2-Letter Words Ending in R

A firearm which receives its load at the breech.

A craftsperson of excellent character

He's a fine script writer

Support for burning light

MENORAH

One making maps

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

Map-maker

Fast food - begs cure here (anagram)

Lunch-counter specialty.

Fast food product

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.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

RESEARCHER One who researches.

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

Device for reducing moisture content of the atmosphere

Phonograph Records

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

Back-to-back baseball games

July 4th tradition.

Marathon at Camden Yards

Ethnic anthropologist

University student in demonstration before the queen

Firefighting apparatus

Firefighting equipment

Weapon used in heated dispute (wordplay)

Criticize a pitcher (wordplay)

Gun firing burning liquid

Foreshadow

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

Kid with no commute

Nectar-feeding bird

HORSEWHIP A whip for horses.

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

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

CHANGER one that {changes=v}

Type of printer

A device that pulverizes kidney stones and gallstones by passing shock waves through a water-filled tub in which the patient sits.

An instrument for triturating the stone in the bladder; a lithotrite.

Ho ho ho, maybe

Crime of unpremeditated killing

Bloke's mirth is killing

A trader.

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

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

""Any of various fishes, especially of the genera Haplochromis and Tilapia, that carry their eggs and young in the mouth.""

A composer of fables.

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

An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.

Hot spot regular

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

President, for one.

Functionary from ticket endings

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

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 skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

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.

""(Chemistry) a polymeric material that is sensitive to light: used in printing plates, microfilms, etc.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Party under cover (wordplay)

Person taking out insurance

Person with insurance

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

SLAUGHTER The act of killing.

Any game show contestant (wordplay)

Clay, for one.

Professional athlete.

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

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

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

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

One who carves scrimshaw.

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

Unsuitable nutcracker (wordplay)

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

Big hitter trimmed hedge in prison

Politician's alter ego (wordplay)

William Safire, once

Copier of a dictator's words

One versed in shorthand

Court employee

Former union issue - awful pest, the guard found

STICKHANDLE

Hair care item

Something making less weak

Power changed Rene into a strong supporter

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

Camera device.

Subsequently, box covers this place when 9 across lost opener

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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.

Informal Variant of wisenheimer .

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

Daydreamer (7th)

Absent-minded type, on the farm (wordplay)

Idle fancier.

Bird - why 'Rommel ale'? (anagram)

European bird - Orwell mayhem (anagram)

Golden-winged flicker

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.""

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.

Candlelight

""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

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

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

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

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}

BEHAVIOR conduct

Partridge, say, girl, ex-poacher, shot

Compiler of a dictionary

Dictionary writer

MONOCHROMATE

CHURCHGOER One who attends church.

Cousteau, for one

One who studies the seas

Woods Hole scientist.

Black and white wader

Pied coastal wading bird

Bird of the seashore

One who philosophizes.

PHOTOCOMPOSE

Agent noun (-or)

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

Jockey's other job (wordplay)

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

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

Comparative adjective or agent noun

PSYCHOBABBLE

An instrument for measuring the direct heating effect of the sun's rays.

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

""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.

In-form professional (wordplay)

Her chocolates embarrassed young tutor

The young director

Earthquake measurer

Scientist whose work is on shaky ground (wordplay)

Horse in an obstacle race

Horse that jumps

Horse for jump races

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Comparative adjective or agent noun

H- (as in H-bomb)

Like atomic weapons

Like reactions inside stars and some weapons

""One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.""

Short electrical disturbance with rain

It has drops and bolts

Severe storm

One doing less well than expected

Person not reaching their potential

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

Weathercast

""To whatever place; to what place soever; wheresoever; as, I will go whithersoever you lead. as, I will go whithersoever you lead.""

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

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.

Counterpunch

""MYTHOLOGIZER One who, or that which, mythologizes.""

Like a spacewalk

English word

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

Publishing by microform.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""PHILOSOPHER One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy.""

""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.""

A sensory receptor that responds to heat and cold.

Expert gets up nose (wordplay)

A solver of problems

Mediator in an impasse.

Lash LaRue, to some (wordplay)

Upstart paparazzo pursuing jockey, maybe

Powerful ball-hiker (wordplay)

Chromatograph

Film's camera-crew chief

Movie studio employe

James Wong Howe's occupation.

""An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction.""

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

Comparative adjective or agent noun

An electronic sensing device used to detect electromagnetic energy of a wide range of frequencies and intensity levels.

PHOTOSENSITIZE

PHOTOTYPESET

The study of the geographic distribution of plants. Also called geobotany .

Temperature controller

Ultramarathon

One studying regular molecular structures

Blood-pressure device

man precedes death in operatic heroine with trill, very little music! (18)

Brain-wave recorder