Meanings

the Big Dipper (asterism)

loser

Protectorate General of Beiting (Tang-period Chinese office established in Xinjiang in 702 CE)

Northern Qi dynasty (of China; 550-577)

the four northern islands (held by Russia)

northern side house (to the rear of a main residence; often home to one's wife)

northeast Japan (northeast of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line)

Arctic oscillation

Arctic expedition

Arctic air mass

legal wife of a regent, of the imperial adviser, or of an official at the Grand Council of State

northern pavilion of a house

Tōhoku earthquake (March 11, 2011)

Tōhoku earthquake (March 11, 2011)

the Big Dipper seen on a winter night

defeatist

Arctic region

North Sea oil fields

Northern Territories dispute

Boreoeutheria (clade of placental mammals)