9-Letter Words Starting with N

Naething

Artless actions

A plaque to identify river, perhaps

ID on a door, perhaps

Office door feature

Unit equal to 10 angstroms

Measurement of length at the subatomic level

One billionth (10 -9 ) of a tesla.

Nanowatt

A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum.

Naphthol

Naphthyl

T-men's problem

Serious social problem

Drugs that cause sleep or drowsiness

Induce stupor

Narrater

Doing a voice-over, say

Radio announcer's sideline.

Stretched up, standing and unfolding

...that would be telling!

That would be telling!

Story of arrival in state

Frank eats r-rodent in story

Right artist in indigenous story

River rodent in simple story

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

Narthex

Attribute of many political ads

Very unpleasant behaviour

One hopes you won't find this at Nice

Natation

Swimming-pools (US)

Swim-meet sites

US word for swimming-pools

Archaic Nevertheless; notwithstanding.

Stan, a lion (anagram)

Races with a grandstand finish!

Giants and Pirates

Nativism

Protectors of indigenous rights

""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.""

Gossiping gent, I rant when put out

Favored word of Number 2

15 aren't engaged in gossip

Dapper Dan's trait

Neat dresser's quality

Neat and trim condition

Of course aunt organised the motor race!

But of course!

Of course aunt's upset - come round!

Naturism

They prefer nothing on

Devotees of outdoor life.

Nothing goes on in their camps

Be having worse (wordplay)

More badly behaved

Less well behaved

Duck having bitten top off flower is in a bad way

Gutless Amazon repellently exploit workers - they make you sick

Disgusted at USA need for change

Una, awkwardly placed, is queasy

Una got sick of getting confused, notwithstanding

Revolts disturbing USA Senate

The way one sees a aunt that sickens one

Fills with disgust

Like some mollusks

Navicert

Plotted a course for

Skillfully made one's way through

Incorrect data given for set course

Sails by instrument.

Plots the course

Takes the helm

One who gives a rallying call (wordplay)

One directs the course, of a ship say

Seafaring reptile (wordplay)

Nearly

Putting into order

Making tidy

Putting straight

Old-time cattle tenders

Keepers of cattle.

Old-time cattle tenders

Mother of invention (wordplay)

The mother of invention

You can't do without it

Nectary

Fruit - aren't nice (anagram)

Peach of a fruit (wordplay)

Depilated peach (wordplay)

Sweet, as a drink

Contradictions for one entering States

Contradictions

Denials

Negative

Reverse photos (wordplay)

Strips in a darkroom

Strip in a darkroom

Negatron

In disrepair, perhaps

Not attended to

Ignored or failed to do

Careless one.

Slack peignoir (night clothing)

Carelessly and diaphanously clothed?

Nigel, clumsy chap, careless

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)

""An aesthetic and ideological concept affirming the independent nature, quality, and validity of Black culture.""

Possibly worms pet coming up in lumps

Tom needs a fix! He's got worms

Worms discovered in one-masted ship

Marine worm

Any of an order (Nemertina) of soft unsegmented marine worms having an eversible threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract.Nemertina) of soft unsegmented marine worms having an eversible threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract.

It handles sight and hearing

Highly developed region

From the later stone age

Of the late Stone Age.

Period beginning about 8,000 B.C.

Mobile phones, yet recently introduced

They're just getting started

Newcomers one prepared with scraps picked up

Neoteny

Modernists

Forgetfulness potions

""A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy hexagonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety el\'91olite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.""

Nephrite

Describes Jade to writer returning to human resources and IT in charge

Obsolete word for medicine for the kidneys

Inflammation of the kidneys

Wrongly diagnosed Pinterish condition (wordplay)

First to notice Petri dish without lid is spreading disease

13, quarantined from relation, suggestive of kidney disease

Nepotism

Family providers (wordplay)

They hire their relatives

They could be relatively helpful

Element named after planet

Element named for a planet

Radioactive metal

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

Nervousness.

Nescient

Babes in the woods (wordplay)

Slings net around birds not able to fly

Relatives of squabs.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Nettly

Connected on LinkedIn, say

Attended conferences, for example

Part of goal went well, made some business contacts

Neuritic

Benign tumour, typically at the end of a severed nerve

Ones getting "worry lines" (wordplay)

Ones getting 'worry lines' (wordplay)

Worrywarts, e.g

Neuter

Never onside for the get-together at last

They're a little elementary (wordplay)

Lepton family particles

Cousins of electrons

""NEUTRON a subatomic particle, also NEUTRINO""

Fair on fashionable racecourse

Card game in a Suffolk town

It's a card game, of course

Guardian seller (wordplay)

One selling in the rag trade (wordplay)

One active in the organ trade (wordplay)

11 p.m. shows, maybe

Programs on current events

They're seen in many cities at noon

Fresh run for 4, perhaps (wordplay)

100-meter dash do-over (wordplay)

Consequence of 24 seen here (wordplay)

'Zine zone (wordplay)

Paper pusher (wordplay)

Where to pick up the Guardian (wordplay)

Ngultrum

""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.""

Nictate

Wink, in biology

Wink

Inlayers of metal using black alloy

Baseball fan's or sleepyhead's concerns?

Parting shots (wordplay)

Nips before tucks (wordplay)

A social beater for 27 across (wordplay)

Haunt dark wood (wordplay)

Policeman's cudgel (wordplay)

When Eve came (wordplay)

Nearly time to crash (wordplay)

Dark autumn evening

Airglow occurring at night.

Sleep number (wordplay)

Habit picked up by retired people

The late shift

Almost time to try to sell winger

What H. King designed for flier

Bird, strange thing, certainly not a dove!

Dark beers for these fliers (wordplay)

Fliers who enjoy a few evening pints (wordplay)

Having no night.

Bars and clubs, say

Insomniacs' distraction (wordplay)

Balls and bats can be part of it

From dusk to dawn

From dusk to dawn.

Paul Revere's horse, maybe

Forgetting to wear clothes to work, say

Dream of Black Bess (wordplay)

English word

Discotheque, for one.

Disco, e.g

Nearly time, heads back for club

Then it's no light matter

When most dream

When 12 across begins to get like this

Is nothing sacred to them (wordplay)

Ones who reject established institutions

They deny existence

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

Excesses

Disunited scores (wordplay)

Good blackjack scores

57 factors (wordplay)

Nonagenarian's first 21 (wordplay)

Queen Elizabeth's birthday in 2016

Run that may start a nervous reaction

Knocked too hard (wordplay)

Made petty criticisms

Split hairs

Lice checker who's fussy (wordplay)

One overly concerned with details

Petty finder of errors

Nitrate

Taint iron chemically by treatment with acid

Nitrator

Nitride

Nitrify

An agent employed in nitrification.

Nitrify

Gaseous compounds.

Nitrosyl

Nizamate

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

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

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

Not officiating.

Inoperative

Passivity

Nonactor

ADDICT to surrender to something compulsively

Nonadult

ARTIST one who is skilled in art

ATOMIC relating to an atom

AUTHOR to bring into being

BITING the act of biting

COITAL relating to coitus

COMBAT to fight against

COUNTY an administrative division of a state

Like audited courses

Like an audited class

DESERT to {abandon=v}

DOCTOR to treat medically

Hoist 90 ton? That's nothing

One is part of nothing

Nobody not ninety is dancing

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

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

GHETTO to isolate in a slum

GROWTH development

Nonguest

Nonguilt

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

IMPACT to fix firmly together

INSECT a small invertebrate segmented animal

Not causing death

Like pepper spray

Adjective for tear gas

MARKET to offer for sale

MENTAL pertaining to the mind

Hydrogen and oxygen, notably

METRIC a standard of measurement

Anchored for life, as barnacles

MUTANT something that undergoes mutation

Not aboriginal

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Smithsonian, for one

Amateur? Well, there's no money in that!

Like public libraries

RIOTER one who {riots=v}

SEXIST one who practices {sexism=n}

SKATER one who {skates=v}

STEADY to make {steady=adj}

Nonstyle

Nonsuit

SYSTEM a group of interacting elements forming a unified whole

TARGET to make a goal of

TARIFF to tax imported or exported goods

THEIST one who believes in the existence of a God

Nontruth

Not pressing

VECTOR to guide in flight by means of radioed directions

Nonvoter

Unable to say yea or nay, when one's left out of 'no VAT on gin' scheme

Nonwhite

WRITER one who {writes=v}

Times if day.

Spinning, intends to take a pair every lunchtime

Middays

Periods when many go to lunch

Twelve-hundreds, in the miltary

Middays