2-Letter Words Starting with N

Longing for something past

A seductive liar: George W. Ball

Love for the past

Clings to a miserable yearning

Longing for the past

Fondly remembering the past

Thin book, perhaps

Billy Budd, for one

Irish victory for Shaw

Novelise

Novelise

Writers of book-length story lines

Gerald Greene and Graham Greene.

New firsts for people who write

Novelize

Novelize

Neckwear in a work of fiction (wordplay)

Small gimmicky knick-knacks

Baubles to draw in books

In a poisonous manner

Nubbly

Nuclease

Nucleate

Nucleate

NUCLEATE to form into a nucleus

Nucleoid

Of or pertaining to the nucleolus of a cell.

Parts of cells

A body with an indispensable cell nucleus

NUCLEON a subatomic particle

Nucleus

I dine full, but made nothing of it

Fluid line sadly cancelled

Cancelled out

Does away with The Equaliser (wordplay)

One who cancels or makes void

Invalidator.

Cancels riotous fun? That is silly, if not unknown

Cancels training of fillies after a French uprising

Abolishes work in full? That's the origin of socialism

Nullity

NUMBING numb

Twit with no feeling up top!

Deadhead? Quite literally!

Fool gets cold on rowing boat reportedly

Capable of being counted

Capable of being counted

According to number; in number; numerically.

Muriel can (anagram)

Cruel man, one out for the count

'By way of no, in short (9)'

Idiots: they dig rows, say

Miners' union heads who are stupid

Dunderheads

Tiny infants

Containers of almonds (wordplay)

Thimblerigger's makeshifts

Kernel containers

""Any butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, consisting of medium to large butterflies found worldwide, typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast.Nymphalidae, consisting of medium to large butterflies found worldwide, typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast.""

""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.""

In a nameless manner.

Items on some office doors

Office door attachments

Desk accessories

Nanotesla

Reason for going out a lot (wordplay)

Tendency to deep sleep

Hypersomnia, a sleep disorder

Nasalise

Nasality

Nasalize

Natality

Adapted for swimming

Across the country

Throughout the country.

From coast to coast

Natrolite

NATURAL a type of musical note

Movement of wild animals around mating period, heading north

Teddy Roosevelt, for one

Darwin, for one

Student of flora and fauna

Make less artificial.

NAUSEOUS affected with nausea

In a nautical manner; with reference to nautical affais.

Nautiloid

Chambered cephalopods

Navicular

Nebulise

Nebulizer

Nebulize

The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; hazeness; mistiness; nebulousness.

NEBULOUS {unclear=adj}

Plural or third person singular

Ron polices ruined burial site

Wanting relic, snoop round cemetery

Ripon Close (anagram) - cemetery

Voracious underwater creature

Long-nosed swimmer

Adjective meaning resembling

Pointers tricky without point

Annoys son unloading lorry for no reason

Nags drunken tinker for no good reason

Embroidery, for example

Topic for the woman's page.

*Embroidery, say

NEGATION the act of {negating=v}

Reviewed in a bad way

With pessimism.

Neglecter

Giving insufficient care

Habitually omitting to do things

Not taking proper care

Neglect

Disregard northern cold in nightie

Laxity of knight caught wearing flimsy garb

Delinquency

Insignificant

Paltry

""NEGLIGE a woman's dressing gown, also NEGLIGEE""

Open to discussion

Subject to compromise

Subject to bargaining

Like the people next door (wordplay)

Helpful to those living close by

The branch of zoology that deals with nematodes.

Nemophila

Revivalist (art)

Recreating ancient motifs

In a style revived from the past

Milton Friedman, for one

Thatcherite maybe stirring up a rebellion

Person believing that capitalism should solve the problems caused by capitalism

Portmanteaus, for example

Losing some put in another form for new terms

Rewrite losing some words like selfie and twerk

NEONATAL pertaining to {neon=n}

English word

Neophilia

Neoplasia

""Of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.""

Santayana's philosophy

Post-WWII Italian movement

Philosophy of Montague or Santayana

Like De Sica's "Bicycle Thieves"

Filmmaker who attempts to capture everyday life

Nepheline

NEPHELINE

Nephelite

Of or pertaining to a nephridium.

""A treatise on, or the science which treats of, the kidneys, and their structure and functions.""

Irritating notelets sent out by this writer

Neuralgia

The delicate outer sheath of a nerve fiber; the primitive sheath.

NEUROGLIA The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord.

Neuroglia

The medical science that deals with the nervous system and disorders affecting it.

Make ineffective through impartial viewers being heard

Attitude of Nehru and others.

Gear first used by one not taking sides

Advocate of nonalignment

Fence-sitter

Country's position that's not in dispute

Non-aligned state

Fence-sitting

Make ineffective.

Counteract

Offset

Work occupies troublesome Luther in cell

Latest milk tooth, perhaps, was in front

Excessively modern England few regulated

Freshly developed and unfamiliar

Urban streetcorner fixture

Bit of desktop publishing, maybe

Mail from your congressman, perhaps

Frequent Xmas-card enclosure

English word

Current events magazine

Nialamide

Niccolite

Silvery coating variable

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

NIGGLING meticulous work

After-hours trump suit (wordplay)

Dark suit for entertainers (wordplay)

Hot spots for the hip

Nightfall

Nightglow

Nightlife

*Believing in nothing

Believing in nothing

Rejecting all values

Nihility

One of Jack's qualities

Ability to move quickly and lightly

Lightness of movement

Groups of people in the higher classes with one Tbilisi revolutionary

Lady's about to retire wasted old staff

One entitled to move below when 23's about

One of those in 19 down disturbed Noel Bowman

On reversing, sounded horn, say, warning ladies and others

Peeresses

Nodality

NODULE a small node

The principles or philosophy of the Nominalists.

""One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or universals, exist in name only.""

Nomology

ACCRUAL an accumulation

Neutral, as nations.

Uncommitted.

ALLELIC pertaining to {allele=n}

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

Nonbelief

CALORIC heat

CAPITAL the upper part of a column

CENTRAL a telephone exchange

Careless (wordplay)

Casually calm and relaxed

Cool and indifferent

Nonclass

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

COLORED a colored person

COMPLEX to make complicated

DURABLE {hardy=adj}

Twine, as opposed to rubber bands

ELECTED elect

Hardly aboveboard

""FACTUAL actual, real""

FACULTY an inherent power or ability

FEDERAL a supporter of federation

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

GENITAL pertaining to reproduction

Nongolfer

HOSTILE an unfriendly person

Nonillion

INITIAL to mark with the first letters of one's name

Nonlawyer

Nonlegume

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

LIBRARY a room containing books for reading or reference

Nonliquid

Figurative

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

MARITAL pertaining to {marriage=n}

MEDICAL a physical examination

Tone-deaf, say

Forced on regular after noon

Artificial

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

OPTIMAL most desirable

Incomparable ones

Unique things.

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Hen as commonly reported on page producing eggs out of team captain (wordplay)

Banker in Monopoly might be failing to come up with cash, having lost

Inflected form of PLUSING Inflected form of PLUS to {increase=v}

* It doesn't mean "subtracted"

Surprised and confused

Perplexed - and apparently not put on

Bewilders

Baffles.

Confounds

PROBLEM a difficult question or situation

Bad news for magazine publishers

SALABLE able to be sold

""SPATIAL pertaining to space, also SPACIAL""

Scot-free (wordplay)

Order ban on latex to be unlevied

THERMAL a rising mass of warm air

TRIVIAL insignificant

Hardly representative.

UTILITY the quality of being useful

Like Gandhi's resistance

Like some protests

Friends are like this in novel, not otherwise

Normalcy

Made regular deals with minor criminal

Only white wine available around 11 is made as standard

Makes usual sounds maintaining right to strike back

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

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

Stops fluctuations, as in prices

Northland

They may be checked by pinching

Nasal hemorrhages

They can be caused by a vitamin K deficiency

Nosewheel

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

Nosology

Nostalgia

Nostalgic

Old lover