2-Letter Words Starting with N

Nonwhite

A person who does not work as s/he should.

Nonwoven

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

English word

Miss Desmond's stays, we hear, given to regiment (wordplay)

By the sound of this, it's all right, you see, for the two girls

Business as usual

Routine in Royal Mint changed

Standard condition

""To make normal; as, to normalize relations with China.as, to normalize relations with China.""

Relating to a standard

Derived from a standard

Maybe another way to make a point

No threats (anagram)

One between two cardinals (wordplay)

Lorry then crashed in wind

From cold parts

Wind blowing south

Certain U. S. dialects

Name or objects for movements in the other direction

Any region lying in or toward the north.

Up on the map (wordplay)

In the direction of Belfast, say

In the direction of Ulster, say

Sligo, say, is here

Ulster stew made for One Direction

Where the Mounties ride.

Bridle parts

Numbers found on tops of equestrian's boots and small bridle parts

Sudden flow under the bridge (wordplay)

Fight ender, perhaps

Result of a haymaker, maybe

Makes pointed pool entry

Descends sharply and suddenly.

Loses altitude fast

He's big in the middle

Certain football position

Like walking a tightrope without a net

Part of a helmet

It spans the bridge

Plate covering the hooter

Part of an aircraft's undercarriage

Disease and Illness

Longing for something past

A seductive liar: George W. Ball

Love for the past

Clings to a miserable yearning

Longing for the past

Fondly remembering the past

Notarize

Certifies, in a way

Makes official

Marginalia not so anti, perhaps

Jottings in the margins

Marginal comments

An automobile having a roof that drops off sharply to the top of the rear compartment.

They're bound for school

Some September purchases

Small volumes with blank pages

Where Englishmen keep their money.

Are they carried by conductors (wordplay)

New Orleans sleuth's investigations caught out 'Moneybags'

Renown

Some personalized sheets

Spot to jot

Writing material for sheet music

Notifier

Officially informing (someone)

Rod's refusal to take notes (in Biology)

Note that Gazza and Best earned it!

Fame, or infamy

Unwanted tabloid fame

Hitchcock thriller set in Brazil

Duran Duran #2 hit

Famous for misdeeds

Casually dine, hours to be fed

Well-fed, he is round in form

Kept healthy

It hurries on development

Sustains with food

Fosters; feeds

After resolving our sins he provides support

Novation

Thin book, perhaps

Billy Budd, for one

Irish victory for Shaw

Novelise

Novelise

Writers of book-length story lines

Gerald Greene and Graham Greene.

New firsts for people who write

Novelize

Novelize

Neckwear in a work of fiction (wordplay)

Small gimmicky knick-knacks

Baubles to draw in books

New brother or sister

Beginner; green one.

Polish first-class verse

Number of teeth (wordplay)

Proprietary name for an anaesthetic

Painkiller during drilling

Not anywhither; in no direction; nowhere.

Nowness

In a poisonous manner

Nubbly

Nuclease

Nucleate

Nucleate

NUCLEATE to form into a nucleus

Nucleoid

Of or pertaining to the nucleolus of a cell.

Parts of cells

A body with an indispensable cell nucleus

NUCLEON a subatomic particle

Nucleus

Drunk causes inn problems

Pests or irritations

Annoyances, pains in the neck

I dine full, but made nothing of it

Fluid line sadly cancelled

Cancelled out

Does away with The Equaliser (wordplay)

One who cancels or makes void

Invalidator.

Cancels riotous fun? That is silly, if not unknown

Cancels training of fillies after a French uprising

Abolishes work in full? That's the origin of socialism

Nullity

Numberer

Counting; amounting to

Amounting to.

Amounting to

NUMBING numb

Twit with no feeling up top!

Deadhead? Quite literally!

Fool gets cold on rowing boat reportedly

Capable of being counted

Capable of being counted

According to number; in number; numerically.

Read off figures

Old word for gave a list of, one by one

Numerate

It is fractionally above the line

Top of fraction

Upper half of fraction

Muriel can (anagram)

Cruel man, one out for the count

'By way of no, in short (9)'

Idiots: they dig rows, say

Miners' union heads who are stupid

Dunderheads

Flails at a dojo

Martial arts weapons that are two sticks connected by a chain

Where habits are picked up (wordplay)

Mothers and sisters place

Homes for retired women, always in order

Am insured to work with children!

A U minder's in order (wordplay)

She gives us a minder perhaps

Where young cricketers blossom!

Where plants are raised.

For young chuildren and young plants

Tiny infants

The providing of loving care and attention.

Nurturer

Caring and providing for

Supporting union with computer pioneer

Rearing; cherishing

Plant-growth cycles

Nuthouse

What blood carries to all body tissues

Vitamins, for example

Foodstuffs prepared in turn set out

Met in turn to make food

Food fanatic keeping fit, even empty

Eats noodle to keep slim, even if empty

Act of nourishing

Threpsologist's field

Ingredients I turn into food

Having value as food

Good for you

Providing nourishment

Nutsedge

Containers of almonds (wordplay)

Thimblerigger's makeshifts

Kernel containers

Zany quality

Flavouring appropriate for crackers (wordplay)

""Any butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, consisting of medium to large butterflies found worldwide, typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast.Nymphalidae, consisting of medium to large butterflies found worldwide, typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast.""

Nabokov's first with the empty novel 'Lolita'

""A rapid, involuntary, oscillatory motion of the eyeball.""

Many guests, having dropped Ecstasy, developed eye problem

Nystatin

Nabobery

Wealthy women cover up a shilling?

Wealthy women cover up a shilling (wordplay)

""A drug, C 19 H 21 NO 3 , derived from morphine, used to treat respiratory depression and other effects of an overdose of narcotics.""

""A drug, C 20 H 23 NO 4 , used as an antagonist to narcotic drugs.""

In a nameless manner.

Items on some office doors

Office door attachments

Desk accessories

Nanometer

Cycle length for a gigahertz processor

Old relative returning next fast time

A very short interval of time

Nanotesla

Naphthene

NAPHTHENE A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum.

A drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues.

Such vanity, writing about lying under daffodils!

Man's crisis misrepresented as problem with ego

Man's crisis could come from such self-interest

Egomaniac insists car is restyled

Someone in love with themselves

Ego-tripper

Reason for going out a lot (wordplay)

Tendency to deep sleep

Hypersomnia, a sleep disorder

Under the influence of narcotics.

Narcotize

Accounts we're told about

Relations hurried back with food supplies maybe

Tales.

Relations in some garbled tavern airs

Tales of a clergyman eaten by indigenous people

Stories

Involving signals over a restricted range of frequencies

Snores warn about constriction

Limited-width condition

New missile head with limited dimensions

Nasalise

Nasality

Nasalize

Nascency

Mean-spirited bloomer (wordplay)

Bright-colored spurred flower.

ITMA's U-turn (anagram) - flower

Natality

Adapted for swimming

Crawl space (wordplay)

Health club feature

Pool

Across the country

Throughout the country.

From coast to coast

A people's identity

Subject of a 2014 Scottish referendum

Insurance seller (Columbus Blue Jackets)

All over the country

Across the whole country

The quality or state of being native.

Relating to nativism.

Infant debuts

Natrolite

NATURAL a type of musical note

Movement of wild animals around mating period, heading north

Teddy Roosevelt, for one

Darwin, for one

Student of flora and fauna

Make less artificial.

Alternative medicine practitioner

Herb doctor.

Herbal doctor is nuts, or a nut, by the way

Most mischievous

US tighten a negotiation with the most ill-mannered of individuals

USA tighten exchange with the most ill-mannered of individuals

""Pl -chiae [-kɪˌiː] -chias , -chies (in ancient Rome) 1. (Historical Terms) a mock sea fight performed as an entertainment""

Naumachia

Naumachy

Stomach-turning

NAUSEOUS affected with nausea

In a nautical manner; with reference to nautical affais.

Nautiloid

Chambered cephalopods

Navicular

Navigate

Sextant's use

Pilot's concern

Job of a Global Positioning System

Pilots' direction finders

They use both kinds of compasses

Cockpit workers

Nearness

Neatness

Nebenkern

Nebulise

Nebulizer

Nebulize

The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; hazeness; mistiness; nebulousness.

NEBULOUS {unclear=adj}

Black magic may concern criminal

Magic may concern transformations

Occult art

Plural or third person singular

Ron polices ruined burial site

Wanting relic, snoop round cemetery

Ripon Close (anagram) - cemetery

Necropsy

Necropsy

Fruit coming in NINE CRATES

Smooth-skinned peaches

Their hearts are the pits

Voracious underwater creature

Long-nosed swimmer

Adjective meaning resembling

Pointers tricky without point

Annoys son unloading lorry for no reason

Nags drunken tinker for no good reason

Embroidery, for example

Topic for the woman's page.

*Embroidery, say

NEGATION the act of {negating=v}

Reviewed in a bad way

With pessimism.

Negative

Skeptical attitude

Tendency to criticise time-saving arrangement

A sceptical attitude is time-saving, oddly enough

NEGATIVE to {veto=v}

Lack of interest, say, in first Christmas

Neglecter

Giving insufficient care

Habitually omitting to do things

Not taking proper care

Neglect

Disregard northern cold in nightie

Laxity of knight caught wearing flimsy garb

Delinquency

Insignificant

Paltry

""NEGLIGE a woman's dressing gown, also NEGLIGEE""

Open to discussion

Subject to compromise

Subject to bargaining

They meet at Panmunjom

Managed to get through

Treated and, for example, covered by newly-developed antidote

Bargained

Works out a deal

Manages to get through

Discusses terms

One in discussions to reach an agreement

Seeker of compromise

Harriman's job in Iran.

Negritude

Fear of or contempt for Black people and their culture.

Abutted

Like the people next door (wordplay)

Helpful to those living close by

People good for a touch (wordplay)

Enough ribs (anagram)

Boring hues displayed by those next door

A substance or preparation used to kill nematodes.