2-Letter Words Starting with N

OBVIOUS easily understood

Inflected form of PLUSING Inflected form of PLUS to {increase=v}

* It doesn't mean "subtracted"

Surprised and confused

Perplexed - and apparently not put on

Bewilders

Baffles.

Confounds

ROUTINE a regular course of procedure

SERIOUS thoughtful or subdued in appearance

STUDENT a person formally engaged in learning

American, to a British monarch

SUCCESS the attainment of something desired or intended

Nonsuit

Lack of help from the second half

TENURED tenure

Heterogeneous

Irregular

UTILITY the quality of being useful

""UTOPIAN one who believes in the perfectibility of human society, also UTOPIST""

VISCOUS having relatively high resistance to flow

Going towards Arctic

On the map, going up in the world

Sentries in front of the airplane (wordplay)

Defensive linemen

They face centers on the line of scrimmage

Nourisher

Rhino using ground for feeding

Strengthening

Nutritious

Rock used for whetstones.

Nubility

Nucleate

NUCLEATE to form into a nucleus

Nucleator

Zodiacal atomic study (wordplay)

Field of atomic science

""A type of molecule found in all living organisms, present mostly in chemically combined form as a component of nucleic acids, and also in smaller amounts in free form, consisting of a pentose sugar bound to a purine or pyrimidine base; two types of nucleoside, ribonucleoside and deoxyribonucleoside, are present. The most common bases present in nucleosides are adenine, cytosine, uracil, guanine, and thymine, and to a lesser extent hypoxanthine and other bases are found. The most commmon ribonucleosides composed from these bases are called adenosine, cytidine, uridine, and guanosine. The forms esterified with orthophosphoric at the 5-position of the pentose are called nucleotides. The nucleotides form the monomer units which are combined into DNA and RNA, which carry the genetic information required for reproduction in all known organisms.ribonucleoside and deoxyribonucleoside, are present. The most common bases present in nucleosides are adenine, cytosine, uracil, guanine, and thymine, and to a lesser extent hypoxanthine and other bases are found. The most commmon ribonucleosides composed from these bases are called adenosine, cytidine, uridine, and guanosine. The forms esterified with orthophosphoric at the 5-position of the pentose are called nucleotides. The nucleotides form the monomer units which are combined into DNA and RNA, which carry the genetic information required for reproduction in all known organisms.""

""Any of the repeating subunits of chromatin, consisting of a DNA chain coiled around a core of histones.""

DNA building block

Genetic building block

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

Nudeness

Back horse with one limb, 'Sea Slug'

A sea slug

Sea slug with one brown back limb

Nullifier

Rendering void

Cancelling out

NUMBER to {count=v}

Too many to count

Very many like identification using letters only (wordplay)

Uncountable

Numbfish

Numbness

Miners shift bulks for pounds, the fools

More than one of those in 24 down has no feeling for old heads

Stupid people lacking feeling for rowing race, we hear

Numeracy

Numerate

The act or art of numbering.

They're the tops for calculating people!

Parts of fractions

Top figures

Quantitative "science" (wordplay)

Occult interpretation of numbers

NUMEROUS {many=adj}

Numinous

Pertaining to collectors' items.

Relating to coins or currency

Of coins

The office of a nuncio.

NUPTIAL a {wedding=n}

Hyde Park V.I.P.'s

Predecessors of the baby sitter.

Household caretakers

One who sells plants

Pediatrician (wordplay)

One who grows plants

Runny meres (anagram)

Growers and sellers of plants

Hothouse workers

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

Nailbrush

Narcissus

Bright pungent flowers.

Plants possibly turn as one in rising filth

Nervous naturist's covering bottom, heading off in bloomers

Natatorium

Plural or third person singular

Excretion of excessive amounts of sodium in the urine.

Excretion of excessive amounts of sodium in the urine.

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

Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.

NEEDFUL something that is needed

Nefarious

Neighbour

Anxiety, apprehension

Disquiet

NEURILEMMA The delicate outer sheath of a nerve fiber; the primitive sheath.

Neurilemma

Like a certain class of steroids that can alter brain function

""Any of the long, thin, microscopic fibrils that run through the body of a neuron and extend into the axon and dendrites.""

Neurohumor

See antipsychotic drug .

Neurology

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.

Neurospora

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

Nitrofuran

Containing element N

By night.

Nodulation

AFFLUENT a stream that flows into another

""ALUMINUM a metallic element, also ALUMIUM""

ARGUMENT an exchange of differing reasons

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

BUILDING the process of erecting houses

BURNABLE something that can be burnt

""BUSINESS an occupation, profession or trade""

Not made up of or divided into cells. Opposite of cellular.cellular.

CIRCULAR a leaflet

COMPOUND to add to

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

CULINARY pertaining to {cooking=n}

CULTURAL relating to culture

CUSTOMER one who buys something

DISCOUNT to reduce the price of

Plural or third person singular

GRADUATE to receive an academic degree or diploma

GRANULAR composed of granules

Plural of gerund noun

INDUSTRY a group of productive enterprises

JUDICIAL pertaining to courts of law

LANGUAGE to express in a body of words serving as communication

LUMINOUS giving off light

MUSICIAN one who performs or composes music

Nonplus

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

RECOURSE to turn to someone for aid

REDUCING reduce

REUSABLE capable of being used again

Plural or third person singular

""Not ruminating; as, a nonruminant animal. as, a nonruminant animal.""

SENSUOUS derived from the senses

Failure of solution or explanation.

Nonstudent

Nonsubject

Nonsupport

Type of "procedure"

Like a preferable medical procedure, perhaps

Destitute of vessels; extravascular.

VENOMOUS poisonous

We're in the Labour Party

Food necessary for health

Food needed for growth and health

Novaculite

NOXIOUS harmful to health

Nucleation

A chemical compound or group that is attracted to nuclei and tends to donate or share electrons.

Living material within a cell

Part of cell released by sumac pollen

Nucleoside

NUCLEOSOME

Nucleosome

They're represented by the circled letters

Groups of molecules that form the building blocks of DNA

Nudibranch

Never having given birth

Numeration

How crossword clues are traditionally arranged

Study of change (wordplay)

The collecting of coins

Coin collecting

Quarter master (wordplay)

The change may do him good

Currency collector

Nunciature

Oral, as a will

Nurturance

Squirrels' avocation (wordplay)

Common yuletide tools

Christmastime productions

Like information on boxes of food

Pertaining to food intake.

Nourishing

Nutritive

Nuttiness

Nystagmus

Natriuretic

NATURALISE

Based on real life

Imitating real life

True-to-life representation of acts in ritual

""NATURALIZE To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. as, custom naturalizes labor or study.""

NATUROPATH

So as to sicken

NAUSEOUS affected with nausea

The act or process of nebulizing; atomization.

Nebulosity

NEBULOUS {unclear=adj}

Of or pertaining to the Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan. Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan.

Neglectful

Adjacent, nearby

Adjoining

Nervous condition

Nervous debility

What could make you uneasier than debilitation (wordplay)

""A psychological disorder characterized by chronic fatigue and weakness, loss of memory, and generalized aches and pains, formerly thought to result from exhaustion of the nervous system. No longer in scientific use.""

Nerves

Science of the physiology of the nervous system

The study of the chemical composition and processes of the nervous system and the effects of chemicals on it.

Neurofibril

Pl. neurofibromas or neurofibromata (-m -t ) A usually benign tumor originating in peripheral nerve fibers and composed chiefly of neurilemma cells.

A hormone secreted by or acting on a part of the nervous system.

NEUROHUMOR

Neuroleptic

Of or pertaining to neurolgy.

Neurologist

Neuropathy