2-Letter Words Ending in Y

In an upright manner.

WAGGISH amusing

In a spiteful manner

In a wealthy manner; richly.

""Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship. as, a weatherly ship.""

Not lightly cunning about 8

In a whining manner; in a tone of mean complaint.

WISHFUL {desirous=adj}

WOLFISH {wolflike=adj}

XEROPHILE

In an adherent manner.

In an adhesive manner.

A drug he's no right to carry (wordplay)

Nameless "Romeo and Juliet" character

Character in "Romeo and Juliet."

Study of past human culture

Prehistoric-culture study

The relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times.

The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.

""AUTOTROPH an organism which is autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.""

AUXOTROPH

""The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.""

Magnetic personal charm

BLIMPISH like Colonel Blimp

Guns by hill going off in confusion

Showing embarrassment

Low-growing plant of the dogwood family

Bad handwriting or spelling, as any fule kno

Arrest by copper with appeal of reduced charge

Nab lady providing worthless bit of goods

Extremely coy about unfortunate penchant for trumpery

CATHODAL pertaining to a {cathode=n}

Cyclone had dislodged rocky stuff

Quartz coming from Ceylon and Chad

Cyclone had rolled stone

In a changeable manner.

Padre's position

Position involving work in the service of the army

Cleric's office bloke located at York, say, losing it

The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark.

Cautious about girl getting a drink

White wine grape

Variety of white wine

Generously

In a most pleasing way

In a delightfully attractive manner

See Cartulary. Cartulary.

Iridescent quality of some gems

CHEAPISH somewhat cheap

In a happy manner

In happy fashion

Alleluia! In all respects that displays happiness

According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.

In an immature fashion

Cold food consumed like a baby

Casserole in the fridge, say? (letters 5-8)

CHILLING chill

Ornamental tree

One Gypsy man getting into risky fortunetelling

Greek character and gypsy outside front of circus fortune-telling

Palmistry

""CHLORINE a gaseous element, also CHLORIN""

""CHOCOLATE A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla. Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.""

""The small appleshaped or pearshaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub. Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.""

CHRONIC one who suffers from a long-lasting disease

Science of time arrangement

Sequence of events

Order of events

In a churlish manner.

CLANNISH like a clan

CLIQUISH {cliquey=adj}

CLOWNISH resembling a clown

Only cheer leader of team excitedly in an orderly way

Logically

In a unified manner

HOMOLOGY similarity in structure and origin

Study of mollusks and shells

Feeding on excrement: coprophagous beetles.

CRASHING crash

CRUSHING crush

DANDYISH suggestive of a dandy

Cue heard by lunatic for wild behaviour

Excessive intemperance

Excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs

Make more comfortable, maybe

Remove moisture from (an air or gas)

Clear the air, in a way

Population statistics expert's field

Study of populations

DETACH to unfasten and separate

DETACHED detach

DEVILISH {fiendish=adj}

Garda's union produced conflict

Friction within a group

Detective's union leads to conflict

Pan a Billy Joel classic (wordplay)

Lovely concealing love-nest by deceit

Untrustworthiness, insincerity

DWARFISH resembling a {dwarf=n}

""ENDOMORPH A crystal of one species inclosed within one of another, as one of rutile inclosed in quartz.""

Internal generation of heat in animals

Conclusion to different setter's warmth of heart (wordplay)

Heavenly way to put you to sleep over your friend

So Wordsworth's minstrel appears to have thee flustered, as a matter of fact

Leader in Economist, article truly in heavenly style

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

According to national groups.

Exhibiting; publicly showing.

1983 Journey ballad

FETCHING fetch

At a frantic pace

Hectically

FIENDISH devilishly cruel

""FREAKISH quirkily unusual, also FREAKFUL, FREAKY""

GHASTFUL frightful

How loathsome things are enjoyed

GOTHIC a style of printing

May be used to analyse writer's output

Study of handwriting

As a general rule

Smoothly and moderately, nautical style

How good tippers tip

In an attractive manner

In a benign manner

In a nonthreatening manner

HAUNTING the act of returning to memory

HECTICAL {hectic=adj}

Without paying attention

Shelley's novel about education without thought

In a heliacal manner.

Sun worship. See Sabianism. Sabianism.

(Laugh) uncontrollably

Impotently

In a vulnerable manner, ill sheep slaughtered without one knowing

Blood work (wordplay)

Study of blood

Passed on by parents

Passed down from father to son

Passed on genetically

With valor

Stanley hit out with some doubt

Showing indecision he is the one colonist with only half

Non-traditional beliefs

Unconventional ideas

Non-conformism

The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; opposed to orthogamy. orthogamy.

Heterogenesis.

""The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils.""

Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; opposed to autonomy. autonomy.

HEXAPLOID

Maudlin jail (wordplay)

Prison for corny humorists (wordplay)

Turnaround time (wordplay)

3-D image-making process

Three D laser imagery

Producing hard copy for the 'Spectator' (wordplay)

Study of cozy places (wordplay)

Nontraditional branch of medicine

Hospital may hope to offset treatment

Adverb

Folk-singing gathering

Musical get-together.

In America, thingummy's folk music party

In an incompetent manner

Rick Astley's follow-up hit to "Cry for Help"

Incompetently

HORMONAL relating to hormones

In a hospitable manner.

HOUSEWIFE The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.

HUMBLING the act of {abasing=v}

Trickery

With wit

""Divination by means of water, practiced by the ancients.""

""The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.""

HYMENEAL a wedding song or poem

A prodigy he misled, writing in ?symbols

GPO diary he coded, writing in symbols

INCHOATE to {begin=v}

Intrinsically

""Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center.""

In an inhumane manner.

Cruelness, brutality

Cruelty that's part of society (wordplay)

Heartlessness and senselessness about olfactory offensiveness

""KYMOGRAPH An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; called also kymographion. kymographion.""

With laughter or merriment.

Rule by mothers

Rule by women

Woman bosses modified hems on tiny armchair

What is 6? 2 says 'fruit and veg'

Blue state (wordplay)

Dog that eats honeydew?

MESOMORPH

MIDNIGHT the middle of the night

One induced a little man to wear hats out east

Vacantly mount hill, fury being dissipated with laughter

""That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology. Tectology, and Promorphology.""

English word

That's my thick but endless friend in a fabulous way

A drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues.

Like the people next door (wordplay)

Helpful to those living close by

""A treatise on, or the science which treats of, the kidneys, and their structure and functions.""

An affection of the nervous system or of a nerve.

Able to lead (wordplay)

Likely to get media attention

Of interest to the media

A treatise on laws; an exposition of the form proper for laws.

Out of the ordinary, perhaps

Important memo to an upright chap

Remarkable theory won't, when revised

Might Jock's declaration pass up risque crowd control!

Mob rule

Power of the great unwashed? Hooray! Left three hundred laundered

""Feeding on a restricted range of food substances, especially a limited number of plants. Used chiefly of insects.""

""ORPHICAL mystical, also ORPHIC""

In an orthodox manner; with soundness of faith.

Practice rolling joints, perhaps

Mashed potatoes, healthy skin treatment

A versifier very upset over your massage

""OUTRIGHT totally, completely""

MIGHTY {strong=adj}

Social organisation by male descent

Mist Napoleon disseminated, disguising thoughts of Plotinus

PHATIC sharing feelings rather than ideas

Ideology from Berlin (wordplay)

Thinking of Socrates (wordplay)

Pursuit of truth and understanding

A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

Employ both midwives taking blood

Utilize yon phallic characters in a sound way

PHOTIC pertaining to light

That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

Study of skull bumps.

Skull-centered pseudoscience

Would-be science of mental faculties

Small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum

Amulet

PHYLLO very thin pastry dough

Materially, in the body

In a bodily manner

Its the art of healing friend manually

""The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.""

Silas Marner, say

Miserly one, or reversed, what he does

A miserly person, or when reversed, what he does

""The art or practice of combining different colors, especially brilliant ones, in an artistic way.""

PRANKISH mischievous

Study of early man

Very old times seeing unfortunate Troy perish

Early age

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

PRIGGISH marked by priggism

Field for Gallup or Roper

Study how to elect good holy popes (wordplay)

Making cross a subject in this study (wordplay)

Trick cyclist's profession (wordplay)

Disordered study, maybe

Frasier's field

Malraux explained that of art

Study of human and animal behaviour

Jung's field

QUALMISH having qualms

A graphic record of the passage of radiation through the renal system after injection of a radioactive tracer.

""The examination or study of the soft palate, posterior nares, etc., by means of a laryngoscopic mirror introduced into the pharynx.""

Legitimately

Of a motor vehicle, fit to drive

Safe to be driven

Fit to drive dignitary on highway

As Attila would

""Toconvert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.""

In a bitterly severe way

Alligator or snake? (Hint: Read letters 4-8 last!)

Rough, entertaining article using bitter remarks

""SCHIZO a person affected with a type of psychotic disorder, also SCHIZOID""

SCRATCHIE

SERIGRAPH An autographic device to test the strength of raw silk.

In a despicable manner

Honeysuckle's kin

Woman begins episcopate, nothing less than perfect, as if unsure of her welcome

SHOCKING shock

SHREWISH ill-tempered

Office of a sheriff

Nervously.

SLASHING the act of one that {slashes=v}

SLOTHFUL {sluggish=adj}

Without vigor

SLUTTISH {slovenly=adj}

Very, very well

SNAPPISH tending to behave in an impatient or irritable manner

SNIFFISH {haughty=adj}

SNOBBISH characteristic of a snob

SONOGRAPH

In a soothing manner.

""The quality or state of being spherial; roundness; as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water. as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water.""

SQUARISH somewhat square