nic
/nɪk/
nic noun: nicotine.
Noun (1)
nic (uncountable)
- nicotine
- I prefer vaping with nic-free juice.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: NIC
NIC
- Acronym of Nursing Interventions Classification.
Noun (2) capitalized: NIC
NIC (plural NICs)
- Acronym of network interface card or network interface controller, used to interface a computer to a network.
- Acronym of network information center.
- Acronym of national insurance contribution.
- Despite propelling the tax burden to its highest peacetime level – through a combination of next April’s national insurance contributions (NICs) increase and a sharp rise in corporation tax due to take effect in 2023 – the chancellor painted himself as the champion of low taxes.2021 October 27, Heather Stewart, “Johnsonism wins budget battle but will Sunakism win the war?”, in The Guardian
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Nic
Nic
- A diminutive of the female given name Nicola, Nichola, and Nicole.
Forms of nic
| plural | NICs |
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Origin of nic
Clipping of nicotine.
Clipping.
Words that rhyme with nic
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- nick
- flick
- sick
- unpick
- chick
- dick
- rick
- vic
- wick
- crick
- ick
- shtick
- snick
- squick
- stich
- strick
- unstick
- blick
- hick
- inwick
- klick
- mick
- outwick
- pic
- Roman brick
- shlick
- sic
- SLC
- spic
- thicc
- tic
- Vick
- yardstick
- cinematographic
- fic
- flic
- frick
- gick
- hard tick
- hic
- hysteric
- Laconophilic
- megalographic
- miskick
- rainstick
- restart kick
- schtik
- shift stick
Questions about nic
- What does nic mean?
- Nic means nicotine.
- What part of speech is nic?
- Nic can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce nic?
- Nic is pronounced /nɪk/.
- What is the plural of nic?
- The plural of nic is NICs.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nic (page history and authors); NIC (page history and authors); Nic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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