2-Letter Words Starting with N

Futzing around on the piano, say

Improvising a tune

Playing unimportant stuff

Like a nook

Times when the sun is highest

Lunchtimes, typically

Lunch times

Nooning

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)

Norland

Many happy returns (wordplay)

Word made famous by Pres. Harding.

State of being regular or common

Mr Al Lyon? (anagram)

By and large

No marines join forces, by and large

Without a norm

From the Arctic, say

From Canada, say

Relating to Antrim, say

Winds of Texas.

Storms from the Arctic

Strong winds from Canada, e.g

New Brighton? Head off about the distance from equator given by grid reference

Arab food containers

Nuzzle against udders - animal feeders

Feeders in stables

Told what roadie does for a bit of tack

Funny bones with bit of bridle

Feed holder

Turn for the worst (wordplay)

(Make a) steep downward plunge

Steep vertical plunge

Valentine gifts, perhaps

Gardener's delight

Small bunches of flowers

Sans schnozzle

Like Voldemort, in the Harry Potter films

Like a nose

Beeswax collection (wordplay)

Prier activity (wordplay)

Snoop's attribute

Medical diagnostics

Breathing spaces (wordplay)

Where you get a whiff

Breathers (wordplay)

Hypothetical remedies for all ills

Questionable patent medicines

Panaceas or cure-alls

V. I. P.'s

VIPs have nothing to sit at

Nowhere for the VIPs to sit at

Not legally a twisted rail

Officially framed, as documents

That isn't a twisted rail for the law

Legal agents - senorita (anagram)

Makers of signature pieces (wordplay)

Not one of twelve certifiers

Stamp and sign, perhaps

Authenticate, in a way

Certify with a seal

Appending to

Writing music

Scoring music

Signs books in 20, perhaps

Tablature is a type

A comment added to a text

Notcher

Making a mark of a sort

Cutting V-shaped nicks.

Incising, as on a gunslinger's belt

One bound for college (wordplay)

Jotter's accessory (wordplay)

Stenographer's necessity

Where bread is kept wrapped (wordplay)

Wallet for folding money

See patient's wallet

lacking music or money

Undistinguished

Undistinguished.

Books of rules (wordplay)

Stack for use by the pool (wordplay)

Bed in flats, perhaps, yields 24 books

Sweet sayings (wordplay)

Lover's sweet talk (wordplay)

They're often sweet

Seeing that it isn't over the top

Seeing gin and tonic, excited

Seeing that the sugar on top is missing

If done, it might be reported

Picture file that is in sign, I am told

Informed, reported to

One that {notifies=v}

Sends an alert to

Informs formally, apprises

Acquaints.

Imaginary - in on a lot (anagram)

Not based on fact

Imaginary half-hearted idea first

NZ flightless rail; inn roost (anagram)

Bird of a genus of flightless rails

Rail, is covered by refusal to sailors

Notturno

Schubert piano trio

Of phenomena unknowable to senses.

Opposite of phenomenal

Having real existence

An object of intellectual intuition

In a nounal manner

Without a noun

Like a nova

The substitution of a new legal obligation for an old one

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

Sit for Raphael, say (wordplay)

King maybe showing love isn't working

New first for one who writes

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

Short stories of sorts

100-page stories, say

Long stories short (wordplay)

Pertaining to a stepmother

A down and out drifting, say, at present

At the present time

In the present

Unlocated Colloq.

Unlocated: Colloq.

{cloudy=adj}

Indefinite

The DNA-containing area of certain cells

Student in new kind of surgery reportedly found body essential for growth

Spherical cellular bodies

Centers of ribosome assembly in cells

Granular bodies in cells

Bundles of bound quarks

Atomic particles

Trifling with crazy young rat

Young art (anagram) - worthless

Futile, of no value

Many in number

Large and indefinite quantity

Goodly but indefinite number

Sum union up in spiritual way

Nearly stupefied, one has sense of relating to deity

A {nodding=n}

Colour of Hazel when fully developed!

Has the loony got a tan (wordplay)

Burnt fragments have reddish colour

Place of chaos and crazy behaviour

Indelicate informal word for a mental hospital

Nutwood

Nabobism

Nailfold

Nainsook

Naloxone

Units for some highly potent drugs

Unit equal to 10 angstroms

Measurement of length at the subatomic level

One billionth (10 -9 ) of a tesla.

Nanowatt

Naphthol

Gold coins - there were three of them

Pastries also known as mille-feuilles

Cream-filled creations

T-men's problem

Serious social problem

Drugs that cause sleep or drowsiness

Induce stupor

...that would be telling!

That would be telling!

Story of arrival in state

Tellers of tales

They tell tales

They have telling parts in play

Slenderest of winning margins

Retreat admitting quarrel is most biased

Most specific sign set in treehouse

Reducing list of choices

Becoming less wide

Nationalist's 'eart-rending stricture

Natation

Swimming-pools (US)

Swim-meet sites

US word for swimming-pools

Stan, a lion (anagram)

Races with a grandstand finish!

Giants and Pirates

""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.""

Like some mollusks

One who gives a rallying call (wordplay)

One directs the course, of a ship say

Seafaring reptile (wordplay)

Littoral

Obituary

English word

Necrose

Sweet, as a drink

A fine sour cocktail is wicked!

One 7 is wrong. Wicked!

Port invested in unsafe supply base

Contradictions for one entering States

Contradictions

Denials

Negatron

One who bargains

Not eating out? Maybe one is struggling to get a good deal

Not drinking say, I consumed treat

Find a way over (a difficult path)

Bargain at the wheel (wordplay)

Ohio et al., to W. Va.

John Belushi's last film

They live nearby

Huge Robin (anagram)

Fellow man mostly being rough at play

Whicker bowled our man next door

Possibly worms pet coming up in lumps

Tom needs a fix! He's got worms

Worms discovered in one-masted ship

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae [New Latin, from Greek nemos a grove + philein to love]""

It handles sight and hearing

Highly developed region

Toxic element with ie no dummy particles

Element used to make magnets commonly used in microphones and speakers

From the later stone age

Of the late Stone Age.

Period beginning about 8,000 B.C.

Freshly coined words

Lingo some butchered for blog, say

Hypermiling, for one

It's a new expression for Horsegate

Neomorph

Neomycin

Liking for new things

Mobile phones, yet recently introduced

They're just getting started

Newcomers one prepared with scraps picked up

Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.

Neoplasm

Neoprene

Neoteny

Modernists

""Pl. nephroses (-s z) A disease of the kidneys marked by degenerative lesions, especially of the winding uriniferous tubules.""

""Pl. nephroses (-s z) A disease of the kidneys marked by degenerative lesions, especially of the winding uriniferous tubules.""

13, quarantined from relation, suggestive of kidney disease

Nepotism

Family providers (wordplay)

They hire their relatives

They could be relatively helpful

""The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration.""

Nervousness.

With clammy hands, say

With shaking hands, perhaps

In an anxious manner

Connected on LinkedIn, say

Attended conferences, for example

Part of goal went well, made some business contacts

Neuraxon

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

Branch of medicine

Study of the nervous system

Scientific study of nerve systems

Benign tumour, typically at the end of a severed nerve

Ones getting "worry lines" (wordplay)

Ones getting 'worry lines' (wordplay)

Worrywarts, e.g

They're a little elementary (wordplay)

Lepton family particles

Cousins of electrons

""NEUTRON a subatomic particle, also NEUTRINO""

Not a gain (wordplay)

Famous bird's saying

Ravenous declaration (wordplay)

They are fresh to the game

Making their debuts

Wigan Athletic, for example

Dog majoring in journalism (wordplay)

Nosey critter with long ears (wordplay)

Novel Hudson edited for reporter

Post production locales (wordplay)

Post production spots (wordplay)

Murphy Brown for example

Murphy Brown for example

Murphy Brown was one

Connie Chung and Lesley Stahl

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

Casual inaction restricts a plant

Action in a struggle with tobacco

Inaction is bad for a plant

Nicotine

""Pertaining to, or derived from, nicotine; nicotic; used specifically to designate an acid related to pyridine, obtained by the oxidation of nicotine, and called nicotinic acid. nicotinic acid.""

Niello

Airglow occurring at night.

Sleep number (wordplay)

Habit picked up by retired people

The late shift

From dusk to dawn

From dusk to dawn.

Discotheque, for one.

Disco, e.g

Nearly time, heads back for club

Nigrosin

An algebraic quantity that when raised to a certain power equals zero.

Taint iron chemically by treatment with acid

Nitrator

Gaseous compounds.

Nitrosyl

Nobelium

Splitting heads with the French eminence

Lordly quality

High character

Noblesse

No-go in state, no-go by day (wordplay)

That's no light matter

Active by night

19 pieces for 8 in the 17s!

Music for, or paintings of, nighttime

Chopin compositions

NOCUOUS {harmful=adj}

How unsound this is!

Lionesses (anagram)

Kind of typewriter

By the sound of it, the badger back there might eat them

I have a curiosity about the cacophony

Curiosity about one quality of sound

Clamour from unit during the prying

In an offensively malodorous manner

In a disagreeable manner.

In a harmful, or (especially of smells) offensive way

Nomadism

No, my outside in all in name

In name only

Play Milan and Lyon in an insignificant way

Proposed to Mina in message from Dublin

Picked by the party

Proposed as a candidate

Proposes moving to Minnesota

Puts forward for a slate

Proposes someone from Minnesota

Speaker at a political convention.

One proposing candidate

He proposes someone to monitor an order

Nomogram

""A graph consisting of three coplanar curves, each graduated for a different variable so that a straight line cutting all three curves intersects the related values of each variable.""

Like some paper

Not officiating.

Inoperative

Passivity

Nonactor

ADDICT to surrender to something compulsively

Nonadult

ANIMAL a living organism with voluntary motion and sensation

Response that beats around the bush

ARABLE land suitable for cultivation

ARTIST one who is skilled in art

ATOMIC relating to an atom

AUTHOR to bring into being

Nonbeing

Atheism, in a way

Neither male nor female

Like Basit on "Are You the One?" and Taylor on "Billions"

BITING the act of biting

Nonblack

Nonbody

BONDED bond

BUYING buy

CAKING the act of caking

CAMPUS to restrict a student to the school ground

CAREER to go at full speed

CASUAL one who works according to demand

Not causal.

CHURCH to bring to a building for Christian worship