| benight | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: bedim |
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| (verb) envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness | - |
| (verb) overtake with darkness or night | - |
| benighted | (adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: dark |
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| (adjective) overtaken by night or darkness | Synonyms: nighted |
| benign | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence | Synonyms: benignant |
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| (adjective) not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor) | - |
| (adjective) kindness of disposition or manner | - |
| benignancy | (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignity, graciousness |
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| benignant | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence | Synonyms: benign |
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| (adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: gracious |
| benignantly | (adverb) in a benign manner | Synonyms: benignly |
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| benignity | (noun) a kind act | Synonyms: kindness |
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| (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignancy, graciousness |
| benignly | (adverb) in a benign manner | Synonyms: benignantly |
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| denigrate | (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, derogate, minimize |
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| (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
| denigrating | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| denigration | (noun) the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself) | Synonyms: deprecation |
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| (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, defamation, slander |
| (noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: belittling |
| denigrative | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| denigratory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| enigma | (noun) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained | Synonyms: closed book, mystery, secret |
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| (noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, conundrum, riddle |
| enigmatic | (adjective) resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought | Synonyms: oracular |
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| (adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatical, puzzling |
| enigmatical | (adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatic, puzzling |
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| enigmatically | (adverb) in a cryptic manner | Synonyms: cryptically, mysteriously |
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| enigmaticness | (noun) Mysteriousness, complexity; the property of being puzzling or inexplicable. | - |
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| (noun) The quality of a person of puzzling, secretive or contradictory character. | - |
| fortnight | (noun) a period of fourteen consecutive days | Synonyms: two weeks |
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| fortnightly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: biweekly |
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| (adverb) every two weeks | Synonyms: biweekly |
| knight | (noun) a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) | Synonyms: horse |
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| (noun) originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit | - |
| (verb) raise (someone) to knighthood | Synonyms: dub |
| knighthood | (noun) aristocrats holding the rank of knight | - |
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| knightliness | (noun) the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct | Synonyms: chivalry |
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| knightly | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: chivalrous, gallant |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, mediaeval, medieval |
| midnight | (noun) 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night | - |
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| mornight | (noun) both morning and night, used when greeting someone | - |
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| nigella | (noun) any plant of the genus Nigella | - |
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| nigga | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: jigaboo, nigger, nigra |
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| niggard | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, scrooge, skinflint |
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| niggardliness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
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| niggardly | (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: grudging, scrimy |
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| niggardness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
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| nigger | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: jigaboo, nigga, nigra |
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| niggle | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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| (verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fret, fuss |
| niggler | (noun) someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way | Synonyms: carper |
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| niggling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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| nigh | (adjective) not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances | Synonyms: close, near |
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| (adjective) being on the left side | Synonyms: near |
| (adverb) near in time or place or relationship | Synonyms: close, near |
| (adverb) (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but | Synonyms: about, almost, most, near, nearly, virtually, well-nigh |
| nigher | (adverb) (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance | Synonyms: closer, nearer |
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| nighest | (adverb) (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance | Synonyms: closest, nearest |
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| night | (noun) darkness | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, nighttime |
| (noun) a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom | - |
| (noun) the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit | - |
| (noun) the time between sunset and midnight | - |
| (noun) the period spent sleeping | - |
| (noun) a shortening of nightfall | - |
| nightbird | (noun) a person who likes to be active late at night | Synonyms: night owl, nighthawk |
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| nightcap | (noun) the final game of a double header | - |
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| (noun) a cloth cap worn in bed | - |
| (noun) an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic | - |
| nightclothes | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightwear, sleepwear |
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| nightclub | (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, club, night club, nightspot |
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| nightcrawler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| nightdress | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightgown, nightie |
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| nighted | (adjective) overtaken by night or darkness | Synonyms: benighted |
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| nightfall | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, twilight |
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| nightgown | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightdress, nightie |
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| nighthawk | (noun) mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker | Synonyms: bullbat, mosquito hawk |
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| (noun) a person who likes to be active late at night | Synonyms: night owl, nightbird |
| nightie | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightdress, nightgown |
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| nightingale | (noun) European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song | Synonyms: Luscinia megarhynchos |
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| nightjar | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, goatsucker |
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| nightlife | (noun) the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion (as at the theater, a nightclub, etc.) | Synonyms: night life |
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| (noun) the entertainment available to people seeking nighttime diversion | Synonyms: night life |
| nightlong | (adjective) lasting, open, or operating through the whole night | Synonyms: all-night, overnight |
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| nightly | (adjective) happening every night | - |
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| (adverb) at the end of each day | Synonyms: every night |
| nightmare | (noun) a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream | - |
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| (noun) a situation resembling a terrifying dream | Synonyms: incubus |
| nightmarish | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: bloodcurdling, hair-raising |
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| nightmarishness | (noun) The property of being extremely bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying; resembling a nightmare. | Synonyms: hellishness |
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| nightrider | (noun) member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge | Synonyms: night rider |
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| nightshade | (noun) any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit | - |
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| nightshirt | (noun) nightclothes worn by men | - |
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| nightspot | (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, club, night club, nightclub |
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| nightstick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, truncheon |
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| nighttime | (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, night |
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| nightwalker | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, red worm, wiggler |
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| nightwear | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightclothes, sleepwear |
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| nightwork | (noun) work to be done at night | - |
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| nigra | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: jigaboo, nigga, nigger |
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| overnight | (adjective) lasting, open, or operating through the whole night | Synonyms: all-night, nightlong |
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| (adverb) during or for the length of one night | - |
| (adverb) happening in a short time or with great speed | - |
| overnighter | (noun) a small traveling bag to carry clothing and accessories for staying overnight | Synonyms: overnight bag, overnight case |
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| (noun) a guest who stays overnight | - |
| pfennig | (noun) 100 pfennigs formerly equaled 1 Deutsche Mark in Germany | - |
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| shenanigan | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness |
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| (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, guile, trickery, wile |
| snigger | (noun) a disrespectful laugh | Synonyms: snicker, snort |
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| (verb) laugh quietly | Synonyms: snicker |
| tonight | (noun) the present or immediately coming night | - |
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| (adverb) during the night of the present day | Synonyms: this evening, this night |
| weeknight | (noun) any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday | - |
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