2-Letter Words Ending in Y

Lack of required skills

Lack of efficacy

Lack of power or ability

In icy cavern Eddie explodes bomb

Likely to stir up trouble

Danny fiddled with one rice bomb

The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness.

INCHOATE to {begin=v}

Beginning; commencement; incipient state.

INCISIVE penetrating

The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness.

Men cycle in terribly harsh weather

In an incredible manner.

Serving for incubation.

Awful cynic admits expressing hesitation to Benedict Little from ministry

'Nice bum, Nancy' inappropriate with one leaving ministry

In an improper manner

Risque display

Tastelessness of cod Iceland found in Arctic

New dictionary is sort of revealing

In a roundabout manner.

In a roundabout way

Round about

The quality or state of being indocile; dullness of intellect; unteachableness; intractableness.

In an indolent manner.

Caffeine reduced in treatment during cold - lack of capacity to work

Futility

Civil rights problem.

Popular attribute covers key difference

Sociologist's concern

INERTIAL pertaining to {inertia=n}

Vanity and bile will spread round of necessity

With single-minded determination

Hardly in a skillful way

In an inexpiable manner of degree; to a degree that admits of no atonement.

In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly.

Notoriously

Unhappiness in City life to be turned around

""In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.""

Signify Miss Duffy's time

Cheating on a spouse

Betrayal of faith

Violation of trust

""Without bounds or limits; beyond or below assignable limits; as, an infinitely large or infinitely small quantity. as, an infinitely large or infinitely small quantity.""

In an inflexible manner.

Advise colleague in casual fashion

Advise partner in a friendly way

Oh, this tuxedo? I just threw it on, Tom said...

INFORMED inform

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

In an inimical manner.

""INIMITABLE Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence. as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence.""

""Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step. as, an initiatory step.""

In a dewy-eyed way

Not knowing any better

How an embarrassing question may be asked

Novel concerned with river turning blue

Unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods.

A rector in delirium is unhealthy

Unhealthful

Madness consumes a king - that's not conducive to health

Banality is swirling with voracious issues

Greedily.

In a self-conscious manner

With doubt

Lack of confidence; anxiety

Lack of confidence

Waspish, it might be, about Geller's unease (wordplay)

In a manner not to be felt or perceived; imperceptibly; gradually.

INSIPID dull and uninteresting

The state of urgently demanding notice or attention; insistence.

So cheese is in tiny wrapping, Highness

Tinier boys disorderly, being drunk

Drunkenness

Unsociably.

With real rudeness

INSOLE the inner sole of a shoe or boot

Lack of funds

It's a sorry state of affairs

Feared red state

Sometime ailment of New Yorkers.

Narrow-mindedness.

At home son meets pressure, causing rebellion

Rebellion in South leads to need for speedy action

Revolt

INTANGIBLE Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible.

Sheep coming together by home as a complete unit (wordplay)

Intentionally.

Internally; inwardly.

Bring two families together, perhaps

Wed within family group

Do what Abie's Irish Rose did

Associate at a summer job (wordplay)

Shut your friend up for the duration inside

PARTY to attend a social gathering

How you might be acquainted with a lover

Novel ain't timely, as secretly it's not for publication perhaps

Privately

How heroes act

With derring-do

However bravely, may 'e print this without a lot of work (wordplay)

INUNDATOR

""Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will. as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will.""

Inestimably.

Always; in every case.

""Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deeprooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error. as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error.""

""INVINCIBLE Incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable; insuperable; as, an invincible army, or obstacle. as, an invincible army, or obstacle.""

Without violation.

Using or containing invitations.

INVITING an invitation

Making or containing invocation; invoking.

INVOLVED involve

""IRENICAL peaceful in purpose, also IRENIC, EIRENIC, EIRENICAL""

How many O. Henry stories end

In a strange twist

How hipsters like some things

Sticker went quickly into cold travel

In a joyous manner

Youthfulness; adolescence.

KINDLESS without kindness

LAMENT to cry out in grief

LAMENTED lament

Satirical writing ridiculing someone

Ridiculing bad Monroe play

Oral eponym, perhaps, suggesting personal satire

With laughter or merriment.

""A book, or a list, of lections, for reading in divine service.""

LENITIVE a soothing medicine

LIMITING the act of limiting

Began to wriggle around in truck

Hybrid fruit plant

Lorry began transporting fruit

With a feeling of isolation

How some exiles live

LONGSOME tediously long

In a luculent manner; clearly.

Strength of light

LUMINOUS giving off light

""The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; disposition toward evil; intense ill will; as, malignancy of heart.as, malignancy of heart.""

MANAGE to control or direct

Master murderer back with friend in a mad way

3's '6' sent out, obviously

Clearly, obviously

In a manifold manner.

Not by much

Alarmingly frayed at the edges

Barely one month before drink with friend

In a motherly way

With solicitude.

Typical of mother and wife to mobilise over last altercation

What is 6? 2 says 'fruit and veg'

Blue state (wordplay)

Dog that eats honeydew?

In threatening manner

Glance in my direction in intimidatory manner

Begging to repair vessel in the cold

MIDDLING a cut of pork

MIDNIGHT the middle of the night

In a rebellious way

One induced a little man to wear hats out east

How zombies act

Without intellectual involvement

Rock expert's field

It involves the study of cleavage

Study of valuable rocks

The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.

PATchwork of stuff

Anthology: I flog about 100 in a lot

Varied collection

Related to proselytising

Religious worker.

Evangelistic young woman one meets on a railway

Wrongly vague about broken ankle

By accident

MONAURAL having or using only one ear

One is in fiscally

MOURNFUL expressing grief or sorrow

In a mourning manner.

MUSICIAN one who performs or composes music

MUTINOUS disposed to mutiny

In a nameless manner.

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

Reason for going out a lot (wordplay)

Tendency to deep sleep

Hypersomnia, a sleep disorder

Across the country

Throughout the country.

From coast to coast

NAUSEOUS affected with nausea

In a nautical manner; with reference to nautical affais.

The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; hazeness; mistiness; nebulousness.

NEBULOUS {unclear=adj}

Black magic may concern criminal

Magic may concern transformations

Occult art

Pointers tricky without point

Annoys son unloading lorry for no reason

Nags drunken tinker for no good reason

Reviewed in a bad way

With pessimism.

Lack of interest, say, in first Christmas

""NEGLIGE a woman's dressing gown, also NEGLIGEE""

Like the people next door (wordplay)

Helpful to those living close by

The branch of zoology that deals with nematodes.

NEONATAL pertaining to {neon=n}

""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.

Country's position that's not in dispute

Non-aligned state

Fence-sitting

Current events magazine

Able to lead (wordplay)

Likely to get media attention

Of interest to the media

NIGGLING meticulous work

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

COUNTRY the territory of a nation

FACULTY an inherent power or ability

""FLUENCY the quality of being fluent, also FLUENCE""

LIBRARY a room containing books for reading or reference

UTILITY the quality of being useful

Fame from something other than talent

It's not what you know it's if you're well-known

Fame

In a notarial manner.

Out of the ordinary, perhaps

Important memo to an upright chap

Remarkable theory won't, when revised

In a noticeable manner.

Desire to join forces, in theory

In a speculative manner

Quantitative "science" (wordplay)

Occult interpretation of numbers

NUMEROUS {many=adj}

NUPTIAL a {wedding=n}

Toed line by yielding thus (wordplay)

Without insubordination, say

How a well-trained pet behaves

OBEISANT showing respect

Without protest

Scientific study of the sea

Marine science

Sea science

Market with few buyers

1 in 100 associate after work by choice

In the usual run of things

As a rule

Exotic lady in Rio captivating king, by and large

ORGANIC a substance of animal or vegetable origin

The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure.

A la chinoise

Was Darwin's theory ridiculed (wordplay)

Old tackle popular with partner at first

First one drink's taken in by mouth

Love plumpness? It's a puffed-up quality

Pompous style of speaking.

The quality of resonant speech

To all appearances.

How Spain turns into Sweden briefly without any trouble

Biology ()

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.

In a parental manner.

""PARTISAN an adherent of a person, party or cause, also PARTIZAN""

In a solicitous way

In father-like manner

In a fatherly way

With remorse.

""Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies. as, pensionary spies.""

""The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.""

Over-particular

Fussily pedantic

Finical

Speaking for oneself

For one's own part

Being a friend, in a very private way

The state of being a person; personality.

Relevance

Querulously

Utilize yon phallic characters in a sound way

Study of skull bumps.

Skull-centered pseudoscience

Would-be science of mental faculties

""A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant.""

Unpleasant clyping about that is reported at first as like a knife going in

Having color

Silas Marner, say

Miserly one, or reversed, what he does

A miserly person, or when reversed, what he does

PLANGENT resounding loudly

PLANLESS without a plan

Work steadily, with inner guidance, making earnest entreaty

Appeal to holy one missing nicely

In a warm, friendly manner

In an enjoyable manner

Comment on a nice case of rivalry

Nearly past appalling joke

That dress suits you, for example

Agreeably making a request one at a time

""PLEBEIAN a commoner, also PLEB""

PLODDING the act of plodding