min·ute·man 
(mĭnĭt-măn′)
(mĭnĭt-măn′)n.
An armed man pledged to be ready to fight on a minute's notice just before and during the Revolutionary War in the United States.
- near-Earth asteroid
- near-Earth comet
- near-Earth object
- Near East
- Near Eastern
- Near Easterner
- near gale
- near-infrared radiation
- Near Islands
- nearly
- near miss
- nearness
- near point
- near-red radiation
- near rhyme
- nearshore
- nearsighted
- nearsightedly
- nearsightedness
- near-term
- near thing
- near to heart
- near to one's heart
- neat
- neat