2-Letter Words Starting with N

A toxin that damages or destroys nerve tissue.

Anchor, for one

Reporter of a special report.

Type of TV personality.

Niccolite

Niceness

Silvery coating variable

Nicknamer

Nickname

Nicotiana

Briefly closed one's eyes

Winked.

Gives the glad eye

Winks

Remaining in the nest after hatching until grown or nearly grown. Used of a bird.

After-hours trump suit (wordplay)

Dark suit for entertainers (wordplay)

Hot spots for the hip

English word

Policeman's weapon

Billy club

Police club jouster's mannerism discussed

*Believing in nothing

Believing in nothing

Rejecting all values

The other fellow's candidate

Silly goose

Not so smart with a free center (wordplay)

Basketball contest selectors (wordplay)

Those who groom pedants

Bug people who choose to be critics

Nitpicky

Fool, leading gathering, splitting hairs

Hairsplitter's activity

Fault-finding fool making a selection

Nomarchy

NOMOTHETE A lawgiver.

ACCRUAL an accumulation

Nonaction

Nonaddict

ALLELIC pertaining to {allele=n}

AQUATIC an organism living in or near water

ASCETIC one who practices self-denial for religious reasons

CABINET a piece of furniture with shelves and drawers

CALORIC heat

CAPITAL the upper part of a column

CARDIAC a person with a heart disorder

CARRIER one that {carries=v}

CENTRAL a telephone exchange

Careless (wordplay)

Casually calm and relaxed

Cool and indifferent

CITIZEN a resident of a city

Nonclass

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

COLORED a colored person

COMPLEX to make complicated

CONCERN to be of interest to

Nonconcur

CONFORM to {comply=v}

CONTACT to communicate with

COUNTRY the territory of a nation

Not current or belonging to the present time. Opposite of current.current.

Nondancer

Nondoctor

Twine, as opposed to rubber bands

ELECTED elect

ENZYMIC pertaining to an {enzyme=n}

Class acts get ecstasy of that kind in regular services

Hardly aboveboard

They don't come into play

""FACTUAL actual, real""

FACULTY an inherent power or ability

No fancy work (wordplay)

As a writer, you couldn't make it up!

Best seller category

""FLUENCY the quality of being fluent, also FLUENCE""

GENETIC pertaining to {genetics=n}

Noninsect

""Not lexical; as, nonlexical morphemes.as, nonlexical morphemes.""

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

MEDICAL a physical examination

MIMETIC resembling {mimesis=n}

Tone-deaf, say

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

OBSCENE {indecent=adj}

ORGANIC a substance of animal or vegetable origin

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

REACTOR one who {reacts=v}

RECEIPT to mark as having been paid

SCIENCE knowledge obtained by observation and experiment

American, to a British monarch

SUCCESS the attainment of something desired or intended

TOBACCO an annual herb cultivated for its leaves

Hardly representative.

Nonvector

VISCOUS having relatively high resistance to flow

Normalcy

Parts of eyeglasses

""Of or pertaining to a hospital; as, nosocomial atmosphere. as, nosocomial atmosphere.""

Nostalgic

Notchback

Plain precious stone in striking clasp

Can't be frozen. That's obvious

Plain diamond in striking clasp

In a noticeable manner.

Notochord

Rock used for whetstones.

NOVELIST one who writes novels

""An antibiotic, C 31 H 36 N 2 O 11 , produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces nivens and used to treat infections by gram-positive bacteria.""

Novocaine

Nucleate

NUCLEATE to form into a nucleus

Nucleator

Zodiacal atomic study (wordplay)

Field of atomic science

""A type of molecule found in all living organisms, present mostly in chemically combined form as a component of nucleic acids, and also in smaller amounts in free form, consisting of a pentose sugar bound to a purine or pyrimidine base; two types of nucleoside, ribonucleoside and deoxyribonucleoside, are present. The most common bases present in nucleosides are adenine, cytosine, uracil, guanine, and thymine, and to a lesser extent hypoxanthine and other bases are found. The most commmon ribonucleosides composed from these bases are called adenosine, cytidine, uridine, and guanosine. The forms esterified with orthophosphoric at the 5-position of the pentose are called nucleotides. The nucleotides form the monomer units which are combined into DNA and RNA, which carry the genetic information required for reproduction in all known organisms.ribonucleoside and deoxyribonucleoside, are present. The most common bases present in nucleosides are adenine, cytosine, uracil, guanine, and thymine, and to a lesser extent hypoxanthine and other bases are found. The most commmon ribonucleosides composed from these bases are called adenosine, cytidine, uridine, and guanosine. The forms esterified with orthophosphoric at the 5-position of the pentose are called nucleotides. The nucleotides form the monomer units which are combined into DNA and RNA, which carry the genetic information required for reproduction in all known organisms.""

""Any of the repeating subunits of chromatin, consisting of a DNA chain coiled around a core of histones.""

DNA building block

Genetic building block

Phosphate and sugar linked in this compound; once dilute (anagram)

Back horse with one limb, 'Sea Slug'

A sea slug

Sea slug with one brown back limb

Numeracy

Pertaining to collectors' items.

Relating to coins or currency

Of coins

The office of a nuncio.

The providing of loving care and attention.

Ball-breaker sounding sweet (wordplay)

Tchaikovsky's cocktail (wordplay)

High flier's suite (wordplay)

Small birds.

Birds known for their cracking ability (see letters 3-8)

Birds.

""A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness.""

*Almost no time at all

Tiny slices of time

Billions pass in a light-meter

Narcissism

Narcissist

Narcissus

Composition of 18 regularly dropping off

Likely to drop off at any moment

Of a sleep disorder

Inducing stupor or narcosis.

(Medicine) Anatomy of or relating to the nose and stomach a nasogastric tube

Excretion of excessive amounts of sodium in the urine.

Essentials

Reclines say, after change of course

More of quip

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

Compel break-up of nice estates

Call for one in condition after dodgy scene

Somehow sense cities' requirements

Things one must have

Pressing requirements

Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.

Relative of a fichu.

Part of a Boy Scout's uniform

Piece of ornamental cloth

Necrology

One who gives an account of deaths.

Cagliostro, for one.

Ruth, the sorceress (wordplay)

Sauron, with an affair at the heart (wordplay)

Practising magic

""Sex an abnormal attraction, especially erotic, to corpses. ; necrophile, necrophiliac , n . Corpses an abnormal attraction, especially erotic, to corpses. ; necrophile, , adj. ; necrophiliac, , adj. -Phile, -Philia, -Phily an abnormal, often sexual attraction toward the dead or a dead body. ; necrophile , Death""

NECROPHILE

""Pl. necropolises or necropoleis (-l s ) A cemetery, especially a large and elaborate one belonging to an ancient city.""

Necropsy

NECROTIZE

Negligence

NEMATICIDE

Nematicide

Having the property of killing nematodes; lethal to nematodes.

Nematocide

Nematocyst

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

Neocortex

Of or pertaining to the neocortex.

CORTICES cortex

LOGISTIC a symbolic logic

Neophiliac

Nephoscope

Pl. nephrectomies Surgical removal of a kidney.

Adjective (-ic)

Like a certain class of steroids that can alter brain function

See antipsychotic drug .

""Of or pertaining to neuropathy; of the nature of, or suffering from, nervous disease.""

Personality disorder raging in Tom Cruise

Tending to affect or attack nervous tissue: a neurotropic venom.

Newscaster

""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.""

Jefferson's favorite channel (wordplay)

Jukebox (US colloq.)

Popular cable channel

NICTITATE To wink; to nictate.

Nightscope

Cops' props

Billy clubs

Fools or simpletons

Knuckleheads

Fools new in company, politician has surprised expression

Nitpicky

Causing pain. Used of a stimulus.

By night.

One who calls persons or things by their names.

NOMOGRAPH

NOMOLOGIC

ABSTRACT to draw away

ACADEMIC a college student or teacher

Not next to

ALLERGIC a person with an allergy

ANALYTIC a scheme of analytical logic

ANATOMIC pertaining to {anatomy=n}

AROMATIC a fragrant substance

ARTISTIC pertaining to {art=n}

Word with prefix non-

ATHLETIC relating to vigorous physical exercise

ATTACHED attach

Word with prefix non-

CALLABLE able to be called

Word with prefix non-

Noncarrier

Not made up of or divided into cells. Opposite of cellular.cellular.

Air of jaunty unconcern.

Casually calm manner

Casually calm relaxed attitude

CHEMICAL a substance obtained by chemistry

CIRCULAR a leaflet

Aliens

""CLERICAL a member of the clergy, also CLERIC""

CLINICAL pertaining to a {clinic=n}

CLOGGING clog

COERCIVE serving to coerce

COHERENT sticking together

Plural or third person singular

COMPOSER one who writes music

COMPOUND to add to

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Nonconcern

Nonconform

CONSTANT something that does not alter

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

Word with prefix non-

CONTRACT to decrease in size

COPLANAR on the same plane

COVERAGE the extent to which something is covered

CREATIVE having the ability to create

CRIMINAL one who has committed a crime

CRITICAL {crucial=adj}