2-Letter Words Starting with N

Pheasant's brood

Brood of young birds

Brood of pheasant

Bump on a log, say

Knot, of sorts

Bump kin (wordplay)

A naked figure [n -S] / {naked=adj}

Attention-getter of sorts

Send a second email to, say

Push (with a wink?)

Film with few costumes (wordplay)

Film that's barely shown (wordplay)

Film with no costume designer (wordplay)

Implement to annoy (wordplay)

Dislike injection (wordplay)

One getting into the groove (wordplay)

No theologian, the French head!

Head or brain (slang)

Head (sl.)

Doctor's advice for bumps?

Doctor's advice for bumps (wordplay)

Full of knots

Tumorous growth sometimes

Somehow undo the French knot

Small lump or swelling

One who just won't get off your case

Incessantly reminding sort

Urge annoyingly

Simple person - in the soup (wordplay)

Such a fool to be in the soup!

Thick pasta (wordplay)

Drowning, as during Reign of Terror.

Total immersion is one day's work

Execution by drowning

Of an ointment.

Relating to aromatic plant used by ancients

Announced trip in the dark compound

Ammonia or fertilizer

Element Number 7 compound

""A species of atom, also NUCLEIDE""

Hookworm, for one

Long thin worm such as threadworm

Roundworm or eelworm

What's knotty could be unloosed

Lumpy hooter's terribly loud inside

What's no use, old, terribly lumpy

An unrhythmic dance

High water around twelve (wordplay)

Flow for twelve (wordplay)

High water at twelve (wordplay)

Turn for the worst (wordplay)

(Make a) steep downward plunge

Steep vertical plunge

{nutgrass=n}

""An aesthetic and ideological concept affirming the independent nature, quality, and validity of Black culture.""

English word

English word

DEGREE a graduation on a scale

EDIBLE something fit to be eaten

Insurance seller (Columbus Blue Jackets)

All over the country

Across the whole country

Adjective meaning resembling

A substance or preparation used to kill nematodes.

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

""(Medicine / Pharmacology) Med a calcium-channel blocker used in the treatment of hypertension, angina pectoris, and heart failure""

Plant, maybe deadly

Mandrake, for example

Belladonna or bittersweet

DEFENSE to guard against a specific attack

DURABLE {hardy=adj}

""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.""

DNA building block

Genetic building block

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

""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.""

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

ADHESIVE a glue like substance

DELEGATE to appoint as one's representative

EVIDENCE to make apparent or visible

GRADUATE to receive an academic degree or diploma

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

(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

Nonaddict

""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.""

""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.""

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

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

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

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

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

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

Failure to be present

Absence

""CONDUCTIVE Having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil. as, the conductive tissue of a pistil.""

""CONFIDENCE The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. of, now commonly by in.""

CORRODIBLE Capable of being corroded; corrosible.

""Not allowable as a tax deduction; as, political contributions are nondeductible. Opposite of deductible.as, political contributions are nondeductible. Opposite of deductible.""

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""

DIFFUSIBLE Capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused.

""DISCLOSURE The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure.""

DISCURSIVE Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.

DISPERSIVE Tending to disperse.

""DISRUPTIVE Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery.""

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

Not giving results

Sterile

REFUNDABLE

Blood pressure drug

""A progestational hormone, C 20 H 26 O 2 , similar in effect to progesterone, used especially in oral contraceptives.""

""Of, relating to, or involving the interaction between the nervous system and the hormones of the endocrine glands: the neuroendocrine apparatus in birds.""

""CLANDESTINE Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage. as, a clandestine marriage.""

Lack of coincidence.

""CONDENSABLE Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable. as, vapor is condensable.""

Nondescript

""DESTRUCTIVE Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth. of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.""

DISTINCTIVE Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar.

""DOCTRINAIRE One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions. as, doctrinaire notions.""

""RADIOACTIVE Capable of luminescence under the action of cathode rays, X rays, or any of the allied forms of radiation.""

""INDEPENDENCE The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; selfsubsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference.""

""REPRODUCTIVE Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction.""

Inflected form of SEDIMENTABLE Inflected form of SEDIMENT to settle in the bottom of a liquid

Like Parkinson's disease