2-Letter Words Starting with N

How one sleeps after reading Poe

Nitrobenzene

Nitromethane

Noctambulist

Noisomeness

Nomenclature

ABSORBABLE Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

Word with prefix non-

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

Nonadmission

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.""

Word with prefix non-

Nonalignment

Nonarchitect

ASSOCIATED Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined.

AUTONOMOUS Independent in government; having the right or power of selfgovernment.

Nonbiologist

Word with prefix non-

Noncandidate

""CAPITALIST One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.""

""Inflected form of CELLULOSIC Inflected form of CELLULOSE Consisting of, or containing, cells.""

Noncharacter

CHAUVINIST

CLASSIFIED classify

Word with prefix non-

Noncollector

Mob cannot brawl with workers who don't fight

Noncommunist

Plural of gerund noun

CONCLUSION The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

Nonconductor

CONFORMERS conformer

CONFORMISM orthodoxy in thoughts and belief.

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

Confirm son? Not! (anagram)

One opposed to the establishment

""CONSENSUAL Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.""

Not contagious; not catching; not communicable by contact.

""CONTIGUOUS In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining.""

""CONTINUOUS Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity. as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity.""

Plural of gerund noun

DECREASING decrease

Nondelivery

Nondependent

A failure to deposit or throw down.

DIAPAUSING diapause

DIFFUSIBLE Capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused.

""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.""

Noneconomist

Plural noun (-tions)

Plural or third person singular

Nonessential

ESTERIFIED esterify

Nonexecutive

Nonexistence

Plural or third person singular

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

Nonhappening

""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.""

""HOMOLOGOUS Having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure""

Inflected form of HOMOSEXUAL Inflected form of HOMOSEX homosexuality

HYSTERICAL Of or pertaining to hysteria.

Nonidentity

Nonimmigrant

Noninclusion

INCREASING increase

Nonincumbent

""INDIGENOUS Native; produced, growing, or living, naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; not imported.""

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

Not infectious; --of diseases. Opposite of infectious.infectious.

Noninfluence

Plural or third person singular

Nonlandowner

LEGUMINOUS Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse.

Nonlibrarian

Inflected form of LINGUISTIC Inflected form of LINGUIST a person skilled in several languages

""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.""

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.

""MONOGAMOUS Upholding, or practicing, monogamy.""

Nonmotility

Plural or third person singular

Word with prefix non-

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

Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.

Nonperformer

""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-

Plural or third person singular

Nonphysician

""POSSESSION The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.""

Nonrandom

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

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

""SCIENTIFIC Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations. as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.""

Nonscientist

Integrated. Opposite of segregated.segregated.

Nonsensical

SEQUENTIAL Succeeding or following in order.

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

Nonsocialist

Generalist

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.

Nonsubject

""Inflected form of SUBSIDIZED Inflected form of SUBSIDIZE To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line. as, to subsidize a steamship line.""

Inflected form of SYSTEMATIC Inflected form of SYSTEM a group of interacting elements forming a unified whole

Nontreatment

Nonunique

Word with prefix non-

UNIVERSITY The universe; the whole.

Nonvalidity

Noradrenalin

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.""

Nosological

NOSTALGIC Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.

Notableness

Notarization

Vacuums

Some requests for payments

Announcements

Notionality

Novelization

Noxiousness

Nucleocapsid

Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm; esp. applied to a body formed in the developing ovum from the plasma of the nucleus of the germinal vesicle.

Nucleotidase

They may try to figure out the future

They might disrupt dinner plans

They want us to take things in properly

Food value experts

Nympholepsy

Nymphomaniac

Namelessness

Nannoplankton

Naphthylamine

Narratologist

NARROWCASTING narrowcast

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

Nauseousness

Navigability

Nebulousness

Necessitarian

Necessitation

Needlessness

Negativeness

Neglectful

The quality or state of being neighborly.

Neoclassicism

Neoclassicist

""Control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures. In contrast to colonialism, in which one country controls another territory by military force.colonialism, in which one country controls another territory by military force.""

Dominating another country by economic power

Neoliberalism

Neonatologist

Neoorthodoxy

Neoplasticism

Neoplasticist

Nephelometry

Nephrectomize

Neuraminidase

Neuroanatomy

Nerves

Neurobiology

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

Neuroblastoma

Neurochemical

NEUROCHEMIST

Expert on hemispheres

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

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

Neurosurgery

""Affectation of, or fondness for, novelty; vain or affected fashion or form.""

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

""See Gun cotton, under Gun. Gun cotton, under Gun.""

Nitroglycerin

Nitroparaffin

Nonacceptance

ACQUISITIVE Acquired.

Nonaggression

Nonantibiotic

Nonappearance