2-Letter Words Starting with N

I should say not, laddie!

As if, laddie!

Ach, quite the opposite, laddie!

Local movie venue, in Variety slang

Israel's Abba

Local pic shower

Jose Jimenez, for one

Called up an eastern fellow (wordplay)

Montague, for one

Cub handle (wordplay)

Pickup point (wordplay)

A pane in the neck (wordplay)

Mass gathering place (wordplay)

Spot for the groom and ushers, say

Place for the masses (wordplay)

P. Bailey's mom (wordplay)

P. Bailey's mom?

Pearl's mother (wordplay)

Unaffected by rising water (wordplay)

Is 'e vain, pure and simple (wordplay)

Hopelessly romantic say

Water over the dam

Half a cone in geometry

Half of a cone

Super stars (wordplay)

Milky Way phenomena (Var.)

Stars bursting in air (wordplay)

Goat for a child-minder (wordplay)

Let her have a go at the kids

Kids' caretaker variable

British baby's diaper

Brit's diaper

Diaper, in Britspeak

Pertaining to nostrils

Pertaining to the nostrils

Of the nostrils

Expert guide, perhaps

Good guide, maybe

From around these parts

How kind one is!

Motherly type (wordplay)

Kind mother (wordplay)

Deny Geordie scandal (wordplay)

Age ten (anagram)

Countermand Tyneside crowd (wordplay)

Why a car can't cause carnage (wordplay)

Salad Days, say, soon coming up

Not the time to be too young

Enter a flat, say (wordplay)

Give that song a rest, say (wordplay)

Write down (music)

Drowning, as during Reign of Terror.

Total immersion is one day's work

Execution by drowning

Subtle shade (of meaning)

Subtle variation, in meaning say

Shade of difference (wordplay)

Napes Anat.

Napes: Anat.

Nod the head

Nod, as a flower.

Modern art exhibition said to droop

Enclosed part of a blimp

The car of a balloon

Engine housing, as on the Enterprise

State of inexperience (French spelling)

Wetness behind the ears (wordplay)

Ain't Eve Innocence itself (wordplay)

Identifiable (Var.)

Worthy to be mentioned

Worthy to be given a title

In a stupor.

Describing the result of a shot in the arm

Stuporous

Of an ointment.

Relating to aromatic plant used by ancients

Ornamental Turkish water pipe.

Water pipe smoked in the East.

Oriental pipe

Provide a voice-over, say

Talk through the whole movie, say

Do a voice-over, perhaps

A gem cut in a pointed oval form

Clouds in the cosmos

Interstellar dust clouds

Interstellar space clouds

One who's fresh out (wordplay)

Formula one (wordplay)

A one-ten infant, say

Veined, to a botanist

Blink - enact it (anagram)

Wink or blink

Blink on seeing rubbish in French resort

Quibbles per quarter, perhaps (wordplay)

What a lousy little speed for salt!

What a lousy, salty sort of a spped!

""Not hunted for food, sport, or fur""

Star lacking power (wordplay)

Celebrity at a loss (wordplay)

VIP without skills (wordplay)

Nine-day devotions.

Many hep changes for poetic young women

Beautiful maiden multiplies with Irish poet

A chemical compound

That can be identified

Worthy of a title

Memorable Var.

Seek a man (anagram)

One called for this, perhaps

Efrem Zimbalist Jr., for one

""A narcotic component of opium, also NARCEEN, NARCEIN""

Oriental water pipe for smoking.

Oriental smoking pipe.

Last of shag filling inhaler adapted as smoking pipe

Arctic marine mammal (Var.)

Mammal mentioned in "Moby Dick."

Prepared sea-snail, to render not just in the mouth

Talk in a certain way.

Talk in a certain way

Birth; can scene (anagram)

Event of being born

State of beginning.

Stir up unease at upset (wordplay)

Go green, say

Name a practice consumed by disgust

A vintage sort of sail (wordplay)

Guide (a vessel)

Plan route (eg, of ship)

Something that may be charmed (wordplay)

String of beads, perhaps

Piece of jewellery

A shady image is certainly not positive!

Avenge it? No!

Get a vine (anagram)

Hookworm, for one

Long thin worm such as threadworm

Roundworm or eelworm

Space-saving, in a way

Able to be netted

Neurula

Old Harry, perhaps (wordplay)

Davy Jones, maybe (wordplay)

The Say Hey Kid, say

The territory of a nizam

Put forward (as a candidate)

Put forward (as candidate for election)

Put forward (as candidate)

An unrhythmic dance

Like framer's glass

Type of glass

A non-celebrity

Stamp and sign, perhaps

Authenticate, in a way

Certify with a seal

Where bread is kept wrapped (wordplay)

Wallet for folding money

See patient's wallet

Like a nova

Any of important enzymes in plants and animals

Form into a central mass

Form around a central area

Having a center, as a cell

Trouble is found in small change perhaps

Is put in the shade? Bother!

That's water for the sow, perhaps

Able to figure out menu - and the price!

Tear menu (anagram)

Proficient in arithmetic, say

A plaque to identify river, perhaps

ID on a door, perhaps

Office door feature

A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum.

Induce stupor

Frank eats r-rodent in story

Right artist in indigenous story

River rodent in simple story

""A zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals, and in masses which often have a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and soda.""

AB leaving (anagram)

Fit for ships

Like major channels

Littoral

Fruit - aren't nice (anagram)

Peach of a fruit (wordplay)

Depilated peach (wordplay)

Not drinking say, I consumed treat

Find a way over (a difficult path)

Bargain at the wheel (wordplay)

English word

Wink, in biology

Wink

Paul Revere's horse, maybe

Forgetting to wear clothes to work, say

Dream of Black Bess (wordplay)

ARABLE land suitable for cultivation

LEAGUE to come together for a common purpose

Not aboriginal

SALINE a salt solution

Destined to fail

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

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

Relating to a standard

Derived from a standard

New brother or sister

Beginner; green one.

Polish first-class verse

Number of teeth (wordplay)

Proprietary name for an anaesthetic

Painkiller during drilling

Capable of being counted

Capable of being counted

""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.""

Insurance seller (Columbus Blue Jackets)

All over the country

Across the whole country

NATURAL a type of musical note

Make less artificial.

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

Open to discussion

Subject to compromise

Subject to bargaining

A substance or preparation used to kill nematodes.

""A substance that kills nematodes, especially one used in medicine or to kill plant pathogens.""

Make ineffective through impartial viewers being heard

Make ineffective.

Counteract

Offset

Plant, maybe deadly

Mandrake, for example

Belladonna or bittersweet

Resident has no time to pack case

Filled by appointment

Domestic pinches medal in case

""ATHLETE a competitor in contests of strength and speed, also ATHLETA""

DURABLE {hardy=adj}

PASSIVE a verb form

SALABLE able to be sold

SEPTATE having a septum

Scot-free (wordplay)

Order ban on latex to be unlevied

""VINTAGE to strip of grapes, also VINT""

Plain precious stone in striking clasp

Can't be frozen. That's obvious

Plain diamond in striking clasp

""1. (Medicine) denoting certain infectious diseases of humans, such as smallpox and tuberculosis, outbreaks of which must be reported to the public health authorities""

Rock used for whetstones.

NUMBER to {count=v}

The office of a nuncio.

The providing of loving care and attention.

Chemical smelling of mothballs

Convert from private to government ownership

""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.""

Call for scene-shifting? It's tea break!

Compel break-up of nice estates

Call for one in condition after dodgy scene

Like a certain class of steroids that can alter brain function

""The amide of niacin (nicotinic acid), called also nicotinamide. It was at one time called vitamin B3, and can function to relieve nicotinic acid deficiency. Chemical formula C6H6N2O, chemically it is 3-pyridinecarboxamide.nicotinamide. It was at one time called vitamin B3, and can function to relieve nicotinic acid deficiency. Chemical formula C6H6N2O, chemically it is 3-pyridinecarboxamide.""

The Lady with the Lamp, d. 1910

Small thrush with a melodious song

Keats's immortal Bird

An enzyme of nitrogen-fixing bacteria that catalyzes the conversion of nitrogen to ammonia.

""Any of a class of organic compounds with the general formula R 2 NNO or RNHNO, present in various foods and other products and found to be carcinogenic in laboratory animals.""

ABRASIVE an abrading substance

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

ADHESIVE a glue like substance

BURNABLE something that can be burnt

CALLABLE able to be called

Air of jaunty unconcern.

Casually calm manner

Casually calm relaxed attitude

COVERAGE the extent to which something is covered

CREATIVE having the ability to create

DELEGATE to appoint as one's representative

""An omission or neglect to do something, esp. that which ought to have been done. Cf. Malfeasance. Malfeasance.""

GRADUATE to receive an academic degree or diploma

INITIATE to begin or start

(Of medical procedure) not involving entering the body

(Of operations) not requiring instruments within the body

LANGUAGE to express in a body of words serving as communication

Like a culture without writing

NEGATIVE to {veto=v}

REACTIVE tending to react

RELATIVE one who is connected with another by blood or marriage

REUSABLE capable of being used again

SINKABLE able to be sunk

Calm

Oral, as a will

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

(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

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

System of naming

Neater column (anagram) - terminology

Strange manner to clue terminology

Nonaddict

ASSERTIVE Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.

BREAKABLE Capable of being broken.

""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.""

Noncombat

""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.""

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

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

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

""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.""

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

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

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

Broken

PASSERINE Of or pertaining to the Passeres.

PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

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.""

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

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a nucleotide to a nucleoside and phosphoric acid.

""One of two basic amido derivatives of naphthalene, C10H7.NH2, forming crystalline solids. C10H7.NH2, forming crystalline solids.""

A hydrolytic enzyme that removes sialic acid from mucoproteins and is found chiefly in microorganisms of the respiratory and intestinal tracts.

ABSORBABLE Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

""ABSORPTIVE Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe.""

Dismissal of cop - canteen can go wild

Terrible canteen cop can boycott (wordplay)

""AGGRESSIVE Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.""

Failure to be present

A no-show

Failure to be present

Absence

AUTOMOTIVE of or pertaining to the automobile.

Inflected form of CANCELABLE Inflected form of CANCEL to {annul=v}

Not in a college

COMPARABLE Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison.

COMPATIBLE Capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; usually followed by with. with.

The breaking of rules

Refusal to conform

CUMULATIVE Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; agregated.

DEFERRABLE

""DEGENERATE Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low.""

DEGRADABLE

""DELIBERATE Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. as, a deliberate judge or counselor.""

Inflected form of DEPLETABLE Inflected form of DEPLETE to lessen the supply of

""DERIVATIVE Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word.""

DETACHABLE That can be detached.

""Inflected form of DIALYZABLE Inflected form of DIALYZE to use a kidney machine, also DIALYSE""

EVALUATIVE exercising or involving careful analytical evaluations.

Inflected form of EXPENDABLE Inflected form of EXPEND to consume in any way

""FIGURATIVE Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.""

Inflected form of FILTERABLE Inflected form of FILTER to purify a fluid of solid matter