2-Letter Words Ending in R

Word after free or black

Dealer in commodities

Sales specialist

One who massacres.

One who maunders.

""MAXIMIZE to make as great as possible, also MAXIMISE""

Perhaps blooming well started States

How Pilgrims progressed (wordplay)

Ship that might bear fruit (wordplay)

T.M. adherent

One who thinks deeply

Reflective person

""MELODIZE to compose a melody, also MELODISE""

In the distance, US-style officer with a big drip coming down the mountain

Word from Latin meaning 'from memory' or 'by heart'

A person who learns by rote.

MENTION to remark briefly

Bird swimming near germs

Germans cooked the Queen's goose

Duck near germs spreading

Agent for runner (wordplay)

Herald compiler on ship turning green!

Bird calling (wordplay)

The - Marriage (Tippett)

Time of madness (wordplay)

Perhaps 24/06/2000 is seen here (wordplay)

Bleakest time of year (wordplay)

Very cold time, for many

Coldest time, often

Ship that's dangerous to follow

Warship that places explosive charges

Warship putting down explosives

MINIBIKE a small motorcycle

One saying "It's really no big deal," maybe

Belittler

In law one who does an unlawful act

GUIDER one that {guides=v}

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Intentional deceiver

One wrongly advising niggard to hoard metal

Fooler.

To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly.

MISSILE an object or weapon that is thrown or projected

He has creed, will travel

If you need a conversion, he's your man

Evangelist who spends little touring holy city

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

Presiding officer of town meeting.

Panel-show host

One presides over a forum or debate

Radio tube.

Telecommunications device

Wet sponge, for one.

Wetting device for stamps

What a wet sponge may be used as

Of atomic structure.

Kind of weight or formula

Kind of biology

Like a birder's field glass

Like many microscopes

New moon? On reflection, you see Altair regularly with one eye

An ester having only one ester group.

A film or layer of a compound one molecule thick.

One-foot line of verse

""Derived from a single egg or ovum; -- of twins; as, identical twins are monovular. Contrasted with fraternal.as, identical twins are monovular. Contrasted with fraternal.""

Priest, and character in 23

Prelate finds new character in Othello

Prelate's title

One giving sermons

Gives a mortgage.

One still making home payments

Particularly inspiring horse!

Last year's inspiring Derby winner

Truism (Part 3)

Someone who might see action (wordplay)

One attending films ( US )

One who attends the cinema

Scandal sheet employee

Tarbell, for example

Writer of exposes

MULTIUSE having many uses

Word with prefix multi-

Armed soldier (hist.)

Athos, Porthos or Aramis, say

Aramis, for one

One putting arms, say, beyond use

Vandal turns it to mural

He may wickedly leave you without a leg to stand on

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One that creates myths or mythical situations.

Unit equal to 10 angstroms

Measurement of length at the subatomic level

Comparative adjective or agent noun

NICKNAME to give a pet name to

Speaker at a political convention.

One proposing candidate

He proposes someone to monitor an order

FARMER one that {farms=v}

One not in organisation

Guest at the club

Club outsider

Party that won't drag (wordplay)

Person without a light (wordplay)

One who doesn't light up

It is fractionally above the line

Top of fraction

Upper half of fraction

The Raven feature

It has eight feet

Verse containing eight feet.

Person with a line (wordplay)

One working on lines

One might create a spread

""OPTIMIZE to make as effective as possible, also OPTIMISE""

Fiddle some more to install model pressure gauge

Exceed in figures

Be in the majority

To have more than one rum, but get tipsy

Conqueror

Conqueror

One in the lead.

Are pack, perhaps, keeping me back? Certainly not!

Producer of artificial rhythms

Factor defining limits

Variable disciple, a beast inside

Figure in a math function

Dispenser of wages

Dispenser of soldiers' salaries

Official dealing with wages

Tread a measure (wordplay)

Tom peered (anagram)

Gadget for walkers.

A retired actor (wordplay)

Salesman turns up with past actor

One putting on an act

Outer limits (wordplay)

Prime tree (anagram)

Place for a fence, perhaps

One who permits.

Phlegmy

Strategic team athlete

Point guard, for example

Point guard, e.g

Not for the catwalk, our hairstyle

18th century women's hairstyle

Display a grim hairstyle? Hardly

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) an apparatus that measures the rate of water uptake by a plant or plant part [from Latin pōtāre to drink + -meter ]

PREEMPT to acquire by prior right

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

NUMBER to {count=v}

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.

Medicine man, perhaps

Weatherman of a sort.

*One seeding clouds

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Rest of book left behind (wordplay)

Book rest (wordplay)

It's left? Right!

Device for indicating speed of blood circulation

Instrument for measuring velocity of flow.

Instrument for measuring a current of fluid

Merry's the work of McGonagall, say

Writer of short poems

Writer of inferior verse

""(Physics / General Physics)™ a device used for measuring the flow of a fluid. It consists of a small float supported in a tapering glass by the flow of the fluid, the height of the float indicating the rate of flow""

Cud chewer

What's odd in a politician, almost the thinker (wordplay)

Smuggler from isle (Lewis, say)

Fast driver carrying illegal booze (3,6)

Revenuer's target

See Salimeter. Salimeter.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Motor cyclist egged on (wordplay)

Phone tap foiler

Phone security device

Scrimpy

Shaped like a half-moon

Crescent-shaped

Hairdresser finds spectacles in small basket

One working at court (wordplay)

Oxford man (wordplay)

Oxford's last worker (wordplay)

Shrimpy

Machine for training, eg, pilots

Device replicating external conditions

Flight training equipment

Slimpsy

One who slumbers; a sleeper.

One with superficial knowledge

Smutchy

Machine on the slopes

Wine steward in restaurant or hotel

Smile more fake, as wine waiter

The wine expert-server in a hotel

Messy part (anagram) - M (wordplay)

Bond's M, perhaps

George Smiley, for one

Squirmy

Person with a speech problem

Speaker with a stutter

He hems and haws

Calgary rodeo rider, perhaps

Panicker of steers.

When Peter's mad he panics

Former article of dress

Decoration worn to marches

Decorative panel on front of gown or bodice

Streamy

Summery

SUMMIT to take part in a summit conference

TAMBOUR to embroider on a round wooden frame

What clocks the fare in a cab

Cab-fare calculator

It runs while you ride

Spacecraft transmitting device.

Surveyor's tool

Transmit, as to a satellite

Thrummy

Volcanologist's instrument

Instrument for measuring pitch; not remote (anagram)

Motor leak (anagram)

Black & Decker is one

Certain machinist

""One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor.""

Troll chaps found in Twin Peaks

Bully backing rubbish teacher

People in Twin Peaks a cause of pain

Trembly

Quarter of twelve (wordplay)

Term for a model poet

Cut down damaged trees in quarter

Gabriel, for one

One of a band of elephants (wordplay)

Instrumentalist - type of swan

Uniform

Regulating the diameter of blood vessels

Electrical engineer's tool

Will give one current measure

Elector arrests lieutenant, this person showing measure of force

An instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity.

Scrap-merchant (wordplay)

Scrap merchant (wordplay)

21 person, not far off, possibly a goner

It shows you the power

Electrical room device

Electric gauge

Don Juan

Womanly

One hates to see Robin with wingless Batman, struggling to apprehend ring

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

Manage publicity for one in church

Run as 'today's politician' (wordplay)

Pastor who pitches (wordplay)

One who admonishes.

David K. E. Bruce, for one

Bunker, for one.

One who's goodwill hunting (wordplay)

""AMBUSCADE A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.""

""A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in c\'best. c\'best.""

One receiving measured blows (wordplay)

Meaner to me (anagram)

Kid's science project, maybe

Something from nothing (wordplay)

Family subject (wordplay)

Family subject?

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

SMOKER one who {smokes=v}

Moon-starer (anagram)

Hubble, for one

One who knows what's up (wordplay)

Alexander Graham Bell invention

Otologist's instrument

Otology instrument

Samba trend (anagram)

Sousa or Alexander, for example

Conductor decorated stand with amber

Where there may be a four-poster

Room for sleeping

Sleeping quarters

""A macromolecule in a living organism that is formed by linking together several smaller molecules, as a protein from amino acids or DNA from nucleotides.""

Othello

Rebel MP has reformed, so he swears!

One who reviles

Impious one

NCO arranged raid in Lancaster, maybe

Canadian snowmobile inventor

Crowd round pub ride off with soldier

It shows what stage you've got to in your romance

Around end of October person at races may be one beset by leaves

Pit viper; sham brutes (anagram)

Top horticulturist (wordplay)

Venomous pit viper

""Wood A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazelbrown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood. Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.""

Person on a trail

Man running for office.

Party man in action.

A photoelectric instrument for ascertaining cloud heights.

Almost two-fifths of an inch

*Approximate width of a pencil

Unit, as a Salk vaccine.

CHARMING charm

Film buff, say, could make one grimace

I see picture blur once image runs

One sees pictures to make one grimace

Full-dress coat, colloquially

Basic part of a tool kit

Puller or pounder

Tool in forestry to measure slope, vertical angles and tree heights

Convert mile - not v. tricky if you have surveyor's instrument

COMPOSER one who writes music

Allot micro-switch to subsidiary telescope

""Pl. columellae (-m l ) Any small columnlike structure in various plants and animals, often forming the central axis of development for the organism or an anatomical structure.""

Take by force

Take by force.

Forcibly take mad McEnroe away

Makes changes to AC/DC perhaps for bad actor entertaining old Mike with dog

Device for reversing current short journey on a rocky height

An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.

Rival clubs promote changes covering it

Sporting contest entrant

Entrant in race scheming to crop time

Member of the "cavil-ry"?

Member of the "cavil-ry" (wordplay)

Faultfinding type

Mulch over first person or typesetter

Print shop employee

Newspaper employe.

""One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines. as, a compounder of medicines.""

Impeller on a jet engine

Supercharger

Leading Romanian composer's work with a forceful air

PROMOTER one who {promotes=v}

A device for determining the amount of a substance released during electrolysis by measuring the electrical charge.

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

""A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.""

One wandering through school (wordplay)

Visionary, but not at night (wordplay)

Fantasizer, when the sun's up (wordplay)

COMPOSER one who writes music

""One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns. as, a demolisher of towns.""

Something decisive to put off man in pit

Decision maker

One concluding check on underground worker

Denial of responsibility

Medic rails about refusal to take responsibility

Refusal to admit detective worked miracles

Phoney heartless Blair messed about

Nothing like this

Not like Iris, dismal when drunk

Contradictory girl I had rejected - naughty liar!

Comparative adjective or agent noun

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.

DOMINICK an American breed of chickens

DOOMSDAY judgement day

Couturier or seamstress, perhaps

Fabric-cutting job

Jenny Wren was one.

Figuratively, a publicity man.

A little lift for Manuel, maybe

High-rise convenience, perhaps

Inept eatery server (wordplay)

Machine such as a bulldozer

Huge bulldozer

Caterpillar, often

User of outdoor air to reduce energy consumption

Heat making airmen toil

Device supplying current to a battery

"Legs" ZZ Top album

""One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.""

Photographer's agent

I'm sure life in storm is wetter

""Either of a pair of optical isomers of a chemical substance whose molecules are mirror images of each other, i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.""

Online counter (wordplay)

One who counts out

Census Bureau employee

An instrument for the volumetric measurement of gases; so named because frequently used to determine the purity of the air.

""EUPHEMIZE To express by a euphemism, or in delicate language; to make use of euphemistic expressions.""

RIGHT HAND (wordplay)

HAND that picks crops

""A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts.""

FILMSET to set by a process of typesetting