2-Letter Words Ending in I

""Gradually increasing in volume, force, or intensity.""

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Decemvir

Italian patriot takes the biscuit!

'Squashed fly' biscuit (wordplay)

19th-century hero of Italian unification

Pl. glomeruli (-l ) Anatomy A small cluster or mass of blood vessels or nerve fibers.

Sweat- and saliva-inducing Brazilian drug

Sage: perhaps I'm a harsh one

A great Hindu sage or spiritual leader

Hindu teacher of mysticism

Bones between the wrist and fingers

Before one gets minced meat and fish fingers, depend on them

Is tame rat breaking bones (wordplay)

Came across one eating a sailor's bones

Satisfied a sailor is twisting bones

Teeny-tiny skirt

Barely-there dress

Ultrashort skirt often paired with leggings

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Flash mob (wordplay)

Some shooting stars (wordplay)

Photographers who pursue celebrities

Hard, spicy beef and pork sausage

Spicy sausage: condiment on top of it

Sausage Evita got in burst pipe

Mixed bag - rip up root (anagram)

Dried petals for scent

Tip or pour out a fragrant mixture

Pl. pronuclei (-kl - ) The haploid nucleus of a sperm or egg before fusion of the nuclei in fertilization.

Pl. propositi (-t ) The person immediately concerned about or affected by an action.

""Pl. prothalli (-th l ) or prothallia (-th l - ) A small, flat, delicate structure produced by a germinating spore and bearing sex organs. It is the gametophyte of ferns and some other plants.""

Plants of the buttercup genus

Plants of a genus that includes crowfoot, spearwort and lesser celandine

They have very thick skins

Horned animals, informally

Thick-skinned creatures

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Farewell to sadness from Paul Eluard

Decorative works made by scratching off surface layers

Marvellous little outfit producing car!

Volkswagen Polo, for one

Splendid little car

Group of three officers in Rome

Administrative trio in ancient Rome

Chaps in office win no local runs (among seven)

Unusually portative boats

Venetian canal boats

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The jurisdiction of a zamindar; the land possessed by a zamindar.

An extended cloud formation of bluish or gray sheets or layers.

""Pl. aspergilli (-j l ) Any of various fungi of the genus Aspergillus, which includes many common molds.""

Fish in Scottish island spattered in mud

Edible Australian fish

Australian fish

Borborygmus

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Petition to a higher court

Writ from a higher court

Writ from High Court to call up the records of a lower court

Plural of cysticercus .

""Pl. fortissimos A note, chord, or passage played fortissimo.""

Its blooms are used in leis

Fragrant flower used in leis

Shrub in far gap in ground

Are we wearing gilt attire (wordplay)

Famous, rich and fashionable people

Conspicuous, fashionable celebrities

Short shows between acts

Light entertainments

""A South American wild cat (Felis jaguarondi), having a long, slim body and very short legs. Its color is grayish brown, varied with a blackish hue. It is arboreal in its habits and feeds mostly on birds. Felis jaguarondi), having a long, slim body and very short legs. Its color is grayish brown, varied with a blackish hue. It is arboreal in its habits and feeds mostly on birds.""

Grayish wildcat

""Pl. micrococci (-k k s , -k k ) A spherical, aerobic, gram-positive bacterium of the genus Micrococcus, usually occurring in irregular clusters.""

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""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.""

A.   decorative glassware in which coloured glass rods are fused and cut to create flower patterns: an ancient technique revived in Venice in the sixteenth century and in France and England in the nineteenth century

Titles from Francis

""Pl. portamenti (-t ) or portamentos A smooth uninterrupted glide in passing from one tone to another, especially with the voice or a bowed stringed instrument.""

CALCULI calculus

""Pl. prosciutti (-t ) or prosciuttos An aged, dry-cured, spiced Italian ham that is usually sliced thin and served without cooking.""

Pl. recitativi (-v ) or recitativos (-v z) See recitative 2 .

""Pl -dei [-dɪˌaɪ] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) Anatomy either of two muscles that connect the spinal vertebrae to the scapulae [New Latin, from Late Latin rhomboides : see rhomboid ]""

Pl. ritornelli (-l ) or ritornellos An instrumental interlude recurring after each stanza in a vocal work.

A cargo ship transported old boxes

Stone tombs

Ancient caskets in wreckage of a cargo ship

""Pl. septenarii (- - ) A Latin verse used only in comedy and consisting of seven feet, especially a catalectic iambic or trochaic tetrameter.""

Waxy substance from whales

Oily stuff: it's about to keep hairdo wonderful

Once-valuable substance harvested from certain whales' heads

A poultry dish is named for this singer

Describing an Italian diva's pasta dish

Florentine diva referenced in recipes

Courtroom entree (wordplay)

Food cooked in little cases (yellow)

Bagged Barilla product

""Pl. ventriculi (-l ) A hollow digestive organ, especially the stomach of certain insects or the gizzard of a bird.""

Pasta with pets in it (wordplay)

Literally, "little worms"*

Pasta thinner than spaghetti

Italian paramilitary police

""A high-altitude cloud composed of a series of small, regularly arranged cloudlets in the form of ripples or grains.""

""A high-altitude, thin, hazy cloud, usually covering the sky and often producing a halo effect.""

Pl. condottieri (-tyâr ) A leader of mercenary soldiers between the 14th and 16th centuries.

""Pl. consiglieri (-r ) An adviser or counselor, especially to a capo or leader of an organized crime syndicate.""

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Monkey of the South American genus Aotus

""Pl. enterococci (-k k s , -k k ) A usually nonpathogenic streptococcus that inhabits the intestine.""

""A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria.Plumeria.""

""Pl. macronuclei (-kl - ) The larger of two nuclei present in ciliate protozoans, which controls nonreproductive functions of the cell, such as metabolism.""

""The second of the three excretory organs that develop in a vertebrate embryo, becoming the functioning kidney in fish and amphibians but replaced by the metanephros in higher vertebrates. Also called Wolffian body .""

""The third and final excretory organ that develops in a vertebrate embryo. In birds, reptiles, and mammals it replaces the mesonephros as the functional excretory organ and develops into the adult kidney.""

Pl. micronuclei (-kl - ) or micronucleuses The smaller of two nuclei in ciliate protozoans that contains genetic material and functions in reproduction.

Clouds in Britain most unusual

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Members of a communist bureaucracy

Eastern unfurnished inn

Fitzgerald's battered inn

Eastern inn

Pl. divertimentos or divertimenti (-t ) A chiefly 18th-century form of instrumental chamber music having several short movements. Also called divertissement .

""Pl. electrophori (- -r , - -r ) An apparatus for generating static electricity, consisting of a hard rubber disk that is given a negative charge by friction and a metal plate that is given a net positive charge by induction when in contact with the disk.""

""Pl. gastrocnemii (-m - ) The largest, most prominent muscle of the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot and bends the knee.""

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Pl. stratocumuli (-l ) A low-lying cloud formation occurring in extensive horizontal layers with rounded summits.

Pathogenic bacteria

Bacteria that can cause scarlet fever, pneumonia etc.

Man eaters; cannibals.

Scholarly gatherings for discussion

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Pl. proventriculi (-l ) The division of the stomach in birds that secretes digestive enzymes and passes food from the crop to the gizzard.

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An extinct primate postulated from bones found in Java in 1891 and originally designated Pithecanthropus erectus because it was thought to represent a species evolutionarily between apes and humans. Pithecanthropus is now classified as Homo erectus.

""Pl. streptobacilli (-s l ) Any of various gram-negative, rod-shaped, often pathogenic bacteria of the genus Streptobacillus, occurring in chains, especially S. moniliformis, which causes a type of rat-bite fever.""

""Pl. tarsometatarsi (-s , -s ) A compound bone between the tibia and the toes of a bird's leg, formed by fusion of the tarsal and metatarsal bones.""