2-Letter Words Ending in E

""Pl. rickettsiae (-s - ) Any of various bacteria of the genus Rickettsia, carried as parasites by many ticks, fleas, and lice, that cause diseases such as typhus, scrub typhus, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans.""

Paint a fanciful picture of creationism, possibly

Powdered rock used as an abrasive

Buying guides (wordplay)

They're often in the field

Clerks.

""Pl. salmonellae (-n l ) or salmonellas or salmonella Any of various rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Salmonella, many of which are pathogenic, causing food poisoning, typhoid, and paratyphoid fever in humans and other infectious diseases in domestic animals.""

Like some sunken ships

""A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.""

""SATIRIZE to subject to satire, also SATIRISE""

That may be satisfied.

Boastful and cowardly character

Cowardly buffoon

Coward shows wound, having confronted a second superior rebel

Form a sect

""Any of several chiefly tropical trematode worms of the genus Schistosoma, many of which are parasitic in the blood of humans and other mammals. Also called bilharzia , blood fluke .""

Building for teaching

Place of learning

Building used for teaching

German folk dance (Scotch in German)

Dance similar to the polka

Polka-like, 19th century German dance

Sparkle - elastic lint (anagram)

Emit flashes of light

Show many flashes of light

""A thick, syrupy, colorless alkaloid, C 17 H 21 NO 4 , extracted from plants such as henbane and used primarily as a mydriatic and sedative, and to treat nausea and prevent motion sickness. Also called hyoscine .""

SEGREGATE Separate; select.

""Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it.""

Like some hospital service

Like two-bed hospital rooms

Old age.

Lock up, as a jury

Appropriate search before baddie comes into view

Take possession of (assets) pending settling of debt

Silkworm raising.

Silkworm breeding

In working order

Fit for use

Functional

English word

English word

Kind of diplomacy

Tugged-on thing

An ace may be up it

Give poor value

Cheat by returning insufficient money

Give insufficient recompense

Same as Fibrolite. Fibrolite.

To make singular or single; to distinguish.

SKELETON the supporting bone structure of a body

""To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.""

""A polished, striated rock surface caused by one rock mass sliding over another in a fault plane.""

Zinc ore

Suspect seen burying thief's knife

Large knife

Old knife

""(Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a telescope with crosshairs mounted on a sniper's rifle""

English word

Make solo stage speech

Air bed in square 10 is somehow losing air badly? Have words with oneself

Do a Shakespearean bit

Talk to oneself

Talk to oneself.

Adjective meaning resembling

Concrete, as complaints

Conjecturing - high-risk

Based on conjecture

Disagreement I have about iffy clue involving guesswork

Any ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher. Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher.

""A red to brownish-red mineral of the garnet group, Mn 3 Al 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 .""

A manganesian variety of garnet.

""A basic, long-chain, unsaturated amino alcohol, C 18 H 37 NO 2 , found combined with lipids in the brain and in nerve tissue.""

Adjective meaning resembling

Diminutive form

Having or evidencing a refined mind and wit.

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) any of a group of spirally coiled rodlike bacteria that includes the causative agent of syphilis See treponema [from New Latin spīrochaeta; see spiro- 2 , chaeta ]""

SPORULATE

A small storehouse constructed over a spring and used to keep food cool.

Idea strand? (anagram)

Make uniform and a dress with it, possibly

'Get up, get up!', to welcome duke's regiment

Create norms for

Cause to conform to a norm

Make identical

Limited to or able to live only within a narrow range of saltwater concentrations. Used of aquatic organisms.

Device offering 3-D viewing

It provides outstanding images

Three-D viewer

It can pick the beat up (wordplay)

Medical instrument that scoops teeth out

It will find a broken heart

To manoeuvre (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

Invigorating.

Stretch fabric for making bandages etc

Stretchy fabric

Serious whale ailment (wordplay)

Overeater's woe

Overeater's risk

Constrict blood flow to (a part)

Compress so as to stop circulation

Block the blood flow to (a part of the body)

An artistic representation of a street.

STRETCH to {extend=v}

""A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.:""

Flashing lamp effectively freezing motion

CURATIVE something that cures

IRRIGATE to water by canals or watercourses

Mood of verbs

LANGUAGE to express in a body of words serving as communication

LITERATE one who can read and write

""The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.""

That can be immersed in or can remain under water: a submergible electric frying pan; a submergible research vehicle.

Small underwater craft

""A number or quality which is contained in another an exact number of times, or is an aliquot part of it; thus, 7 is the submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times. submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times.""

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

In a lesser role.

Lower in rank

Of less importance

SENTENCE to declare judicially the punishment

SEQUENCE to arrange in order

Means of supporting life

Kind of farming

Means of survival

(Of rank) permanent

Having a firm basis in reality

Important, meaningful

""Tending, or having power, to subtract.""

""URBANISE to cause to take on urban characteristics, also URBANIZE""

Bishop and pope occupying hotel rooms? One has a trek to town centre

""URBANIZE to cause to take on urban characteristics, also URBANISE""

""VOCALIZE to produce with the voice, also VOCALISE""

Tending or able to choke or stifle.

Woman protesting for the right to vote

Campaigner for voting rights for women

HOWE (wordplay)

Its blue eggs (anagram) - easily influenced

Any of a group of organic sulfur compounds containing the radical SO 2 NH 2 and including the sulfa drugs.

Second place, say

Seasonal vacation place

Garden pavilion for shade or recreation

Fill to excess at a splendid price!

Pep up, as an engine

Use a turbo

English word

Place something over something else

Place one over another

Place over

Introduce in addition

Highest in quality

Of the highest degree or quality

Of the highest degree

Noun (-ure)

English word

""To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter. as, to superscribe a letter.""

Replacement

English word

To subtle.

English word

""Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable.""

News media first raised matter Nutmeg's aiming to cover up

Tending to stop drink with reporters I have cut short

Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration.

That may be surpassed.

Prone (to)

Easily swayed by feelings

Liable to fall victim

It's a bus lane (anagram)

Able to be kept going

Able to be maintained

SWALLOW to take into the stomach through the mouth and gullet

Emulate Errol Flynn

Do some dueling

Make like Errol Flynn

""A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree. Singletree.""

Flick knife (US)

West Side Story prop

West Side Story weapon

To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

A saclike structure formed by nerve endings at a synapse that remains intact after homogenization of nerve tissue.

Cause to happen at the same time

Shy censor in scramble to concur in time

Occur at the same time

Cause to mesh

""SYNCOPATE To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester." as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."""

SYSTEMATISE

""To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.""

TARNISH to dull the lustre of

""An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer. differential thermometer.""

THIOSULFATE

Urban inhabitants

City dwellers

Postpone travelling round with the Parisian urbanites

On far side of a European mountain group.

Ultramontane

""Any of various enzymes that catalyze the transfer of a chemical group, such as a phosphate or amine, from one molecule to another.""

Make (something) more spiritual

Wholly alter

Change into something more beautiful or spiritual

FINITE something that has as end or limit

""Tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense. as, a translative sense.""

LOCATE to find or pinpoint

Crossing the sea

To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through.

Wild partygoers hiding in piece of furniture that can be covered

Notables are becoming disloyal

Disloyal to one's country

Treacherous time all right

TREASURE to value highly

""A word consisting of three syllables only; as, avenger. as, avenger.""

Lowest part of atmosphere

The volume of air closest the earth

Region of earth's atmosphere

Not to be trusted, maybe

To me to be without money is vexatious

Refractory book about currency units

""Any of various parasitic flagellate protozoans of the genus Trypanosoma, transmitted to the vertebrate bloodstream, lymph, and spinal fluid by certain insects and often causing diseases such as sleeping sickness and nagana.""

""Body, Human ()""

As easy as pie

Not positive, but it's acceptable for simple lock to be held back

Inflected form of CROSSABLE Inflected form of CROSSE a lacrosse stick

Inflected form of CRUSHABLE Inflected form of CRUSH to press out of shape

Allow in too little light

Display too little below exhibit

Light insufficiently

Not to be wished for

Not much wanted*

Rubens' ideal strangely not appealing

ESCAPABLE Avoidable.

GRASPABLE Capable of being grasped.

GUESSABLE Capable of being guessed.

Like drivers with records, maybe

Like some big risks

MASCULINE Of the male sex; not female.

Upper-class toff with refined virtues escaping attention (wordplay)

PLAUSIBLE Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.

SELECTIVE Selecting; tending to select.

Impossible to offend

Awful, as unpronounceable (wordplay)

Too awful to express in words

Too bad for words

Like a juggernaut

Upcoming Denzel Washington film

Having irresistible momentum

Not so good for you

Bad for you

Not good for you

English word

Arrangement of blood vessels in the body or in an organ or body part.

VASECTOMIZE

Risky opening could be more use

Intrepid beating Mount Everest endlessly

Prepared to take risks

""A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, and also massive, of a brown to green color, rarely sulphur yellow and blue. It is a silicate of alumina and lime with some iron magnesia, and is common at Vesuvius. Also called idocrase. idocrase.""

Cold onion and potato soup

Leek and potato soup

Thick, chilled French soup

One of the ups and downs of fortune.

Change in fortune

Irregular change.

""An alkaloid, C 46 H 58 N 4 O 9 , obtained from the Madagascar periwinkle and used as an antineoplastic drug.""

""An alkaloid, C 46 H 56 N 4 O 10 , obtained from the Madagascar periwinkle and used as an antineoplastic drug for a variety of neoplasms.""

VULCANISE

Brook, stream, etc

Flower (wordplay)

Stream, a wet sort above right channel

WHISTLE to make a shrill sound

ABSTRACT to draw away

Current inactivity gets the nod

Tacit approval

Consent

Manage - it's marinated (anagram)

Run, as a Washington agency.

Organise (business)

AESTHETIC

A steroid hormone excreted in urine that reinforces masculine characteristics.

""PLEASURE to give enjoyment or satisfaction to, also PLEASE""

Revise trophies behind a point of sale for writer's way of saying he owns it

Shorten a word

Address an imaginary person

Even I, perhaps, could be afraid

Even I, perhaps, could become so fearful

Anxious, perhaps even worried about one

""The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver. as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.""

""A mineral of a tinwhite color and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel. arsenical pyrites and mispickel.""

""A yellow hygroscopic powder, C 12 H 12 As 2 N 2 O 2 2HCl2H 2 O, formerly used to treat syphilis, yaws, and other spirochetal infections.""

Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.

""Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance. as, an assimilative process or substance.""

ATTITUDE a posture or position

A spore borne by a basidium.

Language in a fish market

Foul, vulgar, abusive talk

London fish market

... yaks, yaks, yaks ...

... yaks, yaks, yaks ..

Gossip from British bird about soaps

""A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.""

Way to cross the pool

Adam Peaty's swimming style

Natant style involving heart massage

Instrument used for examining the windpipe

Professional with racket has something to admire

Professional

My preferred transport conveys head, being efficient

""Any of various enzymes, such as amylase, that catalyze the hydrolysis of a carbohydrate.""

See mitochondrion .

""An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.""

Confine within limited range

Restrict; draw round

Draw a line around

Pomp and - (Elgar)

Ceremony; attendant fact

Ceremony; an attendant fact

Capable of being classified.

Model for fashionable wear (inf.)

One with a big closet, perhaps

Spirit animal of a couturier (wordplay)

To bring under collective control; to organize for operation by the principles of collectivism; -- especially of farms and industrial enterprises. Same as collectivize.collectivize.

The same meat runs out during visit

Appropriate (to)

Corresponding in size