2-Letter Words Ending in Y

Ant-hill

The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume.

To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.

Rate of occurrence

Part of FM.

Commonness of recurrence

GENIC pertaining to {genes=n}

Unnecessary stunts

Trickery

GLACIAL an ice age

State of being gracilent; slenderness.

GROUCH to {complain=v}

A tree of the elm family with fruit resembling cherries

HELICAL shaped like a helix

""A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.""

Slowness to act

Indecisiveness.

Indecision

Status ranking system

System arranged in graded ranks

Governing levels of organisation

Pretense of virtue

Dishonesty of hard copy reflecting most of the risk on unknown quantity

The only vice that cannot be forgiven, per William Hazlitt

""ICONIC pertaining to an icon, also ICONICAL""

Study of religious art

Study of artistic sporting heroes (wordplay)

Compiler, self-effacing, keeps no record of artistic study

In an unlawful way

In the way of the end of 9 down

AGAINST THE LAW

The condition or quality of being immanent; inherence; an indwelling.

Directness

Urgency

Proximity

The state of being imminent and liable to happen soon; imminence.

Powerlessness

In an incapable manner.

In a manner that renders cure impracticable or impossible; irremediably.

Lack of propriety

Prude's bane

Act of gross immodesty

Exemption from error.

Tax nicely (anagram)

With estimations, say

Not quite accurately

Innocence.

A place for keeping living insects.

Fast train running between large towns

Interurban.

Leaving nothing out isn't yet without brief account

Complexity of detail

Detailed complexity

Complexity

Sacrosanctness

In a quick-tempered way

In a playful way

Casually induct into ecstasy with glee

Cheerfulness

Relating to courts of law

Branch of government.

Juicy raid excited judges

LEXICAL pertaining to the words of a language

Surgical removal of a lobe from any organ of the body (such as the lung or brain).

Using reason

Following reason

Close to home occupied by soldier with good reason

An argument about words.

Dispute concerning words

Leave Mum in lake and start your verbal sparring

Cause of high telephone bills.

Talkativeness

Prolixity.

""Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil. as, the lubricity of oil.""

In an enthusiastic or effusive way

Lily and Carly are dancing in an expressive way

How Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote ballads

LYTIC pertaining to {lysis=n}

Girl reaches across ravine to get plant

Plant herb, not rose, around ravine

Right inside a chimney, uprooted plant

How Marquez wrote - and realistically

In enchanting manner

How the Marx Brothers often acted

With frenzied energy

""MARSHAL to put in proper order, also MARSHALL""

So might mice dally with the doctor

On average, cold thus acts in a healing way

Repair Chicago's slums?

Repair Chicago's slums (wordplay)

Lying urban reformer's slogan (wordplay)

The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy.

Perfect job for Warren (wordplay)

A charging soldier (wordplay)

Soldier of Fortune subject

MICRO short for microprocessor

Hawk's attribute

Confrontational behaviour

Extremism? It's in Italian city, and city's to dismiss it

In a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety.

""A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights.""

By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner.

Government by a single person; undivided rule.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Word with prefix multi-

With pleasing effect

Fungivorous.

Transformed as scenery? It is essential!

That must be cash for the job (wordplay)

Shift scenery as required

Mother of invention (wordplay)

The mother of invention

You can't do without it

Obituary

NOCUOUS {harmful=adj}

COUNTY an administrative division of a state

Express concretely

In a crude way, old British activity disheartened lady

Improperly broadcast Beethoven's 8th and 9th by cellos half-heartedly

Crude nicety? SOB, perhaps

First Amendment study

Something offensive or disgusting

Obsolete copper taken to bank in a haze

Soberly wanders around copper, in a vague way

Dimly

State of being unknown

Absence of fame

Lack of clarity

Pig-headedness

Interpretation of actions by intransigence

Mulishness.

The proportion of a hotel in use

*Like many hotel rooms

Act of being a tenant

Of or pertaining to an office or an officer; official.

OHMIC relating to a ohm

Pertaining to smell

Relating to the sense of smell

Smelling nothing, left workplace

Government by a few

Government by small elite

Government by the few

ONTIC having real existence

To the eye

Measure topless girl by sight

The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

""A small shrubby mintlike plant (Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.""

PEACE to be or become silent

In a peccant manner.

Related to finances

Relating to money

To do with money

Government by five persons

How Nadia balanced on the beam

In an ideal way

Completely and without qualification

Peevish state

PHENE an old name for benzene

Use a certain office machine

Use an office machine

Duplicate made with an office machine

""The science of alg\'91, or seaweeds; algology.""

English word

Pertaining to fishing

Of fishing.

Play-actor trying to be conciliatory

Being conciliatory for play-actor

Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease

It's a calm sort of plaid for the city

It's calm to have the plural of being like 3 down

Calmness

Expressiveness

Scheme to get the lowdown on some cyclist's reported clanger

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Ability to make a lasting impression

Quality that can touch or move

Touching quality

Go on at length and pacify her rages

PREACH to deliver a sermon

Suppliant; beseeching.

Abstract, see? Just so!

Following summary, see without a doubt

Exactly, without vagueness

Boy wonder quality

Of child, state of having knowledge too soon

Development of behaviour in advance of actual age

Living by seizing or taking prey; predatory.

Bumpy time (wordplay)

Labor leader (wordplay)

The girl at last is expecting

Engross the mind

Weigh on one's mind

Absorb copper in coppery mould

The quality or state of being prurient.

Boozer allowed yard plugs (wordplay)

Press reports, write-ups, ballyhoo.

Media 'ink'

In a mischievous manner

Aggressiveness, eagerness to fight

Eagerness to fight

Combativeness

Divination by fire.

Year sitting in weird company making study of fire signs (wordplay)

RACKING the act of racking

How an extremist acts

In an extreme way

Kind of field

Rottenness I'd found in a new big town after end of summer

That makes one bold

Knavish conduct

Mischievous behavior

Our saucy shot framing lecturer in a way that's harsh

RAUNCH to tear away

CERTIFY to declare as true

Refusal to attend Church of England services when it was required by law

REDUCE to {lessen=v}

Communal room for meals

Communal dining room

Monastic dining hall

Bearing

Opposition

Stubbornness.

Medical-training period

The fact of living in a place

Top job topped - it's a hospital job

Unusual reserve with unusually icy centre

Country quaintness

One large town overcome by decay in a style that doesn't suit it (wordplay)

As was Spartacus; arch anti (anagram)

Holy place - asylum

Place of protection

Excessive interest in obscene things

Insincerely or effusively sentimental

Effusively or insincerely emotional

Old-fashioned and sentimental

Likewise, cars with holly (wordplay)

Likewise (wordplay)

Erudite student has left over a year

In-form style of humour (wordplay)

Pupil of sorts

Rowe of Tiger fame

In a scrappy manner; in scraps.

SCRUFF the back of the neck

Of lesser importance

Not of principal importance

Minor in importance

Desk organizer (wordplay)

Person of note (wordplay)

Della Street, for instance

""Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. as, secretory vessels, nerves.""

The state or quality of being sectile.

In a way not related to religion

Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness.

The office of a sergeant; sergeantship.

SICKISH somewhat sick

In a genuine way

In heartfelt manner.

One way to close a letter

It's expressed in a moment of truth

Openness and truthfulness

It denotes genuine quality

Just roughly, in an artistic manner

In a manner lacking details

The vessel I got roughly drawn into this in a sly manner

""SLOUCH to sit, stand, or move with a drooping posture""

Artificial channel for water

Fellowship.

A human science

Study of human behaviour

College major

SONIC pertaining to sound

For a particular purpose

In particular

Particularly small diamonds quietly picked up by friend

Special subject of study

Pediatrics, for example

Strong suit

Orate

Harangue.

Harangue

Only for blokes, girl shows sluggishness

Lack of flow

Given one buck, she is still bad

STARCH to stiffen a fabric

In a loyal way

Without ambivalence

Embroidered samplers and the like

Ornamental needlework

By way of resignation

With a poker face

With fortitude

Harshness of voice.

Loud and harsh quality

Quality of a shrill sound

ACIDLY {sourly=adv}

A subordinate agency.

COLONY a settlement of emigrants in a new land

COUNTY an administrative division of a state

""SUPER to reinforce with a thin cotton mesh, as a book""

Tinpot despot's dream state (wordplay)

Empire state (wordplay)

Power to dominate

""Pl. surrogacies The condition of being a surrogate, especially a surrogate mother.""

The concurrence of events in time; synchronism.

Diplomatically or discreetly

With savoir-faire

With diplomacy

""TACTILE pertaining to the sense of touch, also TACTUAL""

Responsiveness to touch

Touch-sensitivity

Tale's beginning, in fact, in touching way

Tragedy's beginning, in fact, in a touching way

TEACH to {instruct=v}

TEACHER one who {teaches=v}

TELIC directed toward a goal

The district under a Roman tetrarch; the office or jurisdiction of a tetrarch; a tetrarchate.

Rule by priests

Opposite of a state of disbelief

Government by priests

A state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive.

TONIC something that refreshes

In a newsworthy manner.

How medicinal creams are applied

Best friend will eat one cold, in current fashion

Tracheal; breathing by means of trache\'91.

TRACT to {trace=v}

Traitor's act

Back-stabbing from three racy nuts

Betrayal destroyed thy career

TWITCH to move spasmodically

As a characteristic example

In characteristic style

As is usual

In an eerie way

How a French one is able to get nothing over the Wye in a creepy sort of way

After endless meal, climber's taken sick roughly

CLARITY the state of being {clear=adj}

Wicked relative meanly cutting me off

Is Anly a relatively dirty old man (wordplay)

That's how he starts to be relatively dirty

UNCOUTH uncultured

Just my misfortune...

Unfortunately

VACUOUS {empty=adj}

Male contraceptive measure

Cut glass object caught with expression of surprise

Meanly

Brutally

The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy.

""The quality or state of being viscid; also, that which is viscid; glutinous concretion; stickiness.""

Resistance of a liquid to shear forces

""The quality, rank, or office of a viscount.""

VISCOUS having relatively high resistance to flow

Measure of fluid rotation

In a welcome manner.