2-Letter Words Starting with N

Afternoon treat, maybe

Cat tail (wordplay)

Preschool break, maybe

Pinch - in the bud (wordplay)

Bite from a chihuahua, maybe

Taste of whiskey, say

Cub handle (wordplay)

Pickup point (wordplay)

A pane in the neck (wordplay)

Fuzzy rests (wordplay)

Piles of fabric (wordplay)

Fade-outs (wordplay)

Section of a bay (wordplay)

Tide with little variation

Spring tide's opposite

Scottish vegetable born before pea, say

Scottish word for turnip

Type of tide

E. Indian palm

Long-leaved palm

Palm for thatching

Beats at the buzzer, say

Signs of puppy love (wordplay)

Is a biter - turn back!

Negative of sorts

Ain't happening!

Ain't gonna do it!

Sights from the back row (wordplay)

Spots to get picked up (wordplay)

Pick-up spots (wordplay)

Water over the dam

Half a cone in geometry

Half of a cone

Leakproof Bath item (wordplay)

Covered with fuzz

Flat-bottomed serving dish.

Tides of siestas across Spain (wordplay)

Poles on Yankees' wagons

Lowest levels of high tides

Turnips, in the vernacular

Turnips, in Scotland

Turnips in Aberdeen

Colonist's greeting to an Indian

Friend to early New England Indians

Friend; crony: Amer. Indian word.

E Indian palms

Palms used for thatching.

East Indian palms.

Biting cold (wordplay)

Slightly cold (wordplay)

Quick in the air (wordplay)

A cactus, the prickly pear

Prickly pear cactus.

Prickly pear cactus

Calypso, for one

Callisto, for one

Galatea, for one.

Guy, Rich, Holly, Miles maybe

Gatton, Elfman, Wilson maybe

Revolutionary's incendiary

Neckwear at dinner?

Neckwear at dinner (wordplay)

Tablecloths, for example

Table cloth (wordplay)

Down with family consumer protection!

Laptop accessory (wordplay)

Sought restoration, maybe

Used a hammock, perhaps

Crashed between classes, say

Head found in bed (wordplay)

One out (wordplay)

Van Winkle, for example

Cone sections

British baby's diaper

Brit's diaper

Diaper, in Britspeak

One saying uncle (wordplay)

One crying uncle (wordplay)

Has a duty (to do something)

Friends, as Colonists saluted Indians

Colonists' Indian friends

Friends-used by American Colonists to Indians.

Bit rushed (wordplay)

Pinched, perhaps in the bud

Pinched - in the bud (wordplay)

A young crab (wordplay)

Child prone to pinching (wordplay)

Small boy or crab (wordplay)

To provide with a nipple

Like some banking

Like some banks, for short

Type of insurance that doesn't pay dividends, briefly

Prickly pears.

Prickly pears

Cactuses.

A fold of the vulva

One who can't get out of bed (wordplay)

Insatiable lover, in slang

One who can't do it enough

Larvae of 18 down, perhaps

Oreads, naiads, etc.

Naiads and oreads

Fire bombs used in Korea.

Jellied weaponry

Some explosives

Inflammable distilled liquid

Flammable liquid mixture

Volatile petroleum distillate

""A chemical compound, also NAPHTHOL""

Fast-food freebies

They sit on laps

Diapers, in Dover

Threadbare city has a point

Like some outdoor carpet

Threadbare

Easy tots to baby-sit

Machines used in cotton mills.

Siesta takers, for example

More down-covered

More shaggy, as a rug

Stronger, as liquor

They're diapers in America

Baby's pads

Diapers, in Devon

Off one's guard.

Liable to be detected having forty winks

Taking forty winks

Nauplius

Specimen used for species naming

Biological specimen replacing the original

They may cry Uncle!

Ones who cry uncle (wordplay)

Brothers of nieces

{renal=adj}

A functional unit of the kidney

Kidney unit

Kidney component

Relatively helpful (wordplay)

Nice top job for one in the family

Nice pot (anagram)

Spare part, maybe (wordplay)

Bowler's target, maybe

Spare target, perhaps

They're biters, children!

Young crabs (wordplay)

Puppies, at times

More biting, as winter air

More like chilly weather

More biting, in January

In a nippy manner

Being an ankle-biter (wordplay)

Pinching.

Biting.

Nipple

Say "well, actually," say

Not be satisfied, perhaps

Make petty criticism

A verb form that lacks a past tense inflection

Being a time when something is not at its highest level

A theatrical work that is not a play

That's M in us, confound you!

How minus, perhaps, may confound one

No more? Bother!

Not being poor

Olympics athletes, traditionally

Beer league players

Rank amateurs

Designed like a shower mat, perhaps

(Of surface) affording a strong grip

Like shower mats

Endless train (wordplay)

Talker of sorts

Without breaks? Without brakes!

Ninefold; lone pun (anagram)

Word hitting two Triple Word Scores in Scrabble

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

Pool supply (wordplay)

Writer's block (wordplay)

Tablet taken by a reporter

Until pa (anagram)

Of a wedding.

Relating to marriage

Pecan sheller's tool.

Many hep changes for poetic young women

Beautiful maiden multiplies with Irish poet

Pertaining to a {nymph=n}

Lolita, for one

Dirty old man's obsession, perhaps

Sexually attractive young lady

Randy types

Lolitas

Attacked brutally, in a way

Dining table linens

Table linens

Petroleum-like liquids

Petroleum distillates

Antioxidant, causing little sleep and high tension on short break

A radical derived from naphthalene

Naphtol

Shaped like a turnip

One could have made himb-randy!

Complex guy (wordplay)

Corporal and emperor

Nappy

Pertaining to {nauplius=n}

A form of certain crustaceans

Procedure for TV's Quincy

Post-mortem examination

Postmortem on rise of currency over harvest

A type of biological structure

One freshly converted to make war, say

Close combat, say, for raw recruit

A convert to join new fight, we hear

Abnormal tissue growth

Man lopes into a tumour

Morbid new growth

Synthetic polymer; none peer (anagram)

Synthetic rubber - ne'er open (anagram)

Oil and heat-resistant synthetic rubber

New specimens

Drug for the Lotus-Eaters

Ancient relative of LSD.

Anything causing oblivion.

Ill health caused by kidney disease

Variety of jade

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

A variety of jade, an old charm against kidney disease

Nurse returned after putting in quiet hour working in kidney units

Family matter (wordplay)

Putting on heirs (wordplay)

Family affair (wordplay)

Family man (wordplay)

One who puts on heirs (wordplay)

One with a family practice (wordplay)

Language of 1984 (Orwell)

Lingo in an Orwell book

Report summit in meaningless language

Hot toddy, for one

Parting shot (wordplay)

Drink taken before crashing (wordplay)

Variety of bowling (2 words)

They could be spare parts (wordplay)

Some jewelry (wordplay)

Least suited to beachwear

Most invigorating.

Most chilly

Has little to complain about (wordplay)

Nickels and dimes, so to speak

Finds petty faults

Not empty

One who is not a pagan

Not papal

Refusal in France by faction that's independent

Lack of politics leads to lack of entertainment

That's not at all entertaining for the House, it seems

Nonpast

Nonplay

Temperate, for example

With even positive and negative charges, as some molecules

Not involving printed matter

Like three out of four suits

Nonuple

Books of rules (wordplay)

Stack for use by the pool (wordplay)

Bed in flats, perhaps, yields 24 books

Wedding - suit plan (anagram)

Ceremony for being up in last match

I slant up for a wedding

Nutpick

Relating to nature spirits

Not like the raw spirits

Barely Legal models, for example

Nubile maidens

A plaque to identify river, perhaps

ID on a door, perhaps

Office door feature

Flamethrowing hides a tree (wordplay)

Attacking with bombs

A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum.

Naphthol

Naphthyl

Gold coins - there were three of them

Pastries also known as mille-feuilles

Cream-filled creations

English word

""(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]""

Neomorph

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

Forgetfulness potions

""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.""

""Pl. nephridia (- - ) A tubular excretory organ in many invertebrates, such as mollusks and earthworms.""

Nephrism

Nephrite

Describes Jade to writer returning to human resources and IT in charge

Obsolete word for medicine for the kidneys

Inflammation of the kidneys

Wrongly diagnosed Pinterish condition (wordplay)

First to notice Petri dish without lid is spreading disease

""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

Element named after planet

Element named for a planet

Radioactive metal

Snapper we employed here (wordplay)

Times for one

Extra, for one.

Newspeak

Fresh run for 4, perhaps (wordplay)

100-meter dash do-over (wordplay)

Consequence of 24 seen here (wordplay)

Baseball fan's or sleepyhead's concerns?

Parting shots (wordplay)

Nips before tucks (wordplay)

Discotheque, for one.

Disco, e.g

Nearly time, heads back for club

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

As shown by the quick, bitting tackler (wordplay)

In a nipping manner.

Knocked too hard (wordplay)

Made petty criticisms

Split hairs

Lice checker who's fussy (wordplay)

One overly concerned with details

Petty finder of errors

""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.""

CAMPUS to restrict a student to the school ground

Not exempt; subject to (some specified) rule. Opposite of exempt.exempt.

EXPERT to serve as an authority

IMPACT to fix firmly together

Nonpagan

Unrivalled in Nepal - or different!

Matchless - enrol pain (anagram)

Iron panel (anagram)

Being on the bench/left out is unrewarding

Celebrity now in obscurity

Man without a country

Enemy of the state, so to speak

PLANAR {flat=adj}

In a quandary.

Confounded

Stumped.

Nonplus

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

POLICE to make orderly

""Not porous; especially, not having vessels that appear as pores; as, nonporous wood. Opposite of porous.as, nonporous wood. Opposite of porous.""

Smithsonian, for one

Amateur? Well, there's no money in that!

Like public libraries

Private

SPEECH to {harangue=v}

English word

Part of a helmet

It spans the bridge

Plate covering the hooter

Some personalized sheets

Spot to jot

Writing material for sheet music

""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.""

Nabokov's first with the empty novel 'Lolita'

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

Items on some office doors

Office door attachments

Desk accessories

Naphthene

NAPHTHENE A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum.

A drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues.

Reason for going out a lot (wordplay)

Tendency to deep sleep

Hypersomnia, a sleep disorder

Alternative medicine practitioner

Herb doctor.

Herbal doctor is nuts, or a nut, by the way

Plural or third person singular

Ron polices ruined burial site

Wanting relic, snoop round cemetery

Ripon Close (anagram) - cemetery

Necropsy

Necropsy

Fear of or contempt for Black people and their culture.

Nemophila

English word

Neophilia

Neoplasia

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

Neotropic

A drug mentioned in the Odyssey as a remedy for grief.

Nepheline

NEPHELINE

Nephelite