2-Letter Words Ending in E

CARBURISE

To combine wtih carbon or a carbon compound; said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

CARESS to touch lovingly

A betaine commonly occurring in the liver and in skeletal muscle that functions in fatty acid transport across mitochondrial membranes.

T. Rex, for one

Tip of rhubarb? No, I crave tripe!

Lion or tiger, for example

An ore of uranium

""A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.""

CARTEL a business organization

CARTEL a business organization

Flexible connective tissue

Connective tissue of the human body

Kind of bone

Oblong in Egyptian hieroglyphs

Tablet in scroll form

Any scroll-shaped ornament.

Credit rag (anagram)

Sort of paper-round (wordplay)

Sort of paper round (wordplay)

CASEIN a milk protein

Dish (served in a dish of the same name)

Dish for bad loser in lawsuit (wordplay)

Church-supper dish

""A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments.""

Criticise cold wine scandal (wordplay)

Chastise - tacit sage (anagram)

Reprimand, showing players one way out

Library-user's aid

Mail-order item

Librarian's concern

Ball that should be held

Like a "can-of-corn" fly

Possibly infectious message passed round at church

Sheriff's officer is to arrest East European

Ken, ex-Australian rugby captain who always caught the ball

Bailiff.

Question closely

Question thoroughly

Cathedra

Act or agency that produces an effect

Burn, as a wound

Burn with a hot iron

Sear with a corrosive

Ceremonial procession, of horses say

Cowardly display (wordplay)

Murray, bounder, in hollow parade

Flowering plant - decennial (anagram)

Flower found in parcel, and in envelope

Plant of buttercup family

Have a party, say

Mark (a birthday)

Publicly praise (someone)

""Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.""

Charge for storing (wine?)

Certain storage charge

Cost of storing wine

""Any of several enzymes produced chiefly by fungi, bacteria, and protozoans that catalyze the hydrolysis of cellulose.""

Gym-goer's target, maybe

Lumpy deposits of body fat

Certain fat deposit

Tissue in room you finally drop

Main constituent of plant cell walls

Chief constituent of all plant tissues

""A hard brittle iron carbide, Fe 3 C, found in steel with more than 0.85 percent carbon.""

Many-legged invertebrates

Many-legged insect

Many-jointed myriapod.

""One of two small cylindrical cell organelles composes of nine triplet microtubules, which form the asters during mitosis.""

Cercaria

Have an idea

Think hard

Just think how to get the beer into the crate

A feeling of conviction, given rectitude

You can't predict the weather with this

Feeling of surety

""Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.""

Dispute (a statement)

Question truth of - dare

Dare to raise an objection

Herb for tea

Herb in herbal tea

Aromatic plant of the daisy family

It's the wine talking - fake anguish!

Holiday sparkler (wordplay)

Symbol of luxurious living.

Propose as a different recent art form

Enamel work almost on a par with title holder

""An abrupt climbing turn made by an airplane, in which the plane's momentum is used to achieve a higher than normal rate of climb, without stalling the aircraft.""

Piaf, for one

Female singer, in a nightclub perhaps

Edith Piaf, for one

Parent at the prom, say

Teacher at a dance, say

Guardian could be no cheaper

Did Bates report her quarrel (wordplay)

Queen of puddings (wordplay)

She's a tart - but deep!

A satin-finished silk fabric.

A foot covering of any kind.

CHECK to {inspect=v}

Keep tabs on one's spouse?

Associate at a bank (wordplay)

Lioness in winter (wordplay)

Butt sex (wordplay)

Structure beneath the eye

Supermodel's asset, often

Head of hair

Straight-stemmed tobacco-pipe

Long-stemmed pipe

Long Turkish tobacco pipe

Small gray-and-black songbird

Word in a W.C. Fields film title

Titmouse's cousin

Red squirrel named for the sound it makes

Innocent and trustful (wordplay)

Young and innocent, you might say

Showing youthful innocence

Gift for the second wedding anniversary.

Chopsticks (wordplay)

Feature informed on Delft art

An acnelike skin disorder caused by prolonged exposure to chlorinated hydrocarbons.

""A colorless, odorless, viscous liquid, C 10 H 6 Cl 8 , used as an insecticide. It may be toxic to humans and wildlife as a result of its effect on the nervous system.""

Bar snack (wordplay)

Cause of many a breakout (wordplay)

Food available in bars (wordplay)

A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.

""A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites. chondrites.""

Place specializing in steaks

Place for steaks

Place to order a steak

""Pl. chronaxies The minimum interval of time necessary to electrically stimulate a muscle or nerve fiber, using twice the minimum current needed to elicit a threshold response.""

Account of important events

(Make a) historical record

Narrative description of past events

A pit or hole produced by wear or weathering especially in a road surface.

Form a scar

English word

& 9 Smoking accommodation (wordplay)

Not a patch on wanting one (wordplay)

Smoke under fire.

CINGULA cingulum

""Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns.""

Move around (at a function)

Move around (at a party)

Make to go round, in a curve perhaps

On the Roman side of the Alps

Is place in chaos south of the mountains (wordplay)

Cisterna

Photo featuring a skyline

Eg London space possibly in view

What a skyline is part of

Message about league goal being within reach (wordplay)

With whom one shares history, say

Inform a friend (wordplay)

Lab partner, for one

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate.

CLEAN to rid of stain

Like easy high jump settings

Official permission (for an action)

Eviction from lands

Right of passage

Capable of cleaving or being divided.

State of being client.

Customers (of a shop)

A shop's customers

Lawyer's concern

Easier than Everest

Arm wrapped in wire could be scaled

Easy to scale, for a mountaineer

With precision

Cow sickle (anagram)

Moving as hands do (wordplay)

*How time flies (wordplay)

Decorated with enamel which is inlaid

Close in on fantastic enamelwork

Partitioned enamel work.

""A synthetic drug, C 9 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 , used in the treatment of hypertension, the prevention of migraine headaches, and the management of Tourette's syndrome and opiate withdrawal.""

CLOSE to make impassable

Hill woman is gregarious

Where golfers meet

Golf course building

Building for members

COACH to {tutor=v}

""Any of various enzymes, such as rennin or thrombin, that induce coagulation, especially of the blood.""

Thicken or clot, like blood

(Of blood) solidify

Clot in catalogue

Seaside railway (wordplay)

Where the sea meets the shore

It's shaped by current events

COAST to {glide=v}

""A rare silver-white to gray mineral, cobalt sulfarsenide, CoAsS, that is a cobalt ore and is used in ceramics.""

""A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.""

To treat or an\'91sthetize with cocaine.

'Ride a ......... to Banbury Cross'

Ride it 2 across, by the sound of it (wordplay)

'Ride a . . . . . . . . . from Banbury Cross'

CULTURE to cultivate

""COELOME a body cavity in some animals, also COELOM, CELOM""

Member of The Abbey from company is one backing Sting

""A multinucleate cytoplasmic mass enclosed by a single cell wall, as in slime molds and certain fungi and algae.""

Not totally unyielding

FEATURE to present prominently

FINANCE to supply the money for

Dog has run out with programme? That's rarely conceivable!

Re: thinking (wordplay)

Of conscious intellectual activity

Involving the intellect

Study secures present church agreement

Make what you mean clear with this

Sticking together once cheer erupted

A woman hairdresser.

A bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli.

Pass to union workmate

Co-worker in company left union

Associate army officer left alliance

To tie or bind together.

Make parallel

Set; placed. [Obs.] [Obs.]

Printing process used in book illustration and advertising

Fraudulent

Pillars of the establishment (wordplay)

One surrounds the Parthenon

Architectural holder-upper

Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.

Like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.

Flower for Harlequin (wordplay)

Flower display in emo club

Name of Gen. Eisenhower's plane.

""A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; first found in New England.""

Comatula

With a CHIP on one's shoulder

Ornery, in a way

Eager to fight, aggressive

Mix, blend

""To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth.""

Group of people selected to run things

Group delegated to consider some matter

Panel set up for a purpose

Naval rank junior to rear-admiral

Star Trek bigwig

Perry's title

Joint use of anything

Joint use of a pasture

COMMUNE to converse intimately

COMMUNE to converse intimately

Reverse direction of an electric current

Something made of diverse elements

Combined to make notes about it

Made up of several distinct parts

Tranquillity of old city shown in design

State of calmness

Write about ancient city's tranquillity

Porter, caretaker (esp. Fr.)

Residential block porter

Doorkeeper, in France

Route to prison (wordplay)

Way to prison (wordplay)

Large area in, eg, railway station

Kept woman

Mistress has care of one whelp among nine

Mistress, caught at the right moment, carries bin

Likely to lead (to)

Favorable

Tending.

Conferva

Set up company with new person

Set up argument against human form

Assemble, as a computer system

Fruit preserves

Give different forms of (a verb)

Do a tense recitation (wordplay)

Give forms of (a verb)

One nominated in conjunction with another; a joint nominee.

Prison record keeper (wordplay)

Enlist new son, symbol of 8, into church

Recipient

Prisoners' surface for chow (wordplay)

Furniture in a prison (wordplay)

Hoax the firm with a painting (wordplay)

Place to get a passport

Seek advice about a European embassy

Residence of a Foreign Service officer.

Take on a twisted shape

Rolled together.

Twist

Military kitchen building

Kitchen equipment.

Piece of camping gear for exploring Newfoundland (wordplay)

There's a barrel of work for one in this

17 across after C comes from here

Where to buy kegs

Be one of a team of surgeons (wordplay)

How surgeons work together (wordplay)

Act jointly with others.

Crowning point on a building

Finishing stroke.

PRODUCE to bring into existence

A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

Like many reefs

Pinky knackered in the middle

Type of atoll composition.

A sculptured basket of flowers or fruits used as an architectural ornament.

Elusive grassland bird

Bird with rasping cry

Secretive grassland bird

""Krllt, Corollated Having a corolla or corollas; like a corolla.""

Like Bonds in business (wordplay)

Kind of takeover

Relating to a large group; united

White or red

Cruel cops sabotaged cell

Component of blood

Corrosive.

Make a connection between (things)

Do a statistician's job

One of a pair

Caustic about Ivor's broken heart

Caustic and destructive

Destroying by chemical action

Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.

New drug for arthritis.

Steroid developed nice torso

Miraculous new remedy for arthritis.

Gleam in flashes

Sparkle as American chap in central part

Glance confusing to accuser

""Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form.""

A joint trustee.

English word

Measureable by numbers

Subject to enumeration

Measurable by numbers

Variety of marrow

Zucchini is its American equivalent

Small green vegetable

""The area immediately bordering the official court of play, as in tennis or basketball.""

Relationship; kinship.

""VALENCE a chemical bond, also VALENCY""

""Kvlln, Covellite A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; hence called indigo copper. indigo copper.""

""A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.indigo copper.""

COVER to spread something over

Shelter.

Shelter

That may be coveted; desirable.

Lack of courage

Severe lack of courage

Timidity - lack of courage

Cramoisy Crimson.

Crotchety engine feature (wordplay)

What gets the shaft (wordplay)

Trial of a grouch (wordplay)

Off-white pottery

""Krnlt, Crenulated Minutely crenate.""

Make a crackling noise.

Rattle stone that's found outside

What it swallowed at last could be crackling

""Krpss'l, Crepuscule Twilight.""

Charge with an offense

Councillor in old cord skirt (wordplay)

Does my bum look big in this (wordplay)

Does her bum look big in this (wordplay)

Find fault with

Point out problems or mistakes

Is it Circe who turned to find fault (wordplay)

Dress down

Carp

Alarm clock swallower in "Peter Pan"

Captain Hook's nemesis

Large aquatic reptile

Deep-fried dish

A fried roll of potato

Dish fried in breadcrumbs

What the Delaware was, Christmas, 1776.

Transversely

Transversely.

Contrarily

""Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon.""

Flimsy cord around basket material

A surgical instrument used to apply extreme cold to tissues during cryosurgery.