2-Letter Words Ending in R

(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) the Classical myth Poseidon (or Neptune) in his capacity as the bringer of earthquakes

... converge - it somehow follows Euclid's first mathematical concept

Direction-finding line that is over Covent Garden and missing Barking

Campaign for votes

To campaign to be elected

Campaign for winning poll

One who sets free from slavery

Epithet applied to Lincoln.

Lincoln, on January 1, 1863

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

One who undertakes enterprises.

Streisand, for one.

Shore, for example

Record and somehow retain performer

One who equivocates.

One who establishes.

One who often works with big numbers

Ko-Ko was high as this lord!

One carrying out death sentence

Hangman, for example

"", One who practices extortion.""

A smoother of the way

Petty nagger

Nitpicker

FELICITATE Made very happy.

Hook and ladder rider

Hoser (wordplay)

Ladder company member

FLOCCULATE To aggregate into small lumps.

""Instruments an instrument for measuring the emission of radiation in the form of visible light and identifying the substance that is its source. ; fluorometric,""

""Instruments an instrument for measuring the emission of radiation in the form of visible light and identifying the substance that is its source. ; fluorometric,""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Infantry soldier (on the march?)

Infantryman pays lumberjack

Infantry soldier

Front half of a side of meat

""One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market.""

Sinatra's wiener (wordplay)

Type of sausage

Former Supreme Court member.

One who fraternizes.

One having priceless ideas!

One who doesn't follow the crowd

He gets priceless ideas

Fruitful

Spirited author (wordplay)

Author of scary stories (wordplay)

Halloween correspondent (wordplay)

Man at home in D.C. (wordplay)

Tiny insect-eating bird

Insect-eating bird

She may have a "relative" with a wand

Drew Barrymore to Steven Spielberg

Sponsored one, often

Napoleonic family name

An old-timer (wordplay)

Relative U clock

Clock or clause

Rose Kennedy to John Jr.

Rose Kennedy to John Jr.

Proverbially competent egg sucker

Grateful

Moisture found in rocks or soil

Spring source

Aquifer contents

Informal chiefly US to place in or establish as headquarters

Heroic operatic voice

Wagnerian male voice

Hemstitch

Subsequent part of this document

Home-life to be outside from now on

Later on in this document

Sirloin's section

Butcher's order, sometimes

Butcher's order

Back-to-the-land practitioner

Back-to-the-land movement practitioner

Settler type

Houseboat

A man in charge of children in an institution.

Boys' school VIP

One responsible for boarders arouses them for assembly

Man accommodating some children in repurposed USA rest home

Swarthmore chaperon

Katt/Brooks films about a chaperon (wordplay)

Sorority chaperon

""A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; in the pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, etc. pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, etc.""

One of the Ichthyosaura.

One who richly decorates manuscripts

Flagg or Rockwell, for example

Norman Rockwell, for example

Provider of pictures

Implement

""IMPLEMENT That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war. as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war.""

IMPREGNATE To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

Swearing-in figure

Metaphorical father*

Dumpster fire of a sort

Waste burner

Trash terminus

Secret penetrator of an organisation

Bats flit in with friend of Badger or Mole (wordplay)

INSEMINATE To sow; to impregnate.

""INSPISSATE To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation.""

INSUFFLATE To blow upon; to breath upon or into; to use insufflation upon.

Small map inside another

Adverb giving force or emphasis

Pub, say, with XXXX? If that is right, it could be jolly

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

Plane or missile perhaps

Defensive back, at times

Type of plane.

Negotiator: I translate secrets into Norwegian

Item that improves turbo engine performance

CRATER to form cavities in a surface

Interdeal

""INTERDICT To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations. as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.""

With nothing to lose, I,note, judge interrupts clergyman, impatient speaker

""Contained between lines; written or inserted between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc.as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc.""

INTERMIT to stop temporarily

One translating orally

Translator of spoken languages

Oral translator

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

""INTERRUPT To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking. as, to interrupt the remarks speaking.""

Eg, chat show host

Bully

Situated or occurring within the eyeball: intraocular pressure.

One who intromits.

""INVALIDATE To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument. as, to invalidate an agreement or argument.""

Proctor at an English school exam

Supervisor of those working on paper

INVIGORATE To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.

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

Guy who worked at dusk in colonial times

He was always illuminating

Spill jam with more flimsy packaging

""LEGITIMATE Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir. as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.""

LEGITIMIZE To legitimate.

Bookish type to esteem high-class among the junk

Writer's rubbish: director has to overlook first of repeated characters

Essayist

One who manipulates

""MASTURBATE To achieve sexual gratification by stimulating one's own sexual organs, without the aid of a partner; -- typically to the point of orgasm.""

A blacksmith, for one

Robot (wordplay)

Eg, a blacksmith

REGISTER to record officially

Certain skin cream

Skin cream

Person with a second job

One with a second job

Worker otherwise employed as doctor on boat

Mothproof

Sailing eschewer

Piton user ("Cymbeline")

A negotiator on a grand scale (wordplay)

Sir Edmund P. Hillary, for example

Agent noun (-or)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Agent noun (-or)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

MULTIPLE the product of a quantity by an integer

Multiplex

MULTIPLEX Manifold; multiple.

""One who, or that which, neutralizes; that which destroys, disguises, or renders inert the peculiar properties of a body.""

""One, especially a robber or prostitute, who walks the streets at night.""

One who calls persons or things by their names.

ATTENDER one who is attentive

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

CUSTOMER one who buys something

SECRETOR one that {secretes=v}

Storm from the Atlantic, perhaps

Wind blowing towards the southwest

A storm or gale from the northwest; a strong northwest wind.

""OBLITERATE To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.""

A machine shaped like an aircraft that is held aloft and propelled by wing movements.

""That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Motel patron, usually

""One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker.""

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ..

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ...

Publicity agent of yore

High military figure (wordplay)

A jumper that rides up!

Jumpy guy (wordplay)

Partition

Dairy apparatus.

Portents are confounded by prayer

Prayer that may give one a lift

Bill carries a bird in a lift

Committer (of a crime)

One committing (a bad deed)

One committing (an offence)

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

""(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) money, paid in dollars, earned by a country for the exporting of petroleum""

One who quibbles over trifles

One who quibbles

Picayune lawyer.

Today's mimeograph

Piece of office gear

Office machine

PHOTOSET to prepare for printing by photographic means

PLASTICIZE

""An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray.""

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Choose classes early

Tester of a person's conduct

One on trial in post

Offender on conditional release

One who promulgates or publishes.

One who propitiates or appeases.

""One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes.""

""The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is sacrificed, in any cause; applied esp. to Stephen, the first Christian martyr.""

An agent provocateur.

Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

Cloth used in Holy Communion services

Cloth used in celebrating the Eucharist

Wary one

Racetrack

A radioactive tracer.

Where angry drinkers meet (wordplay)

Where angry drinkers meet?

Basement bar in Bonn

Make strategic survey of land

Keep tabs on the enemy

Survey an enemy position

A four-shaped, perhaps

Regal cat run (anagram) - right-angled

Of a certain shape.

All in straight lines

Moving in straight lines

Consisting of straight lines

""DECORATOR One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.""

""ENCOUNTER To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth. as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth.""

Reformer's golden age described by viceroy in North

REJUVENATE To render young again.

One who pays

Gymgoer with a grievance? (PR issue 1)

If I recover, I'll re-enlist at Roscoe's place.

A salimeter.

Paper tool (wordplay)

Surface-cleaning tool

High-pressure abrasive tool

Shmaltzy

An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.

Tonto's equestrian role (wordplay)

Irregular must escort a troop leader

Organiser of a 5 of boys

One who scrutinizes.

Device recording our planet's movements

Measurer of earthquakes

Earthquake detector

It only moves when towed

Vintage Tonka toy

Cab attachment

""Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.""

Almost any Merman number.

Big Broadway number

Kind of act or song.

SIDESTEP to step to one side

One who slaughters.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.

""A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.""

Blow one's top in it (wordplay)

Like an elaborate display, perhaps

Show clears up act for broadcasting

One kind of TV show

Travelling clock (wordplay)

Sonata instrument (wordplay)

It displays the going rate

""An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc.""

Spiteful

More animated.

Southern prude, dictatorial type, demoting one relatively active

Perils at sea crossing starboard make you more nimble

Clear quaff

Cooler drink

Perrier product

""Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.""

One with an interest in (say) society

One with an interest (in something)

Part-owner, say

Tradesman may be a theatre-goer

Tolerate a sideshow barker (wordplay)

Opponent of change in policy.

Conservative Colloq

""One who installs and repairs heating, ventilating, refrigerating, and air-conditioning systems.""

Overwhelming power, as used in politics

Political machine of a sort.

Crush opposition, politically speaking.

Man in Bethlehem (wordplay)

Bridge builder

Relative by marriage

Relative to walk with hassle round river

Upset Herbert's top relative

""One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.""

""A substance that irritates the nasal and respiratory passages and causes coughing, sneezing, lacrimation, and sometimes vomiting.""

Wholesale plant grower or cattleman?

Dealer with bulls and bears.

Cher (wordplay)

Ranch owner (wordplay)

Reader of "quotations."

Owner of funds in a company

Former finance worker

Warehouse worker

Secret society member in an episode of "The Simpsons"

Secret society member in an episode of 'The Simpsons'

One playing for time

One who is continually evasive to block progress

Defensive batsman, one playing for time with one wicket in hand

Local retailer, maybe

* Mom or Pop, maybe

Stockholder (wordplay)

Librarian, for one.

Narrator (possibly a liar?)

What is a talesman (wordplay)

Foot-weary citizen.

Type of passenger.

Subway rider without a seat

Soda jerk's boutonniere (wordplay)

Soda jerk's boutonniere?

Ship that's up a creek (wordplay)

Covering for a river bed

TGV, for instance

Questionable nightclub performer

Demi Moore played one in 1996

DIRECTOR one that {directs=v}

To supply; to afford.

Comparative adjective or agent noun