2-Letter Words Starting with N

Crotchet or minim, say (wordplay)

Do for one!

High C, say

The inert part of gunpowder (wordplay)

Gunpowder Plot element (wordplay)

KNO3, in Britain

Expert guide, perhaps

Good guide, maybe

From around these parts

How kind one is!

Motherly type (wordplay)

Kind mother (wordplay)

Deny Geordie scandal (wordplay)

Age ten (anagram)

Countermand Tyneside crowd (wordplay)

Snuggle like spoons, say

Get cosy with a food provider (wordplay)

Settle comfortably (against something)

Is this perhaps stings (wordplay)

Plant bug (wordplay)

Rash Hotspur's danger (wordplay)

Rock named for a Scandinavian country

Rock common in South AfricA

Igneous rock

Enter a flat, say (wordplay)

Give that song a rest, say (wordplay)

Write down (music)

That hasn't been frozen, see (wordplay)

See you don't skate here!

That's unfrozen, see (wordplay)

Nod the head

Nod, as a flower.

Modern art exhibition said to droop

State of inexperience (French spelling)

Wetness behind the ears (wordplay)

Ain't Eve Innocence itself (wordplay)

Provide a voice-over, say

Talk through the whole movie, say

Do a voice-over, perhaps

A gem cut in a pointed oval form

Item worn round collar (mainly US)

Unimaginative gift, maybe

One done up like a kipper (wordplay)

One who's fresh out (wordplay)

Formula one (wordplay)

A one-ten infant, say

Specimen used for species naming

Biological specimen replacing the original

Veined, to a botanist

Meshed up (wordplay)

Threaded across and down

Resembling a mesh

Ornamental figure of Japanese art

Small kimono fastener

Kimono sash ornament

Blink - enact it (anagram)

Wink or blink

Blink on seeing rubbish in French resort

Late shift perhaps in close connection

What to wear - after dark that is!

Attire for bed (colloq.)

Quibbles per quarter, perhaps (wordplay)

What a lousy little speed for salt!

What a lousy, salty sort of a spped!

Announced trip in the dark compound

Ammonia or fertilizer

Element Number 7 compound

Chemical in egg leading to anger

Latex-like glove material

'Birthday' or 'mother's maiden name,' e.g

Bad bacon bit (wordplay)

Salt of nitrous acid.

Food preservative compound

Clue not used by aviator (wordplay)

Clue not suited to bat

Old World bat.

Star lacking power (wordplay)

Celebrity at a loss (wordplay)

VIP without skills (wordplay)

School run - true/false (wordplay)

Cherish (a hope)

Encourage development of (a child)

Hard and crunchy, maybe

Like the flavor of amontillado

Resembling a litchi

Stir up unease at upset (wordplay)

Go green, say

Name a practice consumed by disgust

A vintage sort of sail (wordplay)

Guide (a vessel)

Plan route (eg, of ship)

A shady image is certainly not positive!

Avenge it? No!

Get a vine (anagram)

Hookworm, for one

Long thin worm such as threadworm

Roundworm or eelworm

One freshly converted to make war, say

Close combat, say, for raw recruit

A convert to join new fight, we hear

Drug for the Lotus-Eaters

Ancient relative of LSD.

Anything causing oblivion.

Variety of jade

Jade and tire, hen party's starting to get drunk

A variety of jade, an old charm against kidney disease

Space-saving, in a way

Like a nest

Able to be netted

Parliament constituent (wordplay)

Merit inclusion (wordplay)

Once in it (anagram)

The territory of a nizam

Piece of music for the night (wordplay)

The night air (wordplay)

Any of 13 piano pieces by Faure

Little meat makes little sound, perhaps

Small piece (of lamb)

Flavoured with hazelnuts, chocolate, say

Put forward (as a candidate)

Put forward (as candidate for election)

Put forward (as candidate)

Not belonging to an elite group

Like a contest with nothing at stake

Not for the championship

Like a bout on an undercard

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)

Stamp and sign, perhaps

Authenticate, in a way

Certify with a seal

Where bread is kept wrapped (wordplay)

Wallet for folding money

See patient's wallet

Form into a central mass

Form around a central area

Having a center, as a cell

Able to figure out menu - and the price!

Tear menu (anagram)

Proficient in arithmetic, say

Place of chaos and crazy behaviour

Indelicate informal word for a mental hospital

{nutgrass=n}

A plaque to identify river, perhaps

ID on a door, perhaps

Office door feature

A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum.

Induce stupor

Frank eats r-rodent in story

Right artist in indigenous story

River rodent in simple story

""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.""

Fruit - aren't nice (anagram)

Peach of a fruit (wordplay)

Depilated peach (wordplay)

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.""

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.

""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.""

""A mineral of a copperred color and metallic luster; an arsenide of nickel; called also coppernickel, kupfernickel. coppernickel, kupfernickel.""

Wink, in biology

Wink

Bars and clubs, say

Insomniacs' distraction (wordplay)

Balls and bats can be part of it

Paul Revere's horse, maybe

Forgetting to wear clothes to work, say

Dream of Black Bess (wordplay)

English word

Then it's no light matter

When most dream

When 12 across begins to get like this

""Infinitive, uninflected; -- of verbs. Opposite of finite.finite.""

Anchored for life, as barnacles

Not aboriginal

Relating to a standard

Derived from a standard

Thin book, perhaps

Billy Budd, for one

Irish victory for Shaw

New brother or sister

Beginner; green one.

Polish first-class verse

Having value as food

Good for you

Providing nourishment

Nabokov's first with the empty novel 'Lolita'

""A drug, C 20 H 23 NO 4 , used as an antagonist to narcotic drugs.""

Insurance seller (Columbus Blue Jackets)

All over the country

Across the whole country

NATURAL a type of musical note

Make less artificial.

Open to discussion

Subject to compromise

Subject to bargaining

A substance or preparation used to kill nematodes.

""A substance that kills nematodes, especially one used in medicine or to kill plant pathogens.""

Irritating notelets sent out by this writer

Make ineffective through impartial viewers being heard

Make ineffective.

Counteract

Offset

English word

Plant, maybe deadly

Mandrake, for example

Belladonna or bittersweet

Resident has no time to pack case

Filled by appointment

Domestic pinches medal in case

""ATHLETE a competitor in contests of strength and speed, also ATHLETA""

HISTONE a simple protein

HOSTILE an unfriendly person

ROUTINE a regular course of procedure

SEPTATE having a septum

Scot-free (wordplay)

Order ban on latex to be unlevied

""VINTAGE to strip of grapes, also VINT""

Plain precious stone in striking clasp

Can't be frozen. That's obvious

Plain diamond in striking clasp

""1. (Medicine) denoting certain infectious diseases of humans, such as smallpox and tuberculosis, outbreaks of which must be reported to the public health authorities""

Rock used for whetstones.

DNA building block

Genetic building block

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

The office of a nuncio.

The providing of loving care and attention.

Chemical smelling of mothballs

Convert from private to government ownership

""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.""

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

Compel break-up of nice estates

Call for one in condition after dodgy scene

""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.

The funnelshaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.

Like a certain class of steroids that can alter brain function

The Lady with the Lamp, d. 1910

Small thrush with a melodious song

Keats's immortal Bird

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

""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.

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

CREATIVE having the ability to create

DELEGATE to appoint as one's representative

Like English, usually

GRADUATE to receive an academic degree or diploma

INITIATE to begin or start

Like a culture without writing

NEGATIVE to {veto=v}

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

REACTIVE tending to react

RELATIVE one who is connected with another by blood or marriage

SENTENCE to declare judicially the punishment

Calm

Oral, as a will

""Any of various short-chain peptides found in brain tissue, such as endorphins.""

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) the amide of nicotinic acid: a component of the vitamin B complex and essential in the diet for the prevention of pellagra. Formula: C 6 H 6 ON 2 NOCIRECEPTOR (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Physiology) Physiol a receptor sensitive to pain

""A yellow aromatic liquid (C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol. C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol.""

A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; called also nitrocarbol. nitrocarbol.

System of naming

Neater column (anagram) - terminology

Strange manner to clue terminology

Nonaddict

ASSERTIVE Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.

""CANDIDATE One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors. as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.""

""COGNITIVE Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. as, cognitive power.""

Noncombat

""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.""

""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.

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

Not effective

(Of directors) only advisory

Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity.

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

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

INFECTIVE Infectious.

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.""

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

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

""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.

Broken

PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

SELECTIVE Selecting; tending to select.

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

Pertaining to or having normal blood pressure.

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

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

NEPHRECTOMIZE

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

Dismissal of cop - canteen can go wild

Terrible canteen cop can boycott (wordplay)

Failure to be present

Absence

AUTOMOTIVE of or pertaining to the automobile.

Not in a college

COMPATIBLE Capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; usually followed by with. with.

""CONDUCTIVE Having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil. as, the conductive tissue of a pistil.""

CUMULATIVE Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; agregated.

""Not allowable as a tax deduction; as, political contributions are nondeductible. Opposite of deductible.as, political contributions are nondeductible. Opposite of deductible.""

""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.""

""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.""

Inflected form of DEPLETABLE Inflected form of DEPLETE to lessen the supply of

""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.""

DETACHABLE That can be detached.

""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.""

EVALUATIVE exercising or involving careful analytical evaluations.

EXPLOITIVE tending to exploit or make use of.

""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.""

Not open to discussion or modification

Not open to discussion

Enabling one to put differently what's not open to change

Not giving results

Sterile

Policy of not fighting against authority

Passive submission 3,10

""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

Nonsubject

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

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

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

Explosive

""ACCOUNTABLE Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct. as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.""

ACQUISITIVE Acquired.

BARBITURATE