2-Letter Words Starting with N

COLORFAST

One not fighting in war

Person not fighting in war

Noncombat

Guarded in speech

Guarded, but without being locked up (wordplay)

On the fence, not a prison sentence (wordplay)

COMMITTED commit

COMMUNIST An advocate for the theory or practice of communism.

""COMMUNITY Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. as, a community of goods.""

Material such as glass or porcelain

CONGRUENT Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding.

Word with prefix non-

""CORPORATE Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. as, a corporate town.""

Plural or third person singular

CUSTODIAL Relating to custody or guardianship.

Noncustomer

""DECEPTIVE Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance. as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.""

DEDUCTIVE Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible.

Nondelegate

""DEPENDENT Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. as, a dependent bough or leaf.""

DEPLETING deplete

Nondescript

Nondiabetic

""DIRECTIVE Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.""

Word with prefix non-

Word with prefix non-

""ECONOMIST One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.""

""EDITORIAL Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.""

""EDUCATION The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.""

Not effective

Nonelection

Plural or third person singular

Word with prefix non-

""EMOTIONAL Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature. as, an emotional nature.""

""Inflected form of ENZYMATIC Inflected form of ENZYME a complex protein, also ENZYM""

Suspect online assent is unimportant

Not totally necessary

Not absolutely necessary

(Of directors) only advisory

Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity.

Lite

FEDERATED federate

Nonfeminist

""FICTIONAL Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.""

Nongraduate

HEMOLYTIC of or pertaining to hemolysis; causing hemolysis.

Word with prefix non-

""IDENTICAL The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. as, the identical person or thing.""

Not marked by or given to imitation. Opposite of imitative.imitative.

IMMIGRANT One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; correlative of emigrant. emigrant.

INCUMBENT Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent.

INDUCTIVE Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; usually followed by to. to.

INFECTIVE Infectious.

Noninitiate

Word with prefix non-

INTRUSIVE Apt to intrude; characterized by intrusion; entering without right or welcome.

""INTUITIVE Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision. as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.""

IRRIGATED irrigate

Inflected form of LINEARITY Inflected form of LINEAR resembling a straight line

Nonliterate

""Not malignant, as a disease.""

""METAMERIC Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric. as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.""

Not participating in migrations; -- used of animals that do not migrate. Opposite of migratory.migratory.

Nonmilitant

MOTORIZED motorize

NARRATIVE Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.

Nonnational

Absence of necessity; the quality or state of being unnecessary.

""NEGLIGENT Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order. as, disposed in negligent order.""

""NORMATIVE relating to or dealing with norms; as, normative discipline; normative samples.as, normative discipline; normative samples.""

Without a nucleus.

""NUTRITIVE Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries. as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries.""

OBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to an object.

""OBSERVANT Taking notice; viewing or noticing attentively; watchful; attentive; as, an observant spectator; observant habits as, an observant spectator; observant habits""

OPERATING operate

Broken

Not parasitic.

""PETROLEUM Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc.""

PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

Not political. Opposite of political.political.

POLLUTING pollute

PRACTICAL Of or pertaining to practice or action.

Inflected form of PSYCHOTIC Inflected form of PSYCHO a mentally unstable person

REALISTIC Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

Not recurring.

""REDUNDANT Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.""

REGULATED regulate

Nonrelative

No set dinners arranged for hotel visitors not staying the night (wordplay)

Making no resistance.

Nonruminant

SCIENTIST One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.

Nonsecretor

""SECRETORY Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. as, secretory vessels, nerves.""

Integrated new functioning car seat in buggy

SELECTIVE Selecting; tending to select.

Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.

Nonsentence

SOCIALIST One who advocates or practices the doctrines of socialism.

Nonsolution

Inflected form of STEROIDAL Inflected form of STEROID a type of chemical compound

Without any long-term focus

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

""Not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences; as, nontechnical aspects of the job; nontechnical training. Opposite of technical.as, nontechnical aspects of the job; nontechnical training. Opposite of technical.""

Word with prefix non-

Plural of gerund noun

""TREATMENT The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.""

""TURBULENT Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean. as, the turbulent ocean.""

Nonutility

Nonviolent

VOLUNTARY Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.

Pertaining to or having normal blood pressure.

Normal body temperature.

A condition of normal body temperature.

Coming from the top right part of the map

""NORTHEASTER A storm, strong wind, or gale, coming from the northeast.""

No short-term changes about name highest in charts (wordplay)

Goes right to the top in Ulster? That's some direction to take!

""Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course. as, a northwestern course.""

NORTHWESTER A storm or gale from the northwest; a strong northwest wind.

Notability

""NOTARIZE to attest to as a notary, also NOTARISE""

Memorably observe eminent person pinching contents of till

Act of making known

Warning? Not if I can hold it back with love!

Announcement

Nourishment

""NOVELIZE to put into the form of a novel, also NOVELISE""

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a nucleotide to a nucleoside and phosphoric acid.

Believer in occult significance of numbers

Coin collectors

Nuptiality

Food value expert

One studying the value of food and its ingestion

Nutritious

Under the influence of nympholepsy; ecstatic; frenzied.

""Plankton of minute size, especially plankton composed of organisms measuring from 2 to 20 micrometers.""

""One of two basic amido derivatives of naphthalene, C10H7.NH2, forming crystalline solids. C10H7.NH2, forming crystalline solids.""

Narratology

Person associated with (-ist)

Narrowcast

Nasalization

NATIONALISE

Extremely patriotic

Very patriotic

Supporting one's people, revise an initial cost

Groups of political states

Chinese, Haitians and Cubans, e.g

Chinese, Haitians and Cubans, for example

Nationalizer

""NATIONALIZE 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.""

Naturalness

Naturopathy

Naughtiness

Nazification

Nearsighted

Nebulization

""Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; opposed to libertarian. libertarian.""

Causing a need

Calling for

NECESSITATE To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.

Necessitous

Not significant or important enough to be worth considering; trifling.

The quality of being negotiable or transferable by indorsement.

The branch of zoology that deals with nematodes.

Nematologist

An advocate of neoclassicism.

Neonatology

Of or relating to newborn infants or an infant: neonatal care; neonatal disorders.

""NEOPLASTIC of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.""

""NEOPLASTIC of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.""

Nephelometer

An apparatus used to measure the size and concentration of particles in a liquid by analysis of light scattered by the liquid.

Nephrectomy

NEPHRECTOMIZE

Nephrologist

Nephropathy

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.""

Neurochemist

Neuropeptide

NEUROTOXIC

Neutralness

Nicotinamide

Nidification

Nightclubber

Time to retire from team can be great for those who like hoofing it

How one sleeps after reading Poe

""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 .""

Noctambulist

Pertaining or according to a nomenclature.

Nomenclature

Word with prefix non-

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

Dismissal of cop - canteen can go wild

Terrible canteen cop can boycott (wordplay)

ACCREDITED accredit

Inflected form of ADDITIVITY Inflected form of ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

AFFILIATED being joined in close association

Nonalignment

Inflected form of ALPHABETIC Inflected form of ALPHABET a system of letters

ANTIBIOTIC A chemical substance derived from a mold or bacterium that kills microorganisms and cures infections.

Nonarchitect

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

""ATTACHMENT The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party. as, an attachment to a friend, or to a party.""

Failure to be present

Absence

AUTOMOTIVE of or pertaining to the automobile.

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