2-Letter Words Starting with N

Mass gathering place (wordplay)

Spot for the groom and ushers, say

Place for the masses (wordplay)

"Scream"-ing Campbell (wordplay)

Scream-ing Campbell (wordplay)

Campbell of movies

Unaffected by rising water (wordplay)

Is 'e vain, pure and simple (wordplay)

Hopelessly romantic say

Sciatic, for one

Messenger from brain to cheek (wordplay)

Chicken's lack (wordplay)

Snow (Spanish)

Ice cream (Spanish) Am.

Snow, in Santiago

Super stars (wordplay)

Milky Way phenomena (Var.)

Stars bursting in air (wordplay)

Expert guide, perhaps

Good guide, maybe

From around these parts

A perfect beginner (wordplay)

One without experience of sin (wordplay)

Beginner needs to get a grip (wordplay)

State of inexperience (French spelling)

Wetness behind the ears (wordplay)

Ain't Eve Innocence itself (wordplay)

A gem cut in a pointed oval form

Veined, to a botanist

Drug for soothing nervous excitement

A soothing tonic

Tonic for the jumpy.

""A vascular ridge on a leaf, also NERVURE""

A vein in a leaf, or in an insect's wing

Leaf ridge

Vein.

Short read (var.)

Short stories, like Boccaccio's.

Short tales, as the "Decameron."

Nine-day devotions.

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)

Turn for the worst (wordplay)

(Make a) steep downward plunge

Steep vertical plunge

Like a nova

""To put into the form of a novel, also NOVELIZE""

""To put into the form of a novel, also NOVELISE""

Frank eats r-rodent in story

Right artist in indigenous story

River rodent in simple story

AB leaving (anagram)

Fit for ships

Like major channels

Not a gain (wordplay)

Famous bird's saying

Ravenous declaration (wordplay)

Not aboriginal

Destined to fail

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

Number of teeth (wordplay)

Proprietary name for an anaesthetic

Painkiller during drilling

Having value as food

Good for you

Providing nourishment

Resident has no time to pack case

Filled by appointment

Domestic pinches medal in case

PASSIVE a verb form

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

Rock used for whetstones.

Like a certain class of steroids that can alter brain function

Causing pain. Used of a stimulus.

ABRASIVE an abrading substance

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

ADHESIVE a glue like substance

COERCIVE serving to coerce

COVERAGE the extent to which something is covered

CREATIVE having the ability to create

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

NEGATIVE to {veto=v}

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

REACTIVE tending to react

RELATIVE one who is connected with another by blood or marriage

Gandhi's policy

Principle of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. byword

Calm

Oral, as a will

Nonaddict

ASSERTIVE Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.

""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.""

""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

""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.

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

PURPOSIVE Having or indicating purpose or design.

SELECTIVE Selecting; tending to select.

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

Pertaining to or having normal blood pressure.

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

""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.

""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.

""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.""

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.""

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

ACQUISITIVE Acquired.

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

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.""

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

""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.""

INTERACTIVE

""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.

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

""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.""

EXPLOITATIVE

QUANTITATIVE Relating to quantity.

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

Like Parkinson's disease

Atypical