2-Letter Words Starting with N

CULINARY pertaining to {cooking=n}

CULTURAL relating to culture

CUSTOMER one who buys something

CYCLICAL stock whose earnings fluctuate with the economy

DECISION to win a boxing decision

Featureless - tinned crops (anagram)

Princes don't turn out undistinguished

With no interesting characteristics

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

DIDACTIC instructive

DIRECTED direct

DISCOUNT to reduce the price of

DOGMATIC overbearing

DOMESTIC a household servant

DRAMATIC pertaining to {drama=n}

ECONOMIC relating to finance

Failure of election.

Like English, usually

""A substance that is not an electric; that which transmits electricity, as a metal.""

EMPHATIC stressed forcibly

EVIDENCE to make apparent or visible

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

Nonfiction

HARMONIC an {overtone=n}

INFECTED infect

JUDICIAL pertaining to courts of law

""MAGNETIC a metal that attracts iron, also MAGNET""

Like many elements are

METRICAL pertaining to measurement

MUSICIAN one who performs or composes music

MYSTICAL spiritually significant

OFFICIAL one who holds a position of authority

OPERATIC the technique of staging operas

ORGASMIC pertaining to orgasm

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

PHONETIC pertaining to speech sounds

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

Nonplastic

Nonracial

REACTIVE tending to react

Nonreactor

Nonreceipt

RECOURSE to turn to someone for aid

REDUCING reduce

Nonscience

SECRETOR one that {secretes=v}

SELECTED select

Like Edward Lear's humor.

Too bizarre to understand

Having no meaning

SENTENCE to declare judicially the punishment

Not assignable to a particular cause (med.)

Fellow found among unusually nice cops in general

Nonsubject

Type of "procedure"

Like a preferable medical procedure, perhaps

SYLLABIC a speech sound of high sonority

SYMBOLIC pertaining to a symbol

SYSTEMIC a type of pesticide

TEACHING a {doctrine=n}

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

Word with prefix non-

TROPICAL pertaining to the tropics

Destitute of vessels; extravascular.

Gandhi's policy

Principle of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. byword

VOLCANIC a rock produced by a volcano

Of or pertaining to nosology.

Of or pertaining to the notochord; having a notochord.

Novaculite

Novobiocin

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

How crossword clues are traditionally arranged

Study of change (wordplay)

The collecting of coins

Coin collecting

Nunciature

Oral, as a will

Nurturance

Squirrels' avocation (wordplay)

Common yuletide tools

Christmastime productions

Nyctalopia

Egotistical

Narcolepsy

Narcoleptic

NARCOTIC a drug that dulls the senses

Natriuretic

Based on real life

Imitating real life

True-to-life representation of acts in ritual

NATUROPATH

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

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.""

NEGATIVIST

Neglectful

20th century music style

In a revived style from the past

Type of art, perhaps one form to one state

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

NEPHELINITE

Pl. nephropathies A disease or abnormality of the kidney.

""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.""

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

Neuroleptic

Of or pertaining to neurolgy.

Medical knowhow cures niece? No, sadly!

Pavlov and Alzheimer's thing, generally

NEUROTIC one affected with a neurosis

Neuroticism

NEUTRALIST A neutral; one who professes or practices neutrality.

""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.""

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

Useful or valuable thing

Nomenclator

System of naming

Neater column (anagram) - terminology

Strange manner to clue terminology

Of or pertaining to the Nominalists.

Nonacademic

ACTIVATED activate

Nonaddict

ADIABATIC Not giving out or receiving heat.

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

Soft (drink)

Virgin, to a bartender

Unlike most things sold in bars, like chocolate

ANTIGENIC

""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.""

Same as hand-operated.hand-operated.

BACTERIAL Of or pertaining to bacteria.

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

""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

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.

Nondescript

Nondiabetic

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

Word with prefix non-

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

""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.

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

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

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