2-Letter Words Starting with N

NOVELIST one who writes novels

Fall newcomers (wordplay)

Nubility

Nucleate

NUCLEATE to form into a nucleus

Nucleator

DNA building block

Genetic building block

Phosphate and sugar linked in this compound; once dilute (anagram)

Numerate

The act or art of numbering.

They're the tops for calculating people!

Parts of fractions

Top figures

Pertaining to collectors' items.

Relating to coins or currency

Of coins

The office of a nuncio.

NUPTIAL a {wedding=n}

The providing of loving care and attention.

NUTATION a {nodding=n}

Ball-breaker sounding sweet (wordplay)

Tchaikovsky's cocktail (wordplay)

High flier's suite (wordplay)

Nutgrass

Small birds.

Birds known for their cracking ability (see letters 3-8)

Birds.

Foods unhappy men trust in

Foods.

Food

Nutrition

Teachers' recipe? It promises to be wholesome!

Suitor with unit adapted to be good for him

Nourishing

""A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness.""

Nymphette

One who is in a state of nympholepsy.

Naltrexone

Chemical smelling of mothballs

Narcissist

Composition of 18 regularly dropping off

Likely to drop off at any moment

Of a sleep disorder

Inducing stupor or narcosis.

NARRATION The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.

In the style of narration.

NARRATE to tell a story

(Medicine) Anatomy of or relating to the nose and stomach a nasogastric tube

Nastiness

Bright pungent flowers.

Plants possibly turn as one in rising filth

Nervous naturist's covering bottom, heading off in bloomers

Natatorium

Convert from private to government ownership

Extreme patriotic feeling

State support, nominal as it might be

Madly into animals, hence partiality for the country

Extreme patriot

Revolutionary ain't registered as patriot

Patriot presenting people with a catalogue

American, for one

Such as 'British' or 'French'

Tony Italian? Could be English

""To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.""

Nationhood

Plural or third person singular

Excretion of excessive amounts of sodium in the urine.

Excretion of excessive amounts of sodium in the urine.

Nattiness

Adopted as citizen - adapted to new situation

Naturalise

Naturalism

Darwin, Audubon, etc.

Experts in the living world

Acclimated to a new environment; introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation; -- of plants or animals not native to a location.

Habituates

The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.

Naturopath

Up to beat United, Rovers' man crosses road for alternative medicine

Bad behaviour (of a child)

Unruly quality

Mischief as eight nuns may go off the rails

Navigation

Like Mr. Magoo

No good at taking the long view (wordplay)

Showing lack of vision enraged this revolutionary

Call for scene-shifting? It's tea break!

Compel break-up of nice estates

Call for one in condition after dodgy scene

Somehow sense cities' requirements

Things one must have

Pressing requirements

Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.

One who gives an account of deaths.

Practising magic

NECROTIZE

For acupuncturists (wordplay)

Embroidery - I needn't lope (anagram)

Tennis embroidery (wordplay)

Negativism

Negativist

In a negligent manner.

Parleying

Talks about one's job, perhaps

Discussion aimed at compromise

Process of reaching agreement

Negotiator

Of or pertaining to negotiation.

NEMATICIDE

Nematicide

Having the property of killing nematodes; lethal to nematodes.

Nematocide

Nematocyst

Neocortex

Of or pertaining to the neocortex.

CORTICES cortex

LOGISTIC a symbolic logic

NEONATE a newborn child

ORTHODOX one who holds traditional beliefs

Neorealist

""Either of two related white crystalline compounds, C 12 H 19 BrN 2 O 2 or C 13 H 22 N 2 O 6 S, that opposes the action of acetylcholinesterase and is used in the treatment of glaucoma, myasthenia gravis, and various postoperative conditions.""

An igneous rock consisting chiefly of pyroxene and nepheline.

Pl. nephrectomies Surgical removal of a kidney.

NEPHRITE a mineral

Pl. nephropathies A disease or abnormality of the kidney.

The funnelshaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.

Adjective (-ic)

Nervosity

Hades

Hell

Networking

Like a certain class of steroids that can alter brain function

See antipsychotic drug .

Spinal cord specialist

Medical specialist in the nervous system

Expert on the nervous system

""Of or pertaining to neuropathy; of the nature of, or suffering from, nervous disease.""

A neuropter.

Personality disorder raging in Tom Cruise

Neurotoxin

Tending to affect or attack nervous tissue: a neurotropic venom.

NEURULAE neurula

Crazy leader is nut to be made ineffective

Rudest alien removed and made ineffective

Neutralise

Neutralism

Neutralist

Made ineffective

Negated

""One who, or that which, neutralizes; that which destroys, disguises, or renders inert the peculiar properties of a body.""

Neutralize

NEUTRAL one that is impartial

Neutrophil

Newscaster

Publications from special groups

Four directions given by landlords in information sheets

Present participle or gerund

NICTITATE To wink; to nictate.

The Lady with the Lamp, d. 1910

Small thrush with a melodious song

Keats's immortal Bird

Like a bad dream

Very frightening

Very scary

Nightscope

Bittersweet plants

Glasses for really sensitive eyes (wordplay)

Belladonnas

Bedtime garments

Parts of bedroom sets

Bedside tables near the most original of teddy bears

Cops' props

Billy clubs

""One, especially a robber or prostitute, who walks the streets at night.""

Clouds in Britain most unusual

Nineteenth

Nitpicky

Nitrofuran

An enzyme of nitrogen-fixing bacteria that catalyzes the conversion of nitrogen to ammonia.

Containing element N

""Any of a class of organic compounds with the general formula R 2 NNO or RNHNO, present in various foods and other products and found to be carcinogenic in laboratory animals.""

Causing pain. Used of a stimulus.

By night.

Nodulation

One who calls persons or things by their names.

Nominalist

Results of primaries

Results from political conventions

Convention activities

Nominative

ABSTRACT to draw away

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

Not next to

AFFLUENT a stream that flows into another

ANALYTIC a scheme of analytical logic

ANATOMIC pertaining to {anatomy=n}

ARGUMENT an exchange of differing reasons

AROMATIC a fragrant substance

ARTISTIC pertaining to {art=n}

Word with prefix non-

Nonathlete

ATHLETIC relating to vigorous physical exercise

ATTACHED attach

ATTENDER one who is attentive

""AUDITORY a group of listeners, also AUDITIVE""

BOTANIST one skilled in botany

Word with prefix non-

Word with prefix non-

Aliens

COHERENT sticking together

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

CONSTANT something that does not alter

Word with prefix non-

CONTRACT to decrease in size

CREATIVE having the ability to create

CRITICAL {crucial=adj}

CULTURAL relating to culture

CUSTOMER one who buys something

DELEGATE to appoint as one's representative

Featureless - tinned crops (anagram)

Princes don't turn out undistinguished

With no interesting characteristics

Word with prefix non-

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

DIDACTIC instructive

DIRECTED direct

DISCOUNT to reduce the price of

DOGMATIC overbearing

DOMESTIC a household servant

DOMINANT a controlling genetic character

DRAMATIC pertaining to {drama=n}

Failure of election.

Like English, usually

""A substance that is not an electric; that which transmits electricity, as a metal.""

EMPHATIC stressed forcibly

People of little account.

In spite of it, all the more

In spite of that

Confused hen nets sole, however

Like the white-breasted pygmy kangaroo

Unreal

FEMINIST a supporter of feminism

Nonfiction

GRADUATE to receive an academic degree or diploma

HOSPITAL a medical institution

IDENTITY the essential character of a person or thing

INDUSTRY a group of productive enterprises

INFECTED infect

INFESTED infest

INITIATE to begin or start

INTEGRAL a total unit

INTEREST to engage the attention of

IRRITANT something that irritates

Characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language.

Like a culture without writing

""MAGNETIC a metal that attracts iron, also MAGNET""