2-Letter Words Starting with N

Certain chemical compounds

Laboratory compounds

Nitrile

Certain salts

Meat preservatives

Neon grit (anagram)

Ridiculous ringtone is a gas!

How inner got got - great gas!

Pertaining to a class of acids

Radical in a lab

Nitty

The territory of a nizam

Nobby

No power without a peerage

Queens and others

Counts, for example, as virtue

Noctuid

Noctule

Pertaining to {noctuid=n}

Piece of music for the night (wordplay)

The night air (wordplay)

Any of 13 piano pieces by Faure

Nocturn

The state of being {nodal=adj}

Quality of having knot-like swellings

Little meat makes little sound, perhaps

Small piece (of lamb)

Flavoured with hazelnuts, chocolate, say

Making the most sound

Making the loudest sounds

Loud to the max

Put forward (as a candidate)

Put forward (as candidate for election)

Put forward (as candidate)

Based on moral law

Extra, perhaps

Extra, maybe

Particularly suitable for children

Not chosen

Not belonging to an elite group

Not empty

Heir's failure to renew investiture (hist.)

Happening that didn't happen

Nobody let out it's a damp squib

Occasion without significance

Nonfact

Like a flesh wound

Like most heart attacks

Less than deadly.

Not fatty

The absence of guilt

Nitrogen or carbon, e.g

The element carbon, for example

0 Type of element

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

Not involving printed matter

Subject to a quota

Unranked

Inn stock (anagram)

Like some pans

Like easy-to-clean pans

Fake news (wordplay)

Nonsuit

Nontax

Not tidal

Like a contest with nothing at stake

Not for the championship

Like a bout on an undercard

Lacking tonality

Safe for consumption

Harmless, in a way

Like Crayola crayons

Like three out of four suits

It contradicts what we know

Ticket avoider (wordplay)

November stay-at-home.

Election Day slacker

Jittery win on the black (wordplay)

Asian, for example

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)

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

V. I. P.'s

VIPs have nothing to sit at

Nowhere for the VIPs to sit at

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

Appending to

Writing music

Scoring music

Signs books in 20, perhaps

Tablature is a type

A comment added to a text

Notcher

Making a mark of a sort

Cutting V-shaped nicks.

Incising, as on a gunslinger's belt

One bound for college (wordplay)

Jotter's accessory (wordplay)

Stenographer's necessity

Where bread is kept wrapped (wordplay)

Wallet for folding money

See patient's wallet

lacking music or money

Undistinguished

Undistinguished.

Books of rules (wordplay)

Stack for use by the pool (wordplay)

Bed in flats, perhaps, yields 24 books

Sweet sayings (wordplay)

Lover's sweet talk (wordplay)

They're often sweet

Seeing that it isn't over the top

Seeing gin and tonic, excited

Seeing that the sugar on top is missing

If done, it might be reported

Picture file that is in sign, I am told

Informed, reported to

One that {notifies=v}

Sends an alert to

Informs formally, apprises

Acquaints.

Imaginary - in on a lot (anagram)

Not based on fact

Imaginary half-hearted idea first

NZ flightless rail; inn roost (anagram)

Bird of a genus of flightless rails

Rail, is covered by refusal to sailors

Notturno

Schubert piano trio

The substitution of a new legal obligation for an old one

Sit for Raphael, say (wordplay)

King maybe showing love isn't working

New first for one who writes

Most bumpy, as the surface of a fabric

The quality of being nubile

Form into a central mass

Form around a central area

Having a center, as a cell

States of undress

Only the bare necessities are needed for them

Trifling with crazy young rat

Young art (anagram) - worthless

Futile, of no value

Able to figure out menu - and the price!

Tear menu (anagram)

Proficient in arithmetic, say

Nunatak

Wedding - suit plan (anagram)

Ceremony for being up in last match

I slant up for a wedding

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

Nutate

A {nodding=n}

Colour of Hazel when fully developed!

Has the loony got a tan (wordplay)

Burnt fragments have reddish colour

Nutgall

A perennial herb

Crank cap, say, and chain for bird

Bird - hunt chat (anagram)

Fruit to come from egg of songbird!

Place of chaos and crazy behaviour

Indelicate informal word for a mental hospital

Cake additives

Nutpick

Health-food substance

Source of nourishment

Substance providing nourishment

{nutgrass=n}

It holds the kernel (or summary?)

Few words (wordplay)

Summary holder (wordplay)

Nutsy

Most crackers or bananas (wordplay)

Most eccentric

Most bizarre

Nutting

Nutwood

Barely Legal models, for example

Nubile maidens

Antibiotic removes any nits over time

Naething

Artless actions

A plaque to identify river, perhaps

ID on a door, perhaps

Office door feature

Unit equal to 10 angstroms

Measurement of length at the subatomic level

One billionth (10 -9 ) of a tesla.

Nanowatt

A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum.

Naphthol

Naphthyl

T-men's problem

Serious social problem

Drugs that cause sleep or drowsiness

Induce stupor

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

Narthex

Attribute of many political ads

Very unpleasant behaviour

One hopes you won't find this at Nice

Natation

Swimming-pools (US)

Swim-meet sites

US word for swimming-pools

Archaic Nevertheless; notwithstanding.

Stan, a lion (anagram)

Races with a grandstand finish!

Giants and Pirates

Nativism

Protectors of indigenous rights

""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

Dapper Dan's trait

Neat dresser's quality

Neat and trim condition

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

Duck having bitten top off flower is in a bad way

Gutless Amazon repellently exploit workers - they make you sick

Disgusted at USA need for change

Una, awkwardly placed, is queasy

Una got sick of getting confused, notwithstanding

Revolts disturbing USA Senate

The way one sees a aunt that sickens one

Fills with disgust

Like some mollusks

Navicert

Plotted a course for

Skillfully made one's way through

Incorrect data given for set course

Sails by instrument.

Plots the course

Takes the helm

One who gives a rallying call (wordplay)

One directs the course, of a ship say

Seafaring reptile (wordplay)

Nearly

Putting into order

Making tidy

Putting straight

Old-time cattle tenders

Keepers of cattle.

Old-time cattle tenders

Mother of invention (wordplay)

The mother of invention

You can't do without it

Nectary

Fruit - aren't nice (anagram)

Peach of a fruit (wordplay)

Depilated peach (wordplay)

Sweet, as a drink

Contradictions for one entering States

Contradictions

Denials

Negative

Reverse photos (wordplay)

Strips in a darkroom

Strip in a darkroom

Negatron

In disrepair, perhaps

Not attended to

Ignored or failed to do

Careless one.

Slack peignoir (night clothing)

Carelessly and diaphanously clothed?

Nigel, clumsy chap, careless

One who bargains

Not eating out? Maybe one is struggling to get a good deal

Not drinking say, I consumed treat

Find a way over (a difficult path)

Bargain at the wheel (wordplay)

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

Possibly worms pet coming up in lumps

Tom needs a fix! He's got worms

Worms discovered in one-masted ship

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

From the later stone age

Of the late Stone Age.

Period beginning about 8,000 B.C.

Mobile phones, yet recently introduced

They're just getting started

Newcomers one prepared with scraps picked up

Neoteny

Modernists

Forgetfulness potions

""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.""

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

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

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

Nervousness.

Nescient

Babes in the woods (wordplay)

Slings net around birds not able to fly

Relatives of squabs.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Nettly

Connected on LinkedIn, say

Attended conferences, for example

Part of goal went well, made some business contacts

Neuritic

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""

Fair on fashionable racecourse

Card game in a Suffolk town

It's a card game, of course