2-Letter Words Ending in R

Soda jerk's boutonniere (wordplay)

Soda jerk's boutonniere?

Ship that's up a creek (wordplay)

Covering for a river bed

TGV, for instance

Questionable nightclub performer

Demi Moore played one in 1996

CAPSULAR enclosed and compact

CELLULAR pertaining to a cell

An apparatus for superheating steam.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Exxon Valdez, for one

Nature's perk (anagram) - vessel

Large oil-carrying vessel

Waves rider

Wave rider

A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

Supporter

Counter of golf supporters (wordplay)

One abstaining from alcohol

Abstainer from drink

Morse-code user

Thankful

He's seen at first nights.

Devotee of drama.

FIRST-nighter, for example

""One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver.""

Best man at a wedding reception, say

Expert breakfast cook (wordplay)

Well-bread fellow (wordplay)

One studying the features of an area

Columbia picture (wordplay)

Outstanding acolyte in love (wordplay)

Champion who opens Olympics (wordplay)

Betting machine

Pari-mutuel machine.

Railroad worker.

Hiker's sports jacket (wordplay)

Daniel Boone, for one

Daniel Boone was one

Attendant in ceremonial procession

Following page in the marriage service

Bride or queen's assistant

Tumbler, at times

Variety show staple

Bouncy performer coach includes mainly plays on left, initially

TRANQUIL calm and peaceful

""A transmitter and receiver housed together in a single unit and having some circuits in common, often for portable or mobile use.""

""One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.""

One who makes a transfer or conveyance.

Device for changing voltage

Voltage-changing device

Electrical device used to change voltage

Apparatus sending out radio waves

Radio signal generator

Start term in broadcast radio provider (wordplay)

Device carried by aircraft

Electronic toll device

Aircraft's tracking device

Conveyance device from "Star Trek"

It shifts cargo from errant ports at sea

Haulier and partner sort bananas

Annie Oakley was a noted one.

One aiming at clay pigeons

One aiming at skeet

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One setting up print

King of the dinosaurs

Large extinct reptile

Bipedal carnivorous dinosaur

HEALTHIER healthy

Like an amoeba

Amoebic.

SCRAMBLER One who scrambles; one who climbs on all fours.

""Causing dilation or relaxation of the blood vessels; as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasoinhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest. as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasoinhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest.""

""Of, relating to, or causing constriction of blood vessels.""

One who vaticinates; a prophet.

Of or pertaining to a ventricle; bellied.

Truthful-seeming

""One who vituperates, or censures abusively.""

""One who vociferates, or is clamorous.""

Dispenser of gossip (wordplay)

Prison gossip center (wordplay)

Business meeting locale (wordplay)

Waterfowl

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One who whitewashes.

A man who practices lewdness; a lecher; a whoremonger.

Saxophonist's jacket (wordplay)

Chilly-weather wear

Sailor's jacket

Sage biscuit for a comedian

One-liner expert

Joker, quipster

One making engravings on wood

One of the animal organisms constituting zooplankton.

""ACCLIMATIZE To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.""

""He who, or that which, accommodates.""

One who accomplishes.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""ALPHABETIZE To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. as, to alphabetize a list of words.""

Large oval stadium with tiers

Hollywood Bowl, for example

ANTHOLOGIZE compile an anthology.

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

Non-PC chair protector (wordplay)

Chair cover mascara stain made a mess of

Protective cloth on upholstered seat

PREDATOR one that {plunders=v}

TAKEOVER the act of assuming control

Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate.

One liberates all but last of fit soldiers

An assassin.

Background

""A sensory nerve ending that is stimulated by changes in pressure, especially one in the walls of blood vessels such as the carotid sinus.""

English word

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; sometimes called simply clabber. clabber.

Member of the smart set.

Man-about-town in Paris

Brainstorm

A firearm which receives its load at the breech.

Premier craftsman (wordplay)

Taoiseach perhaps builds up bureau

President's second career (wordplay)

A craftsperson of excellent character

He's a fine script writer

Support for burning light

MENORAH

'Ringer' vehicle ailing on climbing trip round head of Eskdale

Corrupt Northerner of 1865.

Scalawag's confederate

Non-local candidate

One making maps

Occupation that the bad chef might be better at (wordplay)

Map-maker

One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.

One who manipulates the spine

Joint manipulator

Spine manipulator

One who describes or makes a map of a district or region.

CURRICULAR

One working jointly

Fellow worker

Cream perhaps no longer in favour of Australian novelist

One who commemorates.

From banisher to bullhorn (wordplay)

Person (good at) imparting news etc

""An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.""

Conversationalist

Spanish adventurer of the 16th century

Pizarro or Cortes

16th-century Spanish invader of Peru

CONSOLIDATE Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.

""CONTAMINATE To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.""

One who contemplates.

Gainsayer.

RESEARCHER One who researches.

""CORROBORATE To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.""

""One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.""

""One who countenances, favors, or supports.""

""CRYSTALLIZE To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.""

""He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.""

""A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.""

""MAGNETIZER One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.""

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Dealer's test drive vehicle

Car wearing dealer plates, often

Participant in a public protest

""Inflected form of PROGRAMMER Inflected form of PROGRAMME That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch.""

One who determines.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Phonograph Records

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

One who spreads (something) widely

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

Pertaining to a diverticulum.

Ghostly double of a live person

Living person's double

Ghostly lookalike of a human

Back-to-back baseball games

July 4th tradition.

Marathon at Camden Yards

Reproved apes (anagram)

Wiretapper, for example

Secret listener

Same as Incumbrancer. Incumbrancer.

""The outermost layer of cuticle of an arthropod exoskeleton, composed mostly of wax.""

""EQUILIBRATE To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.""

Ethnic anthropologist

One who takes property for the public benefit

Ridder of rats in 1918?

Ridder of rats in 1918 (wordplay)

Schwarzenegger, today (wordplay)

Located or occurring outside the nucleus of a cell.

EXTRAPOLATE

FESTIVAL a time of celebration

Flameproof

Weapon used in heated dispute (wordplay)

Criticize a pitcher (wordplay)

Gun firing burning liquid

Foreshadow

FORMULARIZE To reduce to a forula; to formulate.

""FRACTIONATE To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.""

Instrument for measuring small electric currents

Instrument for detecting small electric currents - mangrove et al (anagram)

Man got a lever working, device in physics lab (wordplay)

One who gesticulates.

Show-off (1975-80)

*Showboating type

Show-off

One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints.

Quibbler (2 words)

One disputing cowboy shirt retail price, at first

Quibbler

One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.

Handicraft

An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.

Harquebusie

German rabbit stew

Rabbit stew

Sigmund Freud to some (wordplay)

Sigmund Freud to some (wordplay)

Certain analyst, slangily

Fickle lover having courage to wave

One who causes overwhelming distress

Narrow defeat, for example

Travel agent perhaps is taking a break

Tourist in rank beset by wild blow

Feast day for God and tourist

Demolition worker who shows criminal intent

Burglar

Take in rope for craftsman

Job that involves ladder climbing

Man with a ladder

Hydrocrack

""One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters.""

REACTOR one who {reacts=v}

One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.

Another name for an artist or illustrator

IMMORTALIZE To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.

One pretending to be another

Impressionist painter's room in a mess

Entertainer making many appearances (wordplay)

""An improviser, or improvvisatore.""

One of a number of persons who gets a company incorporated; one of the original members of a corporation.

""Pl. infundibula (-l ) Any of various funnel-shaped bodily passages, openings, structures, or parts, especially: a. The stalk of the pituitary gland.""

CHANGER one that {changes=v}

""Between lammell\'91 or lamin\'91; as, interlamellar spaces.as, interlamellar spaces.""

""Between lobules; as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein. as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein.""

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

One who interpleads.

""One who interpolates; esp., one who inserts foreign or spurious matter in genuine writings.""

Inquisitor used terror to gain conversion

Questioner

In deep space

Let star liner make such a voyage

Occurring between stars

A person within a large corporation who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a profitable finished product through assertive risk-taking and innovation.

One making a search or enquiries

One making a search or enquiry

Private eye

North American word for a hangover

Kids of early comics

North American word for a state of emotional distress

Type of printer

""Pl. macronuclei (-kl - ) The larger of two nuclei present in ciliate protozoans, which controls nonreproductive functions of the cell, such as metabolism.""

Instrument for measuring earth's field

Ho ho ho, maybe

Crime of unpremeditated killing

Bloke's mirth is killing

Fellow switched future car brand

Maker of goods

Fabricator makes things up presumably

One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.

""MATERIALIZE To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.""

A trader.

MICROMANAGE

""Any of the proteinaceous cylindrical hollow structures that are distributed throughout the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells, providing structural support and assisting in cellular locomotion and transport.""

""Containing many nuclei; as, multinuclear cells. as, multinuclear cells.""

English word

A composer of fables.

""NATIONALIZE 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.""

""CHARACTER A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.""

COLLINEAR

LANDOWNER An owner of land.

""MOLECULAR Pertaining to, connected with, produced by, or consisting of, molecules; as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc. as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc.""

An apparatus for measuring the acuity of the sense of smell.

ORCHESTRATE to write an orchestra score for; -- of a musical composition.

Or that scorer, perhaps (wordplay)

Speaker reserves royal box for arranger

Speaker keeps royal box for the organiser

Academic Type A personality

Hardly a slacker

*Person who constantly exceeds expectations

Too well known

One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

""One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.""

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

Carriage for one on patrol

Baby carrier (usually abbreviated)

Baby's transport

Geology ()

One versed or skilled in phonography.

Snappy guy (wordplay)

One will put you in the picture

Job taking snaps

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.