+L·1 = 7 pts
notal (5 points)
Of the back
Of an insect's back.
Of an insects back
N·1+O·1+T·1+A·1+L·1 = 5 pts
novel (8 points)
Mystery for one
Exodus for one
Henry Jamess The Golden Bowl for one
N·1+O·1+V·4+E·1+L·1 = 8 pts
nulls (5 points)
Voids partners (wordplay)
Dummy letters in cryptography
Sets to zero
N·1+U·1+L·1+L·1+S·1 = 5 pts
nurls (5 points)
Small ridges Var.
Indents a coin variable
Small ridges variable
N·1+U·1+R·1+L·1+S·1 = 5 pts
nyala (8 points)
Animal used in ceremony, a lamb
Large African antelope
Animal entered many a large enclosure
N·1+Y·4+A·1+L·1+A·1 = 8 pts
nylon (8 points)
No, Lyndsay brought up stocking this
Stocking, any long stocking (wordplay)
Material that runs (wordplay)
N·1+Y·4+L·1+O·1+N·1 = 8 pts

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