2-Letter Words Ending in G

Causing improvement in or reducing the bad effects of an unfavorable condition.

""Criticising vehemently and effectively; making light of; as, afire with annihilating invective.as, afire with annihilating invective.""

CLOTTING clot

GAMBLING the act of taking a chance

LYNCHING the act of lynching

Stating clearly

Taking in and understanding

AUSCULTATE To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

""AUTOMOBILE a self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of automobiles have beenbuilt and sold commercially, possessing varied features such as a retractable roof (in a convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.""

Backlight

Reversing a stand

Effusive display of approval

Condones eating soup impolitely (wordplay)

Vigorously hearty

Present participle or gerund

Ballyrag

Becudgel

Bedrivel

Beglamour

Beleaguer

The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.

""BESTIALIZE To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.""

Billboard

POLARIZING polarize

Excluding, in a way

Ostracism

Blackbird

Blackjack

Banning tipping on jet

Recording as untrustworthy

Banning from future work

Baron, wanting to secure part of armour, raising money

Blacktop

Poker activity for a kidnapper (wordplay)

Blockbust

Violence during a conflict

Larcenous colonel allowing slaughter

Like mosquitoes

Blueprint

Luck begins to change intellectual

Woman having literary interests

Type of egghead.

See windsurfing .

Navy yard activity

Where to get a full physical (wordplay)

Pastime I'd ignobly dub 'freakish'

Weightlifter's practice

BOLSHEVIZE

""BOONDOGGLE a braided cord made by hand by young scouts, used for various purposes, such as a hat cord or a key chain.""

Taking the offensive, and taking out the offensive

""BOWDLERIZE To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.""

Papal edict against brawling fiesta in Pamplona

Bullwhip

Bullyrag

BURGLARIZE

Butterfly

Accosting and detaining (someone)

""CALUMNIATE To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.""

CAMOUFLAGE

CANTILLATE To chant; to recite with musical tones.

CAPITALISE

""CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

""CAPITULATE To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.""

""CARAMELISE to to change into caramel, by the action of heat; as, The sugar caramelized quickly.as, The sugar caramelized quickly.""

CARAMELIZE to to convert

Carillon

Cartwheel

CATABOLIZE

""The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats.""

CENTRALISE

Causing to concentrate at a center. Opposite of decentralizing.decentralizing.

CHANNELIZE

Charbroil

Cheerlead

Like comic Hilda's female act

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

Chugalug

Clapboard

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

Cocounsel

Codevelop

Making more involved

CONCILIATE To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.

""CONGLOBATE Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate""

Recuperating

Copublish

CRYSTALIZE

Curveball

""CYCLOSTYLE A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.""

Causing weakness

Decalcify

Slowing down

""DECIMALIZE To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency. as, to decimalize the currency.""

COLONIZING colonize

COLORIZING colorize

""DEFLAGRATE To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.""

LAMINATING laminate

Considering adding carpeting to foodstore

PANNING THE COLD CUTS SHOP

LIQUESCING liquesce

LOCALIZING localize

MOBILIZING mobilize

MODULATING modulate

Discouraging. Opposite of encouraging.encouraging.

POLARIZING polarize

POPULATING populate

REGULATING regulate

""DESALINATE to remove the salt from, especially from water; as, it is necessary to desalinate sea water to make it fit to drink.as, it is necessary to desalinate sea water to make it fit to drink.""

SALINIZING salinize

Detassel

VITALIZING vitalize

VOCALIZING vocalize

""DIGITALIZE to record digitally, e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.""

""DILAPIDATE To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; said of a building.""

Disannul

BELIEVING believe

Disbowel

""DISCIPLINE The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.""

Disentail

ENTITLING entitle

GRUNTLING gruntle

Dishevel

INCLINING incline

Disrelish

DOLOMITIZE

Awfully patient with Girls Aloud? Very!

Painfully noisy in the grain division

Very loud and shrill

EDULCORATE To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity.

EFFLORESCE To blossom forth.

Electrify

ELUCUBRATE See Lucubrate. Lucubrate.

EMASCULATE To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

Decorator's activity

Engarland

Informative, hinting Engel might be wrong

Ensorcel

EPITHELIZE

New businessman's activity

Putting up with broken tables is half fetching

Founding

ETERNALIZE To make eternal.

""EVANGELIZE To instruct in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity; as, to evangelize the world. as, to evangelize the world.""

Blooming throughout the growing season.

Exemplify

Making lively and cheerful

Making very happy

Making one feel lively and cheerful

""FACILITATE To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task. as, to facilitate the execution of a task.""

Line judge's mission (wordplay)

Legal proceeding at Wimbledon (wordplay)

Funding a lift perhaps results in petty criticism

""FEDERALIZE To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution.""

FELICITATE Made very happy.

Fibrillate

FLAGELLATE To whip; to scourge; to flog.

Flimflam

FLOCCULATE To aggregate into small lumps.

Flowchart

""FLUORIDATE To subject to fluoridation, as of water; to add fluoride to.""

FLUORINATE

Footfault

Footslog

Anticipating long life, star played around

Happy-go-lucky

Unconstrained

Uninhibited

Going about seeking pleasure

Gadding about

Gastrulate

""GELATINIZE To convert into gelatin or jelly. Same as Gelatinate, v. t. Gelatinate, v. t.""

Inferring that army VIP is in Gateshead

GENERALIZE To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

Genuflect

GLAMOURIZE

Art of making bottles etc

Goldbrick

Greenmail

""GUILLOTINE A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.""

HABILITATE Qualified or entitled.

HALOGENATE

Showing stress in the air before landing

Holograph

""HOMOLOGATE To approve; to allow; to confirm; as, the court homologates a proceeding. as, the court homologates a proceeding.""

HOMOLOGIZE To determine the homologies or structural relations of.

""HYDROPLANE A plane, or any of a number of planes, projecting from the hull of a submarine boat, which by being elevated or depressed cause the boat, when going ahead, to sink or rise, after the manner of an a\'89roplane.""

IDEOLOGIZE

ILLEGALIZE To make or declare illegal or unlawful.

Giving or producing light; used for illumination.

Showing in pictures

""IMMOBILIZE To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.""

Executing rogue, sorrowful earl replaces head of axe

INFILTRATE To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something.

Starting a computer application

""INOSCULATE To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.""

INSUFFLATE To blow upon; to breath upon or into; to use insufflation upon.

Interlap

Interlard

LEAVING a {leftover=n}

Interlend

Interlink

Engaging with close fit

Engaging by fitting together

Like crossword words

Interplay

Intertill

Tending to invalidate or prove false.

INVIGILATE To keep watch.

""ITALIANATE To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to Italianize.""

ITALIANISE

ITALIANIZE To play the Italian; to speak Italian.

JOURNALIZE To enter or record in a journal or diary.

Lallygag

LATERALIZE

New York bus driver's activity

Cold-blooded children's play activity (wordplay)

""LEGITIMATE Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir. as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.""

LEGITIMISE

LEGITIMIZE To legitimate.

Film-to-video transfer technique

""LEXICALIZE To make into a word, coin into a word; as, The concept expressed by German "Gemuetlichkeit" is not lexicalized in English.as, The concept expressed by German "Gemuetlichkeit" is not lexicalized in English.""

LIBERALISE

LIBERALIZE To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices.

Lifeguard

Limelight