The fourteenth letter of the English alphabet, also used as a symbol in mathematics, science, and writing.

A field of compacted, granular snow that persists year-round and feeds a glacier.

A serpent deity or supernatural serpent in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions, also used for certain peoples and historical kingdoms of South and Southeast Asia.

A leavened, usually flat South Asian bread traditionally baked in a hot clay oven.

A transliteration of Ancient Greek Νίκη, the goddess and personification of victory.

A term of Sanskrit origin meaning blue, dark blue, or indigo, also used in English in names and South Asian cultural contexts.

A traditional Japanese performing-arts form encompassing Noh drama and kyōgen comic theater.

Nūn is the name of the Arabic letter ن and, in Islamic tradition, one of the mysterious isolated letters opening certain Qur’anic chapters.

A dialectal or informal form of “no,” used to express refusal or negation.

Lacking experience, wisdom, or judgment; innocent or simplistic.

A leavened, usually flat South Asian bread traditionally baked in a hot clay oven.

To seize, catch, or arrest suddenly.

A historical figure or concept relating to ancient traditions, rituals, or mythologies.

An ancient term referring to a celestial body, often associated with the planet Nibiru in modern theories.

A term referring to the celestial body associated with the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian myths of cosmic significance.

A mathematical symbol used to represent vector differential operators such as gradient, divergence, and curl.

A wealthy, influential person, especially one who is ostentatious or self-important.

A major Mesopotamian god of writing, wisdom, and scribes, especially in Babylonian religion.

A dialectal or Scots variant of “knack,” meaning a special skill, talent, or clever trick.

A smooth, iridescent substance forming the inner layer of some mollusk shells, also called mother-of-pearl.