Needle Palm The Needle Palm Rhapidophyllum hystrix is the sole member of the genus Rhapidophyllum in the palm family Arecaceae. It is native to the southeastern United States, from central Florida to Georgia, Mississippi , South Carolina and Alabama. The Needle Palm assumes a shrublike clumping form with several stems growing from a single base, the stems growing very slowly and tightly together, eventually forming a dense base 1-1.2 m tall.
	Needlefish Needlefishes are piscivorous fishes usually associated with shallow marine habitats or the surface of the open sea. They closely resemble gar in being elongate and having long, narrow jaws filled with sharp teeth, and some species of needlefish are referred to as gars or garfish despite being only distantly related to the true gars.
	Neem Neem is a tree in the mahogany family Meliaceae. It is the only species in the genus Azadirachta, and is native to India and Burma, growing in tropical and semi-tropical regions. Other vernacular names include Margosa, Nimtree, Nimba, Vepu, Vempu, Veppam and Indian-lilac.
	Neem cake Neem cake organic manure is the by-product obtained in the process of cold pressing of Neem fruits and kernels, and the solvent extraction process for neem oil cake. It is a potential source of organic manure under the Bureau of India Standards, Specification No. 8558. Neem has demonstrated considerable potential as a fertilizer.
	Nefazodone Nefazodone hydrochloride is an antidepressant drug marketed by Bristol-Myers Squibb. Its sale was discontinued in 2003 in some countries, due to the small possibility of hepatic injury, which could lead to the need for a liver transplant, or even death. On May 20, 2004, Bristol-Myers Squibb discontinued the sale of SerzoneŽ in the United States.
	Nefertiti Nefertiti was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, and mother-in-law of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. She may have also ruled in her own right under the name Neferneferuaten briefly after her husband's death and before the accession of Tutankhamun. Her name roughly translates to "the beautiful woman has come".
	Negev The Negev is the desert region of southern Israel. In Biblical Hebrew language Negev means "south". The Negev covers the greater amount of Israel's official Southern District. Geographically, the over 13,000km Negev forms an inverted triangle whose western side is contiguous with the desert of the Sinai Peninsula, and whose eastern border is the Wadi Arabah.
	Negligee The neglige is a form of womenswear intended for wear at night and in the bedroom. It is a form of nightgown; first introduced in France in the 18th Century, where it mimicked the heavy head-to-toe style of women's day dresses of the time. By the 1920s it began to mimic women's satin single-layer evening dresses of the period.
	Negligence In law, negligence is a type of tort or delict that can be either criminal law or civil law in nature. It can be defined as a behaviour that falls below the standard established by the law for the protection of others against unreasonable risk of harm.
	Negros Negros is an island of the Philippines located in the Visayas, at . It is the 4th largest island in the country, with a land area of 12,706 square km. People on the island are called Negrense.
	Neighbours Neighbours is a long-running Australian soap opera, which began on-air in March 1985. It was created by Reg Watson and is produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation. Through its entire run in Australia it has screened as five 22-minute episodes a week, shown each weeknight at 6:30pm.
	Neil Armstrong Neil Alden Armstrong is a former United States astronaut, test pilot, and Naval Aviator who is widely known for being the first human ever to set foot on the Moon. Armstrong's first space flight was as command pilot of Gemini 8 in 1966. On this mission, he performed the first manned docking of two spacecraft together with pilot David Scott.
	Neisseria gonorrhoeae Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a species of Gram-negative bacteria responsible for the disease gonorrhoea. Neisseria species of bacteria are highly fastidious gram-negative cocci, that is, they require special nutrients to survive. These cocci typically appear in pairs . Gonorrhoea is a sexually transmitted disease.
	Nelfinavir Nelfinavir is an antiretroviral drug used in the treatment of the human immunodeficiency virus. Nelfinavir belongs to the class of drugs known as protease inhibitor and like other PIs is generally used in combination with other antiretroviral drugs. Nelfinavir is presented as the mesilate ester prodrug.
	Nellie Bly Nellie Bly was a U.S. journalist, author, industrialist, and charity worker. She is most famous for an undercover Expos in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within, and for her record-breaking trip around the world.
	Nellie Tayloe Ross Nellie Tayloe Ross was the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state. She was born near St. Joseph, Missouri to James Wynn Tayloe, a native of Stewart County, Tennessee, and his wife, Elizabeth Blair Green. Her full name was Nellie Davis Tayloe. Nellie Tayloe attended a teacher training college for two years and then taught kindergarten in Omaha, Nebraska, Nebraska.
	Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Order of Merit, Order of Canada, Order of Australia, Queen's Counsel was the first President of South Africa of South Africa to be elected in universal suffrage democracy elections.
	Nelumbo lutea Nelumbo lutea, the American Lotus, also known as Yellow Lotus or Water-chinquapin, is a flowering plant of the order Proteales. This plant has a large root that was used by Native Americans in the United States as a food source. This may be the plant called "macoupin" in Illinois.
	Nelumbo nucifera Nelumbo nucifera is known by a number of common names, including Blue Lotus, Indian Lotus, and Bean of India, but not Sacred Water-lily, which is of the Nymphaea nucifera species. Botanically, Nelumbo nucifera may also be referred to by its former names, Nelumbium speciosum or Nymphaea nelumbo. This plant is an aquatic perennial, but if its seeds are preserved under favorable circumstances, they may remain viable for many years.
	Nelumbonaceae Nelumbonaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by only a few taxonomists: the plants involved have often been included in family Nymphaeaceae. It is sometimes called the "lotus family" or "lotus-lily family".
	Nematocera Nematocera are generally primitive fly, typically recognized by filamentous, multi-segmented antenna which may be plumose in some males. Nematocera is a paraphyletic suborder, because one of its constituent families is apparently the sister taxon to the entire suborder Brachycera; an alternative classification has been proposed in which the family Nymphomyiidae is removed to its own suborder, the Archidiptera, and all the remaining Nematoceran families are placed in a suborder called Eudipter
	Nematode The nematodes or roundworms are one of the most common phyla of animals, with over 20,000 different described species . They are ubiquitous in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial environments, where they often outnumber other animals in both individual and species counts, and are found in locations as diverse as Antarctica and oceanic trench.
	Nemean Lion The Nemean Lion was a vicious monster in Greek mythology that lived in Nemea. It was eventually killed by Heracles. The lion was usually considered the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, but it was also said to have fallen from the moon, offspring of Zeus and Selene.
	Nemophila Nemophila is a genus found in the flowering plant family Boraginaceae. Most of the species in Nemophila contain the phrase "baby blue-eyes" in their common names. N. menziesii has the common name of "Baby blue-eyes". N. parviflora is called the "Smallflower baby blue-eyes" and N.
	Nemophila maculata Nemophila maculata is a dicot in the family Boraginaceae. It is an annual herb that grows in the spring. The common name for N. maculata is the Fivespot or Five-spot. It is a native species to California where it is endemism. The flowers of N. maculata are bowl-shaped, white with dark veins and dots.
	Neoclassicism Neoclassicism is the name given to quite distinct Cultural movement in the Decorative art and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture. These movements were in effect at various times between the 18th century and 20th century.
	Neocolonialism Neocolonialism is a term used to describe certain economic operations at the international level which have alleged similarities to the traditional colonialism of the 16th to the 19th centuries. The contention is that governments have aimed to control other nations through indirect means; that in lieu of direct military-political control, neocolonialist powers employ economic, financial, and trade policies to dominate less powerful countries.
	Neoconservatism Neoconservatism is a political current and ideology, mainly in the United States, which is generally held to have emerged in the 1960s, coalesced in the 1970s, and has had a significant presence in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. The prefix neo- refers to two ways in which neoconservatism was new.
	Neodymium Neodymium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Nd and atomic number 60.
	Neolithic | style="border-bottom:3px solid; background:#efefef;" | This time period is part of theHolocene epoch. |- | style="background:#efefef;" | Holocene The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology that is traditionally the last part of the Stone Age.
	Neomycin Neomycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic that is found in many topical medications such as creams, ointments and eyedrops.
	Neomys The genus Neomys is a group of three water shrews from Eurasia. *Eurasian Water Shrew *Southern Water Shrew *Transcaucasian Water Shrew
	Neon Neon is the chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Ne and atomic number 10. A colorless, nearly inert noble gas, neon gives a distinct reddish glow when used in vacuum discharge tubes and neon lamps and is found in air in trace amounts.
	Neon lamp A neon lamp is a gas discharge Lighting containing primarily neon gas at low pressure. The term is also used for similar devices filled with other noble gases, usually to produce different colors.
	Neonatal intensive care unit A neonatal intensive care unit, usually shortened NICU and also called a newborn intensive care unit or special care baby unit, is a unit of a hospital specializing in the care of ill or prematurity newborn infants. NICUs were developed in the 1950s and 1960s by pediatricians to provide better temperature support, isolation from infection risk, specialized feeding, and access to specialized equipment and resources.
	Neonatology Neonatology is a subspecialty of pediatrics that consists of the medical care of newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn infant. It is a hospital-based specialty, and is usually practiced in neonatal intensive care units. The principal patients of neonatologists are newborn infants who are ill or requiring special medical care due to prematurity, low birth weight, intrauterine growth retardation, congenital malformations, sepsis, or birth asphyxia.
	Neosho River The Neosho River is a tributary of the Arkansas River in eastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma in the United States. Its tributaries also drain portions of Missouri and Arkansas. The river is about 460 mi long. Via the Arkansas, it is part of the Mississippi River drainage basin.
	Neostigmine Neostigmine is a parasympathomimetic, specifically, a reversible cholinesterase inhibitor. By interfering with the breakdown of acetylcholine, neostigmine indirectly agonist both nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and muscarinic acetylcholine receptors.
	Nepal Nepal, officially Kingdom of Nepal, is a landlocked Himalayas country in South Asia, bordered by the People's Republic of China to the north and by India to the south, east and west. More than 80% of Nepalese follow Hinduism. For a small territory, the Nepali landscape is uncommonly diverse, ranging from the humid Terai in the south to the lofty Himalayas in the north.
	Nepenthaceae Nepenthaceae is a family of flowering plants, which has been universally recognized by taxonomists. The APG II system of 2003 recognizes this family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots. The family consists of a single genus, Nepenthes, totalling over a hundred species of carnivorous plants.
	Nepenthes The Nepenthes, popularly known as Tropical pitcher plants or Monkey Cups, are a plant genus in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae that comprises roughly 100 species, numerous List of Nepenthes natural hybrids and many cultivated hybrids.
	Nepeta Nepeta is a genus of about 250 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. The members of this group are known as catnips or catmints. The genus is native to Europe, Asia and Africa, with the highest species diversity in the Mediterranean region east to mainland China.
	Nepheline Nepheline, also called nephelite, is a feldspathoid: a silica-undersaturated aluminosilicate, Sodium3PotassiumAluminium4silicon4Oxygen16, that occurs in intrusive and volcanic rocks with low silica, and in their associated pegmatites.
	Nephelium Nephelium is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae, native to southeastern Asia. They are evergreen trees with pinnately compound leaf, and edible drupe fruit; one species, N. lappaceum is commercially important for its fruit.
	Nephrolepis Nephrolepis is a genus of about 30 species of ferns in the family Davalliaceae. ;Selected species: * Nephrolepis bisseratum Schott. * Nephrolepis cordifolia C.Presl * Nephrolepis exaltata Schott * Nephrolepis multiflora F.M.Jarret ex C.V.Morton
	Nephron A nephron is the basic structural and functional unit of the kidney. Its chief function is to regulate water and soluble substances by filtering the blood, reabsorbing what is needed and excreting the rest as urine. Nephrons eliminate wastes from the body, regulate blood volume and blood pressure, control levels of electrolytes and metabolites, and regulate blood pH.
	Nepidae Nepidae is a family of insects in the order Hemiptera, suborder Heteroptera. Sometimes it is placed in the infraorder Nepomorpha. They are commonly called water scorpions for their superficial resemblance to a scorpion, which is due to the modification of the legs of the anterior pair for prehension, and to the presence of a long slender process, simulating a tail, at the posterior end of the abdomen.
	Neptune Neptune is the eighth and outermost planet in our solar system. It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass; Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near twin Uranus which is 14 Earth Masses, but slightly smaller due to its higher density.
	Nerd Nerd, as a Stereotype or Archetype designation, refers to somebody who pursues academic and intellectual interests at the expense of social skills such as: interpersonal communication, fashion, hygiene and physical fitness. History
	Nerds Nerds are candies sold by Nestl under their The Willy Wonka Candy Company brand. Introduced in 1983, Nerds are small candies that come in a vary of abstract shapes and flavors, and are usually sold in a box that has two separate flavors, each with a separate opening device.
	Nero Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and last Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty . Nero became heir to the then Emperor, his grand-uncle and adoptive father Claudius.
	Nerodia Nerodia is a genus of non-venomous colubrid snakes commonly referred to as water snakes.
	Nerodia sipedon Nerodia sipedon is the Northern Water Snake, a large, well-known colubrid of North America. They are active during the day and at night. They are most often seen basking on rocks, stumps, or brush. During the day, these snakes hunt among plants at the water's edge, looking for small fish, frogs, worms, leeches, crayfish, salamanders, young turtles, and small birds and mammals.
	Nerva Marcus Cocceius Nerva was a Roman Emperor. He was the first emperor to select his successor from among the most deserving men and to adopt him, a practice that led to a line of Emperors that is known as the "Five Good Emperors".
	NERVA NERVA is an acronym for Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application. It was a Nuclear thermal rocket. The NERVA rocket engine was based on Kiwi nuclear reactor technology. In the early 1960s NASA planned to use NERVA to power a RIFT nuclear stage to be launched in the early 1970s.
	Nerve A nerve is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of nerve fibers or axons, which includes the glia that ensheath the axons in myelin. Neurons are sometimes called nerve cells, though this term is technically imprecise since many neurons do not form nerves. Motor neurons, or nerves innervate or activate muscles groups to perform work.
	Nerve plexus A nerve plexus is a network of intersecting nerves. They combine sets of vertebral column nerves that serve the same area of the body into one large grouped nerve. There are several in the body, including: *Cervical plexus - serves the head, neck and shoulders *Brachial plexus - serves the chest, shoulders, arms and hands
	Nervi Nervi was a coast town of Liguria, in the province of Genova, in Italy. Now is on of the quarter of Genoa. Located 25 meters above sea level, it is much frequented as a winter resort. At the beginning of the century, it's mentioned as being surrounded with groves of olives, oranges and lemons, and beautiful gardened villas.
	Nervous Breakdown Nervous Breakdown was the first Black Flag Extended play#The 7" EP in punk rock. It was released in 1978 on SST Records.
	Ness is the hero of EarthBound. He is an unassuming young boy, gifted with special powers. He comes from Onett, a small town in Eagleland, and lives next door to a boy named Pokey Minch, who becomes one of the main antagonists later in the game. Ness is a silent protagonist.
	Nest A nest is place of refuge built to hold an animal's Eggs and/or provide a place to raise their offspring. They are usually made of some life material such as twigs, grass, and leaf; or may simply be a depression in the ground, or a hole in a tree, rock or building.
	Nester Nester was the long-time teenage mascot and comic strip star of Nintendo Power magazine, as well as a sometime video game character. His name is a play on the acronym Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo's flagship system during the time period. Nester was created by Howard Philips, "President" of the Nintendo Fun Club and an editor of Nintendo Power, to be the supporting character in his comic strip, Howard & Nester.
	Nestlé Nestl S.A. or Socit des Produits Nestl S.A., headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, is the world's biggest food and beverage company. Nestl's existing products extend from mineral water to baby food to coffee and dairy products.
	Nestorianism Nestorianism is the Christian doctrine that Jesus existed as two persons, the man Jesus and the divine Son of God, or Logos, rather than as a unified person. This doctrine is identified with Nestorius , Patriarch of Constantinople. This view of Christ was condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431, and the conflict over this view led to the Nestorian schism, separating the Assyrian Church of the East from the Byzantine Church.
	Net A net, in its primary meaning, comprises fibers woven in a grid-like structure, as in fishing nets, butterfly nets, cricket nets, or nets used in sporting Goal in games such as soccer, basketball and ice hockey. The adjectives reticulated and retiary both mean "net-like".
	Netball Netball is a team sport similar to and derived from basketball, and was originally known as "women's basketball". While basically unknown in its homeland, it is the pre-eminent women's team sport in Australia and New Zealand and is popular in Jamaica, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, and various other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
	Netherlands The Netherlands is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands , which is formed by the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. The Netherlands is a constitutional monarchy, located in northwestern Europe. It is bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east.
	Netherlands Antilles The Netherlands Antilles , previously known as the Netherlands West Indies or Dutch Antilles/West Indies, are part of the Lesser Antilles and consist of two island group in the Caribbean Sea that form an autonomous part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands .
	Netscape Netscape, formerly Netscape Communications Corporation, was an United States computer services company, best known for its web browser. The browser was once dominant in terms of usage share, but as a result of the browser wars, they lost much of their userbase in that area.
	Nettle Nettle is the common name for any of between 30-45 species of flowering plants of the genus Urtica in the family Urticaceae, with a cosmopolitan though mainly temperate distribution. They are mostly herbaceous perennial plants, but some are annual plant and a few are shrubby.