2-Letter Words Ending in R

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

""Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.""

Professional person, esp. doctor

One involved in medicine, such as a GP

Part in erotic play for skilled operator

""A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; -- called also the inverted mordente.inverted mordente.""

AMPLIFIER One who or that which amplifies.

""One who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or rashness.""

Inflected form of MEDITATOR Inflected form of MEDITATE to consider thoughtfully

SLAUGHTER The act of killing.

One who prevaricates.

Four-sided

""RATIOCINATE To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument.""

""RATIONALIZE To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.""

RECIPROCATE To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.

It's cooler in Alaska

Keeps cool in kitchen

Where not to put your bananas.

""One who, or that which, serves to bring to, or keep in, mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder.""

One who remonstrates; a remonsrant.

Verb with prefix re-

""The process of reproducing, reprinting, or copying graphic material especially by mechanical, photographic, or electronic means.""

Person running eating house

Eating premises owner

One catering to diners

One who brings back to life or consciousness

""RHABDOME a rodlike structure in the retinula, also RHABDOM""

""The art of representing objects in perspective, especially as applied in the design and painting of theatrical scenery.""

The classroom (anagram)

Teacher of fish (wordplay)

Instructor at Eton, say

""SCINTILLATE To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.""

One who carves scrimshaw.

Junk mail a trucker might get (wordplay)

Form of estate agent's brochure (wordplay)

Advertising flier at a truck stop (wordplay)

""Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.""

Small-time farmer (2 words)

Type of tenant farmer in the USA

Landworker's allotment failure

Marksman pointed gun (wordplay)

Annie Oakley, for one

Sniper, e.g

One gathering wool

He cuts inside the fold

Fleece cutter

Comparative adjective or agent noun

SHORTCHANGE

A berserk toad (anagram)

Someone on a short plank with wheels

Ray the lodger's a sportsman

Unsuitable nutcracker (wordplay)

R&B/rap duo Percy & MC (wordplay)

Big hitter trimmed hedge in prison

Schenkel, for one

Masters consultant, say

One who knows the score

Copier of a dictator's words

One versed in shorthand

Court employee

Former union issue - awful pest, the guard found

STICKHANDLE

Hair care item

Pedestrian way reversed by solicitor

Solicitor on march in Somerset town (wordplay)

ORBICULAR Resembling or having the form of an orb; spherical; circular; orbiculate.

""SUBORDINATE Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.""

SUPERCAR a superior car

Feature of many a dragster (NFL)

Power booster on '98 Buick Regal 3.8 V6

Mall goer, to the extreme

Errol Flynn kind of role

Dare-devil takes second to clean shield

One given to derring-do

One who systematizes.

""Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.""

Professional talker

iPhone

Subsequently, box covers this place when 9 across lost opener

Blazer of a pioneer

"Blazer" of a pioneer

Soothing agent.

Sedative.

Lawbreaker - grass snorter (anagram)

One who oversteps a mark

One who oversteps the limit

Barnard, say, prepares expat for growing tea, say, when I leave

Someone putting a do together (wordplay)

Deliberate causer of problems

Inciter of unrest

Device giving engine extra efficiency

Mechanism increasing an engine's power - brought racer (anagram)

Modifying racer brought extra speed with this (wordplay)

The art or practice of using a video camera.

Waterproof

Daydreamer (7th)

Absent-minded type, on the farm (wordplay)

Idle fancier.

Bird - why 'Rommel ale'? (anagram)

European bird - Orwell mayhem (anagram)

Golden-winged flicker

Mobile balance checker (wordplay)

Device measuring changes in speed

Velocity change sensor

Runner or dramatist in play

One managing business affairs

Overseer of a sort

German dog in fine French spa, barking

Antiforeign

""AUTHENTICATE To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.""

Certain scholarly person

Academic press worker

Compiler of a list of books on a particular subject or by a single author

The study of the geographic distribution of organisms.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

See Brailler .

BREASTSTROKE

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis [from Greek kampulos bent + bacter ( ium )]

Candlelight

""An implement with a bell-shaped cup and often a long slender handle, used to extinguish the flame of a candle.""

I arrange steps (wordplay)

Robbins, for one

One skilled in arranging dances

Revolving around or surrounding a star.

Cabal member

Fellow plotter

The first violin in a symphony orchestra (2 words)

""CONGLOMERATE Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light. as, conglomerate rays of light.""

Well-wisher after the fact

Counterplay

""One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.""

Medical device for stabilising the heart

Device applying current to the chest or heart

Electronic device for restoring normal heart rhythm

""MINERALIZER 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.""

DOCTRINAIRISM (anagram)

A distinguishing characteristic

A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.

Doublespeak

EDITORIALIZE to write an opinion in an editorial in a publication.

""Located or occurring outside of a living cell or cells; as, extracellular fluid. Opposite of intracellular.as, extracellular fluid. Opposite of intracellular.""

Outside the vessels; said of the substance of all the tissues.

One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy.

""Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; opposed to cellular. cellular.""

A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast.

Your dad's girl to your dad's dad

Bridget, to Henry

Young relative seeing old king and the changing of the guard

Innovative type

An instrument for counting the number of blood cells in a measured volume of blood.

""INDOCTRINATE To instruct in the rudiments or principles of learning, or of a branch of learning; to imbue with learning; to instruct in, or imbue with, principles or doctrines; to teach; often followed by in. in.""

BEHAVIOR conduct

Like electrical signals in the body Toyota (nonverbal)

GRANULAR composed of granules

""INTERPELLATE To question imperatively, as a minister, or other executive officer, in explanation of his conduct; generally on the part of a legislative body.""

""Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells. as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells.""

Within a muscle: an intramuscular injection.

Within blood vessels or a blood vessel.

Choir director

Church leader like me will get involved with psalter

Player in a sandbox

Sort of teacher who could be more helpful and good, terrible ranter

Phil Niekro, for one

Partridge, say, girl, ex-poacher, shot

Compiler of a dictionary

Dictionary writer

Trim ladies' man, possibly, to bungle things

Badly run trains, dilemma needing to be sorted out

Old lady and son, clergyman, manage badly

""The portion of the circulatory system composed of the smallest vessels, such as the capillaries, arterioles, and venules.""

MONOCHROMATE

Of or relating to a single molecule.

""Consisting of, or having, many cells or more than one cell.""

Nervomuscular.

COOPERATOR

""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.""

Cousteau, for one

One who studies the seas

Woods Hole scientist.

Black and white wader

Pied coastal wading bird

Bird of the seashore

Tropical climbing plant (granadilla)

Climbing plant, Passiflora

Wasp flies on or off climbing plant

At right angles

Apple incurred difficulties? Straight up

Style of English architecture

PHOTOENGRAVE To engrave by a photomechanical process; to make a photo-engraving of.

""Geography the systematic classification and description of nature. See also geography ; geology . ; physiographer , ; physiographic, physiographical , adj . Classification""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""One who predestinates, or foreordains.""

PROPAGANDIZE

PSYCHOBABBLE

Officer in charge of provisions

Teacher after clemency for army officer

Army supply officer

A contrivance for exhibiting and measuring the refraction of light.

Inflected form of HABILITATOR Inflected form of HABILITATE Qualified or entitled.

Inflected form of INVIGORATOR Inflected form of INVIGORATE To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.

His work in France may be taken as a matter of course

""An instrument for ascertain the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts.""

A saccharimeter.

Destroyer of reputation

Purveyor of dirt about others

Person spreading malicious gossip

In-form professional (wordplay)

Her chocolates embarrassed young tutor

The young director

Earthquake measurer

Scientist whose work is on shaky ground (wordplay)

Man in charge at Waterloo (wordplay)

Man in command at Waterloo (wordplay)

He has training in being the boss

Horse in an obstacle race

Horse that jumps

Horse for jump races

English word

Picket line crosser, maybe

Hit by wave, one labours on regardless

Scab caused by blow wave

Construction project bidder

Firm undertaking part of another's agreement

MANDIBULAR Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A calender with a number of rollers for giving a high finish or gloss to paper.

""One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.""

H- (as in H-bomb)

Like atomic weapons

Like reactions inside stars and some weapons

Mad rant by old writer associated with timeless pop is a downer

One who transmigrates.

FAMILIAR a close friend or associate

One doing less well than expected

Person not reaching their potential

Hear I've tangled with dunce? Right, he could do better

A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.

Not dramatic

Undramatic

Unremarkable

Ankle boot

Weathercast

""The biological study of the geographic distribution of animals, especially the causes and effects of such distribution.""

""FILIBUSTER A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.""

TUBERCULAR Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

Writer of their own life story

A smoked liver sausage.

A drug that widens the air passages of the lungs and eases breathing by relaxing bronchial smooth muscle.

Relating to the heart and blood-vessels

Relating to the heart and blood vessels

INVESTIGATOR One who searches diligently into a subject.

""CONCEPTUALIZE to to form a concept of; as, He could not conceptualize a robot that would help paralyzed patients.as, He could not conceptualize a robot that would help paralyzed patients.""

English word

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

Quick note from Edward Elgar (wordplay)

Note death, note tremble!

Brief note (wordplay)

""(Physics / General Physics) Physics an instrument used in studying diffraction, as in the determination of crystal structure by diffraction of X-rays""

One who writes in an affectedly pointed style.

One who excommunicates.

Like a spacewalk

""Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of c&oe;lenterates. as, the gastrovascular cavity of c&oe;lenterates.""

*Wine made from one of the four "noble" grapes in Alsace's grand cru vineyards

An instrument having a heavy gyroscope whose axis spins in a vertical plane to reduce the side-to-side rolling of a ship or aircraft.

English word

""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.""

""(Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) an automatic device used to trigger an operation at regular intervals, esp such a device operating the shutter of a camera""

""Between molecules; situated, or acting, between the molecules of bodies.""

Teacher in a nursery school

One who engages in finger painting

""Of, pertaining to, or consisting of macromolecules.""

""The study of the structure of metals and alloys, especially by optical and electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction.""

English word

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Word with prefix multi-

MULTIPARAE

SPECTACULAR Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.

""Of, relating to, or being a theory holding that mental diseases or abnormalities result from various chemical imbalances or deficiencies and can be cured by restoring proper levels of chemical substances, such as vitamins and minerals, in the body.""

""PARTICULAR Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation. as, the particular stars of a constellation.""

Part 2 of remark

Negligent one

Artisan stupidly interrupting university official, off-putting type

One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.

MANUFACTURER One who manufactures.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Consisting of more than one molecule.

""An electric generator or dynamo which is combined on one frame with a turbomotor, by which it is driven.""

Lash LaRue, to some (wordplay)

Upstart paparazzo pursuing jockey, maybe

Powerful ball-hiker (wordplay)

""A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.compensator or balancing coil.""

Of or relating to the blood vessels that supply the brain.

Chromatograph

Film's camera-crew chief

Movie studio employe

James Wong Howe's occupation.

Drake, for one

Phileas Fogg, for one

One of the great all-rounders

One who fights back

One who fights fire with fire

""(Chemistry) Chem a type of isomer that differs in the spatial arrangement of atoms in the molecule, but is not a mirror image; a stereoisomer that is not an enantiomer""