2-Letter Words Starting with N

Resort for one's niece (wordplay)

Resort for one's niece?

Like guys who finish last, they say

Pheasant's brood

Brood of young birds

Brood of pheasant

How many follow Leo (wordplay)

The Tailors, Sayers book

Desirable cloud (wordplay)

Water nymph Ger.

Water sprite, half woman, half fish.

Water sprite Var.

Unaffected by rising water (wordplay)

Is 'e vain, pure and simple (wordplay)

Hopelessly romantic say

Manual reader colloquially

Just-released movie or song, in slang

Tyro, in slang

Suitable place (wordplay)

Just the job for the corner-man!

Statue's place, perhaps

One who says "Uncle" (wordplay)

One who says 'Uncle' (wordplay)

Relative reversal of city (German one)

Snow (Spanish)

Ice cream (Spanish) Am.

Snow, in Santiago

The inert part of gunpowder (wordplay)

Gunpowder Plot element (wordplay)

KNO3, in Britain

Dead letter in post office talk

Unfriendly female water-spirit

Undeliverable letter to postal employees

Sign of engine trouble, maybe

Music you don't like (wordplay)

Invisible pollution (wordplay)

Film with few costumes (wordplay)

Film that's barely shown (wordplay)

Film with no costume designer (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

Not on your - - !

Nervous girl (wordplay)

Nervous one (wordplay)

Paper pusher

Talking head

Reporter, informally

Have the munchies (wordplay)

A little bit E (wordplay)

Take small bites from

Five-cent piece in the US

A slight bother

Argue over trivial things

Worry, seeing gee-gee entering river

Quick - doctor seen in river!

Quick! The doctor's in the river!

Quick, the doctor's in the river!

To provide with a nipple

Rock named for a Scandinavian country

Rock common in South AfricA

Igneous rock

That hasn't been frozen, see (wordplay)

See you don't skate here!

That's unfrozen, see (wordplay)

A perfect beginner (wordplay)

One without experience of sin (wordplay)

Beginner needs to get a grip (wordplay)

Women consumed by racket? Not at all!

Not in any way unlearned, perhaps

Not a chance, old-style

Of marriageable age (wordplay)

Old enough to marry

Ready for it? Tangled Up in Blue

State of inexperience (French spelling)

Wetness behind the ears (wordplay)

Ain't Eve Innocence itself (wordplay)

Of an ointment.

Relating to aromatic plant used by ancients

Ornamental Turkish water pipe.

Water pipe smoked in the East.

Oriental pipe

Item worn round collar (mainly US)

Unimaginative gift, maybe

One done up like a kipper (wordplay)

Casual attire (from Fr.)

Loose gown cut short? Careless!

Robe de chambre.

Drug for soothing nervous excitement

A soothing tonic

Tonic for the jumpy.

Meshed up (wordplay)

Threaded across and down

Resembling a mesh

Poisonous ptomaine

Like a nib

Blink - enact it (anagram)

Wink or blink

Blink on seeing rubbish in French resort

Late shift perhaps in close connection

What to wear - after dark that is!

Attire for bed (colloq.)

Quibbles per quarter, perhaps (wordplay)

What a lousy little speed for salt!

What a lousy, salty sort of a spped!

Announced trip in the dark compound

Ammonia or fertilizer

Element Number 7 compound

Chemical in egg leading to anger

Latex-like glove material

'Birthday' or 'mother's maiden name,' e.g

Bad bacon bit (wordplay)

Salt of nitrous acid.

Food preservative compound

No one takes part? That's offensive!

Perhaps stinking loudly

Foul-smelling - semi-Ono (anagram)

A man who's proposed (wordplay)

One standing in order to sit (wordplay)

One suggested (for post)

Like gasses, but not grasses

Lack of existence

Insurance category for cars, boats, fire damage, etc.

""A species of atom, also NUCLEIDE""

Like a nun

Hard and crunchy, maybe

Like the flavor of amontillado

Resembling a litchi

""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

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

Talk in a certain way.

Talk in a certain way

A vintage sort of sail (wordplay)

Guide (a vessel)

Plan route (eg, of ship)

""To reduce to a fine spray, also NEBULIZE""

Convert to a fine spray

Resembling a neck

Turtle, polo or sweetheart, say

From which the head emerges in a dress

It may have a V shape

A shady image is certainly not positive!

Avenge it? No!

Get a vine (anagram)

Not formal address (wordplay)

A woman can see through this!

Woman's flimsy nightgown

Variety of jade

Jade and tire, hen party's starting to get drunk

A variety of jade, an old charm against kidney disease

Like a nest

Old Harry, perhaps (wordplay)

Davy Jones, maybe (wordplay)

The Say Hey Kid, say

Parliament constituent (wordplay)

Merit inclusion (wordplay)

Once in it (anagram)

The territory of a nizam

Little meat makes little sound, perhaps

Small piece (of lamb)

Flavoured with hazelnuts, chocolate, say

Put forward (as a candidate)

Put forward (as candidate for election)

Put forward (as candidate)

Something that is not a crime

Not belonging to an elite group

A non-celebrity

Topic of little concern

Matter of little interest

It hasn't been a problem for us in eons

Like a contest with nothing at stake

Not for the championship

Like a bout on an undercard

Jittery win on the black (wordplay)

Asian, for example

Like a nook

High water around twelve (wordplay)

Flow for twelve (wordplay)

High water at twelve (wordplay)

Whistleblower's moment (wordplay)

NT at twelve (wordplay)

When both hands are together (wordplay)

Turn for the worst (wordplay)

(Make a) steep downward plunge

Steep vertical plunge

Like a nose

Stamp and sign, perhaps

Authenticate, in a way

Certify with a seal

Like a nova

""To put into the form of a novel, also NOVELIZE""

""To put into the form of a novel, also NOVELISE""

{cloudy=adj}

Trouble is found in small change perhaps

Is put in the shade? Bother!

That's water for the sow, perhaps

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

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)

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

Any of an order (Nemertina) of soft unsegmented marine worms having an eversible threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract.Nemertina) of soft unsegmented marine worms having an eversible threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract.

""A mineral of sodium-aluminum or potassium-aluminum silicate, occurring worldwide in igneous rocks and used in the manufacture of ceramics and enamels.""

""A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy hexagonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety el\'91olite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.""

Ignorance and evil incense the church

16 state spoilt nice scene

Lack of knowledge of Geordie technology

English word

""A mineral of a copperred color and metallic luster; an arsenide of nickel; called also coppernickel, kupfernickel. coppernickel, kupfernickel.""

Wink, in biology

Wink

Bars and clubs, say

Insomniacs' distraction (wordplay)

Balls and bats can be part of it

Paul Revere's horse, maybe

Forgetting to wear clothes to work, say

Dream of Black Bess (wordplay)

English word

Then it's no light matter

When most dream

When 12 across begins to get like this

EDIBLE something fit to be eaten

""Infinitive, uninflected; -- of verbs. Opposite of finite.finite.""

""Not having immunity; susceptible; likely to be affected with, if exposed.""

MOBILE a form of sculpture

Anchored for life, as barnacles

Not aboriginal

POLICE to make orderly

SALINE a salt solution

UNIQUE something that is rare or the only one of its kind

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

Part of a helmet

It spans the bridge

Plate covering the hooter

New brother or sister

Beginner; green one.

Polish first-class verse

Number of teeth (wordplay)

Proprietary name for an anaesthetic

Painkiller during drilling

Having value as food

Good for you

Providing nourishment

""A drug, C 19 H 21 NO 3 , derived from morphine, used to treat respiratory depression and other effects of an overdose of narcotics.""

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""

Adjective meaning resembling

Disregard northern cold in nightie

Laxity of knight caught wearing flimsy garb

Delinquency

Insignificant

Paltry

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

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

English word

Plant, maybe deadly

Mandrake, for example

Belladonna or bittersweet

Resident has no time to pack case

Filled by appointment

Domestic pinches medal in case

HISTONE a simple protein

HOSTILE an unfriendly person

PASSIVE a verb form

ROUTINE a regular course of procedure

SCIENCE knowledge obtained by observation and experiment

""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.

""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 office of a nuncio.

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

""Either of two related white crystalline compounds, C 12 H 19 BrN 2 O 2 or C 13 H 22 N 2 O 6 S, that opposes the action of acetylcholinesterase and is used in the treatment of glaucoma, myasthenia gravis, and various postoperative conditions.""

An igneous rock consisting chiefly of pyroxene and nepheline.

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.""

Causing pain. Used of a stimulus.

ABRASIVE an abrading substance

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

ADHESIVE a glue like substance

COERCIVE serving to coerce

CREATIVE having the ability to create

Like English, usually

EVIDENCE to make apparent or visible

INITIATE to begin or start

(Of medical procedure) not involving entering the body

(Of operations) not requiring instruments within the body

Like a culture without writing

NEGATIVE to {veto=v}

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

REACTIVE tending to react

RELATIVE one who is connected with another by blood or marriage

SINKABLE able to be sunk

Gandhi's policy

Principle of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. byword

Calm

A chemical compound or group that is attracted to nuclei and tends to donate or share electrons.

Oral, as a will

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

Medical knowhow cures niece? No, sadly!

Pavlov and Alzheimer's thing, generally

""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 yellow aromatic liquid (C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol. C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol.""

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

Nonaddict

ASSERTIVE Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.

""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.""

""COGNITIVE Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. as, cognitive power.""

Noncombat

""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.""

""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.""

Not effective

""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.