2-Letter Words Ending in R

Pessimist is more so, with day going wrong

During exit, May's wrangling with European alarmist

Dealer in kippered herring, etc. Eng.

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

My trade: in explosive

Demolition expert

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

Electrical machine with two armature windings

It's impressive

Real attention-getter

Spectacular specimen

One who denies

Opponent wins over philosopher

One who contradicts

Ambitious person with leaflet on drugs (wordplay)

Go-getter with head in the clouds (wordplay)

Successful person

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

Kansas border ruffian of the Civil War

Kansan

Recklessly careless footman (wordplay)

Companion to Leno (wordplay)

Middle-of-the-road type (wordplay)

One who journeys.

Joyful

JOYPOP to use habit-forming drugs occasionally

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

Murderer

Homicide.

Perhaps blooming well started States

How Pilgrims progressed (wordplay)

Ship that might bear fruit (wordplay)

Ship that's dangerous to follow

Warship that places explosive charges

Warship putting down explosives

A film or layer of a compound one molecule thick.

Word with prefix multi-

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One that creates myths or mythical situations.

LAWYER to work as a member of the legal profession

""PARALYZE to render incapable of movement, also PARALYSE""

Dispenser of wages

Dispenser of soldiers' salaries

Official dealing with wages

Strategic team athlete

Point guard, for example

Point guard, e.g

Suit material, perhaps

This material goes out to Presley

Tennis racket string material

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

Artist needs beer to have inner spark

Actor, for example

Artist wants Guinness maybe when eating fish

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Church elder

Church minister

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.

Customer of a public utility

One called upon to face a local charge

Contributor to local council funds

Merry's the work of McGonagall, say

Writer of short poems

Writer of inferior verse

Person who highjacks an aeroplane

Modern pirate

Modern pirate runs after sailor within island

SKYLARK to {frolic=v}

Educated plane (wordplay)

One with big ideas (wordplay)

Airborne ad maker

Messy part (anagram) - M (wordplay)

Bond's M, perhaps

George Smiley, for one

Semiconductor device; I try short (anagram)

Semiconductor device

Child's potty gone rusty

Turning grey? Not us - nor him

Person of tender years

Armored beast of old

He's debased (wordplay)

Fieldstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Musician at a dance (wordplay)

Ring sailor? No time, he complains

Faultfinding type

""A macromolecule in a living organism that is formed by linking together several smaller molecules, as a protein from amino acids or DNA from nucleotides.""

Wave catcher

Construction worker's course (wordplay)

Wall builder, maybe

Building trades worker

One who wants in on the deal

One holds hands during the game

World Series participant

Keeps the paper united with impression of custodian

An editor who prepares text for publication.

Producer of text for ad

Public relations position

Author who wrote pricy composition

""Any of an extinct order (Cotylosauria) of massive primitive reptiles of the Carboniferous and Permian periods that included the ancestors of all of the reptiles. Also called root reptile , stem reptile .""

""A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.""

One wandering through school (wordplay)

Visionary, but not at night (wordplay)

Fantasizer, when the sun's up (wordplay)

HYDRATOR one that {hydrates=v}

DOOMSDAY judgement day

Medicine-cabinet gadget

Liquid dispenser

Pipette kin

Bird one's seen on the web (wordplay)

Winger tucking contract inside leaflet

Shrewd fielder in sticky leg trap

Buzzer beater (wordplay)

Thing causing a buzz kill (wordplay)

Low-tech pest-control device

One in a race, paddling steel ferry

Term of endearment by one consuming bird

Bird with a long, protrusible tongue

Bird of the South Pacific

One who hybridizes.

Health spa putting limit on rule for lab equipment

Radiator-coolant & battery-electrolyte tester

Hydroelectric power.

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.""

LAYER to form a single thickness

Essential lodger, type who can type

Data-input pro

Tillie the Toiler

Noble dessert (wordplay)

Tirami su cake

Common item in a trifle's cake layer

King Cole (wordplay)

King Cole?

One revels in tight score, getting runs

""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.""

Botany A minute opening in the ovule of a seed plant through which the pollen tube usually enters.

One that flies off shelves (wordplay)

Central bank breadwinner (wordplay)

Bread producer has a profitable business

Like onions

MYTHICIZE

A mythologist.

An oxidizer.

A large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America.

One versed in various learning.

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

Picture on a big-city postcard, perhaps

High-rise building (wordplay)

*Chicago's Sears Tower, for one

One who sees the future

One who warned Caesar

Expert on the future

One who symbolizes.

Jazz addict.

""SYNDICATE The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.""

A polymer that consists of three distinct monomers.

Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place.

Composing room worker

Compositor must be kind to get gelatine

Composing-room hand

Mark Twain, say, used this (wordplay)

A key supplier once in pool (wordplay)

Author's antique, perhaps

""TYRANNIZE To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices. as, a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices.""

Railroad supervisor

Railroad boss

Top British policeman looks after those setting things in train perhaps

Terry eyes a revolution in the past

Not too long ago

Days gone by

One doing serious physical exercise

One developing muscles through exercise

Mr. Olympia, e.g

Butterfly

Person who prepares deeds for transference of property

Power-measuring instrument

Instrument for measuring force

Engine output measuring machine

GALLERY to provide with a long covered area

Rig vote in plant across railway

*Rearrange electoral districts

He seeks a political advantage

""A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white. Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Newly-wed on holiday (wordplay)

Newlywed, right after the reception

Post-nuptial holidaymaker

Equus actor (wordplay)

Masochist of a sort

""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.

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

""A very large vulture (Gypa\'89tus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.Gypa\'89tus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.""

""LYOPHILIZE to freeze-dry; -- a technique used to dry serum, tissue, unstable chemicals and other sensitive materials.""

Generous magazine subscriber (wordplay)

One with a special interest (wordplay)

Shylock, for example

MULTIPLE the product of a quantity by an integer

A simpleton; a silly person.

Polygraph

Containing many nuclei.

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

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

Wary one

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

Librarian, for one.

Narrator (possibly a liar?)

What is a talesman (wordplay)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

Supporter

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.

Idol worshiper (wordplay)

Bubblegum fan (wordplay)

Idol worshipper (wordplay)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One setting up print

King of the dinosaurs

Large extinct reptile

Bipedal carnivorous dinosaur

One making engravings on wood

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; sometimes called simply clabber. clabber.

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

One making a copy by coating a mould with deposited copper

Travel agent perhaps is taking a break

Tourist in rank beset by wild blow

Feast day for God and tourist

Nectar-feeding bird

Hydrocrack

""One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters.""

REACTOR one who {reacts=v}

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

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

MOLLYCODDLE a pampered darling; an effeminate man; a milksop.

English word

A composer of fables.

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

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

Party under cover (wordplay)

Person taking out insurance

Person with insurance

One who proselytes.

""An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer.""

""Slang One, especially a politician, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles.""

Camera device.

One who systematizes.

Bird - why 'Rommel ale'? (anagram)

European bird - Orwell mayhem (anagram)

Golden-winged flicker

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis [from Greek kampulos bent + bacter ( ium )]

Counterplay

""One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.""

An instrument for counting the number of blood cells in a measured volume of blood.

""(Medicine) Med an apparatus for counting the number of cells in a quantity of blood, typically consisting of a graduated pipette for drawing and diluting the blood and a ruled glass slide on which the cells are counted under a microscope""

PRODUCER one that {produces=v}

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Black and white wader

Pied coastal wading bird

Bird of the seashore

""Geography the systematic classification and description of nature. See also geography ; geology . ; physiographer , ; physiographic, physiographical , adj . Classification""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

PSYCHOBABBLE

An instrument for measuring the direct heating effect of the sun's rays.

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

An instrument having a heavy gyroscope whose axis spins in a vertical plane to reduce the side-to-side rolling of a ship or aircraft.

Abbr. TTY or TT An electromechanical typewriter that either transmits or receives messages coded in electrical signals carried by telegraph or telephone wires.

PHOTOTYPESET

The study of the geographic distribution of plants. Also called geobotany .

One studying regular molecular structures

Blood-pressure device