2-Letter Words Containing X

""Any of several compounds, originally derived from prostaglandin precursors in platelets, that stimulate aggregation of platelets and constriction of blood vessels.""

Disrobe next (anagram)

Dangerous states of affairs

Danger spots, figuratively.

""The study of the nature, effects, and detection of poisons and the treatment of poisoning.""

Toxophily

Archery expert

Toxoplasma

Adjective (-ic)

Transfix

""The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced.""

Person wishing to change gender, perhaps

One eager to see how the other half lives, say

AXIALITY the state of being {axial=adj}

Allow in too little light

Display too little below exhibit

Light insufficiently

Undertax

""EXCITABLE Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.""

EXERCISED exercise

Still mysterious despite investigation

Mysterious

Former flyer reportedly trapped by dune collapsing with no discernible reason

EXPLOITED exploit

Left unsaid

Not said

Unspoken

See seaborgium .

Thinking outside the box

Unconventional belief

Vexatious

Flags ()

Pigment causing autumn colours

Xenobiotic

Xenophobia

A dry photographic or photocopying process in which a negative image formed by a resinous powder on an electrically charged plate is electrically transferred to and thermally fixed as positive on a paper or other copying surface.

Xerophily

Droughtloving; able withstand the absence or lack of moisture.

XEROPHYTE

Both dry and hot: a xerothermic climate.

""Pl. xiphisterna (-n ) The posterior and smallest of the three divisions of the sternum, below the gladiolus and the manubrium. Also called xiphoid , xiphoid process .""

One making engravings on wood

""XYLOGRAPH An engraving on wood, or the impression from such an engraving; a print by xylography.""

""Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; said especially of certain insect larv\'91, crustaceans, and mollusks.""

Certain percussion player

Ten only, ship to all-round musician

Percussion instrument player

Alexandrine

Alexandrite

With right on both sides (wordplay)

Equally expert with both hands

Using both hands

Amoxicillin

Amoxycillin

""ANNEXATION The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.""

""Causing loss of appetite; as, an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug.as, an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug.""

Denouement downers

Damp squibs

Big letdowns

Antioxidant

Came close to

Reckoned without precision as a quietly expert team won game

Approximate

Asexuality

ASPHYXIATE To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate.

Suffocation

(Chemistry) Chem a.   oxidation by exposure to atmospheric oxygen

Auxotrophy

AXIOMATIZE

Having symmetry around an axis: an axisymmetric cone.

Carboxylase

CARBOXYLATE to treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

Carboxylate

Ear-chewers

Terribly OTT breach backing male or female gossips

Motormouths

Circumflex

Cloxacillin

Coexistence

A. Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite.

Past tense or past participle

Complexify

Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion.

""Having (such) a complexion; used in composition; as, a darkcomplexioned or a ruddycomplexioned person. as, a darkcomplexioned or a ruddycomplexioned person.""

Knotty problems.

Contextual

Crucifixion

English word

Cyclohexane

""A branch of taxonomy which uses the characteristics of cellular structures, such as somatic chromosomes, to classify organisms.""

CYTOTOXIC

Deoxidation

Like blood coursing through one's veins

Deoxygenate

Deoxyribose

Inflected form of SEXUALIZED Inflected form of SEXUALIZE To attribute sex to.

Desexualize

DETOXICATE to remove poison from.

TOXICATION Poisoning.

See Dextrotatory. Dextrotatory.

Containing two carboxyl groups per molecule.

Doxorubicin

Doxycycline

One of several biosynthetic intermediaries with a chemical residue containing O2

Enterotoxin

Relating to epexegesis; explanatory; exegetical.

Epoxidation

Making worse.

Making (something) worse

EXACTING exact

Indulging in hyperbole

Overstating

Inflation? Cut rising going rate perhaps

An overdrawn account

Overstatement - overestimate

Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration.

Exaggerator

""Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative.""

Tests show cut back is not main problem

One squeezed by awful mansion tax: Myleene ultimately probes

Tests

""EXANTHEMA An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever.""

Very frustrating

Extremely annoying

Infuriating

Intense irritation

Open-air sex at assembly causes annoyance

Disgruntlement

""EXCAVATION The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.""

Excellency

Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.

The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.

Rats! et al.

Can a mole exist with its head cut off? No! Never!

Snappy utterances

Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.

""One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the antipopish politicians of the time of Charles <?/.""

Exclusivism

Exclusivist

EXCOGITATE To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.

EXCOGITATE To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

Excoriation

Excrescence

Excrescent

Racking collapses in exit, accruing ...

Intensely painful

Very painful

""The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.""

Exculpation

""One who goes on an excursion, or pleasure trip.""

Whose inappropriate musical offering recorded by 7 (wordplay)

They're known for taking the head off others for the chairmen (wordplay)

They get away with murder taking the head off others

Exemplify

""EXENTERATE To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. as, exenterated fishes.""

Act of exenterating.

Exercise; practice; use.

Exfoliation

Exhaustive

""EXHAUSTIVE Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. as, an exhaustive method.""

University student in demonstration before the queen

Making lively and cheerful

Making very happy

Making one feel lively and cheerful

Strong feeling of excited happiness

Joy for old Benn is without end: people oust leader!

Joyousness

""EXHILARATE To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man. as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.""

Exhortation

EXIGUOUS {meagre=adj}

Exobiology

""The branch of biology that deals with the search for extraterrestrial life and the effects of extraterrestrial surroundings on living organisms. Also called astrobiology , space biology .""

Acquittals

Exonuclease

Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of single amino acids from the end of a polypeptide chain.

""Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.""

Abnormal protrusion of the eyeball.

Same as Exophthalmia.Exophthalmia.

Exorbitance

""In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.""

EXORCISTIC

Exoskeleton

Exoterical

Exothermal

Exoticness

EXPANSION The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.

Policy of seeking economic or territorial growth

Doctrine of increasing the territory or influence of a country

Advocate of territorial enlargement

The Cloister and the Hearth author

Expatiation

EXPATRIATE To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

In atonement, treacherous rat gets exile

EXPATRIATE To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

Expectancy

Hopes for the future

Realistic hopes

Bank on answer to half the objections with hope and conjecture

EXPECTED expect

Expectorant

Anticipated accepting nothing traitor coughed up

Expectorate

Expediency

"". Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare.""

Expenditure

""EXPERIENCE Trial, as a test or experiment.""

""Derived from, or pertaining to, experience.""

Data-based - inexpert male (anagram)

Tentative mixture - for example nitre

Based on untested ideas

Experiment

Researcher's former name required, transiting border

Former wife edges around new one that's adventurous

Expertness

Rationales

Clarifying statements by old lover and pal travelling in Europe

Illuminating declarations by former pal moving places in Europe

( ks pl nt ) Explanted tissue.

Explication

The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness.

Unfair use

Taking advantage - optional exit (anagram)

""An act or deed, especially a brilliant or heroic one. See Synonyms at feat 1 .""

Exploration

Exportation

EXPOSITION The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.

""EXPOSTULATE To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; followed by with. with.""

Expostulate

""Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment.""

Expressive

""EXPRESSIVE Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. of; as, words expressive of his gratitude.""

""Taken out of the possession of another and transferred to one's own use often without permission; as, the expropriated land was developed into a public playground.as, the expropriated land was developed into a public playground.""

Expropriate

One who takes property for the public benefit

Expurgation

EXSANGUINE Bloodless.

Exsiccation

Extemporal

EXTEMPORISE

Extemporise

Spoke on the spur of the moment.

One who extemporizes.

Extemporize

EXTENDED extend

""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.""

Extenuation

EXTERIORISE