2-Letter Words Starting with N

Figurative

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

MARITAL pertaining to {marriage=n}

MEDICAL a physical examination

MEETING an assembly for a common purpose

Those who don't belong

Outsiders to the club

They're not part of the club

""MIGRANT one who migrates, also MIGRATOR""

MIMETIC resembling {mimesis=n}

Tone-deaf, say

Nonmutant

Nonnative

Forced on regular after noon

Artificial

NETWORK to form a structure like a net

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

OBSCENE {indecent=adj}

OBVIOUS easily understood

OPTIMAL most desirable

ORGANIC a substance of animal or vegetable origin

Incomparable ones

Unique things.

PASSIVE a verb form

Fail to settle in New York over broadcast by secretary to workers with trade

Default.

Nonperson

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

Nonprofit

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Nonpros

Nonpros

""PROTEIN a nitrogenous organic compound, also PROTEID, PROTEIDE""

REACTOR one who {reacts=v}

Bibliophobes

READING material that is read

RECEIPT to mark as having been paid

Bad news for magazine publishers

Nonrioter

RIOTING the act of rioting

ROUTINE a regular course of procedure

SALABLE able to be sold

SCIENCE knowledge obtained by observation and experiment

SEPTATE having a septum

SERIOUS thoughtful or subdued in appearance

Nonsigner

Nonskater

Those not inhaling tobacco smoke

Restaurant section, perhaps

Restaurant section

""SPATIAL pertaining to space, also SPACIAL""

SPEAKER one who {speaks=v}

Scratched one (wordplay)

No chance of dessert (wordplay)

N, evidently, for no-hoper (wordplay)

Like hormones synthesized from amino acids

Nonstory

STUDENT a person formally engaged in learning

American, to a British monarch

SUCCESS the attainment of something desired or intended

Nonsuit

Lack of help from the second half

One likely to drown in water

Nonsystem

Scot-free (wordplay)

Order ban on latex to be unlevied

TENURED tenure

Nontheist

THERMAL a rising mass of warm air

TOBACCO an annual herb cultivated for its leaves

TRIVIAL insignificant

Hardly representative.

Heterogeneous

Irregular

UTILITY the quality of being useful

""UTOPIAN one who believes in the perfectibility of human society, also UTOPIST""

Nonvector

VETERAN a former member of the armed forces

Nonviewer

""VINTAGE to strip of grapes, also VINT""

Like Gandhi's resistance

Like some protests

Friends are like this in novel, not otherwise

Nonvirgin

VISCOUS having relatively high resistance to flow

WINNING money won in a game or bet

Nonworker

WORKING a mining excavation

Nonwriter

Noosphere

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

Going towards Arctic

On the map, going up in the world

Northeast

Northland

Northward

Northwest

They may be checked by pinching

Nasal hemorrhages

They can be caused by a vitamin K deficiency

Sentries in front of the airplane (wordplay)

Defensive linemen

They face centers on the line of scrimmage

Parts of eyeglasses

Nosewheel

Nosiness

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

Nosology

Nostalgia

Nostalgic

Old lover

Fame from something other than talent

It's not what you know it's if you're well-known

Fame

In a notarial manner.

Notarize

Into atonal composition, like the very process of writing music

Notchback

Writing materials

Memo sheets.

Out of the ordinary, perhaps

Important memo to an upright chap

Remarkable theory won't, when revised

Plain precious stone in striking clasp

Can't be frozen. That's obvious

Plain diamond in striking clasp

In a noticeable manner.

""1. (Medicine) denoting certain infectious diseases of humans, such as smallpox and tuberculosis, outbreaks of which must be reported to the public health authorities""

Desire to join forces, in theory

In a speculative manner

Notochord

Nourisher

Rhino using ground for feeding

Strengthening

Nutritious

Rock used for whetstones.

Long short stories

Brief romances, for example

Inserted, in a way

Novelise

NOVELIST one who writes novels

Novelize

Fall newcomers (wordplay)

""An antibiotic, C 31 H 36 N 2 O 11 , produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces nivens and used to treat infections by gram-positive bacteria.""

Novocaine

NUCLEATE to form into a nucleus

Nucleator

Zodiacal atomic study (wordplay)

Field of atomic science

""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.""

""Any of the repeating subunits of chromatin, consisting of a DNA chain coiled around a core of histones.""

DNA building block

Genetic building block

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

The act or art of numbering.

They're the tops for calculating people!

Parts of fractions

Top figures

Quantitative "science" (wordplay)

Occult interpretation of numbers

NUMEROUS {many=adj}

Numinous

NUTATION a {nodding=n}

Nutrition

Teachers' recipe? It promises to be wholesome!

Suitor with unit adapted to be good for him

Nourishing

""A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness.""

One who is in a state of nympholepsy.

Nalorphine

Naltrexone

*Almost no time at all

Tiny slices of time

Billions pass in a light-meter

Composition of 18 regularly dropping off

Likely to drop off at any moment

Of a sleep disorder

Inducing stupor or narcosis.

NARRATION The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.

NARRATE to tell a story

(Medicine) Anatomy of or relating to the nose and stomach a nasogastric tube

Pl. nasopharynges (-f -r n j z) or nasopharynxes The part of the pharynx above the soft palate that is continuous with the nasal passages.

Natatorium

Convert from private to government ownership

Extreme patriotic feeling

State support, nominal as it might be

Madly into animals, hence partiality for the country

Extreme patriot

Revolutionary ain't registered as patriot

Patriot presenting people with a catalogue

American, for one

Such as 'British' or 'French'

Tony Italian? Could be English

""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.""

Nationhood

Naturopath

Up to beat United, Rovers' man crosses road for alternative medicine

Navigation

Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.

Necrology

One who gives an account of deaths.

Cagliostro, for one.

Ruth, the sorceress (wordplay)

Sauron, with an affair at the heart (wordplay)

Practising magic

""Sex an abnormal attraction, especially erotic, to corpses. ; necrophile, necrophiliac , n . Corpses an abnormal attraction, especially erotic, to corpses. ; necrophile, , adj. ; necrophiliac, , adj. -Phile, -Philia, -Phily an abnormal, often sexual attraction toward the dead or a dead body. ; necrophile , Death""

NECROPHILE

""Pl. necropolises or necropoleis (-l s ) A cemetery, especially a large and elaborate one belonging to an ancient city.""

Necropsy

NECROTIZE

For acupuncturists (wordplay)

Embroidery - I needn't lope (anagram)

Tennis embroidery (wordplay)

Cleopatra - or Susie (wordplay)

Seamstress

""A woman who does needlework, especially a seamstress.""

Needlework

Nefarious

Parleying

Talks about one's job, perhaps

Discussion aimed at compromise

Process of reaching agreement

Negotiator

Of or pertaining to negotiation.

Negrophobe

Fear of or contempt for Black people and their culture.

Very close

Neighbour

Having the property of killing nematodes; lethal to nematodes.

Nematocide

Nematocyst

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

Neocortex

Of or pertaining to the neocortex.

CORTICES cortex

Neoliberal

LOGISTIC a symbolic logic

NEONATE a newborn child

ORTHODOX one who holds traditional beliefs

Neophiliac

Neorealism

Neorealist

""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.""

Nephoscope