2-Letter Words Ending in R

""An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.""

One who disapproves.

One who discourages.

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses.

Ace in the hole business (wordplay)

Person who barks (wordplay)

Overseer of private practice

Power-measuring instrument

Instrument for measuring force

Engine output measuring machine

(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) the Classical myth Poseidon (or Neptune) in his capacity as the bringer of earthquakes

One who sets free from slavery

Epithet applied to Lincoln.

Lincoln, on January 1, 1863

""One who, or that which, emasculates.""

Streisand, for one.

Shore, for example

Record and somehow retain performer

""Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular. as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular.""

One who equivocates.

One who establishes.

One who often works with big numbers

A smoother of the way

Petty nagger

Nitpicker

FELICITATE Made very happy.

July 3rd purchase, perhaps

Snack for an arsonist (wordplay)

Fourth of July popper

Silver-tongued bandit (wordplay)

FLOCCULATE To aggregate into small lumps.

Emporium employe.

Store supervisor

Supervisor in a large shop in North America

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Primitive life form supporting an underground worker, if trapped

Front half of a side of meat

""One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market.""

Sinatra's wiener (wordplay)

Type of sausage

Former Supreme Court member.

One who fraternizes.

Organ beneath the liver

It stores bile

Organ attached to the liver

GALLERY to provide with a long covered area

Large mosquito

Biting insect

One who takes general or comprehensive views

Rig vote in plant across railway

*Rearrange electoral districts

He seeks a political advantage

Expert in see-through design (wordplay)

Chihuly, for one

Artisan with strong lungs

Glasswork

Man at home in D.C. (wordplay)

Tiny insect-eating bird

Insect-eating bird

She may have a "relative" with a wand

Drew Barrymore to Steven Spielberg

Sponsored one, often

""A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.""

Graceful

Napoleonic family name

An old-timer (wordplay)

Relative U clock

Clock or clause

Rose Kennedy to John Jr.

Rose Kennedy to John Jr.

Proverbially competent egg sucker

Wickerwork bin (wordplay)

Entomologist's cocktail (wordplay)

Insect (that won't stay still for long?)

Grateful

""One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.""

Greenmail

Moisture found in rocks or soil

Spring source

Aquifer contents

Brimstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Dealer in sewing items etc

Shop frequented by dressmakers

He shares drier, perhaps

Locksmith who must make cuts (wordplay)

One providing shock treatment (wordplay)

One who deals with books

Job involving prediction

Race-track habitue

""Clasping and squeezing of the hands, often in distress.""

Informal chiefly US to place in or establish as headquarters

Subsequent part of this document

Home-life to be outside from now on

Later on in this document

Sirloin's section

Butcher's order, sometimes

Butcher's order

Holograph

Back-to-the-land practitioner

Back-to-the-land movement practitioner

Settler type

English word

Equus actor (wordplay)

Masochist of a sort

Houseboat

A man in charge of children in an institution.

Boys' school VIP

One responsible for boarders arouses them for assembly

Man accommodating some children in repurposed USA rest home

One of the Ichthyosaura.

One who richly decorates manuscripts

Flagg or Rockwell, for example

Norman Rockwell, for example

Provider of pictures

IMPREGNATE To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

Swearing-in figure

Metaphorical father*

Dumpster fire of a sort

Waste burner

Trash terminus

Secret penetrator of an organisation

Bats flit in with friend of Badger or Mole (wordplay)

INSEMINATE To sow; to impregnate.

""INSPISSATE To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation.""

INSUFFLATE To blow upon; to breath upon or into; to use insufflation upon.

CRATER to form cavities in a surface

Interdeal

""Contained between lines; written or inserted between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc.as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc.""

Bully

Situated or occurring within the eyeball: intraocular pressure.

""INVALIDATE To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument. as, to invalidate an agreement or argument.""

Proctor at an English school exam

Supervisor of those working on paper

INVIGORATE To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.

JOURNALIZE To enter or record in a journal or diary.

""Severe protein malnutrition, especially in children after weaning, marked by lethargy, growth retardation, anemia, edema, potbelly, skin depigmentation, and hair loss or change in hair color.""

A chemical substance that causes tears to flow; same as lacrimator.lacrimator.

""A large predatory bird (Gypaetus barbatus) of the vulture family, ranging from the mountainous regions of southern Europe to China and having a wide wingspan and black plumage. Also called bearded vulture , ossifrage .""

""A very large vulture (Gypa\'89tus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.Gypa\'89tus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.""

Guy who worked at dusk in colonial times

He was always illuminating

Spill jam with more flimsy packaging

I can occupy the House for a term!

Person with property rights

One renting a property

""LEGITIMATE Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir. as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.""

""One who, or that which, liberalizes.""

Sweet gum

Bookish type to esteem high-class among the junk

Writer's rubbish: director has to overlook first of repeated characters

Essayist

Part of hi-fi system

Part of a sound system

Sound projector

One who manipulates

One who masquerades; a person wearing a mask; one disguised.

""MASTURBATE To achieve sexual gratification by stimulating one's own sexual organs, without the aid of a partner; -- typically to the point of orgasm.""

A blacksmith, for one

Robot (wordplay)

Eg, a blacksmith

""A device for reading materials in microform, such as microfilm and microfiche.""

""Pl. microvilli (-v l ) Any of the minute hairlike structures projecting from the surface of certain types of epithelial cells, especially those of the small intestine.""

""An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer. mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.""

This puzzle's theme

Monkeyshines

Driving at a very high speed, perhaps

Minor crime

Ms. Behavior

MONOGRAM to mark with one's initials

Having only one nucleus: a mononuclear cell.

Sailing eschewer

Piton user ("Cymbeline")

A negotiator on a grand scale (wordplay)

Sir Edmund P. Hillary, for example

Agent noun (-or)

Agent noun (-or)

MULTIPLE the product of a quantity by an integer

Cagliostro, for one.

Ruth, the sorceress (wordplay)

Sauron, with an affair at the heart (wordplay)

""One who, or that which, neutralizes; that which destroys, disguises, or renders inert the peculiar properties of a body.""

""One, especially a robber or prostitute, who walks the streets at night.""

A simpleton; a silly person.

One who calls persons or things by their names.

ATTENDER one who is attentive

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

CIRCULAR a leaflet

COPLANAR on the same plane

GRANULAR composed of granules

Destitute of vessels; extravascular.

Storm from the Atlantic, perhaps

Wind blowing towards the southwest

""OBLITERATE To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One who overreaches; one who cheats; a cheat.

""One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker.""

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ..

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ...

Publicity agent of yore

Interior decorator, for one.

Interior decorator's hiree

Person who decorates as a profession

Writer of news items for newspapers

One who paraphrases.

High military figure (wordplay)

A jumper that rides up!

Jumpy guy (wordplay)

I hire parson (anagram)

Do I hire parson (wordplay)

Do I hire parson?

Partition

Dairy apparatus.

Portents are confounded by prayer

Prayer that may give one a lift

Bill carries a bird in a lift

Peaceful

Friction-reducing agent

One enforcing a truce

*One placed between warring parties

Committer (of a crime)

One committing (a bad deed)

One committing (an offence)

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

""(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) money, paid in dollars, earned by a country for the exporting of petroleum""

Womaniser turning her plain red!

Man of affairs (wordplay)

Source of the quote, with "The"

""One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.""

Symbol for something missing

Bookmark, essentially

Temporary wording in a document awaiting final text

Upright man (wordplay)

Any top-25 NFL career scoring leader

He knows how to score extra points

Prose appropriator

PLASTICIZE

""An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray.""

Polygraph

Containing many nuclei.

One making a subject accessible*

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Tester of a person's conduct

One on trial in post

Offender on conditional release

Of a Roman official

One who promulgates or publishes.

Bottle examiner (wordplay)

He shouldn't leave any wrong impressions

One looking for trouble, in a way

One who propitiates or appeases.

""The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is sacrificed, in any cause; applied esp. to Stephen, the first Christian martyr.""

English word

An agent provocateur.

Cloth used in Holy Communion services

Cloth used in celebrating the Eucharist

Charlatan

Racetrack

A radioactive tracer.

Where angry drinkers meet (wordplay)

Where angry drinkers meet?

Basement bar in Bonn

A four-shaped, perhaps

Regal cat run (anagram) - right-angled

Of a certain shape.

All in straight lines

Moving in straight lines

Consisting of straight lines

""DECORATOR One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.""

Reformer's golden age described by viceroy in North

REJUVENATE To render young again.

One who pays

ORGANIZER One who organizes.

Crook who doesn't need the combination

Thief of a sort

Fingernail filer, among criminals

A salimeter.

Paper tool (wordplay)

Surface-cleaning tool

High-pressure abrasive tool

An alarming person

One spreading worrying rumours

Spreader of frightening rumours

Shmaltzy

Tonto's equestrian role (wordplay)

Irregular must escort a troop leader

Organiser of a 5 of boys

""SECULARIZE To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. as, to secularize a priest or a monk.""

POPULAR something pleasing

It only moves when towed

Vintage Tonka toy

Cab attachment

Serigraph

Eric, give some to us!

One with a stake in a company

Ploughman as investor

""Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.""

""Slaphappier , slaphappiest Slang Dazed, silly, or incoherent from or as if from blows to the head; punch-drunk.""

One who slaughters.

One who holds slaves.

Clint at 300 A.M.?

Clint at 3:00 A.M. (wordplay)

We paler elks (anagram)

Farmer who's short-handed (wordplay)

Minor farmer

Briefcase for an agriculturalist (wordplay)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One using only a half pipe (wordplay)

One flipping out on slopes (wordplay)

Half-pipe performer

Knockout blow: Slang

Knockout blow Slang.

""A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.""

Spacewalk

Like an elaborate display, perhaps

Show clears up act for broadcasting

One kind of TV show

Clear quaff

Cooler drink

Perrier product

""Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.""

One with an interest in (say) society

One with an interest (in something)

Part-owner, say

Tradesman may be a theatre-goer

Tolerate a sideshow barker (wordplay)

Opponent of change in policy.

Conservative Colloq

""One who installs and repairs heating, ventilating, refrigerating, and air-conditioning systems.""

Overwhelming power, as used in politics

Political machine of a sort.

Crush opposition, politically speaking.

""A substance that irritates the nasal and respiratory passages and causes coughing, sneezing, lacrimation, and sometimes vomiting.""

One playing for time

One who is continually evasive to block progress

Defensive batsman, one playing for time with one wicket in hand

Foot-weary citizen.

Type of passenger.

Subway rider without a seat