2-Letter Words Ending in N

Part of HDL

The application of oil or grease

Garage job.

""The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation.""

English word

""Any of various stony corals of the order Madreporaria, which includes the reef builders of tropical seas.""

""A. A song for two or three unaccompanied voices, developed in Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.""

""Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.""

MARGINATE Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure.

""The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.""

""The act, process, or art, of measuring.""

Tramp, for one

Trading vessel

Trading vessel.

Sing amidst mythical sea creatures in ships

French sea shanty the crew put together in ships sailing the trade routes

MERCURATE

Conversion to a particular measurement system

Modernisation of measures from imperial units

""The act of voiding urine; also, a morbidly frequent passing of the urine, in consequence of disease.""

""Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.""

""The thousandth part of a micron or the millionth part of a millimeter; -- a unit of length used in measuring light waves, etc.""

Compass unit

CREATION something that is created

STRICKEN strongly affected or afflicted

""Any of a group of organic compounds, such as the mucins, that consist of a complex of proteins and glycosaminoglycans and are found in body tissues and fluids.""

Word with prefix multi-

Like a triplex

A neuropter.

NEURULAE neurula

Not in the party (wordplay)

Free from party affiliation

No French adherent is impartial

The act of objurgating; reproof.

""The act or operation of obscuring; the state of being obscured; as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse. as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse.""

Remark; sighting to determine position

Result of a patient look

Keeping watch...

Sand trap or bunker, for example.

MONKEY wrench, so to speak

Thing in the way

Program for freshmen

What a freshman needs

Relative position

Beginning (six letters)

Process of creation

True source.

One of the Orthoptera.

""A man who spends considerable time in outdoor pursuits, such as hunting and fishing.""

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

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

Birth

""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

See stonefly .

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

In favour of the medical provision of abortion

Masterwork (wordplay)

Enforcing conformity to a standard

(adj.) having a predilection for French bread

Enforcing conformity regardless of individuality; scent uproar (anagram)

The act of procuring; procurement.

'Bum', 'fart', 'poo' in an act of irreverence

Steroid hormone used in oral contraceptives

Forward motion seeing prisoners go free

Advance of prisoners go amok

Poser so moved with Ring Cycle

Ban (eg on alcohol)

Anti-Saloon League goal

The 18th Amendment, briefly

Ordinary worker (Marxism)

Relating to the workers

Frisky pair, later on common

Spread of ideas, for example

Spread of ideas, e.g

Breeding; transmission

Golfer's lie (wordplay)

Solicit a plan

Professional job in theory

The act of counting in duration; prolongation.

Legal proceedings against a person

Accusation of guilt in court

Action in open court is disturbed

""The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body. as, the prostration of the body.""

A plasma protein that is converted into thrombin during blood clotting.

PROTONATE PROTON a subatomic particle

Favouring attempt to cut short hostilities going on and on

Cause of expert calling

Apt title for this puzzle

Spin doctor calling for incitement

One followed by 15 zeroes

One followed by 15 zeros

Ginormous figure

""-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""

Dating material

Cairo-born criminal ringing commercial dating agency

Of or pertaining to the Radiolaria.

Rascal or rogue

Plain carols (anagram) - rogue

A disgrace to criticise onion

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.

RUBRICATE Marked with red.

Cheers about one charged following provincial university's punishment

One helping with wild salon sprees

Small drinks for each young man's agent

Staff member

Riotously merry

Riotously merry.

Orgiastic

Oktoberfest entree

German entree

Of or relating to the order Saurischia.

Apartheid, say, upset Saint George

Saint George's unexpected detachment

A keeping apart

The north or northern regions.

Female athlete or player

Female athlete

A woman who is active in sports.

""The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b. Illust. of Bacillus, b.""

The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.

The act of subrogating.

Taking off vessel's pulling power

End of the advice

Deduction

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

The act or process of suppurating.

Sigh

A whispering or rustling

An accelerator in which charged particles are accelerated around a fixed circular path by an electric field and held to the path by an increasing magnetic field.

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

""A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through.""

""A hormone secreted by the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland that stimulates and regulates the activity of the thyroid gland. Also called thyroid-stimulating hormone , thyrotropic hormone .""

Whirlwind

Act of buying/selling

Deal involves a constraint

Piece of business

TRANSECT to cut across

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

""The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced.""

Vital exchange in a theatre (wordplay)

Ketchup, to a GI

Transfer of blood

Classicist's service (see letters 6-8)

Foreign-language job.

A rendering into another language

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

Cause of great suffering

Cause of much misery

Cause of great trouble

""A colorless crystalline compound, C 4 H 8 Cl 3 O 4 P, used as an agricultural insecticide.""

""A crystalline compound, C 13 H 16 F 3 N 3 O 4 , used as a herbicide.""

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

""Of or pertaining to the Trinity, the doctrine of the Trinity, or believers in that doctrine.""

State of being pulverized.

Any of a group of muscle proteins that bind to molecules of actin and troponin to regulate the interaction of actin and myosin.

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

TYPEWRITE To write with a typewriter.

""A gray-brown mixture consisting mainly of tryocidine and gramicidin, used as a topical antibiotic in treating infections caused by gram-positive bacteria.""

Like Swedish furniture, mobiles, etc.

Avant-garde

Not Christian; not converted to the Christian faith; infidel.

Practical rather than attractive

Philosopher anti-ritual, I suspect

One in anti-ritual movement is severely practical

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 .""

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

Computer terminal, often

Computer user's locale

Powerful desktop computer terminal