2-Letter Words Starting with N

Bump on a log, say

Knot, of sorts

Bump kin (wordplay)

Alaskan gold mining city

Gold rush city of 1900

Seaport in Alaska.

Word with the wiser (wordplay)

Survey choice, maybe

Rightmost check box, perhaps

Negative of sorts

Ain't happening!

Ain't gonna do it!

Roman, for one

Site for a stud, perhaps

Kind of dive (wordplay)

Crotchet or minim, say (wordplay)

Do for one!

High C, say

Why A is not able (wordplay)

Posh bloke? The French count, perhaps

Earl-y (wordplay)

Sign of engine trouble, maybe

Music you don't like (wordplay)

Invisible pollution (wordplay)

Sex offender (in prison)

Time being for N, perhaps, not NN

Perhaps N for the present

Rodeo ring (wordplay)

Riata end perhaps

The end of one's rope, maybe

Super stars (wordplay)

Milky Way phenomena (Var.)

Stars bursting in air (wordplay)

Suborn (people) - tamper with (horses)

Sabotage (racehorse, greyhound etc)

Disable by drugging, a horse say

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

Why a car can't cause carnage (wordplay)

Salad Days, say, soon coming up

Not the time to be too young

Reason for rust, perhaps

Boycott of a kind.

Cause of obsolescence.

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)

Rock named for a Scandinavian country

Rock common in South AfricA

Igneous rock

Enter a flat, say (wordplay)

Give that song a rest, say (wordplay)

Write down (music)

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

Drowning, as during Reign of Terror.

Total immersion is one day's work

Execution by drowning

Business end of gas pump

Spout at end of tube

Water-fountain part

In a stupor.

Describing the result of a shot in the arm

Stuporous

Destroy plant tissue.

Part of body almost swelled getting gangrene

Affect with death to part of the living body

One who's fresh out (wordplay)

Formula one (wordplay)

A one-ten infant, say

Specimen used for species naming

Biological specimen replacing the original

It's a bit of a nerve!

A cell with an axon and dendrites

Cell that conducts nerve impulses

Clue not used by aviator (wordplay)

Clue not suited to bat

Old World bat.

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)

""Not hunted for food, sport, or fur""

Not containing iron bound like heme

Not taking place in the home

Like gasses, but not grasses

Lack of existence

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

Ninefold; lone pun (anagram)

Word hitting two Triple Word Scores in Scrabble

Standing joke among lone characters in baseball team, say (wordplay)

Star lacking power (wordplay)

Celebrity at a loss (wordplay)

VIP without skills (wordplay)

Short read (var.)

Short stories, like Boccaccio's.

Short tales, as the "Decameron."

Nine-day devotions.

Two presents in place? Not at all!

Won Back Present (unplaced)

News from - (William Morris)

A chemical compound

Cloudy Var.

Cloudy variable

Cloudlike

Hookworm, for one

Long thin worm such as threadworm

Roundworm or eelworm

One freshly converted to make war, say

Close combat, say, for raw recruit

A convert to join new fight, we hear

Synthetic polymer; none peer (anagram)

Synthetic rubber - ne'er open (anagram)

Oil and heat-resistant synthetic rubber

Parliament constituent (wordplay)

Merit inclusion (wordplay)

Once in it (anagram)

Persons of high birth

Comtes, comtesses, etc.

Word before oblige

Piece of music for the night (wordplay)

The night air (wordplay)

Any of 13 piano pieces by Faure

What's knotty could be unloosed

Lumpy hooter's terribly loud inside

What's no use, old, terribly lumpy

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

An unrhythmic dance

Not belonging to an elite group

Like framer's glass

Type of glass

A non-celebrity

Topic of little concern

Matter of little interest

It hasn't been a problem for us in eons

Not obese

That's inane!

Absurd production of Lear (wordplay)

SNE x 2, no? That's just silly!

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

Where bread is kept wrapped (wordplay)

Wallet for folding money

See patient's wallet

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}

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

Place of chaos and crazy behaviour

Indelicate informal word for a mental hospital

Induce stupor

""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.""

Littoral

Not drinking say, I consumed treat

Find a way over (a difficult path)

Bargain at the wheel (wordplay)

Not a gain (wordplay)

Famous bird's saying

Ravenous declaration (wordplay)

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

ARABLE land suitable for cultivation

DEGREE a graduation on a scale

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.""

LEAGUE to come together for a common purpose

LEGUME a type of plant

MOBILE a form of sculpture

Anchored for life, as barnacles

Not aboriginal

POLICE to make orderly

SALINE a salt solution

Like some online forms

Like some items in downloads

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

Destined to fail

English word

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

Thin book, perhaps

Billy Budd, for one

Irish victory for Shaw

New brother or sister

Beginner; green one.

Polish first-class verse

Number of teeth (wordplay)

Proprietary name for an anaesthetic

Painkiller during drilling

""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.""

Insurance seller (Columbus Blue Jackets)

All over the country

Across the whole country

Open to discussion

Subject to compromise

Subject to bargaining

Fear of or contempt for Black people and their culture.

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

An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity.

Irritating notelets sent out by this writer

English word

English word

Resident has no time to pack case

Filled by appointment

Domestic pinches medal in case

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

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

DEFENSE to guard against a specific attack

DURABLE {hardy=adj}

HISTONE a simple protein

HOSTILE an unfriendly person

OBSCENE {indecent=adj}

PASSIVE a verb form

ROUTINE a regular course of procedure

SALABLE able to be sold

SCIENCE knowledge obtained by observation and experiment

SEPTATE having a septum

Scot-free (wordplay)

Order ban on latex to be unlevied

""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.""

""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)

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.""

""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.""

The funnelshaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.

Like a certain class of steroids that can alter brain function

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

BURNABLE something that can be burnt

CALLABLE able to be called

Air of jaunty unconcern.

Casually calm manner

Casually calm relaxed attitude

COERCIVE serving to coerce

COVERAGE the extent to which something is covered

CREATIVE having the ability to create

DELEGATE to appoint as one's representative

Like English, usually

EMPLOYEE a person who is employed

EVIDENCE to make apparent or visible

""An omission or neglect to do something, esp. that which ought to have been done. Cf. Malfeasance. Malfeasance.""

GRADUATE to receive an academic degree or diploma

INITIATE to begin or start

(Of medical procedure) not involving entering the body

(Of operations) not requiring instruments within the body

LANGUAGE to express in a body of words serving as communication

Like a culture without writing

NEGATIVE to {veto=v}

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

REACTIVE tending to react

RECOURSE to turn to someone for aid

RELATIVE one who is connected with another by blood or marriage

RESPONSE a reply or reaction

REUSABLE capable of being used again

SENTENCE to declare judicially the punishment

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.

A hormone secreted by or acting on a part of the nervous system.

""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

(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.

System of naming

Neater column (anagram) - terminology

Strange manner to clue terminology

Nonaddict

ASSERTIVE Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.

BREAKABLE Capable of being broken.

""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

""CORPORATE Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. as, a corporate town.""

""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.""

Inflected form of CRUSHABLE Inflected form of CRUSH to press out of shape

""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.