2-Letter Words Starting with N

Temperate, for example

With even positive and negative charges, as some molecules

Not involving printed matter

Unranked

Type of aircraft firm? On the contrary

Like some airships

Lacking firmness

An unimportant rival

Not royal

Citified

One who eschews the slopes

Not solar

Fake news (wordplay)

A substance that is not a sugar

Like three out of four suits

It contradicts what we know

Set in the sticks, say

Undeveloped, perhaps

Not associated with a city

Those who stop smoking, for example.

Teetotalers, for example

They're clean

Not causing infection

Ticket avoider (wordplay)

November stay-at-home.

Election Day slacker

Nonword

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

Breathing spaces (wordplay)

Where you get a whiff

Breathers (wordplay)

Hypothetical remedies for all ills

Questionable patent medicines

Panaceas or cure-alls

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

Notcher

One that {notifies=v}

NZ flightless rail; inn roost (anagram)

Bird of a genus of flightless rails

Rail, is covered by refusal to sailors

Notturno

Schubert piano trio

Pertaining to a stepmother

Unlocated Colloq.

Unlocated: Colloq.

Nubbly

Pertaining to a {nucellus=n}

Trifling with crazy young rat

Young art (anagram) - worthless

Futile, of no value

Like some accounts

Less sensitive editor was calculating

Like some lithographs

Person who really counts (wordplay)

Paginator

Knowledge of basic maths

Skill with mathematics

Ability to figure menu out, not lacking spice

5 and 10, for example

Area codes, zip codes, etc.

5 and V, for two

Greek character and Queen embraced by girl with a figure

Counting as part of body in new university, happy when article's accepted

Able to figure out menu - and the price!

Tear menu (anagram)

Proficient in arithmetic, say

Numeric

Many in number

Large and indefinite quantity

Goodly but indefinite number

Shaped like a coin

Nursing

Hurry back with a bandage for the infant

One being carefully tended to

Hurry back with bandage for infant

Relating to the process of nurturing

Turn away, rude - badly brought up!

Tended to, a growing child say

Was a mentor to

Mother, for one

Child rearer, for example

Child rearer, e.g

Helps develop and grow

Provides T.L.C.

Brings up, runs true to form

Colour of Hazel when fully developed!

Has the loony got a tan (wordplay)

Burnt fragments have reddish colour

A perennial herb

Health-food substance

Source of nourishment

Substance providing nourishment

Nuzzler

Shun Blair (anagram)

Manicurist's tool

Item used in manicure

Units for some highly potent drugs

Unit equal to 10 angstroms

Measurement of length at the subatomic level

Narceine

The flower of youth (wordplay)

Flower of youth reflected (wordplay)

He saw himself as winning on the pools

T-men's problem

Serious social problem

Drugs that cause sleep or drowsiness

Induce stupor

Pipes that let the ash linger

Nargileh

Narrater

Doing a voice-over, say

Radio announcer's sideline.

Stretched up, standing and unfolding

...that would be telling!

That would be telling!

Story of arrival in state

Frank eats r-rodent in story

Right artist in indigenous story

River rodent in simple story

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

Narthex

Narwhale

Swimming-pools (US)

Swim-meet sites

US word for swimming-pools

""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.""

Gossiping gent, I rant when put out

Favored word of Number 2

15 aren't engaged in gossip

Of course aunt organised the motor race!

But of course!

Of course aunt's upset - come round!

Naturism

They prefer nothing on

Devotees of outdoor life.

Nothing goes on in their camps

Be having worse (wordplay)

More badly behaved

Less well behaved

Navicert

Relating to the scaphoid bone

One who gives a rallying call (wordplay)

One directs the course, of a ship say

Seafaring reptile (wordplay)

Yes, Aryans may be negative or pessimistic

People against any work by a writer of detective stories

Skeptics

Nearly

Littoral

Positions for the pit teams (wordplay)

Old-time cattle tenders

Keepers of cattle.

Old-time cattle tenders

English word

Mist-producing drug-delivery machine

Transformed as scenery? It is essential!

That must be cash for the job (wordplay)

Shift scenery as required

Obituary

English word

Necrose

Nectary

Fruit - aren't nice (anagram)

Peach of a fruit (wordplay)

Depilated peach (wordplay)

Sweet, as a drink

A fine sour cocktail is wicked!

One 7 is wrong. Wicked!

Port invested in unsafe supply base

Negatron

Careless one.

""An aesthetic and ideological concept affirming the independent nature, quality, and validity of Black culture.""

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

Marine worm

Any of an order (Nemertina) of soft unsegmented marine worms having an eversible threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract.Nemertina) of soft unsegmented marine worms having an eversible threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract.

It handles sight and hearing

Highly developed region

Neomorph

Neoprene

Modernists

""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

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

Timid - or showing no fear (wordplay)

Showing calm self-control

Never minus no feeling

Never sins - could be due to angst

Coming from Inverness with timidity

Jumpiness

Nervousness.

With clammy hands, say

With shaking hands, perhaps

In an anxious manner

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Connected on LinkedIn, say

Attended conferences, for example

Part of goal went well, made some business contacts

Aspirin target, maybe

Pain in the neck, perhaps

Broken rule again leads to complaint

Of nerve pain

Gain ulcer, resulting in nervous pain

Going over university clearing turned out painful

Neuraxon

Neuritic

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

Neuter

Never onside for the get-together at last

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

Fair on fashionable racecourse

Card game in a Suffolk town

It's a card game, of course

Reason to 'interrupt this program'

Reason to "interrupt this program"

Snapper we employed here (wordplay)

Times for one

Extra, for one.

Fresh run for 4, perhaps (wordplay)

100-meter dash do-over (wordplay)

Consequence of 24 seen here (wordplay)

Old feature lead-ins

Place for sports highlights in the '40s

Bygone cinema bonuses

Post production locales (wordplay)

Post production spots (wordplay)

Ngultrum

Nicker

NICKNAME to give a pet name to

Nidering

Niffer

Niggard

Fussy and having a way of being mean

Stingy and miserly

Meagre and given grudgingly

Dark beers for these fliers (wordplay)

Fliers who enjoy a few evening pints (wordplay)

Paul Revere's horse, maybe

Forgetting to wear clothes to work, say

Dream of Black Bess (wordplay)

Nigrify

Nigrify

Nigrosin

Ninebark

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) a chemical reagent used for the detection and analysis of primary amines, esp amino acids, with which it forms a derivative with an intense purple colour""

Lice checker who's fussy (wordplay)

One overly concerned with details

Petty finder of errors

Nitrate

Taint iron chemically by treatment with acid

Nitrator

Nitride

Nitrify

An agent employed in nitrification.

Nitrify

Gaseous compounds.

Nitrosyl

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

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.""

Nonactor

Response that beats around the bush

ARABLE land suitable for cultivation

ARTIST one who is skilled in art

AUTHOR to bring into being

Neither male nor female

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

CAREER to go at full speed

CHURCH to bring to a building for Christian worship

Noncolor

To dissent or refuse to concur.

Like audited courses

Like an audited class

Noncrime

CRISES crisis

CRISIS a crucial turning point

DANCER one that {dances=v}

DEGREE a graduation on a scale

DESERT to {abandon=v}

DOCTOR to treat medically

DOLLAR a monetary unit of the U.S.A.

Rear-seat occupant

One with no wheels, still to be tested (wordplay)

ENERGY the power required for doing work

EROTIC an amatory poem

EXPERT to serve as an authority