2-Letter Words Ending in R

Comparative adjective or agent noun

GILLNET to catch fish in a gillnet

Patrick Roy for one

Patrick Roy for one

Guidance counselor (wordplay)

Bird changing tack? Grouse!

Insect-eating bird such as the whippoorwill

""An instrument for measuring angles, especially the angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes.""

""GRANULATE To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal. as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.""

Measurer of g

He fits out miners

One adept at drawing (wordplay)

Billy the Kid, for one

Top drawer that opens up first (wordplay)

Boat for stylists (wordplay)

Trimmer, perhaps

Barber.

Job for Edith and Kim (wordplay)

Lettuce-picker's other job (wordplay)

Executive searcher (wordplay)

Big fish in a school (wordplay)

Education wallah read them as ordered

Prep-school V.I.P.

Service chief (wordplay)

Restaurant employee, perhaps

He orders those who take orders

It's about 26.4 gallons

Abbr. hm A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters. See Table at measurement .

Cheer pilot going off in this (wordplay)

Igor Ivan Sikorsky's 1939 good idea

Sikorsky's brainchild

An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

""A white or tan powder, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , formerly used as a pesticide, that is highly toxic to humans and is a suspected carcinogen.""

Seven-foot line

7-foot line

A bit lucky, perhaps, for Half a Sixpence

Animal with a winter home

One with a pick-up line (wordplay)

One looking for a free ride (wordplay)

Thumbs up for a seeker of cheap travel

Term of endearment by one consuming bird

Bird with a long, protrusible tongue

Bird of the South Pacific

Health spa putting limit on rule for lab equipment

Radiator-coolant & battery-electrolyte tester

Instrument for measuring humidity

The merry-go-round instrument

Instrument of geometry replaced in short time

A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.

CENTER to place at the middle point

""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.""

A person or thing that establishes the identity of someone or something

Trafficker retains a French solicitor

International dealer retains a French pimp

Licence in publishing

License to publish.

"Let it be printed."

One who inculcates.

Indecent

Innocent

Immunity bestower of sorts

Doctor, at times

One who vaccinates

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 combining things

One used to find value in calculus objective written up in cast iron

Instrument for measuring the area of an irregular plane figure

One who intercedes; an intercessor; a mediator.

Meddler.

""FIBER a threadlike cell or filament, also FIBRE""

LAYER to form a single thickness

One making a coat warmer, say

Nile porter disturbed uninvited guest

Person who meddles in others' affairs

Bury's runner, one entering uninvited

At the dark of the moon.

A time of invisibility from Margaret Atwood

Of the interval when the moon is invisible.

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

Bury disabled archdeacon - he got in the way

Peacemaker, perhaps, put in grave situation, never agitated

""INTERVENE To come between, or to be between, persons or things; followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa. between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.""

He makes acquaintances

Variety show emcee, for example

Operator of a metal plant

Abraham Darby's remains rot, sadly

IRRADIATE To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster.

Bereft of brilliance

Lacking brilliance or vitality

Like a rookie bootblack's efforts (wordplay)

A chemical substance that causes tears to flow; same as lachrymator.lachrymator.

LEAFLET to distribute printed sheets of paper

On trial, so perhaps I will make laws

Gorilla set to become an MP (wordplay)

Senator or representative

Vacuum-cleaner pipe, for example

Biconvex

Printing A machine for casting metal type in lines.

Settler of an estate.

Property settler.

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

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

Plotter in country besieged by dull soldiers

Leader of men taking a country to right is seen as a plotter

""One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.""

One who takes care of things

Criminal testosterone (wordplay)

Fellow-broker may be a gangster

Agent in pursuit of man is a criminal

MALTREAT to treat badly

MANIFEST to show clearly

One with a staggered start, perhaps

He may hit the wall

Olympic entrant in the 26-mile race.

One who masticates.

Test God as Cupid (wordplay)

Dolly Levi, for one

Boxing's Don King (wordplay)

One who meliorates.

""∨ tre The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium.""

""METHYLATE An alcoholate of methyl alcohol in which the hydroxyl hydrogen is replaced by a metal, after the analogy of a hydrate; as, sodium methylate, CH3ONa. as, sodium methylate, CH3ONa.""

""MICROLITE A rare mineral of resinous luster and high specific gravity. It is a tantalate of calcium, and occurs in octahedral crystals usually very minute.""

Tiny distance measure

Precision instrument

Measure of the small-time crime waves engulfing capital

MILLIE (Irish) a young working-class woman

Very small measure of length

Small unit

About .04 inches

""Having many, or several, colors.""

Like onions

The "3" in "6 x 3 = 18"

Young producer, calculating type

Device for intensifying some effect

Like most brain neurons

Agitated till our MP pens article with numerous extreme points

Comparative adjective or agent noun

MYTHICIZE

A mythologist.

One in discussions to reach an agreement

Seeker of compromise

Harriman's job in Iran.

Anchor, for one

Reporter of a special report.

Type of TV personality.

Bit of desktop publishing, maybe

Mail from your congressman, perhaps

Frequent Xmas-card enclosure

Nitpicky

REACTOR one who {reacts=v}

Scratched one (wordplay)

No chance of dessert (wordplay)

N, evidently, for no-hoper (wordplay)

Ball-breaker sounding sweet (wordplay)

Tchaikovsky's cocktail (wordplay)

High flier's suite (wordplay)

OBSTRUCT to get in the way of

Like nerves acting on eye muscles

First former (wordplay)

One who starts by going on air to rig

Member of the avant-garde.

Electrical wave generator

Signal generator

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Strawberry, for one

Cricketer a long way off perhaps

DiMaggio was one

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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

Drug carried by town river with treatment to get through cold period

Insect's egg-laying apparatus

Egg-laying organ in insects and some fishes

An oxidizer.

Conductor on the run (wordplay)

One leading during a race

Horse that shows the way

PALLETIZE

End of the comment

Special piano at a joint

Definite pressure at or near a joint

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

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

Tube to get the pulse going (wordplay)

Prankster's weapon

Boy's weapon

PELLETIZE

Verse line of 20 ac feet

Line of verse with five metrical feet

Typical Shakespearean line

Where one may find grounds for removal

Coffee-making machine

Coffee machine

A fine speaker? One may be boring

Tyrant for example

Tyrant for example

Tyrant developed our respect

One who personates.

Plaintiff makes appeal to HM

One with a suit may give tip to Ernie

One collecting autographs

""An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.""

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Gluttons on watch for boar-hunter

Boar hunter takes the filth to heart

Perhaps Babe's heart goes to hunter of boar

Immature component of wing

Young plume

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Pitiful

""An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.""

Print-shop employee

Pleasant

POLITICK to engage in {politics=n}

Bee, at times

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 prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc.""

""THEATER a building for dramatic presentations, also THEATRE""

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to make pretty, esp in a trivial fashion; embellish prettification   n""

Priestly

Currier or Ives

One producing young

Progenitor

Lawyer (in Scotland)

Agent for clergyman reduced men

Scottish lawyer

Father, for good measure, organised riot

Originator, as of a musical style

One standing in for man or father

One who speaks for another.

Decorous reptile

Breeder supplying mock croc, auditors find? On the contrary!

Diffuser

""An ancient Roman official, appointed to be the chief administrator of a province after serving his term of office as praetor.""

Owner (of a business)

Titleholder is Perot, prior to change

Name on the door, often

Ken Starr, for one

One who conducts case against defendant

One with something to prove

He's disclaimed (wordplay)

One with a miner role (wordplay)

49er, for example

Yes to farm aid!

Like John Deere (wordplay)

Angling gear (wordplay)

""One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a punctator.""

A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.

""Logic An operator that limits the variables of a proposition, as some or all.""

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

Measurer of, eg, X-rays

Electromagnetic energy measurer

It measures intensity of radiant energy.

Account-making official

Recorder to prepare reports about a terror pup

Hostile contest

One who repudiates.

Enter again

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

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

ROTOTILL to till soil with a type of farming implement

Large powerful dog

Powerful German dog

Scoundrel ringing with lie about dog

RUBRICATE Marked with red.

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

SAILBOAT a boat with sails

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.""

Kid who plays neighborhood baseball

Scratchy

Cross-examiner (wordplay)

Someone who checks electoral votes

Current head of English is new examiner

An agent that sensitizes.

A relay apparatus;

Petrel's cousin

Cropper takes Tyler for a seabird

Long-winged bird that skims the ocean

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A man in control of his craft (wordplay)

One i/c vessel - tramp is she, perhaps (wordplay)

Skipper

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""SHMALTZ excessive sentimentality, also SCHMALTZ, SCHMALZ""

Robber holding up store (wordplay)

One needing a fence (wordplay)

Criminal (in a retail context)

SHOTGUN to shoot with a type of gun

Skittery

Snippety

SOFTBALL a type of ball

She's decomposed (wordplay)

Porter, perhaps, bending strong wire

Producer of music/lyrics

One who sees the future

One who warned Caesar

Expert on the future

Risky market trader, ponderous type

Second embezzler is better

Adirondack ski center.

One discovers how much inspiration there has been

Splotchy

One who splutters.

Strip for action!

Tracksuit perhaps fits uphill runner

Exhibits flower with spikes, say

STABILIZE

Plant of primrose family

Bloomer in the primrose family

Less likely to be caught

The realist contrived to be more secretive

→ sidérurgiste m steel mill

STENCIL to produce by means of a perforated sheet of material

Faux pa (wordplay)

Onassis to Caroline Kennedy

Mother's new husband