2-Letter Words Ending in R

Doughty

Stock market irritant (wordplay)

Drouthy

Dealer in kippered herring, etc. Eng.

Was it his business not to get soaked, but just pickled (wordplay)

""An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like.""

Paper jacket for a book

Removable part of a book

Jacket on a book

My trade: in explosive

Demolition expert

Trade in my model for one of those with an explosive edge

Electrical machine with two armature windings

Earthly

Puffball-like fungus

Two spinning bodies had fungus

Fungus with a spacy name

Whirlybird in the kitchen (wordplay)

Meringue maker's tool

Scrambler's aid

Neoprene, for example

Material obtainable from ores - metal

Always securing final order for material

At last the singer is bewitching

Stock character in some fantasy novels

Magician from Nabokov, then Crane, perhaps with...

An experience of The Clash (wordplay)

Run into middle of opened display case

Regularly seen to oppose meeting

Kitten with a string, for example

ENTRAIN to board a train

Earthquake origination point

Starting point of certain waves

Focal point, as of a quake

Jeffrey Aspern's sort of writer

Church reader always carries a weapon

A man of letters

Rowing machine, for one

Stress test apparatus

Instrument measuring muscle work

Way to the top, a la 12, perhaps

One-way flight (wordplay)

Anti-Stairmaster (wordplay)

One who's not being precise

One judging number, quantity, etc

Who you see about a dent

One who estranges.

Anesthetizer

Professor, at times

Judgmental person

Appraiser

Machine used for quarrying

Powered machine for digging earth

Power shovel

EXCERPT to select a passage from

One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.

EXECRATE to {curse=v}

""One who, or that which, exhausts or draws out.""

One displaying (at show)

I hit boxer (anagram)

One showing items in gallery display

Dispatcher

Facilitator

One facilitating export almost died at sea

One dispatches journalist supporting one-time president

Old loaf cut by shop's end user

One who makes gain at another's expense

Oil - expert refiner can make it profitable

Role of a news commentator.

One shows it in poor sex novel

Explainer of complicated ideas or theories

Dentist fan (wordplay)

A drawer formerly (wordplay)

Fan (as in kitchen)

""An apparatus for carrying out fermentation by a liquid suspension of microorganisms; a fermentation tank; as, an industrial fermenter.fermentation by a liquid suspension of microorganisms; a fermentation tank; as, an industrial fermenter.""

FERMENT to undergo a type of chemical reaction

Strong drink (two elements!)

Imbiber's intake

Order with an intimidating proof

FLATTEN to make {flat=adj}

Recent European in France is a sycophant

Toady uniform for Lawrence about right

One who praises somewhat dishonestly

Flaunty

Flighty

(Physics / General Physics) an instrument that measures the rate of flow of a liquid or gas within a pipe or tube

Word for a butterfly.

One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.

Meet the old man outside wild party being taken short!

In favour of returning label to his companion at rally

Convene

One who forgets; a heedless person.

Approving the subject, one that may organise the filing system

""One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds.""

Dogged duo in the field (wordplay)

Person helped by hounds

"Tallyho!" shouter

Engineers aboard aircraft or ship

About to enter aircraft carrier

Cargo-carrying ship or plane

FRITTER to squander little by little

Rank by comparison of writer's novel

Two friers going wrong, smelling worse

Dealer in apples and pears (wordplay)

One charges for a date

Is this what you call a plum job for one who grows profits on trees (wordplay)

One who smokes out

Promoter to pelt the king and queen

Ron Popeil, for example

One with the latest gizmos

One who loves clever ingenious devices

Variant of ganister .

Some great construction (wordplay)

One that has a view of the Oval!

Fuel storage tank

""Pl. gastrulas or gastrulae (-l ) An embryo at the stage following the blastula, consisting of a hollow, two-layered sac of ectoderm and endoderm surrounding an archenteron that communicates with the exterior through the blastopore.""

One kind of reference book.

Dictionary of geography

Atlas go-with

Machine that produces electricity

Dynamo, in the U.S.

Existing in name only

More courteous

More horrible

More dreadful

Ghostly

Prizefighter of sorts.

Spartacus, for one

Gold tiara (anagram)

A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator.

Mafioso as sponsor (wordplay)

Mafia boss (wordplay)

Religious duty for the Mafia

Character in "Cinderella."

Member of the christening.

She carries a wand in "Cinderella"

A dividing engine.

More difficult to chew, in a way

Growthy

Co-signer, say

One who provides surety

United taken over by horribly arrogant underwriter

Spider that reaps (wordplay)

Gleanings of its use (wordplay)

Gene Stratton Porter's 1911 hero.

Haughty

Source of a river

Source of a stream

Beginning of a river~~Bed part

More wholesome cure by Doctor Reith

More in the pink

In better condition

Heaven, perhaps, with 'the'

In subsequent parts of legal document

From now on.

Lost one (wordplay)

Indecisive one

Measure used in the "Iliad"

Six-footer encountered in verse

Verse line of six metrical feet

He'll store brews for the landlord

Largely low shelter restyled for this person

Ski show-off

Showoff on the slopes

Showoff

ICEBOAT a vehicle that sails on ice

Describing muscular action evoked by an idea

""One who offers in sacrifice; specifically, one of a sect of Russian fanatics who practice selfmutilatio and sacrifice.""

Roman title of honor

Title for Caesar

Monkey transformed to rear commander

IMPLANT to plant firmly

Ink stamp, for one

Stamper.

Breeding place for germs, perhaps

Hot spot for chicks

Artificial hatching apparatus

A searcher; an explorer; an investigator.

Station information board

Economist's figure

Car's flashing light

INFIGHT to contend with others in the same group

One who inflicts.

INFLICT to impose on

An inhabitant.

Asthmatic's device

At home Henry needs a peak gas supplier

Breathing apparatus

Son, for one.

Willing recipient (wordplay)

Beneficiary of a Will

A dampening influence

Medicine that slows a chemical reaction

Substance slowing down a chemical reaction

One starting (a process)

Founder of almost the first hill

Start-up person

Steve Jobs, for example

Popular star to right of pioneer

Inventor of techniques.

One having good looks (wordplay)

Morse perhaps, stern cop I fancy

Yard worker (wordplay)

Application included with Apple software

Cable guy, for example

Fashionable prevaricator gets fitter

Transient arrangement needed right now

Entrant is put to work without delay

Transient, changing immediately

One who instills.

Asbestos, for one

Porcelain, for example

Glass, at times

One who hints

Potential traitor

INUNDATE to fill with overflowing abundance

One bringing water to crops

He works at Flushing Meadows

Garden hose

Stupid marathoner's drink (wordplay)

Remote and insignificant

Remote, as a hamlet

Jittery

German aristo welcoming support of driver, jolly sort (wordplay)

Same as Justiciary. Justiciary.

""One who justifies; one who vindicates, supports, defends, or absolves.""

""KIBBITZ to give unwelcome advice, also KIBITZ""

""Abbr. kl A metric unit of volume equal to 1,000 liters (1,056 liquid quarts).""

About five-eighths of a mile

One of about five in a league

Click, so to speak

Kvetchy

ID maker's machine

One covers nonsense creature's return

Gizmo used in making photo ID's

One jumping on the bandwagon, say

Fashionable sort (wordplay)

Fashionable one (wordplay)

A plant duct containing latex.

Extending further

More protracted

Bolivar, for one

Bolivar, for one

Bolivar's epithet

Summer hair product

Fruit juice? Clear colourless solution

Tartish drink

Tannery solution

Book reviewer

Critic.

Law-practicing reptile (wordplay)

One in legal dispute

One in a court battle.

Relating to power of moving mad vehicle!

Relating to shifts of temperature in unusually cool room

An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil.

MACERATE to soften by soaking

Simple pressure gauge

Fellow rebuilt remote pressure gauge

Pressure gauge

Word after free or black

Dealer in commodities

Sales specialist

T.M. adherent

One who thinks deeply

Reflective person

In the distance, US-style officer with a big drip coming down the mountain

Word from Latin meaning 'from memory' or 'by heart'

MENTION to remark briefly

Bleakest time of year (wordplay)

Very cold time, for many

Coldest time, often

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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

Presiding officer of town meeting.

Panel-show host

One presides over a forum or debate

Radio tube.

Telecommunications device

Wet sponge, for one.

Wetting device for stamps

What a wet sponge may be used as

An ester having only one ester group.

One-foot line of verse

Gives a mortgage.

One still making home payments

Particularly inspiring horse!

Last year's inspiring Derby winner

Truism (Part 3)

MULTIUSE having many uses

Word with prefix multi-

Armed soldier (hist.)

Athos, Porthos or Aramis, say

Aramis, for one

One putting arms, say, beyond use

Vandal turns it to mural

He may wickedly leave you without a leg to stand on

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One that creates myths or mythical situations.

Unit equal to 10 angstroms

Measurement of length at the subatomic level

Be having worse (wordplay)

More badly behaved

Less well behaved

One who gives a rallying call (wordplay)

One directs the course, of a ship say

Seafaring reptile (wordplay)

Careless one.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Lice checker who's fussy (wordplay)

One overly concerned with details

Petty finder of errors

An agent employed in nitrification.

Speaker at a political convention.

One proposing candidate

He proposes someone to monitor an order

AUTHOR to bring into being

DOCTOR to treat medically

FACTOR to express as a product of two or more quantities

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

RIOTER one who {riots=v}

SKATER one who {skates=v}

VECTOR to guide in flight by means of radioed directions

WRITER one who {writes=v}

Some personalized sheets

Spot to jot

Writing material for sheet music

Not anywhither; in no direction; nowhere.

NUCLEATE to form into a nucleus

It is fractionally above the line

Top of fraction

Upper half of fraction

That which closes or stops an opening.

The Raven feature

It has eight feet

Verse containing eight feet.

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

One who should not get lost in Leyton!

Take part in a map-reading sport

Run with aid of map and compass

Fiddle some more to install model pressure gauge

Hats and scarves, for example

Mentionables (wordplay)

Clothing on top of other clothing

Investment specialist (wordplay)

Costumier dated mechanic

Men's clothes shop

Foreigner finding new land-route

'03 Mitsubishi mid-size SUV

Rule provides eponymous alien

Exceed in figures

Be in the majority

To have more than one rum, but get tipsy

Banned oilman's craft (wordplay)

Dark Blues set off in racing boat

South Sea island boat

Employee on strike? No, just not in the office

Away with employee, but this one stays at home

One with a tummy ache, perhaps

Buffet patron, perhaps

One taking extra courses (wordplay)

(Of car) turn more sharply than intended

(Of vehicle) exaggerate turning motion

Go for a spin on the road

""WATER to sprinkle with a transparent, odourless, tasteless liquid""

PALLIATE to cloak or disguise

Factor defining limits

Variable disciple, a beast inside

Figure in a math function

Patient

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Cop on the beat

Guard Irishman's posh car

Mobile guard

Dispenser of wages

Dispenser of soldiers' salaries

Official dealing with wages

Embezzler to clear up mess

Gambler decapitated thief

A thief, especially an embezzler

Tread a measure (wordplay)

Tom peered (anagram)

Gadget for walkers.

Perfect

Outer limits (wordplay)

Prime tree (anagram)

Place for a fence, perhaps

One who permits.

PERSIST to continue resolutely

One who perverts (a person or thing).