2-Letter Words Ending in R

Beer-and-whiskey cocktail

Whiskey with a beer chaser

Whiskey-beer combo

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

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

Of or pertaining to a bronchiole.

Broomball

Spanish athlete in a ring

Waver of a red cape

Suit of lights wearer

Breed of dog

Breed developed in England

English dog breed

Butterfly

BUTTONHOLE The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

Heat measuring device

Heat-measuring device

Apparatus to measure quantity of heat

One who calumniates.

""Pl. canaliculi (-l ) A small canal or duct in the body, such as the minute channels in compact bone.""

Measure of light emitted

CP, to a physicist

Measure of luminosity

Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.

Cartwheel

Larva with a pet in it (wordplay)

A future monarch (wordplay)

Provide post for leaf dweller

Variety of cabbage

It has an Orange Bouquet variety

It has a big head

""CENTRALIZE To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.""

Rooster in medieval tales.

Proper name for a bird.

Archetypal name for a rooster

Charbroil

Cheerful

Split personality (wordplay)

During the game, she's no reserve!

Root for the frontrunner (wordplay)

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

Sweet maker/seller

Specialist confectioner

Sweet maker

Same as Chronologist. Chronologist.

Revolving about or surrounding the moon.

""About the pole; applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars. as, circumpolar stars.""

Codevelop

""An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.""

Financial official's title

(Generally) financial officer

New York office held by Fillmore when he was elected U.S. vice president

One who mediates

One acting as mediator

Copublish

""Pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small particles.""

Like twilight

Of twilight.

Like letters in SOS and COUSCOUS

Brake

""Inflected form of COLORIZER Inflected form of COLORIZE to give color to black and white film, also COLORISE""

Cloth cap (for a hunter?)

Voice of Bambi (wordplay)

Sherlock Holmes accessory

""An electronic device which extracts the modulation from a radio carrier wave, and outputs the original information-bearing signal.""

MORALIZER One who moralizes.

""A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.""

Salt remover

""An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.""

One with severe doubts

Punishment imposer

Ace in the hole business (wordplay)

Person who barks (wordplay)

Overseer of private practice

Campaign for votes

To campaign to be elected

Campaign for winning poll

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

Decorator, for example

""Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular. as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular.""

One who establishes.

A smoother of the way

Petty nagger

Nitpicker

FELICITATE Made very happy.

Silver-tongued bandit (wordplay)

FLOCCULATE To aggregate into small lumps.

Emporium employe.

Store supervisor

Supervisor in a large shop in North America

""Instruments an instrument for measuring the emission of radiation in the form of visible light and identifying the substance that is its source. ; fluorometric,""

""Instruments an instrument for measuring the emission of radiation in the form of visible light and identifying the substance that is its source. ; fluorometric,""

Infantry soldier (on the march?)

Infantryman pays lumberjack

Infantry soldier

""One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market.""

Someone who "sits loose."

One who acts irresponsibly

Fruitful

Organ beneath the liver

It stores bile

Organ attached to the liver

GALLERY to provide with a long covered area

Large mosquito

Biting insect

One who takes general or comprehensive views

""A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white. Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.""

Expert in see-through design (wordplay)

Chihuly, for one

Artisan with strong lungs

Glasswork

Ranunculaceous plant of the genus Trollius

Graceful

Grateful

Greenmail

Heroic operatic voice

Wagnerian male voice

Holograph

HOMOLOGIZE To determine the homologies or structural relations of.

English word

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Equus actor (wordplay)

Masochist of a sort

Head of family.

Census taker's target

Resident champion follows the crowd

One who richly decorates manuscripts

Flagg or Rockwell, for example

Norman Rockwell, for example

Provider of 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.""

Implement

""IMPLEMENT That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war. as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war.""

Secret penetrator of an organisation

Bats flit in with friend of Badger or Mole (wordplay)

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

Item that improves turbo engine performance

Interdeal

""Contained between lines; written or inserted between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc.as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc.""

Situated or occurring within the eyeball: intraocular pressure.

""INVALIDATE To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument. as, to invalidate an agreement or argument.""

Proctor at an English school exam

Supervisor of those working on paper

JOURNALIZE To enter or record in a journal or diary.

A chemical substance that causes tears to flow; same as lacrimator.lacrimator.

""A large predatory bird (Gypaetus barbatus) of the vulture family, ranging from the mountainous regions of southern Europe to China and having a wide wingspan and black plumage. Also called bearded vulture , ossifrage .""

""A very large vulture (Gypa\'89tus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.Gypa\'89tus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.""

Guy who worked at dusk in colonial times

He was always illuminating

Spill jam with more flimsy packaging

I can occupy the House for a term!

Person with property rights

One renting a property

""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.""

LEGITIMIZE To legitimate.

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

Sweet gum

Bookish type to esteem high-class among the junk

Writer's rubbish: director has to overlook first of repeated characters

Essayist

Part of hi-fi system

Part of a sound system

Sound projector

""LYOPHILIZE to freeze-dry; -- a technique used to dry serum, tissue, unstable chemicals and other sensitive materials.""

One who manipulates

A blacksmith, for one

Robot (wordplay)

Eg, a blacksmith

Microfilm

""Pl. microvilli (-v l ) Any of the minute hairlike structures projecting from the surface of certain types of epithelial cells, especially those of the small intestine.""

""An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer. mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.""

One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion.

Generous magazine subscriber (wordplay)

One with a special interest (wordplay)

Shylock, for example

Having only one nucleus: a mononuclear cell.

One who monopolizes.

Person with a second job

One with a second job

Worker otherwise employed as doctor on boat

MOURNFUL expressing grief or sorrow

Agent noun (-or)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Agent noun (-or)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

MULTIPLE the product of a quantity by an integer

Multiplex

MULTIPLEX Manifold; multiple.

""One who, or that which, neutralizes; that which destroys, disguises, or renders inert the peculiar properties of a body.""

""One, especially a robber or prostitute, who walks the streets at night.""

One who calls persons or things by their names.

BELIEVER one who {believes=v}

Not made up of or divided into cells. Opposite of cellular.cellular.

CIRCULAR a leaflet

COPLANAR on the same plane

GRANULAR composed of granules

Destitute of vessels; extravascular.

""OBLITERATE To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.""

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ..

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ...

Publicity agent of yore

Peaceful

""(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) money, paid in dollars, earned by a country for the exporting of petroleum""

Womaniser turning her plain red!

Man of affairs (wordplay)

Source of the quote, with "The"

23 with a stone (wordplay)

Eg, Kant or Plato

One as Socrates, Wittgenstein

""PIGEONHOLE A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.""

Symbol for something missing

Bookmark, essentially

Temporary wording in a document awaiting final text

Upright man (wordplay)

Any top-25 NFL career scoring leader

He knows how to score extra points

Prose appropriator

PLASTICIZE

""An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray.""

Polygraph

Containing many nuclei.

One making a subject accessible*

Preschool

Of a Roman official

One who promulgates or publishes.

English word

Charlatan

Lone Ranger's "Giddyap" (wordplay)

Liquid of sorts.

Fast money (wordplay)

Where angry drinkers meet (wordplay)

Where angry drinkers meet?

Basement bar in Bonn

A four-shaped, perhaps

Regal cat run (anagram) - right-angled

Of a certain shape.

All in straight lines

Moving in straight lines

Consisting of straight lines

Redevelop

One who replenishes.

One who republishes.

If I recover, I'll re-enlist at Roscoe's place.

A salimeter.

Paper tool (wordplay)

Surface-cleaning tool

High-pressure abrasive tool

Shmaltzy

An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.

""SECULARIZE To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. as, to secularize a priest or a monk.""

POPULAR something pleasing

It only moves when towed

Vintage Tonka toy

Cab attachment

Eric, give some to us!

One with a stake in a company

Ploughman as investor

""Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.""

Constructor of forty nine down perhaps

""Slaphappier , slaphappiest Slang Dazed, silly, or incoherent from or as if from blows to the head; punch-drunk.""

One who slaughters.

One who holds slaves.

Clint at 300 A.M.?

Clint at 3:00 A.M. (wordplay)

We paler elks (anagram)

Farmer who's short-handed (wordplay)

Minor farmer

Briefcase for an agriculturalist (wordplay)

SNOWMOBILE

Knockout blow: Slang

Knockout blow Slang.

Slang A conclusive blow or remark.

Spacewalk

Like an elaborate display, perhaps

Show clears up act for broadcasting

One kind of TV show

Labor Day orator, perhaps

A dynamic speaker, for example

Big hit on the lecture circuit

Spiteful

More animated.

Southern prude, dictatorial type, demoting one relatively active

Perils at sea crossing starboard make you more nimble

""Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.""

One with an interest in (say) society

One with an interest (in something)

Part-owner, say

Tradesman may be a theatre-goer

Overwhelming power, as used in politics

Political machine of a sort.

Crush opposition, politically speaking.

Man in Bethlehem (wordplay)

Bridge builder

Ranch owner (wordplay)

Reader of "quotations."

Owner of funds in a company

One playing for time

One who is continually evasive to block progress

Defensive batsman, one playing for time with one wicket in hand

Librarian, for one.

Narrator (possibly a liar?)

What is a talesman (wordplay)

Soda jerk's boutonniere (wordplay)

Soda jerk's boutonniere?

Ship that's up a creek (wordplay)

Covering for a river bed

TGV, for instance

CAPSULAR enclosed and compact

CELLULAR pertaining to a cell

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Supersell