2-Letter Words Ending in R

""AMBUSCADE A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.""

Armored beast of old

Previous incumbent

Forerunner.

Forerunner

SMOKER one who {smokes=v}

Expert on moving house (wordplay)

Charter for 11 (wordplay)

House examiner (wordplay)

Moon-starer (anagram)

Hubble, for one

One who knows what's up (wordplay)

BACKLASH to cause a reaction

Recidivist supporter gains second cap

One who reverts

Relapser into sin

Samba trend (anagram)

Sousa or Alexander, for example

Conductor decorated stand with amber

One who uses blandishments.

Rebel MP has reformed, so he swears!

One who reviles

Impious one

Winter Olympian who may go 90 m.p.h

Winter Olympics competitor

Winter Olympian who may go 90 m.p.h.

Wave catcher

Could he make broken nose better (wordplay)

Cured one's inside, though no doctor (wordplay)

Unqualified treater of fractures in times past

Shopkeeper hires Fitzgerald expressly

Vendor of volumes

Borders of old, for example

Jurassic giant

Early vegetarian sausage primarily out - or bran flakes (wordplay)

Obsequious person

Obsequious student

Brother right to cover own nose for obsequious person

One who burlesques.

Pit viper; sham brutes (anagram)

Top horticulturist (wordplay)

Venomous pit viper

Backwoodsman in awful rush in clapped-out car

So two heads of state spoke across the Atlantic? That's criminal!

Former US president meeting forest officer, backwoodsman

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Laborer making watch covers (wordplay)

Investigator of family problems, say

Social agency investigator

Severe critic to have fresh go at racist

One who classifies.

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

COMPOSER one who writes music

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

INVESTOR one who {invests=v}

Mulch over first person or typesetter

Print shop employee

Newspaper employe.

Impeller on a jet engine

Supercharger

Leading Romanian composer's work with a forceful air

PRISONER one that is imprisoned

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 .""

Adviser; a senior diplomat

Breakdown specialist

Adviser

A soldier armed with a cuirass.

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

COMPOSER one who writes music

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

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

One who desecrates; a profaner.

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 who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.""

Denial of responsibility

Medic rails about refusal to take responsibility

Refusal to admit detective worked miracles

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.

Discreet

ENDOWER one who {endows=v}

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

Soapstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Appliance used after dinner

Menial role of aerial nut and bolt ring (wordplay)

One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.

Radio-active employee

Railroad man.

One who blames or dispraises.

Phoney heartless Blair messed about

Nothing like this

Not like Iris, dismal when drunk

Contradictory girl I had rejected - naughty liar!

Wasteful father (wordplay)

Distinct

Same as Distrainor. Distrainor.

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Susan Butcher, notably

Mush! shouter

"Mush!" shouter

DOOMSDAY judgement day

DOWNSTATE

Couturier or seamstress, perhaps

Fabric-cutting job

Jenny Wren was one.

Photographer's agent

I'm sure life in storm is wetter

Report topless camper seen around Bognor (wordplay)

Record.

FANTASIZE

""Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root. as, a fascicular root.""

Headgear fashionable to Africans

Knot a scarf into eye-catching headgear

Ladies' headdress

Source of diamond heat

Pitcher who doesn't rely on off-speed pitches

Block the passage, so to speak

Delaying tactic to obstruct legislation

Intransigent senator's tactic

FILMSET to set by a process of typesetting

Sole trader on the 24 (wordplay)

Sole distributor (wordplay)

Sole trader (wordplay)

One who flourishes.

FLUORESCE

Buzzer beater (wordplay)

Thing causing a buzz kill (wordplay)

Low-tech pest-control device

Ramblin' Jack Elliott, for one

Pete Seeger, for example

Peter, Paul or Mary

Predicter (of, eg, weather)

Rain man (wordplay)

One predicting the future

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

One in a race, paddling steel ferry

Dude, nice triatomic molecule!

Like some fish (2 words)

Could it make ferret wash (wordplay)

US agent involved with nugget bars

Bane of organized criminals

A great boaster; a blusterer.

Bottle creator (2 words)

One whose job blows

It will help smooth things over

One looking to get around a girl parking - a real smoothie!

Bird changing tack? Grouse!

Insect-eating bird such as the whippoorwill

He fits out miners

*Expert at drawing (wordplay)

Armed man turns friendly? Stick around!

Shooting star (wordplay)

Big fish in a school (wordplay)

Education wallah read them as ordered

Prep-school V.I.P.

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)

""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.""

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.""

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

An institutor.

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

Operator of a metal plant

Abraham Darby's remains rot, sadly

Unconsolidated form of diatomite

Royal angler (wordplay)

Alan and Carrie's bird (wordplay)

Bird of Carole and Carrie (wordplay)

Bereft of brilliance

Lacking brilliance or vitality

Like a rookie bootblack's efforts (wordplay)

Moe (wordplay)

Job that involves cutting

He may make the earth move

One who languishes.

On trial, so perhaps I will make laws

Gorilla set to become an MP (wordplay)

Senator or representative

Printing A machine for casting metal type in lines.

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

""A large letter, either capital or uncial, used in writing or printing.""

MANIFEST to show clearly

One who masticates.

One who mesmerizes.

Punishment catcher

""An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil.""

Satellite spiffer-upper (wordplay)

Provider of criminal proof (wordplay)

White lightning maker

Goby sometimes found on the beach

Goby that might be found on the beach

Damaging allegations by captain bringing fish

Coffeehouse employee (wordplay)

One making accusations

Campaigner of a sort

Anchor, for one

Reporter of a special report.

Type of TV personality.

Urban streetcorner fixture

Bit of desktop publishing, maybe

Mail from your congressman, perhaps

Frequent Xmas-card enclosure

Gossip - Mr Owen's gen (anagram)

Gossipy sort

A man airing his intelligence (wordplay)

Snow? Unusually answered with hesitation

TV current affairs presenter

Arena handout, perhaps

Souvenir of New Year's Eve.

Item for a lively party.

SPEAKER one who {speaks=v}

Scratched one (wordplay)

No chance of dessert (wordplay)

N, evidently, for no-hoper (wordplay)

One likely to drown in water

OBSTRUCT to get in the way of

Electrical wave generator

Signal generator

To overpower; to subdue; to vanquish; to govern.

Insect's egg-laying apparatus

Egg-laying organ in insects and some fishes

Conductor on the run (wordplay)

One leading during a race

Horse that shows the way

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who creates or performs pastiches

Tube to get the pulse going (wordplay)

Prankster's weapon

Boy's weapon

A large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America.

Insure plan (anagram)

Writer, inward-looking, from Iberia

Sticking out, in a way

Tyrant for example

Tyrant for example

Tyrant developed our respect

One who personates.

Gluttons on watch for boar-hunter

Boar hunter takes the filth to heart

Perhaps Babe's heart goes to hunter of boar

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Pleasant

Great Mesozoic fossil reptile

One versed in various learning.

Official in charge of sorts (wordplay)

Kind of general (wordplay)

Man of letters (wordplay)

""POSTULATE Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as selfevident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.""

One who prescribes.

Priestly

A prophet.

""One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.""

Ken Starr, for one

One who conducts case against defendant

One with something to prove

""A course of study for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in a college or university, conducted in the manner of a seminar.""

He's disclaimed (wordplay)

One with a miner role (wordplay)

49er, for example

Interrogator or quizmaster

I doubt drunk is not given case of rum

Curious one.

One who has all the answers (wordplay)

One who asks a lot (wordplay)

One asking a lot of questions

Don't do it!

Nice orders ( anag.)

Think it over (wordplay)

Find the ruddy lid again

Learn about in a new way

You'll find the lid's crimson once more

FINISHER n one that finishes

REMINISCE

Enter again

Library frequenter, perhaps

Her career's damaged by investigator

Her career's ruined as analyst

Paint booth breathing apparatus

Clean air contraption

Safety equipment worn in paint booth

RESTFUL {tranquil=adj}

Leash or halter, for example

Rope fiber

Heartless rogue with a riddle he's holding back

SURFACER one that {surfaces=v}

TRANSFER to move from one place to another

Chief whip, say, an expert on telephone

Jeweler's second career (wordplay)

Boxing referee's other job (wordplay)

Epitaph for a bull (wordplay)

Person or event noted for intensity

Wild thing

RUSTICATE To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.

One who sacrifices.

SAILBOAT a boat with sails

SAILPLANE

Tailed amphibian related to the newt

Lizard-like amphibian

Mythical fire lizard

Small table dish

Diner's sprinkler

Part of a table setting

Condiment holder on the table (2 words)

It's turned upside down when used

Half a dinner table duo

""One who sanctifies, or makes holy; specifically, the Holy Spirit.""

One gaining an edge by deceit

Deceitful one

Gangs bred a mongrel as surprise attacker

Kid who plays neighborhood baseball

That which saponifies; any reagent used to cause saponification.

Schmalzy

Scrabbly

Scraggly

Scratchy

Screechy

""SCRIMMAGE Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.""

Scroungy

Cross-examiner (wordplay)

Someone who checks electoral votes

Current head of English is new examiner

Fortune teller's lollipop (wordplay)

Someone looking a fool at the draper's

Cloth that's small for top of beer mug

Note house tremble

Sixteenth note

Musical note

An agent that sensitizes.

He exhorts

A relay apparatus;

Impresser of seamen

Petrel's cousin

Cropper takes Tyler for a seabird

Long-winged bird that skims the ocean

Comparative adjective or agent noun