2-Letter Words Ending in R

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

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

Hold copper (anagram)

Clumsy person (wearing heavy shoes?)

Ultralight balloon (wordplay)

Cobwebby

Large beetle

Large beetle destructive of vegetation - frock cache (anagram)

A worthless or despicable person; -- intended as disparaging and invariably offensive.

COMPOSER one who writes music

One who helps call the shots

""DISCOVER to find out, also DISCOURE, DISCURE""

A joint executor.

""INVENTOR one who invents, also INVENTER""

INVESTOR one who {invests=v}

Allot micro-switch to subsidiary telescope

Peddler of Bibles, tracts, etc.

Pedlar disconcerted poor cutler

Pedlar of religious works

""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

Black-eyed Susan.

Prairie blossom

One who confounds.

Defiant one.

Did he get the building bug (wordplay)

Party to an agreement

His work is constructive

It's a game changer

One holding the reins

Officer who checks expenditures.

One working with another

Man of the day, a high point for team member (wordplay)

One working together with old film star and another caught out

One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.

PRISONER one that is imprisoned

PRODUCER one that {produces=v}

PROMOTER one who {promotes=v}

Keeps the paper united with impression of custodian

An editor who prepares text for publication.

Producer of text for ad

Public relations position

Author who wrote pricy composition

Catholic sect keeps wagon for shoemaker

Old shoemaker in business with change in drawer

Scented foot-growth (wordplay)

Scented foot-growth?

Hokey Bloomer (wordplay)

""A member of a corporation, esp. one of the original members.""

CORRELATE To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.

TRANSFER to move from one place to another

""Any of an extinct order (Cotylosauria) of massive primitive reptiles of the Carboniferous and Permian periods that included the ancestors of all of the reptiles. Also called root reptile , stem reptile .""

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

Member of a county administration

Adviser; a senior diplomat

Breakdown specialist

Adviser

17th century fighter for the Kirk

One wanting religious liberty? Witches aren't different

The party who makes a covenant.

Ranch hand (wordplay)

Lasso in front of train (wordplay)

Lasso part of train (wordplay)

Ranch worker to show fear taking blow

One who's at home on the range

Vaquero "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" (nonverbal)

""A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow.""

Farmer

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

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

COMPOSER one who writes music

Embezzler.

Embezzler

See Deflourer. Deflourer.

Jungle warfare weapon

HYDRATOR one that {hydrates=v}

""One who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher.""

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

One who defames

Character assassin

It gets the funk out

""That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer. as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer.""

One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.

""Computer Science A word, phrase, or alphanumeric character used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system.""

Profaner

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

He nominates doctor, one Greats don

One who classifies or defines

One allocating tasks, for example

One who lays waste, for example

He lays waste

Destroyer turned back, having sunk vessel

One's out to make reductions

One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.

Talent scout, perhaps

Marie Curie, for radium and polonium

U. S. satellite.

ENDOWER one who {endows=v}

One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity.

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Longshoreman

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

Tabby's friend (wordplay)

Tabby's friend?

Pound worker (wordplay)

Doggoned

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

Susan Butcher, notably

Mush! shouter

"Mush!" shouter

Doleful

DOMINICK an American breed of chickens

DOOMSDAY judgement day

Guard of sorts

Reluctant car dealer (wordplay)

One on duty at building's entrance

DOWNHILL a downward slope

DOWNSTATE

DOWNTOWN the business district of a city

Pigskin specialist of yore

Field goal attempter, once

DROUGHT a dry period

Business machine.

Machine such as a bulldozer

Huge bulldozer

Caterpillar, often

User of outdoor air to reduce energy consumption

A muscle which helps ejaculation.

Heat making airmen toil

Device supplying current to a battery

"Legs" ZZ Top album

One who makes clear

He explains cryptic clue to arid characters

""ELUTRIATE To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing. as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing.""

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

""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.""

""One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer.""

""One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.""

Online counter (wordplay)

One who counts out

Census Bureau employee

One who enunciates or proclaims.

A creator? I'd set out to be different!

Rot and acid are sent back for one to exterminate

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

Device that turns liquid to gas

Air conditioner component

Fridge device

One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.

Count on him to find the dirty bits

One who extenuates.

One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer.

Medicine-cabinet gadget

Liquid dispenser

Pipette kin

Liar

RIGHT HAND (wordplay)

HAND that picks crops

Headgear fashionable to Africans

Knot a scarf into eye-catching headgear

Ladies' headdress

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

FICTION an invented or false story

Sole trader on the 24 (wordplay)

Sole distributor (wordplay)

Sole trader (wordplay)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Corps of Engineers concern

Cause of inundation

Bank threat

One who flourishes.

FLUORESCE

False miterwort

Ramblin' Jack Elliott, for one

Pete Seeger, for example

Peter, Paul or Mary

""Like, pertaining to, or consisting of, a follicles or follicles.""

Back (or forward?)

Otto Graham is one

Soccer player, abroad

G.I.'s small trunk

G.I.'s trunk

Soldier's stowage

Predicter (of, eg, weather)

Rain man (wordplay)

One predicting the future

He came earlier for the fancy feather

One very high up a tree given warning by priest

He's back on the line with new offer (change of heart)

Digit for pointing

Digit next to the thumb

Is on hand to forge finer settlement

Meet old boy being entertained by dad

A female ancestor.

... about going into back of athlete"s Herald

Mention of boundary by horse in field for trailer (wordplay)

Father is more entertaining around two hospital areas

One who predicts.

""FORMALIZE To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.""

""FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

""An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.""

FOURTEEN a number

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Person roaming for plunder

Someone living off plunder

Pirate before, at sea, tore off

Case supporting idle property owner

One enjoying permanent tenure of a property

Someone with permanent and absolute tenure of land

Nonpaying party-goer Slang.

One who mooches

Sponge of a sort

Confusion about right climbing plant for each insect

A great boaster; a blusterer.

Student of Earth's features

Person studying the physical aspects of the earth

GLAMORIZE

English word

Hugo Allen is such a footballer!

Competitor for the Vezina Trophy

Hockey player

Patrick Roy for one

Patrick Roy for one

Guidance counselor (wordplay)

Bird changing tack? Grouse!

Insect-eating bird such as the whippoorwill

""An instrument for measuring angles, especially the angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes.""

""GRANULATE To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal. as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.""

HANDWORK manual labor

Barbershop quartet man

Barbershop-quartet member

It's about 26.4 gallons

Abbr. hm A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters. See Table at measurement .

Cheer pilot going off in this (wordplay)

Igor Ivan Sikorsky's 1939 good idea

Sikorsky's brainchild

An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

""A white or tan powder, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , formerly used as a pesticide, that is highly toxic to humans and is a suspected carcinogen.""

Animal with a winter home

Term of endearment by one consuming bird

Bird with a long, protrusible tongue

Bird of the South Pacific

Con artist

Deceptive one

Equine political demand?

Hack's capacity for work (wordplay)

Engine's stable capacity (wordplay)

Farrier, at times

Person fitting animal to its anagram (wordplay)

Livery blacksmith with recycling (wordplay)

Health spa putting limit on rule for lab equipment

Radiator-coolant & battery-electrolyte tester

Hydroelectric power.

Instrument for measuring humidity

The merry-go-round instrument

Instrument of geometry replaced in short time

CENTER to place at the middle point

""An instrument for measuring heights by observation of barometric pressure; esp., one for determining heights by ascertaining the boiling point of water. It consists of a vessel for water, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition.""

Trafficker retains a French solicitor

International dealer retains a French pimp

One winging it

Demon dog is bound to be one deviating imaginatively (wordplay)

One able to wing it is person getting better all round

""IMPROVISE To compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemporaneously.""

One who inculcates.

Innocent

Immunity bestower of sorts

Doctor, at times

One who vaccinates

Excessively harsh questioner

One in search of heretics

Torquemada was one

His gibes are snide

Artful gossip

""A kind of injector for forcing water by steam. See Injector, n., 2. Injector, n., 2.""

Riot-causing reptile (wordplay)

One who initiates (something)

Starter prepared by roasting it

""One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes.""

Teacher measures hill after short climb

One who makes the grade

He trains this month with old policemen by the hill

One combining things

One used to find value in calculus objective written up in cast iron

Instrument for measuring the area of an irregular plane figure

Nile porter disturbed uninvited guest

Person who meddles in others' affairs

Bury's runner, one entering uninvited

""One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties.""

""INTERVENE To come between, or to be between, persons or things; followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa. between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.""

He makes acquaintances

Variety show emcee, for example

Operator of a metal plant

Abraham Darby's remains rot, sadly

He's nuts!

Seller of metal goods

Dealer in household goods

Laundry maid (wordplay)

Puddler approaching the green

Construction crew member

IRRADIATE To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster.

Essential lodger, type who can type

Data-input pro

""Simultaneously labial and velar, as (kw) in quick.""

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

One who takes the field (wordplay)

Man of property

One with a lot

Plant pest.

On trial, so perhaps I will make laws

Gorilla set to become an MP (wordplay)

Senator or representative

Settler of an estate.

Property settler.

An aircraft crew member in charge of loading and unloading cargo or heavy weapons.

Waterway worker has food in cupboard

Canal worker

Canal employee identified by hair and ring

What to relax in

Oversized sweats, for example

Comfy clothes for around the house

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