2-Letter Words Starting with N

Nucleation

A chemical compound or group that is attracted to nuclei and tends to donate or share electrons.

Living material within a cell

Part of cell released by sumac pollen

Nucleoside

NUCLEOSOME

Nucleosome

They're represented by the circled letters

Groups of molecules that form the building blocks of DNA

Nudibranch

Never having given birth

Numeration

How crossword clues are traditionally arranged

Study of change (wordplay)

The collecting of coins

Coin collecting

Quarter master (wordplay)

The change may do him good

Currency collector

Nunciature

Oral, as a will

Nurturance

Squirrels' avocation (wordplay)

Common yuletide tools

Christmastime productions

Like information on boxes of food

Pertaining to food intake.

Nourishing

Nutritive

Nuttiness

Nyctalopia

A species of demoniac enthusiasm or possession coming upon one who had accidentally looked upon a nymph; ecstasy.

Nympholept

Uncontrollable sexual desire

Nystagmus

Family minor going before head, getting anonymity

Naphthalene

Naprapathy

Egotistical

Narcolepsy

Narcoleptic

NARCOTIC a drug that dulls the senses

Narrowness

""The act of nasalizing, or the state of being nasalized.""

NATIONALISE

Nationalise

Nationalism

Nationalist

""NATIONALIZE To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.""

""NATIONALIZE To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.""

Nationalize

Nativeness

Natriuretic

NATURALISE

Based on real life

Imitating real life

True-to-life representation of acts in ritual

""NATURALIZE To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. as, custom naturalizes labor or study.""

NATUROPATH

So as to sicken

NAUSEOUS affected with nausea

The quality or condition of being navigable; navigableness.

Concerned with routing ships

""Of, relating to, controlled by, or typical of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.""

The act or process of nebulizing; atomization.

Nebulosity

NEBULOUS {unclear=adj}

Called for

Renders obligatory one's entry in state midst disorderly scenes

Neckerchief

""Of or pertaining to necrology; of the nature of necrology; relating to, or giving, an account of the dead, or of deaths.""

Necrologist

Magicians making centre-half back? Liars!

Necromancy

Of or pertaining to the Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan. Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan.

Sexual pervert in police car, terribly hard to keep in

Necrophilia

NECROPHILE

""NECROPOLIS A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard.""

Needlefish

Needlepoint

NEEDLESS not necessary

One doing embroidery

Seamstress

NEGATIVE to {veto=v}

NEGATIVIST

Negativity

Neglectful

Discussions (aimed at reaching agreement)

Negrophobia

Local place

Locality

Community

Adjacent, nearby

Adjoining

Nematology

The branch of zoology that deals with nematodes.

20th century music style

In a revived style from the past

Type of art, perhaps one form to one state

""ORTHODOXY Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy. heterodoxy or to heresy.""

REALISTIC Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

Neostigmine

Nephelinite

NEPHELINITE

An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.

An apparatus used to measure the size and concentration of particles in a liquid by analysis of light scattered by the liquid.

Nephrology

Kidney doctor

English port with nothing doing for renal expert

Pl. nephropathies A disease or abnormality of the kidney.

Nephrostome

Netherworld

Nervous condition

Nervous debility

What could make you uneasier than debilitation (wordplay)

""A psychological disorder characterized by chronic fatigue and weakness, loss of memory, and generalized aches and pains, formerly thought to result from exhaustion of the nervous system. No longer in scientific use.""

Nerves

Science of the physiology of the nervous system

The study of the chemical composition and processes of the nervous system and the effects of chemicals on it.

Neurofibril

Pl. neurofibromas or neurofibromata (-m -t ) A usually benign tumor originating in peripheral nerve fibers and composed chiefly of neurilemma cells.

A hormone secreted by or acting on a part of the nervous system.

NEUROHUMOR

Neuroleptic

Of or pertaining to neurolgy.

Neurologist

Neuropathy

""Any of various short-chain peptides found in brain tissue, such as endorphins.""

Neuropteran

Neuropteral.

Medical knowhow cures niece? No, sadly!

Pavlov and Alzheimer's thing, generally

Of or relating to the sensory activity or functions of the nervous system: neurosensory cells.

Medical specialist ungenerous or nasty

One operating on brain, spinal cord, etc

O.R. specialist

Delicate operation hiding moola from France

NEUROTIC one affected with a neurosis

Neuroticism

Neurulation

NEUTRALISE

NEUTRALIST A neutral; one who professes or practices neutrality.

Neutrality

Neutralizer

NEUTRALIZE To render neutral; to reduce to a state of neutrality.

""NEUTRINO a subatomic particle, also NEUTRON""

""NEUTROPHILE One of a group of leukocytes whose granules stain only with neutral dyes; it is the chief phagocytic leukocyte in the circulating blood, comprising from 54% to 65% of the total number of leukocytes.""

All the same (wordplay)

She let nerves jangle all the same

All the same

""A magazine, usually published weekly, containing reports and analyses of current events.""

Newspaper

Rag organiser (wordplay)

Hack report and document for worker

Member of syndicate prepares the leader

We pen and pen with arms outstretched

Newsweekly

Newswriting

Niacinamide

Jukeboxes of old.

Jukeboxes of old

Jukeboxes

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) the amide of nicotinic acid: a component of the vitamin B complex and essential in the diet for the prevention of pellagra. Formula: C 6 H 6 ON 2 NOCIRECEPTOR (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Physiology) Physiol a receptor sensitive to pain

The act or process of building a nest.

PJ's employed to cover up those retiring

Items worn in bed

Bedtime attire

""NIGHTCLUB An establishment providing entertainment (as singers, dancers, or comedy acts), usually open late into the night or early morning, typically serving alcoholic beverages and food.""

Hot spot regular

Nightdress

Nocturnal singers

Sweet singers.

They sing, having evening at home with good beers

Nightwalker

Nimbleness

Cloud that's bust in a storm, violently

Ninnyhammer

""A yellow aromatic liquid (C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol. C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol.""

Nitrogenase

A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; called also nitrocarbol. nitrocarbol.

Nitrosamine

Useful or valuable thing

Noisemaking

Nomenclator

System of naming

Neater column (anagram) - terminology

Strange manner to clue terminology

Of or pertaining to the Nominalists.

Nomography

ABSORBENT Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.

Nonacademic

ACTIVATED activate

Nonaddict

ADIABATIC Not giving out or receiving heat.

Failure to be admitted.

Inflected form of AESTHETIC Inflected form of AESTHETE a person who affects an extravagant love of art

Person between ages of 90 and 99

Ninety year old

One coming up to 100

Soft (drink)

Virgin, to a bartender

Unlike most things sold in bars, like chocolate

Policy of neutrality

""AMBIGUOUS Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression. as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression.""

ANTIGENIC

""ARBITRARY Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment. as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.""

""ARCHITECT A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.""

Nonargument

ASSERTIVE Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.

Nonattender

AUTOMATED automate

Same as hand-operated.hand-operated.

BACTERIAL Of or pertaining to bacteria.

Nonbeliever

BIOLOGIST A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.

Nonbotanist

BREAKABLE Capable of being broken.

BREATHING breathe

Plural of gerund noun

""BROADCAST A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.""

Plural of gerund noun

""CANCEROUS Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer; as, a cancerous growth.as, a cancerous growth.""

CANDIDACY The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.

""CANDIDATE One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors. as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.""

CELEBRITY Celebration; solemnization.

CERTIFIED certify

Nonchalance

In a calm and relaxed manner

In insouciant fashion

With composure

""CHARACTER A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.""

Nonchemical

""CLASSICAL Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.""

CLASSROOM

Word with prefix non-

""COGNITIVE Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. as, cognitive power.""

""COLLECTOR One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. as, a collector of coins.""

COLLINEAR

COLORFAST

One not fighting in war

Person not fighting in war