Index of English words, starting with "ni"

(1) - Nitre (n.) See Niter.
(2) - Nitre (n.) Native sodium carbonate; natron.
(3) - Nitre (n.) A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.

(1) - Nitric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen; specifically, designating any one of those compounds in which, as contrasted with nitrous compounds, the element has a higher valence; as, nitric oxide; nitric acid.

(1) - Nitrification (n.) A process of oxidation, in which nitrogenous vegetable and animal matter in the presence of air, moisture, and some basic substances, as lime or alkali carbonate, is converted into nitrates.
(2) - Nitrification (n.) The act or process of oxidizing nitrogen or its compounds so as to form nitrous or nitric acid.
(3) - Nitrification (n.) The act, process, or result of combining with nitrogen or some of its compounds.

(1) - Nitrify (v. t.) To combine or impregnate with nitrogen; to convert, by oxidation, into nitrous or nitric acid; to subject to, or produce by, nitrification.