2-Letter Words Starting with N

Noncombat

Guarded in speech

Guarded, but without being locked up (wordplay)

On the fence, not a prison sentence (wordplay)

COMMITTED commit

COMMUNIST An advocate for the theory or practice of communism.

""COMMUNITY Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. as, a community of goods.""

Neglecting or refusing to comply.

Noncomposer

Word with prefix non-

CONCURRED concur

Material such as glass or porcelain

Nonconform

Nonconform

CONGRUENT Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding.

CONSCIOUS Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.

Word with prefix non-

Nonconsumer

CONSUMING consume

""CORPORATE Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. as, a corporate town.""

CORRODING corrode

""CORROSIVE Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson. as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson.""

Plural or third person singular

Noncoverage

Noncriminal

CROSSOVER the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis.

Inflected form of CRUSHABLE Inflected form of CRUSH to press out of shape

CUSTODIAL Relating to custody or guardianship.

Noncustomer

""DECEPTIVE Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance. as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.""

Nondecision

DEDUCTIVE Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible.

DEFORMING deform

Nondelegate

Nondemand

""DEPENDENT Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. as, a dependent bough or leaf.""

DEPLETING deplete

DEPRESSED depress

Nondescript

Nondiabetic

""DIRECTIVE Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.""

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""ECONOMIST One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.""

""EDITORIAL Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.""

""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.""

Not effective

Nonelection

Plural or third person singular

Word with prefix non-

EMERGENCY Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion.

""EMOTIONAL Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature. as, an emotional nature.""

""EMPIRICAL Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.""

Nonemployee

""Inflected form of ENZYMATIC Inflected form of ENZYME a complex protein, also ENZYM""

Suspect online assent is unimportant

Not totally necessary

Not absolutely necessary

Nonevidence

""EXCLUSIVE Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society. as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society.""

(Of directors) only advisory

Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity.

Not explosive.

Lite

Nonfeasance

FEDERATED federate

Nonfeminist

""FICTIONAL Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.""

FINANCIAL Pertaining to finance.

""Not easily ignited, and burning only slowly if ignited.""

FLOWERING flower

Nonfluency

""FRIVOLOUS Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument. as, a frivolous argument.""

""Inflected form of GLAMOROUS Inflected form of GLAMOR to bewitch, also GLAMOUR""

Nongraduate

HAPPENING happen

HAZARDOUS Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.

HEMOLYTIC of or pertaining to hemolysis; causing hemolysis.

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""IDENTICAL The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. as, the identical person or thing.""

Not marked by or given to imitation. Opposite of imitative.imitative.

IMMIGRANT One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; correlative of emigrant. emigrant.

""INCLUSION The act of including, or the state of being included; limitation; restriction; as, the lines of inclusion of his policy. as, the lines of inclusion of his policy.""

INCUMBENT Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent.

INDUCTIVE Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; usually followed by to. to.

INFECTIVE Infectious.

INFLUENCE A flowing in or upon; influx.

Noninitiate

""INSURANCE The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6. premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6.""

Word with prefix non-

INTRUSIVE Apt to intrude; characterized by intrusion; entering without right or welcome.

""INTUITIVE Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision. as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.""

IRRIGATED irrigate

LANDOWNER An owner of land.

Nonlanguage

LIBRARIAN One who has the care or charge of a library.

Plural or third person singular

Inflected form of LINEARITY Inflected form of LINEAR resembling a straight line

Nonliterate

""Not malignant, as a disease.""

""MALLEABLE Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; applied to metals.""

""MERCURIAL Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament. as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament.""

""METAMERIC Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric. as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.""

Inflected form of MICROBIAL Inflected form of MICROBE a microscopic organism

Not participating in migrations; -- used of animals that do not migrate. Opposite of migratory.migratory.

Nonmilitant

""MOLECULAR Pertaining to, connected with, produced by, or consisting of, molecules; as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc. as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc.""

MOTORIZED motorize

""MUNICIPAL Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers. as, municipal rights; municipal officers.""

Nonmusician

NARRATIVE Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.

Nonnational

Absence of necessity; the quality or state of being unnecessary.

""NEGLIGENT Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order. as, disposed in negligent order.""

""NORMATIVE relating to or dealing with norms; as, normative discipline; normative samples.as, normative discipline; normative samples.""

Without a nucleus.

Inflected form of NUMERICAL Inflected form of NUMERIC a {numeral=n}

""NUTRITIVE Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries. as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries.""

OBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to an object.

""OBSERVANT Taking notice; viewing or noticing attentively; watchful; attentive; as, an observant spectator; observant habits as, an observant spectator; observant habits""

OPERATING operate

Broken

OXIDIZING oxidize

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Not parasitic.

PASSERINE Of or pertaining to the Passeres.

""PERFORMER One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp. as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp.""

""PETROLEUM Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc.""

PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

""PHYSICIAN A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.""

POISONOUS Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious.

Not political. Opposite of political.political.

POLLUTING pollute

PRACTICAL Of or pertaining to practice or action.

PRODUCING produce

Inflected form of PSYCHOTIC Inflected form of PSYCHO a mentally unstable person

PURPOSIVE Having or indicating purpose or design.

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

Not recurring.

Nonrecurrent.

""REDUNDANT Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.""

REGULATED regulate

Nonrelative

""RELIGIOUS Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.""

Cannot be replenished

""REPAYABLE Capable of being, or proper to be , repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind. as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind.""

""The state or condition of being nonresident,""

RESIDENCY Residence.

No set dinners arranged for hotel visitors not staying the night (wordplay)

Making no resistance.

Inflected form of RESPONDER Inflected form of RESPOND to {answer=v}

Nonresponse

Plural or third person singular

Nonruminant

Not on the roster of events

SCIENTIST One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.

Nonsecretor

""SECRETORY Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. as, secretory vessels, nerves.""

Integrated new functioning car seat in buggy

SELECTIVE Selecting; tending to select.

Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.

Nonsentence

SOCIALIST One who advocates or practices the doctrines of socialism.

Nonsolution

""Inflected form of SPHERICAL Inflected form of SPHERIC having the form of a sphere, also SPHERAL""

Inflected form of STEROIDAL Inflected form of STEROID a type of chemical compound

Without any long-term focus

Nonsuccess

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

""Not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences; as, nontechnical aspects of the job; nontechnical training. Opposite of technical.as, nontechnical aspects of the job; nontechnical training. Opposite of technical.""

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Plural of gerund noun

""TREATMENT The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.""

""TURBULENT Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean. as, the turbulent ocean.""

""UNANIMOUS Being of one mind; agreeing in opinion, design, or determination; consentient; not discordant or dissentient; harmonious; as, the assembly was unanimous; the members of the council were unanimous. as, the assembly was unanimous; the members of the council were unanimous.""

UNIONIZED unionize

""UNIVERSAL Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; allreaching; allpervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice. as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice.""

Nonutility

VANISHING vanish

Nonviolence

Nonviolent

VOLUNTARY Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.

YELLOWING yellow

See norepinephrine .

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

Pertaining to or having normal blood pressure.

Normal body temperature.

A condition of normal body temperature.

Coming from the top right part of the map

""NORTHEASTER A storm, strong wind, or gale, coming from the northeast.""

No short-term changes about name highest in charts (wordplay)

Goes right to the top in Ulster? That's some direction to take!

""Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course. as, a northwestern course.""

NORTHWESTER A storm or gale from the northwest; a strong northwest wind.

Notability

""NOTARIZE to attest to as a notary, also NOTARISE""

Memorably observe eminent person pinching contents of till

Act of making known

Warning? Not if I can hold it back with love!

Announcement

Nourishment

""NOVELIZE to put into the form of a novel, also NOVELISE""

""The basic structure of a virus, consisting of a core of nucleic acid enclosed in a protein coat.""

Nucleophile

NUCLEOPHILE

Nucleoplasm