2-Letter Words Ending in N

DECISION to win a boxing decision

Failure of election.

Remark; sighting to determine position

Result of a patient look

Keeping watch...

Program for freshmen

What a freshman needs

Relative position

One of the Orthoptera.

Showing off, so attention is diverted

Gaudy display

Pretentious display

OUTDOORS in the open air

OUTSTRIDE To surpass in striding.

CAUTION to {warn=v}

CONCERN to be of interest to

EXPLAIN to make clear and understandable

SWEETEN to make {sweet=adj}

TIGHTEN to make {taut=adj}

PURPLE

What blood undergoes in the lungs

""Of or pertaining to a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen; as, oxyhydrogen gas. as, oxyhydrogen gas.""

The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.

""The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.""

Five-sided solid figure

Solid figure with five plane faces

Five-faced solid figure - near the pond (anagram)

Gradual filtration

PERENNATE

Ace in the hole (wordplay)

It's useful to those in a tearing hurry

Holes picked in closing remarks about French leader

Possible ordering (of a number of items)

From importunate version of variation

Change of order

Oppression involves putting tube into each part

Ill-treatment on for example religious grounds

Act of mimicry

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany any of a group of substances produced by plants that inhibit the growth of pathogenic fungi that infect them [from phyto- + Greek alexein to ward off]

Candid in flyer (wordplay)

Easy to understand

Blunt and candid

PLASMIN an {enzyme=n}

See stonefly .

She's got the beat

Member of the force

Officer with scattered money from a shark (wordplay)

We compile no rubbish for coppers

They patrol with uneven paces

Noun (-sion)

Grammatical construction that could make editor panic

ELECTION the act of {electing=v}

FRESHMAN a first-year student

Word with prefix pre-

Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed.

INVASION the act of {invading=v}

""A. tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste; as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss. as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss.""

LUNCHEON a midday meal

Feeling something is about to happen

Sandra Bullock film

Presentiment, forewarning

The act of fortifying or guarding against objections.

Iron parapet (anagram)

Specially made up medicine

Preliminary measure

Word like after or for (grammar)

'Before' or 'after', say

One could be across or down

SHRUNKEN shrink

Possibly uppermost in arrogance

Strong probability.

Supposition - impertinence

Masterwork (wordplay)

Enforcing conformity to a standard

(adj.) having a predilection for French bread

Enforcing conformity regardless of individuality; scent uproar (anagram)

Steroid hormone used in oral contraceptives

Forward motion seeing prisoners go free

Advance of prisoners go amok

Poser so moved with Ring Cycle

Ordinary worker (Marxism)

Relating to the workers

Frisky pair, later on common

Legal proceedings against a person

Accusation of guilt in court

Action in open court is disturbed

""-saws , -sawing , -sawed , -sawed , -sawn (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) (tr) to saw (timber) into quarters along two diameters of a log at right angles to each other""

Reduction in density (of a gas)

The opposite of compression

Two lots of soldiers going to party, with loss of concentration

Shallow, voluble, volatile person

Synonym for 7 Down

""ACCESSION A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy. as, a king's accession to a confederacy.""

Item on a spy's checklist (wordplay)

Literacy campaign (wordplay)

Interpret objective as getting in again

Accomplishment.

""The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.""

Harvest part to divide again

A second or renewed assertion of the same thing.

The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.

Land-use project

Retrieval, recovery

Process of identification

Acknowledgement

Restore to a particular state

Overhaul, renovate

""Remembrance; recollection; also, a record.""

DIGESTION The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.

Change of focus

""EDUCATION The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.""

Important religious movement.

Improvement in how sappers are deployed (wordplay)

Amendment, improvement

""HYDRATION The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate.""

Noun (-tion)

INFECTION The act or process of infecting.

Further spiralling of prices

""INJECTION The act of injecting or throwing in; applied particularly to the forcible throwing in of a liquid, or a\'89riform body, by means of a syringe, pump, etc.""

The act of putting something in again

""INVENTION The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing. as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.""

Restatement

Repetition

Repugnance; resistance; reluctance.

""MEDIATION The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention.""

Migration back to the place from which one came.

""OPERATION The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.""

""OXIDATION The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.""

""PARTITION The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom. as, the partition of a kingdom.""

Copying CIA, Interpol will go wrong

Copy; repetition

The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure.

""PROVISION The act of providing, or making previous preparation.""

Refusal of approval

""The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority.""

""RADIATION The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.""

Booking (in restaurant)

Dinner arrangement (wordplay)

Booking (in a restaurant)

Leaving of a job

Notice attitude of compliance

Acceptance of the inevitable

Breathing

n. any large convalescent home

n. any large convalescent home

Recompense for loss

Talk in one's sleep (wordplay)

1660 to 1685, in England

Repair top of oven part following break

Limiting condition

Check again on accommodating particular individual

Limitation

Repayment in kind

An eye for an eye.

Vengeance

Slowness in progress

Slowing; lag

Payback, so to speak

Vengeance

""Action returned, or action backward.""

Adjustment of a currency relative to others

Impressive or persuasive orator

Master of telling phrases.

One helping with wild salon sprees

Small drinks for each young man's agent

Staff member

Oktoberfest entree

German entree

Apartheid, say, upset Saint George

Saint George's unexpected detachment

A keeping apart

""(used with a sing. verb) The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.""

The north or northern regions.

Subjected to venomous attacks (wordplay)

Any of a group of peptides produced by the liver upon stimulation by growth hormone that act directly on many cell types to stimulate growth.

One of Hulme's conjectures (wordplay)

Wall Street motivation

Son's embezzlement's a matter of conjecture

A woman who speaks on behalf of another or others. See Usage Note at man .

A man who speaks on behalf of another or others. See Usage Note at man .

A woman who is active in sports.

DECISION to win a boxing decision

English word

English word

English word

""SUPERNATE SUPER to reinforce with a thin cotton mesh, as a book""

English word

Kent's gift or management (wordplay)

Man of Steel ability (wordplay)

Guardian's job

English word

Clampdown upon press is absurd

Clampdown is upon press freedom

21 people without one getting close

Finish period with one group of people

Fixed aim or intent to reach final conclusion

Solid with four faces

Four-faced geometric figure.

Type of pyramid

Fluff on which some seeds fly

It could be floating in the wind, lost

Sadly lost the wind, it is very light

TRANSECT to cut across

A beta globulin in blood serum that combines with and transports iron.

Ditch-digger is a glutton

Guy with a huge appetite

Buffet lover

Gormandizers

A rock-boring tool used in mining for sinking shafts.

Fear about something that may happen

Feeling of alarm or dread

Feeling of fear or agitation

A system of aerial photography in which one vertical and two oblique photographs are simultaneously taken for use in topographic mapping.

""The antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin.""

""The act or process of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumor; a swelling.""

TYPEWRITE To write with a typewriter.

Like Swedish furniture, mobiles, etc.

Avant-garde

""DECILLION According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirtythree ciphers annexed.""

Said to disguise manner of saying goodbye

Manservant's short speech expressing farewell

Farewell, in a manner of speaking, after very short drink

The use of various coloured streaks or patches

""A hormone secreted by the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland that constricts blood vessels, raises blood pressure, and reduces excretion of urine. Also called antidiuretic hormone .""

The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.

Opening of windows etc

What stops it being stuffy

Experimental surgery altered six voices in time

Launderer of old

Disguise of Toad when escaping prison

A woman who washes clothes and linens for a living.

""Worn by the action of, or by exposure to, the weather.""

Herb of 1909 (wordplay)

One-time Derby winner.

Weatherman's bet 1909

E.g. for example (wordplay)

Tues. or Agt. (tsk-tsk!)

Shortening - above Britain (anagram)

An increase in rate

Rate of increase of speed

A speeding up

Giving special importance to something

Emphasis, stress

Addition of contaminant let loose in a time span

Corruption of European in indecent allowance

One versed in the theory of beauty and artistic expression.

""An antigen that stimulates the production of a particular agglutinin, such as an antibody.""

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

Poetic ploy practised with panache!

What William Wordsworth wrote, perhaps

It's seen in some Shakespeare sonnets

Changed email address for enhancement

Improvement.

Improvement

""An anchorman or anchorwoman.. The anchorperson usually begins the broadcast, discusses certain topics, and introduces new topics, which may be discussed by other reprorters, especially when the report is recorded or broadcast from a location other than the main broadcast studio.anchorman or anchorwoman.. The anchorperson usually begins the broadcast, discusses certain topics, and introduces new topics, which may be discussed by other reprorters, especially when the report is recorded or broadcast from a location other than the main broadcast studio.""

Very old (before the Flood)

Very old and outmoded

Old adult in vain working without energy

ELECTRON an elementary particle

""ESTROGEN a female sex hormone, also ESTRIOL, OESTRIOL, ESTRIN, OESTRIN, OESTROGEN, ESTRONE, OESTRONE, THEELIN, THEELOL""

RELIGION belief in a higher power

""The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception.""

Going up in one's estimation (wordplay)

Gratitude; increase in value

Acknowledgment of rise in value

Fear taking (wordplay)

Fear, perhaps, in one that's disturbed

Taking fright (wordplay)

Dean co-chairs shambles in one of the church provinces

Relates to clerical figure starting off in March around the sea reportedly

Gunner can be taller in army

What Harry Truman was in World War I.

Soldier unwell in channel by island

Gunnery soldiers

Solemn statement

Stupid person the day before helping to produce solemn statement

Working out meaning at increase

BACKCOURT

Lords not turning out to support ladies admitting excesses

See diencephalon .

Biology

Film set worker

Abandonment

Annulment

Parish officer - long-stemmed pipe

Long-stemmed clay pipe

Pipe officer

A heaping together.

""CARCINOGEN Any substance that produces cancer; as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.""

CHAIRWOMEN

""GENERATION The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.""

I'd comment on a poor endorsement

Formal praise

Official praise

A member of a committee.

""COMMITTEE One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or bussiness is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together.""

Style of address or salutation; an appellation.

Award for, eg, injury

Redress main cost with open payout

Minnesota cop rigged damages

A. Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite.

Strong censure

Complete disapproval

Blame doesn't end with State getting bad press

Water collecting on a cold surface

Water forming on a cold surface

Lacking energy, new diets no one can digest

Worshipful company (wordplay)

Churchgoers go on catering course

Churchgoers study going rate amendment

Act of rendering holy

Dedication to a concern is unusual

Careful use (of a resource)

Preservation (of wildlife)

Change conversation from ecology

Short story on for example Radio 4 generates controversy

Something to talk about (wordplay)

Exchange broken cast-iron oven

End of quotation

""A man who is a member of a council, especially of the local governing body of a city or town.""

A stain of a contrasting color used to color the components in a microscopic specimen that are not made visible by the principal stain.

A person from one's own country; a compatriot.

A craftsman or a craftswoman.

King's mistress engaged in making battlement

Battlement

Pretty, witty mistress, famously involved in making a 2 in the 22 (wordplay)

""CREOLIZE to cause a language to become creole, also CREOLISE""