2-Letter Words Starting with N

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 of sodium-aluminum or potassium-aluminum silicate, occurring worldwide in igneous rocks and used in the manufacture of ceramics and enamels.""

""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.""

Ignorance and evil incense the church

16 state spoilt nice scene

Lack of knowledge of Geordie technology

Not a gain (wordplay)

Famous bird's saying

Ravenous declaration (wordplay)

English word

""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

ARABLE land suitable for cultivation

DEGREE a graduation on a scale

EDIBLE something fit to be eaten

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

""Not having immunity; susceptible; likely to be affected with, if exposed.""

LEAGUE to come together for a common purpose

LEGUME a type of plant

MOBILE a form of sculpture

Anchored for life, as barnacles

Not aboriginal

POLICE to make orderly

SALINE a salt solution

Like some online forms

Like some items in downloads

UNIQUE something that is rare or the only one of its kind

Destined to fail

English word

Miss Desmond's stays, we hear, given to regiment (wordplay)

By the sound of this, it's all right, you see, for the two girls

""To make normal; as, to normalize relations with China.as, to normalize relations with China.""

Relating to a standard

Derived from a standard

Part of a helmet

It spans the bridge

Plate covering the hooter

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

Capable of being counted

Capable of being counted

Having value as food

Good for you

Providing nourishment

Nabokov's first with the empty novel 'Lolita'

""A drug, C 19 H 21 NO 3 , derived from morphine, used to treat respiratory depression and other effects of an overdose of narcotics.""

""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.

""Pl -chiae [-kɪˌiː] -chias , -chies (in ancient Rome) 1. (Historical Terms) a mock sea fight performed as an entertainment""

Adjective meaning resembling

Disregard northern cold in nightie

Laxity of knight caught wearing flimsy garb

Delinquency

Insignificant

Paltry

Open to discussion

Subject to compromise

Subject to bargaining

Fear of or contempt for Black people and their culture.

A substance or preparation used to kill nematodes.

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

An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity.

Irritating notelets sent out by this writer

Make ineffective through impartial viewers being heard

Make ineffective.

Counteract

Offset

English word

""(Medicine / Pharmacology) Med a calcium-channel blocker used in the treatment of hypertension, angina pectoris, and heart failure""

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""

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

DEFENSE to guard against a specific attack

DURABLE {hardy=adj}

HISTONE a simple protein

HOSTILE an unfriendly person

OBSCENE {indecent=adj}

PASSIVE a verb form

ROUTINE a regular course of procedure

SALABLE able to be sold

SCIENCE knowledge obtained by observation and experiment

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.

""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)

NUMBER to {count=v}

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 amide of niacin (nicotinic acid), called also nicotinamide. It was at one time called vitamin B3, and can function to relieve nicotinic acid deficiency. Chemical formula C6H6N2O, chemically it is 3-pyridinecarboxamide.nicotinamide. It was at one time called vitamin B3, and can function to relieve nicotinic acid deficiency. Chemical formula C6H6N2O, chemically it is 3-pyridinecarboxamide.""

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.

ABRASIVE an abrading substance

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

ADHESIVE a glue like substance

BURNABLE something that can be burnt

CALLABLE able to be called

Air of jaunty unconcern.

Casually calm manner

Casually calm relaxed attitude

COERCIVE serving to coerce

COVERAGE the extent to which something is covered

CREATIVE having the ability to create

DELEGATE to appoint as one's representative

Like English, usually

EMPLOYEE a person who is employed

EVIDENCE to make apparent or visible

""An omission or neglect to do something, esp. that which ought to have been done. Cf. Malfeasance. Malfeasance.""

GRADUATE to receive an academic degree or diploma

INITIATE to begin or start

(Of medical procedure) not involving entering the body

(Of operations) not requiring instruments within the body

LANGUAGE to express in a body of words serving as communication

Like a culture without writing

NEGATIVE to {veto=v}

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

REACTIVE tending to react

RECOURSE to turn to someone for aid

RELATIVE one who is connected with another by blood or marriage

RESPONSE a reply or reaction

REUSABLE capable of being used again

SENTENCE to declare judicially the punishment

SINKABLE able to be sunk

Gandhi's policy

Principle of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. byword

Calm

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

Oral, as a will

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

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

Medical knowhow cures niece? No, sadly!

Pavlov and Alzheimer's thing, generally

""A magazine, usually published weekly, containing reports and analyses of current events.""

(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.

BREAKABLE Capable of being broken.

""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.""

""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.""

Inflected form of CRUSHABLE Inflected form of CRUSH to press out of shape

""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

Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity.

Not explosive.

""Not easily ignited, and burning only slowly if ignited.""

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

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

INFECTIVE Infectious.

INFLUENCE A flowing in or upon; influx.

""INSURANCE The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6. premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6.""

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.""

""MALLEABLE Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; applied to metals.""

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

PASSERINE Of or pertaining to the Passeres.

PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

PURPOSIVE Having or indicating purpose or design.

Cannot be replenished

""REPAYABLE Capable of being, or proper to be , repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind. as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind.""

""The state or condition of being nonresident,""

SELECTIVE Selecting; tending to select.

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

""NORMALIZE To make normal; as, to normalize relations with China.as, to normalize relations with China.""

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

A hydrolytic enzyme that removes sialic acid from mucoproteins and is found chiefly in microorganisms of the respiratory and intestinal tracts.

ABSORBABLE Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

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

Dismissal of cop - canteen can go wild

Terrible canteen cop can boycott (wordplay)

""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.""

Failure to be present

A no-show

Failure to be present

Absence

AUTOMOTIVE of or pertaining to the automobile.

Inflected form of CANCELABLE Inflected form of CANCEL to {annul=v}

Not in a college

COMPARABLE Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison.

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

The breaking of rules

Refusal to conform

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

CONFERENCE The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.

""CONFIDENCE The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. of, now commonly by in.""

CORRODIBLE Capable of being corroded; corrosible.

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.""