2-Letter Words Starting with N

ADHESIVE a glue like substance

BELIEVER one who {believes=v}

COERCIVE serving to coerce

COVERAGE the extent to which something is covered

CREATIVE having the ability to create

A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.

Word with prefix non-

DIVIDING separation

Like English, usually

EVIDENCE to make apparent or visible

(Of medical procedure) not involving entering the body

(Of operations) not requiring instruments within the body

INVOLVED involve

NEGATIVE to {veto=v}

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

REACTIVE tending to react

RELATIVE one who is connected with another by blood or marriage

RELEVANT pertaining to the matter at hand

VALIDITY the state of being {valid=adj}

Destitute of vessels; extravascular.

VENOMOUS poisonous

Through the eyes, perhaps

Nonveteran

Gandhi's policy

Principle of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. byword

Calm

VOLCANIC a rock produced by a volcano

Normative

Novaculite

NOVELETTE A short novel.

Novobiocin

Oral, as a will

Nutritive

Nativeness

The quality or condition of being navigable; navigableness.

Concerned with routing ships

NEGATIVE to {veto=v}

NEGATIVIST

Negativity

All the same (wordplay)

She let nerves jangle all the same

All the same

ACTIVATED activate

Nonaddict

ASSERTIVE Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.

Nonbeliever

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

Noncombat

""CORROSIVE Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson. as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson.""

Noncoverage

CROSSOVER the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis.

""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

Plural or third person singular

Nonevidence

""EXCLUSIVE Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society. as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society.""

(Of directors) only advisory

Not explosive.

""FRIVOLOUS Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument. as, a frivolous argument.""

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.

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

Broken

PURPOSIVE Having or indicating purpose or design.

Nonrelative

SELECTIVE Selecting; tending to select.

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

""UNIVERSAL Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; allreaching; allpervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice. as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice.""

VANISHING vanish

Nonviolence

Nonviolent

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

Pertaining to or having normal blood pressure.

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

Plural or third person singular

Lack of fear

Complete calm under pressure

Calm

Nervousness

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

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

""AGGRESSIVE Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.""

AUTOMOTIVE of or pertaining to the automobile.

BEHAVIORAL of or pertaining to behavior.

CHAUVINIST

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

Inflected form of CREATIVITY Inflected form of CREATIVE having the ability to create

""CULTIVATED marked by refinement in taste and manners; as, cultivated tastes in art.as, cultivated tastes in art.""

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

Nondelivery

""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.""

DISCURSIVE Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.

DISPERSIVE Tending to disperse.

""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.""

Plural or third person singular

""Not equal or interchangeable in value, quantity, or significance.""

EVALUATIVE exercising or involving careful analytical evaluations.

Nonexecutive

EXPLOITIVE tending to exploit or make use of.

Plural or third person singular

""FIGURATIVE Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.""

""GOVERNMENT The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government. as, civil, church, or family government.""

""INDIVIDUAL Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city. as, an individual man, animal, or city.""

Plural or third person singular

Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.

PERMISSIVE Permitting; granting leave or liberty.

Not giving results

Sterile

RESPONSIVE That responds; ready or inclined to respond.

Not reversible or capable of having either side out; -- used mostly of clothing. Opposite of reversible.reversible.

Nonsubject

Word with prefix non-

UNIVERSITY The universe; the whole.

Nonvalidity

""VEGETARIAN One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk.""

""Inflected form of VOCATIONAL Inflected form of VOCATION one's profession, business or occupation""

Normative

Normotensive

Novelization

Navigability

Navigational

Negativeness

""ACHIEVEMENT The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object. as, the achievement of his object.""

ACQUISITIVE Acquired.

Plural (-ists)

COMMUTATIVE Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.

""COMPETITIVE Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination. as, a competitive examination.""

""CONSECUTIVE Following in a train; suceeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years. as, fifty consecutive years.""

""CONSUMPTIVE Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.""

CONVERTIBLE Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable.

COOPERATIVE

CULTIVATION The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.

Plural or third person singular

Nondescript

""DESTRUCTIVE Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth. of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.""

Failure or lack of development.

DISTINCTIVE Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar.

""DIVERSIFIED Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape. as, diversified scenery or landscape.""

""EQUIVALENCE The condition of being equivalent or equal; equality of worth, value, signification, or force; as, an equivalence of definitions. as, an equivalence of definitions.""

Word with prefix non-

Plural noun (-ments)

INTERACTIVE

Withdrawing from the activities of a group.

Inflected form of OBJECTIVISM Inflected form of OBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to an object.

OBJECTIVIST

""OBJECTIVITY The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective.""

Nonobservance

OVERLAPPING overlap

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

""RADIOACTIVE Capable of luminescence under the action of cathode rays, X rays, or any of the allied forms of radiation.""

""RESTRICTIVE Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade. as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.""

RETROACTIVE Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective.

SPECULATIVE Given to speculation; contemplative.

""SUPERVISORY Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers. as, supervisory powers.""

Nonvegetarian

NOVELISTIC

The cardinal number equal to 10 60 .

""CONSERVATISM The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.""

Cover insane vote cast with Bush's persuasion (wordplay)

NERVELESSNESS The state of being nerveless.

Nonachievement

Nonadditivity

AVAILABILITY The quality of being available; availableness.

""CONSERVATION The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.""

""CONSERVATIVE Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.""

""CONSTRUCTIVE Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. as, to exhibit constructive power.""

CONVENTIONAL Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

Noncreativity

Noncultivation

Nondevelopment

Nonequivalence

EXPLOITATIVE

Independent, as some agencies

No Verne? No Tintin comic? No meddling!

Abstinence on a national scale

Noninvolvement

Nonobjectivism

Nonobjectivist

Plural of gerund noun

Plural or third person singular

QUANTITATIVE Relating to quantity.

""RELATIVISTIC of, pertaining to, or in conformity with the theory of relativity; as, the relativistic increase of mass with velocity.theory of relativity; as, the relativistic increase of mass with velocity.""

""REPRODUCTIVE Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction.""

Plural or third person singular

NORMATIVENESS normative

Novemdecillion

none control verse, it all tails off — hardly surprising (3,13)