2-Letter Words Starting with N

A hydrolytic enzyme that removes sialic acid from mucoproteins and is found chiefly in microorganisms of the respiratory and intestinal tracts.

Neurasthenia

Neurasthenic

Adjective (-ic)

""Pl. neuroblastomas or neuroblastomata (-m -t ) A malignant tumor composed of neuroblasts, originating in the autonomic nervous system or the adrenal medulla and occurring chiefly in infants and young children.""

The study of the chemical composition and processes of the nervous system and the effects of chemicals on it.

Neurochemist

Neurofibroma

NEUROHORMONE

Neurohormone

Nervomuscular.

Neuropeptide

Neuroscience

Doctors will want no rogue nurses around

Pl. neurosurgeries Surgery on any part of the nervous system.

NEUROTOXIC

Neutralness

""Containing nickel; as, nickelferous iron. as, nickelferous iron.""

Scrooge's way so very old and slow, not quite retired

Parsimony

Nightclubber

How one sleeps after reading Poe

NINCOMPOOP A fool; a silly or stupid person.

""The act, process, or result of combining with nitrogen or some of its compounds.""

Nitrobenzene

Powerful explosive

Soup

Nitromethane

""Any of a group of organic compounds formed by replacing one or more of the hydrogen atoms of a paraffin hydrocarbon with the univalent group, NO 2 , as in nitromethane, CH 3 NO 2 .""

Pertaining or according to a nomenclature.

Nomenclature

ABSORBABLE Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

Word with prefix non-

""ABSORPTIVE Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe.""

ACCREDITED accredit

Very old people

Refusal to attack first

Peaceful co-existence

""AGGRESSIVE Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.""

ALLERGENIC of or pertaining to allergens or allergenicity.

Failure to be present

A no-show

Nonarchitect

BEHAVIORAL of or pertaining to behavior.

Word with prefix non-

""CARCINOGEN Any substance that produces cancer; as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.""

Noncharacter

CHURCHGOER One who attends church.

Word with prefix non-

Noncollector

Not connected with or engaged in commercial enterprises. Opposite of commercial.commercial.

COMPARABLE Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison.

""COMPETITOR One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.""

CONCURRENT Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contibuting to the same event of effect; co\'94perating.

CONCURRING concur

Nonconductor

CONFERENCE The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.

CONFORMERS conformer

""Not conforming; declining conformity; especially, not conforming to the established church of a country.""

CONFORMISM orthodoxy in thoughts and belief.

... on the contra-dance floor (wordplay)

Confirm son? Not! (anagram)

One opposed to the establishment

""Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship.""

CONTROLLED control

COOPERATOR

CORRODIBLE Capable of being corroded; corrosible.

Plural of gerund noun

Inflected form of CREATIVITY Inflected form of CREATIVE having the ability to create

DECREASING decrease

DEFERRABLE

""DEGENERATE Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low.""

DEGRADABLE

""DELIBERATE Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. as, a deliberate judge or counselor.""

Nondelivery

""DEMOCRATIC Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.""

""DERIVATIVE Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word.""

""DISCLOSURE The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure.""

DISCURSIVE Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.

DISPERSIVE Tending to disperse.

""DISRUPTIVE Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery.""

Not electric; conducting electricity.

""ELECTRONIC Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons; as, electronic energy.as, electronic energy.""

""ELEMENTARY Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance. as, an elementary substance.""

EQUILIBRIA

ESTERIFIED esterify

""FIGURATIVE Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.""

Inflected form of FILTERABLE Inflected form of FILTER to purify a fluid of solid matter

""FORFEITURE The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act.""

""GOVERNMENT The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government. as, civil, church, or family government.""

Not growing or living in groups or colonies; -- of plants and animals.

""Not inheritable through genetic transmission. Opposite of inheritable, and heritable.inheritable, and heritable.""

""HISTORICAL Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page.as, an historical poem; the historic page.""

HYSTERICAL Of or pertaining to hysteria.

Nonimmigrant

INCREASING increase

Not industrial; -- used of societies. Opposite of industrial and industrialized.industrial and industrialized.

Plural or third person singular

Not integrated. Opposite of integrated.integrated.

Inflected form of IRRADIATED Inflected form of IRRADIATE To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster.

IRRITATING irritate

Nonlandowner

Nonlibrarian

""MAINSTREAM The prevailing opinion or practise; as, the doctor avoided using therapies outside the mainstream of modern medical practice.as, the doctor avoided using therapies outside the mainstream of modern medical practice.""

""MANAGERIAL Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities. as, managerial qualities.""

MEASURABLE Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.

State of not being a member.

MONETARIST One who adheres to the theory of monetarism.

Plural or third person singular

Word with prefix non-

""NUTRITIOUS Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental.""

Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.

""OCCURRENCE A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. as, the occurence of a railway collision.""

PARAMETRIC

Nonperformer

PERFORMING perform

""PERISHABLE Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies. as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies.""

PERMISSIVE Permitting; granting leave or liberty.

PERSISTENT Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.

Word with prefix non-

PRACTICING practice

Not giving results

Sterile

""Inflected form of PROGRAMMER Inflected form of PROGRAMME That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch.""

Nonrandom

RECIPROCAL Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.

Inflected form of RECYCLABLE Inflected form of RECYCLE to process waste materials

REFILLABLE

REFLECTING reflect

REFUNDABLE

""REGULATION The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.""

Nonresidence

Policy of not fighting against authority

Passive submission 3,10

Nonresistant

RESPONDENT Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.

Nonresponder

RESPONSIVE That responds; ready or inclined to respond.

RESTRICTED restrict

""RETRACTILE CApable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile. as, the claws of a cat are retractile.""

Like a bottle on which no deposit has been paid

Not reversible or capable of having either side out; -- used mostly of clothing. Opposite of reversible.reversible.

Integrated. Opposite of segregated.segregated.

Inflected form of SHRINKABLE Inflected form of SHRINK to contract or draw back

STATIONARY Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed.

""STRUCTURAL Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error. as, a structural error.""

STRUCTURED Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts.

""THEATRICAL Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures. as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures.""

Nontreatment

""UNIFORMITY The quality or state of being uniform; freedom from variation or difference; resemblance to itself at all times; sameness of action, effect, etc., under like conditions; even tenor; as, the uniformity of design in a poem; the uniformity of nature. as, the uniformity of design in a poem; the uniformity of nature.""

Word with prefix non-

UNIVERSITY The universe; the whole.

""VEGETARIAN One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk.""

Blood pressure drug

Noradrenalin

Stimulated by or releasing norepinephrine: noradrenergic neurons.

""A progestational hormone, C 20 H 26 O 2 , similar in effect to progesterone, used especially in oral contraceptives.""

Return to usual conditions

Normative

Normotensive

Normothermia

Like some winds

Cold wind in Europe - rent a hostelry (anagram)

On a bearing of twenty two point five degrees

Showed Tarrant out by 45 degrees

""Toward the northwest, or from the northwest.""

""A northwestward direction, point, or region.""

""A tricyclic antidepressant drug, C 19 H 21""

Notarization

""Any of a group of complexes composed of protein and nucleic acid and found in the nuclei and cytoplasm of all living cells, as in chromatin and ribosomes, and in viruses.""

The study of the occult meanings of numbers and their supposed influence on human life.

They may try to figure out the future

Nutritional

They might disrupt dinner plans

They want us to take things in properly

Food value experts

Adjective (-ical)

Narratologist

NARROWCASTING narrowcast

""Of or pertaining to both throat and nose; as, a nasopharyngeal polypus. as, a nasopharyngeal polypus.""

""The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.""

Necessitarian

The quality or state of being neighborly.

Neoliberalism

Neoorthodoxy

Nephelometry

NEPHRECTOMIZE

Nephrectomize

NEPHROTOXIC

Neuraminidase

Neuroanatomy

Nerves

Neurobiology

The biological study of the nervous system or any part of it.

Neuroblastoma

Neurochemical

NEUROCHEMIST

""Of, relating to, or involving the interaction between the nervous system and the hormones of the endocrine glands: the neuroendocrine apparatus in birds.""

Pl. neurofibromas or neurofibromata (-m -t ) A usually benign tumor originating in peripheral nerve fibers and composed chiefly of neurilemma cells.

NEUROGENIC

Neurological

""Medical Specialties the pathology of the nervous system. ; neuropathologist, ; neuropathologic, neuropathological,""

The branch of radiology that deals with the nervous system.

Expert on hemispheres

""The secretion of substances, such as hormones, by nerve cells.""

""The secretion of substances, such as hormones, by nerve cells.""

Neurosurgery

Counteractive process

A woman who owns or publishes a newspaper.

A man who owns or publishes a newspaper.

What items must have to be reported

What makes story a success or extraordinary hit in many quarters

Gripping quality of story as unusual western is shown

Nitrification