| nick | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: notch, snick |
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| (noun) (British slang) a prison | - |
| (noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: dent, ding, gouge |
| (verb) mate successfully; of livestock | - |
| (verb) divide or reset the tail muscles of | - |
| (verb) cut a nick into | Synonyms: chip |
| (verb) cut slightly, with a razor | Synonyms: snick |
| nickel | (noun) a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar | - |
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| (noun) five dollars worth of a drug | Synonyms: nickel note |
| (noun) a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite | Synonyms: atomic number 28, Ni |
| (verb) plate with nickel | - |
| nickelodeon | (noun) a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin | Synonyms: jukebox |
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| nicker | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
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| (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
| nicknack | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, knickknackery, whatnot |
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| nickname | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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| (noun) a descriptive name for a place or thing | - |
| (verb) give a nickname to | Synonyms: dub |