2-Letter Words Ending in R

A specialized sensory nerve receptor that receives and responds to stimuli originating from within the body.

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

Fellow switched future car brand

Maker of goods

Fabricator makes things up presumably

A trader.

""A white crystalline compound, Cl 3 CCH(C 6 H 4 OCH 3 ) 2 , used as an insecticide.""

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.""

Electronic development of the 1960's

Small digital electronic device

Laptop, for example

One who misconceives.

MOLLYCODDLE a pampered darling; an effeminate man; a milksop.

A person who is deemed to be worthless or despicable; -- obscene and highly offensive.

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

Hot spot regular

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

""COLLECTOR One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. as, a collector of coins.""

COLLINEAR

Material such as glass or porcelain

Nonconform

CROSSOVER the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis.

""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.""

President, for one.

Functionary from ticket endings

Last year's winner not skating - he's got a job

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

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

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

Party under cover (wordplay)

Person taking out insurance

Person with insurance

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

Professional person, esp. doctor

One involved in medicine, such as a GP

Part in erotic play for skilled operator

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

Inflected form of PROCESSOR Inflected form of PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

One who prevaricates.

""An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer.""

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

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

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

Verb with prefix re-

One who brings back to life or consciousness

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

Traffic-accident gawker

One gawking at traffic

Motoring menace

Theatre stage worker

Stage worker

Theatre worker

""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

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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

Film script author

One creating film script

Monitor hack who produced The Script (wordplay)

One who carves scrimshaw.

Wordsmith in cursive (nonverbal)

Ms may be my baby!

Wordsmith in cursive (nonverbal)

Junk mail a trucker might get (wordplay)

Form of estate agent's brochure (wordplay)

Advertising flier at a truck stop (wordplay)

Small-time farmer (2 words)

Type of tenant farmer in the USA

Landworker's allotment failure

Comparative adjective or agent noun

SHORTCHANGE

Apparatus measuring wavelengths

Scientific instrument

Instrument for measuring refractive indices

Politician's alter ego (wordplay)

William Safire, once

Schenkel, for one

Masters consultant, say

One who knows the score

STICKHANDLE

The breeding and raising of livestock.

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

SUPERCAR a superior car

Feature of many a dragster (NFL)

Power booster on '98 Buick Regal 3.8 V6

Mall goer, to the extreme

A group of neighboring clusters of galaxies.

Errol Flynn kind of role

Dare-devil takes second to clean shield

One given to derring-do

Camera device.

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

A home-worker

One working from home by electronic means

Confused elector accepts minutes, not speaking for one out of office

Device giving engine extra efficiency

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

Modifying racer brought extra speed with this (wordplay)

""An instrument for measuring the degree of viscosity of liquids, as solutions of gum.""

Women for that reason, plant reports on any account from any source

Mobile balance checker (wordplay)

Device measuring changes in speed

Velocity change sensor

German dog in fine French spa, barking

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

(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.""

""A sensory nerve cell or sense organ, as of smell or taste, that responds to chemical stimuli.""

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

CONVENTION The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

You might say he works at the forge

Does one work at the forge (wordplay)

Moneymaker (wordplay)

Counterplay

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Intended to prevent or counteract terrorism: counterterror measures; counterterror weapons.

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

CONSTRUCTOR A constructer.

DOCTRINAIRISM (anagram)

A distinguishing characteristic

One who electioneers.

""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.

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

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

""(Medicine) Med an apparatus for counting the number of cells in a quantity of blood, typically consisting of a graduated pipette for drawing and diluting the blood and a ruled glass slide on which the cells are counted under a microscope""

PRODUCER one that {produces=v}

""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.""

""One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger.""

Like electrical signals in the body Toyota (nonverbal)

""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.

East Coast hoopster

Senator Bradley, once

Sen. Bradley was one

Phil Niekro, for one

Partridge, say, girl, ex-poacher, shot

Compiler of a dictionary

Dictionary writer

PC, for instance

Small PC

""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.

CHURCHGOER One who attends church.

""COMPETITOR One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.""

COOPERATOR

Cousteau, for one

One who studies the seas

Woods Hole scientist.

Black and white wader

Pied coastal wading bird

Bird of the seashore

At right angles

Apple incurred difficulties? Straight up

Style of English architecture

PHOTOCOMPOSE

Agent noun (-or)

""A nerve ending, cell, or group of cells specialized to sense or receive light.""

""A sensory receptor, found chiefly in muscles, tendons, joints, and the inner ear, that detects the motion or position of the body or a limb by responding to stimuli arising within the organism.""

PSYCHOBABBLE

One who recreates

An instrument for measuring the reflectance of a surface.

A contrivance for exhibiting and measuring the refraction of light.

""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

No CID customer (anagram)

Rattle cut in half by silicon (wordplay)

Apprentice in an orchestra (wordplay)

Horse in an obstacle race

Horse that jumps

Horse for jump races

Construction project bidder

Firm undertaking part of another's agreement

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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

Powerful particle accelerator

Powerful mainframe hardware

Very powerful calculator

Powerful data processor

H- (as in H-bomb)

Like atomic weapons

Like reactions inside stars and some weapons

One doing less well than expected

Person not reaching their potential

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

Not dramatic

Undramatic

Unremarkable

Weathercast

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

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.

COMPLEMENT That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.

""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.""

The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the subleader of the orchestra; concert master.

English word

Counterpunch

""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.""

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

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.""

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.""

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

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

English word

Computer's integrated circuit

Without one, CMOS cops error, I imagine

Computer's core

Agent noun (-or)

Publishing by microform.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Agent noun (-or)

Word with prefix multi-

(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Computing a number of central processing units linked together to enable parallel processing to take place

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.

Agent noun (-or)

(Physics / General Physics) Physics a device for observing ionizing radiation by the scintillations it produces in a suitable material

Terrific orchestra leader (wordplay)

It offers little resistance

Orchestra leader who can leap tall music stands in a single bound (wordplay)

Consisting of more than one molecule.

A sensory receptor that responds to heat and cold.

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

Counterreform

Outside the normal school subjects

Outside the regular academic course

Outside the set course.

... in an AMA convention (wordplay)

Negligent lawyer, for example

According to French bad doctor is one guilty of professional misconduct

""A specialized sensory end organ that responds to mechanical stimuli such as tension, pressure, or displacement.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""Causing constriction of the blood vessels; as, the vasoconstrictor nerves, stimulation of which causes constriction of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasohypertonic. as, the vasoconstrictor nerves, stimulation of which causes constriction of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasohypertonic.""

One studying regular molecular structures