2-Letter Words Ending in R

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

One who manipulates

""MASTURBATE To achieve sexual gratification by stimulating one's own sexual organs, without the aid of a partner; -- typically to the point of orgasm.""

A blacksmith, for one

Robot (wordplay)

Eg, a blacksmith

Microbrew

Microfilm

""A device for reading materials in microform, such as microfilm and microfiche.""

""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.""

This puzzle's theme

Monkeyshines

Driving at a very high speed, perhaps

Minor crime

Ms. Behavior

MISSIONIZE

Certain skin cream

Skin cream

Generous magazine subscriber (wordplay)

One with a special interest (wordplay)

Shylock, for example

MONOGRAM to mark with one's initials

Having only one nucleus: a mononuclear cell.

One who monopolizes.

""My lord; a title in France of a person of high birth or rank; as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.) as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.)""

Person with a second job

One with a second job

Worker otherwise employed as doctor on boat

Mothproof

Sailing eschewer

Piton user ("Cymbeline")

A negotiator on a grand scale (wordplay)

Sir Edmund P. Hillary, for example

MOURNFUL expressing grief or sorrow

Agent noun (-or)

Agent noun (-or)

MULTIPLEX Manifold; multiple.

Cagliostro, for one.

Ruth, the sorceress (wordplay)

Sauron, with an affair at the heart (wordplay)

One who calls persons or things by their names.

ATTENDER one who is attentive

BELIEVER one who {believes=v}

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

CIRCULAR a leaflet

COMPOSER one who writes music

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

COPLANAR on the same plane

CUSTOMER one who buys something

GRANULAR composed of granules

SECRETOR one that {secretes=v}

Destitute of vessels; extravascular.

Storm from the Atlantic, perhaps

Wind blowing towards the southwest

A storm or gale from the northwest; a strong northwest wind.

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

A machine shaped like an aircraft that is held aloft and propelled by wing movements.

""That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Motel patron, usually

One who overreaches; one who cheats; a cheat.

Overspend

""One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker.""

High military figure (wordplay)

A jumper that rides up!

Jumpy guy (wordplay)

I hire parson (anagram)

Do I hire parson (wordplay)

Do I hire parson?

Partition

Portents are confounded by prayer

Prayer that may give one a lift

Bill carries a bird in a lift

Committer (of a crime)

One committing (a bad deed)

One committing (an offence)

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

One who personifies.

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

One who quibbles over trifles

One who quibbles

Picayune lawyer.

23 with a stone (wordplay)

Eg, Kant or Plato

One as Socrates, Wittgenstein

Today's mimeograph

Piece of office gear

Office machine

PHOTOSET to prepare for printing by photographic means

Person paid per item produced

""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

""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*

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Person in post before the current holder

One there before

Jobholder before the present one

Preschool

Tester of a person's conduct

One on trial in post

Offender on conditional release

Of a Roman official

One who promulgates or publishes.

Bottle examiner (wordplay)

He shouldn't leave any wrong impressions

One looking for trouble, in a way

One who propitiates or appeases.

""One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes.""

""The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is sacrificed, in any cause; applied esp. to Stephen, the first Christian martyr.""

English word

Provision

An agent provocateur.

Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

Cloth used in Holy Communion services

Cloth used in celebrating the Eucharist

Wary one

A radioactive tracer.

Make strategic survey of land

Keep tabs on the enemy

Survey an enemy position

""DECORATOR One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.""

Redevelop

""EMBROIDER To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf. as, to embroider a scarf.""

""ENCOUNTER To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth. as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth.""

Reformer's golden age described by viceroy in North

REJUVENATE To render young again.

One who pays

ORGANIZER One who organizes.

Defaulter's opposite number

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

""One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated.""

Dirt spreader

Gossip

Quidnunc

A salimeter.

An alarming person

One spreading worrying rumours

Spreader of frightening rumours

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

Ball-game official

Summer (wordplay)

Game official

Tonto's equestrian role (wordplay)

Irregular must escort a troop leader

Organiser of a 5 of boys

Device recording our planet's movements

Measurer of earthquakes

Earthquake detector

POPULAR something pleasing

Eric, give some to us!

One with a stake in a company

Ploughman as investor

Almost any Merman number.

Big Broadway number

Kind of act or song.

One who holds slaves.

Farmer who's short-handed (wordplay)

Minor farmer

Briefcase for an agriculturalist (wordplay)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One using only a half pipe (wordplay)

One flipping out on slopes (wordplay)

Half-pipe performer

SNOWMOBILE

Knockout blow: Slang

Knockout blow Slang.

Slang A conclusive blow or remark.

To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.

""A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.""

Blow one's top in it (wordplay)

Travelling clock (wordplay)

Sonata instrument (wordplay)

It displays the going rate

""An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc.""

""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

Relative by marriage

Relative to walk with hassle round river

Upset Herbert's top relative

""One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.""

""A substance that irritates the nasal and respiratory passages and causes coughing, sneezing, lacrimation, and sometimes vomiting.""

Wholesale plant grower or cattleman?

Dealer with bulls and bears.

Cher (wordplay)

Ranch owner (wordplay)

Reader of "quotations."

Owner of funds in a company

Former finance worker

Warehouse worker

Secret society member in an episode of "The Simpsons"

Secret society member in an episode of 'The Simpsons'

One playing for time

One who is continually evasive to block progress

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

Local retailer, maybe

* Mom or Pop, maybe

Stockholder (wordplay)

Librarian, for one.

Narrator (possibly a liar?)

What is a talesman (wordplay)

Soda jerk's boutonniere (wordplay)

Soda jerk's boutonniere?

DIRECTOR one that {directs=v}

Superbomb

Waves rider

Wave rider

A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

Idol worshiper (wordplay)

Bubblegum fan (wordplay)

Idol worshipper (wordplay)

Counter of golf supporters (wordplay)

One abstaining from alcohol

Abstainer from drink

An instrument for measuring tensile strength.

He's seen at first nights.

Devotee of drama.

FIRST-nighter, for example

One who theologizes; a theologian.

Temp worker? (CBS, 2013-present)

Place for graduation (wordplay)

Weatherman's tool

Noble champion (wordplay)

Champion of the aristocracy

Man of property

Best man at a wedding reception, say

Expert breakfast cook (wordplay)

Well-bread fellow (wordplay)

One studying the features of an area

Columbia picture (wordplay)

Outstanding acolyte in love (wordplay)

Champion who opens Olympics (wordplay)

Betting machine

Pari-mutuel machine.

Tumbler, at times

Variety show staple

Bouncy performer coach includes mainly plays on left, initially

Device for changing voltage

Voltage-changing device

Electrical device used to change voltage

Device carried by aircraft

Electronic toll device

Aircraft's tracking device

Conveyance device from "Star Trek"

It shifts cargo from errant ports at sea

Haulier and partner sort bananas

Annie Oakley was a noted one.

One aiming at clay pigeons

One aiming at skeet

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One setting up print

King of the dinosaurs

Large extinct reptile

Bipedal carnivorous dinosaur

One who covers furniture

He pads parlor pieces

Maker and mender of sofas etc

""Causing dilation or relaxation of the blood vessels; as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasoinhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest. as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasoinhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest.""

""Of, relating to, or causing constriction of blood vessels.""

One who vaticinates; a prophet.

""An apparatus for measuring speed, as of machinery or vessels, but especially of projectiles.""

""One who vituperates, or censures abusively.""

""One who vociferates, or is clamorous.""

Volkslied

Dispenser of gossip (wordplay)

Prison gossip center (wordplay)

Business meeting locale (wordplay)

Waterfowl

In any place

Any one

A man who practices lewdness; a lecher; a whoremonger.

A whoremaster; a lecher; a man who frequents the society of whores.

The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever. whosoever. See Whosoever.

Helicopter made of hickory (wordplay)

Feller in the forest

One making engravings on wood

One of the animal organisms constituting zooplankton.

""He who, or that which, accommodates.""

One who accomplishes.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

ANTHOLOGIZE compile an anthology.

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

PREDATOR one that {plunders=v}

TAKEOVER the act of assuming control

One liberates all but last of fit soldiers

An assassin.

Background

""A sensory nerve ending that is stimulated by changes in pressure, especially one in the walls of blood vessels such as the carotid sinus.""

English word

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; sometimes called simply clabber. clabber.

Member of the smart set.

Man-about-town in Paris

Brainstorm

A firearm which receives its load at the breech.

Type of ranch hand

Tamer of wild horses

Cowboy, at times

Support for burning light

MENORAH

'Ringer' vehicle ailing on climbing trip round head of Eskdale

One making maps

Occupation that the bad chef might be better at (wordplay)

Map-maker

One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.