9-Letter Words Starting with N

Nabobism

Nailfold

Nainsook

Naloxone

Units for some highly potent drugs

Unit equal to 10 angstroms

Measurement of length at the subatomic level

One billionth (10 -9 ) of a tesla.

Nanowatt

Naphthol

Gold coins - there were three of them

Pastries also known as mille-feuilles

Cream-filled creations

T-men's problem

Serious social problem

Drugs that cause sleep or drowsiness

Induce stupor

...that would be telling!

That would be telling!

Story of arrival in state

Tellers of tales

They tell tales

They have telling parts in play

Slenderest of winning margins

Retreat admitting quarrel is most biased

Most specific sign set in treehouse

Reducing list of choices

Becoming less wide

Nationalist's 'eart-rending stricture

Natation

Swimming-pools (US)

Swim-meet sites

US word for swimming-pools

Stan, a lion (anagram)

Races with a grandstand finish!

Giants and Pirates

""A zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals, and in masses which often have a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and soda.""

Like some mollusks

One who gives a rallying call (wordplay)

One directs the course, of a ship say

Seafaring reptile (wordplay)

Littoral

Obituary

English word

Necrose

Sweet, as a drink

A fine sour cocktail is wicked!

One 7 is wrong. Wicked!

Port invested in unsafe supply base

Contradictions for one entering States

Contradictions

Denials

Negatron

One who bargains

Not eating out? Maybe one is struggling to get a good deal

Not drinking say, I consumed treat

Find a way over (a difficult path)

Bargain at the wheel (wordplay)

Ohio et al., to W. Va.

John Belushi's last film

They live nearby

Huge Robin (anagram)

Fellow man mostly being rough at play

Whicker bowled our man next door

Possibly worms pet coming up in lumps

Tom needs a fix! He's got worms

Worms discovered in one-masted ship

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae [New Latin, from Greek nemos a grove + philein to love]""

It handles sight and hearing

Highly developed region

Toxic element with ie no dummy particles

Element used to make magnets commonly used in microphones and speakers

From the later stone age

Of the late Stone Age.

Period beginning about 8,000 B.C.

Freshly coined words

Lingo some butchered for blog, say

Hypermiling, for one

It's a new expression for Horsegate

Neomorph

Neomycin

Liking for new things

Mobile phones, yet recently introduced

They're just getting started

Newcomers one prepared with scraps picked up

Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.

Neoplasm

Neoprene

Neoteny

Modernists

""Pl. nephroses (-s z) A disease of the kidneys marked by degenerative lesions, especially of the winding uriniferous tubules.""

""Pl. nephroses (-s z) A disease of the kidneys marked by degenerative lesions, especially of the winding uriniferous tubules.""

13, quarantined from relation, suggestive of kidney disease

Nepotism

Family providers (wordplay)

They hire their relatives

They could be relatively helpful

""The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration.""

Nervousness.

With clammy hands, say

With shaking hands, perhaps

In an anxious manner

Connected on LinkedIn, say

Attended conferences, for example

Part of goal went well, made some business contacts

Neuraxon

The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord.

Branch of medicine

Study of the nervous system

Scientific study of nerve systems

Benign tumour, typically at the end of a severed nerve

Ones getting "worry lines" (wordplay)

Ones getting 'worry lines' (wordplay)

Worrywarts, e.g

They're a little elementary (wordplay)

Lepton family particles

Cousins of electrons

""NEUTRON a subatomic particle, also NEUTRINO""

Not a gain (wordplay)

Famous bird's saying

Ravenous declaration (wordplay)

They are fresh to the game

Making their debuts

Wigan Athletic, for example

Dog majoring in journalism (wordplay)

Nosey critter with long ears (wordplay)

Novel Hudson edited for reporter

Post production locales (wordplay)

Post production spots (wordplay)

Murphy Brown for example

Murphy Brown for example

Murphy Brown was one

Connie Chung and Lesley Stahl

""A mineral of a copperred color and metallic luster; an arsenide of nickel; called also coppernickel, kupfernickel. coppernickel, kupfernickel.""

Casual inaction restricts a plant

Action in a struggle with tobacco

Inaction is bad for a plant

Nicotine

""Pertaining to, or derived from, nicotine; nicotic; used specifically to designate an acid related to pyridine, obtained by the oxidation of nicotine, and called nicotinic acid. nicotinic acid.""

Niello

Airglow occurring at night.

Sleep number (wordplay)

Habit picked up by retired people

The late shift

From dusk to dawn

From dusk to dawn.

Discotheque, for one.

Disco, e.g

Nearly time, heads back for club

Nigrosin

An algebraic quantity that when raised to a certain power equals zero.

Taint iron chemically by treatment with acid

Nitrator

Gaseous compounds.

Nitrosyl

Nobelium

Splitting heads with the French eminence

Lordly quality

High character

Noblesse

No-go in state, no-go by day (wordplay)

That's no light matter

Active by night

19 pieces for 8 in the 17s!

Music for, or paintings of, nighttime

Chopin compositions

NOCUOUS {harmful=adj}

How unsound this is!

Lionesses (anagram)

Kind of typewriter

By the sound of it, the badger back there might eat them

I have a curiosity about the cacophony

Curiosity about one quality of sound

Clamour from unit during the prying

In an offensively malodorous manner

In a disagreeable manner.

In a harmful, or (especially of smells) offensive way

Nomadism

No, my outside in all in name

In name only

Play Milan and Lyon in an insignificant way

Proposed to Mina in message from Dublin

Picked by the party

Proposed as a candidate

Proposes moving to Minnesota

Puts forward for a slate

Proposes someone from Minnesota

Speaker at a political convention.

One proposing candidate

He proposes someone to monitor an order

Nomogram

""A graph consisting of three coplanar curves, each graduated for a different variable so that a straight line cutting all three curves intersects the related values of each variable.""

Like some paper

Not officiating.

Inoperative

Passivity

Nonactor

ADDICT to surrender to something compulsively

Nonadult

ANIMAL a living organism with voluntary motion and sensation

Response that beats around the bush

ARABLE land suitable for cultivation

ARTIST one who is skilled in art

ATOMIC relating to an atom

AUTHOR to bring into being

Nonbeing

Atheism, in a way

Neither male nor female

Like Basit on "Are You the One?" and Taylor on "Billions"

BITING the act of biting

Nonblack

Nonbody

BONDED bond

BUYING buy

CAKING the act of caking

CAMPUS to restrict a student to the school ground

CAREER to go at full speed

CASUAL one who works according to demand

Not causal.

CHURCH to bring to a building for Christian worship

COITAL relating to coitus

COKING coke

Noncolor

COMBAT to fight against

To dissent or refuse to concur.

COUNTY an administrative division of a state

Like audited courses

Like an audited class

Noncrime

CRISES crisis

CRISIS a crucial turning point

Not occurring in cycles; not cyclic. Opposite of cyclic.cyclic.

DANCER one that {dances=v}

Nondance

DEGREE a graduation on a scale

DESERT to {abandon=v}

DOCTOR to treat medically

DOLLAR a monetary unit of the U.S.A.

Rear-seat occupant

One with no wheels, still to be tested (wordplay)

EDIBLE something fit to be eaten

ENDING termination

ENERGY the power required for doing work

Hoist 90 ton? That's nothing

One is part of nothing

Nobody not ninety is dancing

Nonequal

EROTIC an amatory poem

ETHNIC a member of a racial or cultural group

Odd to see initially these are flops

Superficial happenings

Nary a one with openings - what anticlimaxes!

Not exempt; subject to (some specified) rule. Opposite of exempt.exempt.

EXOTIC something from another part of the world

EXPERT to serve as an authority

No longer existing; inaccessible through loss or destruction.

FACTOR to express as a product of two or more quantities

FADING an Irish dance

FAMILY a group of persons related by blood or marriage

FARMER one that {farms=v}

""Infinitive, uninflected; -- of verbs. Opposite of finite.finite.""

Nonfluid

FLYING the operation of an aircraft

FORMAL a social event that requires evening dress

FOSSIL the preserved remains of a plant or animal

Inflected form of FROZEN Inflected form of FROZE freeze

GHETTO to isolate in a slum

""GOLFER one that golfs, also GOWFER""

GRADED grade

GREASY containing or resembling grease

GROWTH development

Nonguest

Nonguilt

Being just ordinary people, they voted against holding on to the lady

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

One followed by 30 zeros

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

""Not having immunity; susceptible; likely to be affected with, if exposed.""

IMPACT to fix firmly together

INJURY harm inflicted or suffered

INSECT a small invertebrate segmented animal

Nonissue

JOINER a carpenter

""Not swearing allegiance; applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to William and Mary, or their successors.""

Nonjuror

Like the four things named in the circled squares

LAWYER to work as a member of the legal profession

LEADED lead

LEAGUE to come together for a common purpose

LEGUME a type of plant

Not causing death

Like pepper spray

Adjective for tear gas

LINEAL being directly descended from ancestor

Not in a straight arrangement

Kind of thinking

N connected to the Internet + AR

LIQUID a substance that flows freely

Not endowed with life; same as inanimate. Opposite of living and animate.inanimate. Opposite of living and animate.

Nonlocal

Nonmajor