Countable nouns are common nouns that can take a plural, can combine with numerals or counting quantifiers, and can take an indefinite article such as a or an. Examples of count nouns are book, orange, cat, animal, man…

• The outside of an orange is bitter, but the inside is sweet.
• A cat was basking on the window sill.

Uncountable Nouns are substances, concepts, materials, information… that we cannot divide into separate elements. They can’t be counted.
For example, we cannot count “water“. We can count “a glass of water” or “a bottle of water” or “1 litre of water“, but we cannot count “water” itself.

• I immerse my clothes in the water.
• Could I have a glass of water, please?

Uncountable Nouns List A – Z

Below you can find a list of the most common non-count nouns in English. Some nouns are both countable and uncountable. They have been put in bold.

Uncountable Nouns List: A – D

A

• Advice
• Aggression
• Assistance
• Attention
• Accommodation
• Advertising
• Air
• Athletics
• Access
• Adulthood
• Alcohol
• Applause
• Agriculture
• Atmosphere
• Anger
• Art
• Absence
• Aid
• Arithmetic
• Age

B

• Beauty
• Beef
• Bravery
• Business
• Blood
• Botany
• Bacon
• Baggage
• Ballet
• Butter
• Biology
• Beer
• Bread
• Behaviour

C

• Cake
• Cash
• Chaos
• Clothing
• Confidence
• Compassion
• Calm
• Corruption
• Courage
• Comprehension
• Cheese
• Currency
• Carbon
• Cardboard
• Chalk
• Chess
• Coal
• Commerce
• Confusion
• Cookery
• Countryside
• Crockery
• Cutlery
• Chocolate
• Content
• Cotton
• Childhood
• Coffee

D

• Danger
• Data
• Dancing
• Democracy
• Damage
• Darkness
• Determination
• Delight
• Depression
• Driving
• Dignity
• Dessert
• Design
• Dust
• Distribution
• Dirt
• Duty

Uncountable Nouns List: E – H

E

• Education
• Economics
• Equipment
• Earth
• Expense
• Energy
• Electricity
• Enthusiasm
• Environment
• Enjoyment
• Energy
• Envy
• Evil
• Engineering
• Entertainment
• Evolution
• Existence
• Ethics
• Evidence
• Employment
• Experience

F

• Failure
• Fire
• Fiction
• Fashion
• Forgiveness
• Faith
• Flour
• Flu
• Fear
• Fun
• Fame
• Freedom
• Food
• Finance
• Fruit
• Fuel
• Friendship
• Furniture
• Flesh

G

• Gasoline
• Genetics
• Garbage
• Growth
• Grief
• Grammar
• Garlic
• Gossip
• Gold
• Gymnastics
• Glass
• Grass
• Golf
• Gratitude
• Ground
• Guilt

H

• Harm
• Hair
• Hardware
• Hydrogen
• Help
• Happiness
• Health
• Hate
• Hope
• Hospitality
• Homework
• Heat
• Hatred
• Hunger
• Honey
• Humour
• Honesty
• Height
• Housework
• History

Uncountable Nouns List: I – O

I

• Ice
• Imagination
• Information
• Independence
• Infrastructure
• Ice cream
• Importance
• Intelligence
• Industry
• Irony
• Injustice
• Innocence
• Iron
• Insurance
• Inflation

J

• Judo
• Jealousy
• Jam
• Jewelery
• Joy
• Juice
• Justice

K

• Kindness
• Knowledge
• Karate

L

• Laughter
• Labour
• Lava
• Livestock
• Luggage
• Lightning
• Land
• Leather
• Linguistics
• Light
• Loneliness
• Lack
• Litter
• Luck
• Love
• Leisure
• Logic
• Literature

M

• Machinery
• Mail
• Mankind
• Marriage
• Money
• Magic
• Marble
• Mercy
• Music
• Meat
• Management
• Mathematics
• Moonlight
• Methane
• Milk
• Metal
• Mayonnaise
• Mud
• Mist
• Motivation
• Motherhood
• Measles

N

• Nature
• Nitrogen
• Nutrition
• Noise
• News
• Nonsense
• Nurture

O

• Obedience
• Obesity
• Oxygen
• Oil

Uncountable Nouns List: P – Z

P

• Paper
• Passion
• Poetry
• Parking
• Pressure
• Perfume
• Physics
• Psychology
• Peel
• Pepper
• Patience
• Permission
• Peace
• Philosophy
• Plastic
• Progress
• Production
• Pollution
• Pleasure
• Pork
• Petrol
• Pronunciation
• Pride
• Policy
• Purity
• Poverty
• Punctuation
• Power
• Produce
• Protection
• Publicity
• Pasta
• Pay
• Pain
• Painting

Q

• Quartz
• Quality
• Quantity

R

• Reliability
• Rum
• Recreation
• Reality
• Rubbish
• Revenge
• Racism
• Rice
• Relief
• Respect
• Rain
• Relaxation
• Research
• Religion

S

• Salt
• Safety
• Salad
• Scaffolding
• Soil
• Satisfaction
• Sand
• Satire
• Security
• Sorrow
• Seafood
• Speed
• Scenery
• Sewing
• Strength
• Space
• Software
• Seaside
• Stream
• Stupidity
• Shopping
• Stress
• Shame
• Spite
• Steam
• Silence
• Sunshine
• Sleep
• Status
• Success
• Soup
• Snow
• Smoking
• Silver
• Symmetry
• Spaghetti
• Spelling
• Soap
• Sport
• Stuff
• Sugar
• Smoke

T

• Tea
• Tolerance
• Thirst
• Technology
• Trousers
• Tennis
• Trade
• Timber
• Turbulence
• Toothpaste
• Time
• Traffic
• Travel
• Toast
• Thunder
• Transportation
• Trust
• Trouble
• Temperature

U

• Understanding
• Usage
• Underwear
• Unemployment
• Unity

V

• Violence
• Veal
• Validity
• Vitality
• Vinegar
• Vision
• Vegetation
• Vegetarianism
• Vengeance

W

• Warmth
• Weight
• Whiskey
• Weather
• Wildlife
• Water
• Welfare
• Wine
• Wisdom
• Wood
• Wealth
• Wheat
• Wool
• Width
• Work

Y

• Yoga
• Youth
• Yeast

Z

• Zoology
• Zinc

List of Uncountable Nouns | Pictures

Non-count Nouns List A – D

List of Non-count Nouns E – H

Non-count Nouns List I – O

Examples of Non-count Nouns P – S

Non-count Nouns List S – Z