2-Letter Words Ending in R

An apparatus for superheating steam.

Exxon Valdez, for one

Nature's perk (anagram) - vessel

Large oil-carrying vessel

SURREBUT to reply to a rebutter

Supporter

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.

Idol worshiper (wordplay)

Bubblegum fan (wordplay)

Idol worshipper (wordplay)

Counter of golf supporters (wordplay)

One abstaining from alcohol

Abstainer from drink

Morse-code user

Device for receiving messages

The Spanish interpret curious creed as an example

Piece of office equipment made to look fantastic by rep in letter

An instrument for measuring tensile strength.

Thankful

He's seen at first nights.

Devotee of drama.

FIRST-nighter, for example

One who theologizes; a theologian.

Temp worker? (CBS, 2013-present)

Place for graduation (wordplay)

Weatherman's tool

""One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver.""

Noble champion (wordplay)

Champion of the aristocracy

Man of property

Best man at a wedding reception, say

Expert breakfast cook (wordplay)

Well-bread fellow (wordplay)

One studying the features of an area

Columbia picture (wordplay)

Outstanding acolyte in love (wordplay)

Champion who opens Olympics (wordplay)

Betting machine

Pari-mutuel machine.

Railroad worker.

Hiker's sports jacket (wordplay)

Daniel Boone, for one

Daniel Boone was one

Attendant in ceremonial procession

Following page in the marriage service

Bride or queen's assistant

Tumbler, at times

Variety show staple

Bouncy performer coach includes mainly plays on left, initially

TRANQUIL calm and peaceful

""A transmitter and receiver housed together in a single unit and having some circuits in common, often for portable or mobile use.""

""One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.""

One who makes a transfer or conveyance.

Device for changing voltage

Voltage-changing device

Electrical device used to change voltage

Apparatus sending out radio waves

Radio signal generator

Start term in broadcast radio provider (wordplay)

Device carried by aircraft

Electronic toll device

Aircraft's tracking device

Conveyance device from "Star Trek"

It shifts cargo from errant ports at sea

Haulier and partner sort bananas

Annie Oakley was a noted one.

One aiming at clay pigeons

One aiming at skeet

Fashionable doggy (wordplay)

Fashionable canine (wordplay)

One held responsible for rage (wordplay)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Rely on comic Keaton (wordplay)

Teddy Roosevelt sobriquet

Theodore Roosevelt's moniker

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One setting up print

King of the dinosaurs

Large extinct reptile

Bipedal carnivorous dinosaur

One in the insurance business

Person in the insurance business

Financial guarantor

HEALTHIER healthy

SIGHTLIER sightly

One who covers furniture

He pads parlor pieces

Maker and mender of sofas etc

""Causing dilation or relaxation of the blood vessels; as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasoinhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest. as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasoinhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest.""

One who vaticinates; a prophet.

""An apparatus for measuring speed, as of machinery or vessels, but especially of projectiles.""

Of or pertaining to a ventricle; bellied.

""One who vituperates, or censures abusively.""

""One who vociferates, or is clamorous.""

Dispenser of gossip (wordplay)

Prison gossip center (wordplay)

Business meeting locale (wordplay)

Waterfowl

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One who whitewashes.

A man who practices lewdness; a lecher; a whoremonger.

One of the animal organisms constituting zooplankton.

""ACCLIMATIZE To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.""

""He who, or that which, accommodates.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""ALPHABETIZE To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. as, to alphabetize a list of words.""

Large oval stadium with tiers

Hollywood Bowl, for example

ANTHOLOGIZE compile an anthology.

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

Non-PC chair protector (wordplay)

Chair cover mascara stain made a mess of

Protective cloth on upholstered seat

PREDATOR one that {plunders=v}

TAKEOVER the act of assuming control

One liberates all but last of fit soldiers

An assassin.

""A sensory nerve ending that is stimulated by changes in pressure, especially one in the walls of blood vessels such as the carotid sinus.""

Brainstorm

Type of ranch hand

Tamer of wild horses

Cowboy, at times

Premier craftsman (wordplay)

Taoiseach perhaps builds up bureau

President's second career (wordplay)

Corrupt Northerner of 1865.

Scalawag's confederate

Non-local candidate

One making maps

Occupation that the bad chef might be better at (wordplay)

Map-maker

One who manipulates the spine

Joint manipulator

Spine manipulator

Comparative adjective or agent noun

The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

One working jointly

Fellow worker

Cream perhaps no longer in favour of Australian novelist

One who commemorates.

From banisher to bullhorn (wordplay)

Person (good at) imparting news etc

""An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.""

Conversationalist

Mars, for one

Sweet maker/seller

Seller of sweets

Spanish adventurer of the 16th century

Pizarro or Cortes

16th-century Spanish invader of Peru

CONSOLIDATE Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.

""CONTAMINATE To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.""

One who contemplates.

Gainsayer.

One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.

One who supports or frequents conventicles.

""PROPRIETOR One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill. as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.""

""CORROBORATE To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.""

Fruit and veg seller

Fruit/veg seller

Barrow boy

""One who countenances, favors, or supports.""

I'll give you $100 for that buffet table, for example

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Singer getting note say, below bar

A singing bank teller (wordplay)

Singer with note heard at end of bar

""CRYSTALLIZE To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.""

""A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.""

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

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Dealer's test drive vehicle

Car wearing dealer plates, often

Participant in a public protest

""An instrument for determining optical or photographic density. A variety capable of measuring optical density of a sample at a number of different wavelengths, is called a spectrophotometer.spectrophotometer.""

SENSITIZER An agent that sensitizes.

One who determines.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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

One who spreads (something) widely

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

Pertaining to a diverticulum.

Instrument for measuring differences in potential

One making a copy by coating a mould with deposited copper

Nice word for a speculator (wordplay)

Nice word for a risker of capital

One who is his/her own boss

""The outermost layer of cuticle of an arthropod exoskeleton, composed mostly of wax.""

""EQUILIBRATE To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.""

Ethnic anthropologist

University student in demonstration before the queen

Researcher's former name required, transiting border

Former wife edges around new one that's adventurous

One who takes property for the public benefit

One who extemporizes.

""An instrument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force.""

Ridder of rats in 1918?

Ridder of rats in 1918 (wordplay)

Schwarzenegger, today (wordplay)

""A sense organ, such as the ear, that receives and responds to stimuli originating from outside the body.""

Firefighting apparatus

Firefighting equipment

Located or occurring outside the nucleus of a cell.

EXTRAPOLATE

FESTIVAL a time of celebration

One speaking at length to block legislation

Weapon used in heated dispute (wordplay)

Criticize a pitcher (wordplay)

Gun firing burning liquid

""FRACTIONATE To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.""

Instrument for measuring small electric currents

Instrument for detecting small electric currents - mangrove et al (anagram)

Man got a lever working, device in physics lab (wordplay)

One who gesticulates.

Show-off (1975-80)

*Showboating type

Show-off

Quibbler (2 words)

One disputing cowboy shirt retail price, at first

Quibbler

One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.

Handicraft

An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.

Fickle lover having courage to wave

One who causes overwhelming distress

Narrow defeat, for example

Take in rope for craftsman

Job that involves ladder climbing

Man with a ladder

REACTOR one who {reacts=v}

One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.

IMMORTALIZE To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.

One pretending to be another

Impressionist painter's room in a mess

Entertainer making many appearances (wordplay)

""An improviser, or improvvisatore.""

Angle-measuring device

One of a number of persons who gets a company incorporated; one of the original members of a corporation.

CHANGER one that {changes=v}

CLUSTER to form into groups

""Between lammell\'91 or lamin\'91; as, interlamellar spaces.as, interlamellar spaces.""

""Between lobules; as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein. as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein.""

Person who takes part in a conversation

Participant in a dialogue

Involved in conversation to disclose tricolour net

""One who meddles with, or intrudes into, the affairs of others.""

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

A specialized sensory nerve receptor that receives and responds to stimuli originating from within the body.

One who interpleads.

""One who interpolates; esp., one who inserts foreign or spurious matter in genuine writings.""

Inquisitor used terror to gain conversion

Questioner

In deep space

Let star liner make such a voyage

Occurring between stars

A person within a large corporation who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a profitable finished product through assertive risk-taking and innovation.

One making a search or enquiries

One making a search or enquiry

Private eye

North American word for a hangover

Kids of early comics

North American word for a state of emotional distress

Type of printer

A device that pulverizes kidney stones and gallstones by passing shock waves through a water-filled tub in which the patient sits.

An instrument for triturating the stone in the bladder; a lithotrite.

Instrument for measuring earth's field

Ho ho ho, maybe

Crime of unpremeditated killing

Bloke's mirth is killing

Fellow switched future car brand

Maker of goods

Fabricator makes things up presumably

One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.

""MATERIALIZE To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.""

""A white crystalline compound, Cl 3 CCH(C 6 H 4 OCH 3 ) 2 , used as an insecticide.""

""Any of the proteinaceous cylindrical hollow structures that are distributed throughout the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells, providing structural support and assisting in cellular locomotion and transport.""

Electronic development of the 1960's

Small digital electronic device

Laptop, for example

A person who is deemed to be worthless or despicable; -- obscene and highly offensive.

""Any of various fishes, especially of the genera Haplochromis and Tilapia, that carry their eggs and young in the mouth.""

""Containing many nuclei; as, multinuclear cells. as, multinuclear cells.""

A composer of fables.

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

""NATIONALIZE To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.""

An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.

Hot spot regular

""CHARACTER A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.""

""COLLECTOR One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. as, a collector of coins.""

Material such as glass or porcelain

An apparatus for measuring the acuity of the sense of smell.

ORCHESTRATE to write an orchestra score for; -- of a musical composition.

Or that scorer, perhaps (wordplay)

Speaker reserves royal box for arranger

Speaker keeps royal box for the organiser

""One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.""

""A device for measuring the penetrating power of radiation, especially x-rays.""

Carriage for one on patrol

Baby carrier (usually abbreviated)

Baby's transport

Geology ()

Snappy guy (wordplay)

One will put you in the picture

Job taking snaps

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

""(Chemistry) a polymeric material that is sensitive to light: used in printing plates, microfilms, etc.""

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

Professional person, esp. doctor

One involved in medicine, such as a GP

Part in erotic play for skilled operator

""A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; -- called also the inverted mordente.inverted mordente.""

""One who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or rashness.""

Inflected form of MEDITATOR Inflected form of MEDITATE to consider thoughtfully

SLAUGHTER The act of killing.