2-Letter Words Ending in I

Greek dish of lamb grilled on a skewer

Greek lamb dish

Innovative layout of visual OK on Greek menu (wordplay)

Disconnected musical notes

Disconnected passages

Bulgarian money

Foul smell by one keeping to Bulgarian bread

Hundredth parts of a lev in Bulgarian currency

Conifer cones

Japanese hot pot dish

Japanese meal in a pot

Japanese dish, or a 1963 #1 hit

Cooked Indian-style, perhaps

Cooked in a clay oven

Working at indoor type of restaurant

Element of Subbuteo: call it 'Mexican temple'

Asian food style

Benihana menu word

One way to make chicken

Substitute English teachers (wordplay)

Places where land may be close to home

Roget's books

Trochilus

Another word for navels

Belly buttons

Male in club with three individuals, drunk, showing navels

Utriculus

Ones who are great at runs

Heifetz and Iturbi

Experts visit our assembly

Japanese food? I try a koi, cooked

Japanese style of chicken

Japanese dish on skewers

Zastruga

Zecchino

Courgette (in the US)

Popular summer squash

Variety of summer squash.

Upset at pianist for starters

One to pour out wine for starters

Hors d'oeuvres make Anita spit

Nosy Parker variable

Someone who can't stay out of the conversation but can go downhill fast

Towers of indigo in foreign fields

Tall detached bell-towers

Bell towers

English word

Copper coins of Italy.

Wedding music of sorts.

Vicar with hairstyle that's burlesque

Hawthorne tales, thus related

Pl. coryphaei (-f ) The leader of a Greek chorus.

""Gradually increasing in volume, force, or intensity.""

English word

Decemvir

English word

Oil producers lie and cut pay anyhow

Typical EU destroyed trees

Brussels ruined typical producers of oil

A small bundle.

Cook cut it fine, serving Italian dish

Cut it fine when cooking pasta

Long ribbons of pasta

Italian patriot takes the biscuit!

'Squashed fly' biscuit (wordplay)

19th-century hero of Italian unification

Shifting, sliding as slippery semibreves

Excited as sliding along the keys

Slides (music)

Pl. glomeruli (-l ) Anatomy A small cluster or mass of blood vessels or nerve fibers.

""Pl. gonococci (-k k s , -k k ) The bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the causative agent of gonorrhea.""

Small humanoid creatures

Little people

Tiny humans

Sweat- and saliva-inducing Brazilian drug

""Hinduism Energy that lies dormant at the base of the spine until it is activated, as by the practice of yoga, and channeled upward through the chakras in the process of spiritual perfection.""

Standard monetary unit of Swaziland

Swaziland's monetary unit

Sage: perhaps I'm a harsh one

A great Hindu sage or spiritual leader

Hindu teacher of mysticism

Italian for 'sleeves'

Literally, "little sleeves"

Tubes in an oven

Bones between the wrist and fingers

Before one gets minced meat and fish fingers, depend on them

Is tame rat breaking bones (wordplay)

Came across one eating a sailor's bones

Satisfied a sailor is twisting bones

Teeny-tiny skirt

Barely-there dress

Ultrashort skirt often paired with leggings

English word

Instrumental parts not to be omitted

They are compulsory for the players

Musical parts not to be omitted

Tubes out of shape, I go beyond circle

Parts of alimentary canals between pharynges and stomachs

Tubes replacing spaghetti with hoops instead of squares

English word

Flash mob (wordplay)

Some shooting stars (wordplay)

Photographers who pursue celebrities

County (abbrev.); weapons

Scent in incense and insect repellents

Asiatic tree hit cupola in storm

Hard, spicy beef and pork sausage

Spicy sausage: condiment on top of it

Sausage Evita got in burst pipe

Abbr. pizz. Played by plucking rather than bowing the strings.

English word

Mixed bag - rip up root (anagram)

Dried petals for scent

Tip or pour out a fragrant mixture

Pl. pronuclei (-kl - ) The haploid nucleus of a sperm or egg before fusion of the nuclei in fertilization.

Pl. propositi (-t ) The person immediately concerned about or affected by an action.

""Pl. prothalli (-th l ) or prothallia (-th l - ) A small, flat, delicate structure produced by a germinating spore and bearing sex organs. It is the gametophyte of ferns and some other plants.""

Plants of the buttercup genus

Plants of a genus that includes crowfoot, spearwort and lesser celandine

They have very thick skins

Horned animals, informally

Thick-skinned creatures

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Farewell to sadness from Paul Eluard

Decorative works made by scratching off surface layers

Would one wind up eating this (wordplay)

Consumers may well be twisters!

Food that might get at hips, perhaps

Marvellous little outfit producing car!

Volkswagen Polo, for one

Splendid little car

Group of three officers in Rome

Administrative trio in ancient Rome

Chaps in office win no local runs (among seven)

A vegetable oil used in Indian cookery

Unusually portative boats

Venetian canal boats

English word

The jurisdiction of a zamindar; the land possessed by a zamindar.

Globular clouds of intermediate height

High clouds

Clouds with flat bases forming continuous layers at 2,400 to 6,000 metres

An extended cloud formation of bluish or gray sheets or layers.

""Pl. aspergilli (-j l ) Any of various fungi of the genus Aspergillus, which includes many common molds.""

Fish in Scottish island spattered in mud

Edible Australian fish

Australian fish

Borborygmus

English word

""Pl. canaliculi (-l ) A small canal or duct in the body, such as the minute channels in compact bone.""

Literally, "large reeds"

Cylindrical stuffed pasta

Nine on call, cooking Italian food

English word

(Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) the patriarch of the Armenian Church [from Greek katholikos ; see catholic ]

English word

Petition to a higher court

Writ from a higher court

Writ from High Court to call up the records of a lower court

Pl. coatimundi or coatimundis also coatimondi or coatimondis A coati.

""Pl. convolvuluses or convolvuli (-l ) Any of various mostly trailing or twining plants of the widespread genus Convolvulus, having funnel-shaped flowers and including several weeds and a few grown as ornamentals.""

Plural of cysticercus .

Art lovers of sorts.

Arty dabblers

Superficial dabblers

""Pl. diplococci (-k k s , -k k ) Any of various paired spherical bacteria, including those of the genus Diplococcus, some of which are pathogenic.""

Plural of lilangeni .

""Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.""

English word

""Pl. fortissimos A note, chord, or passage played fortissimo.""

Its blooms are used in leis

Fragrant flower used in leis

Shrub in far gap in ground

Are we wearing gilt attire (wordplay)

Famous, rich and fashionable people

Conspicuous, fashionable celebrities

Pl. hippocampi (-p ) A ridge in the floor of each lateral ventricle of the brain that consists mainly of gray matter and has a central role in memory processes.

Subject of many conspiracy theories

Very enlightened group

Subjects of many conspiracy theories

Short shows between acts

Light entertainments

""A South American wild cat (Felis jaguarondi), having a long, slim body and very short legs. Its color is grayish brown, varied with a blackish hue. It is arboreal in its habits and feeds mostly on birds. Felis jaguarondi), having a long, slim body and very short legs. Its color is grayish brown, varied with a blackish hue. It is arboreal in its habits and feeds mostly on birds.""

Grayish wildcat

""Pl. micrococci (-k k s , -k k ) A spherical, aerobic, gram-positive bacterium of the genus Micrococcus, usually occurring in irregular clusters.""

English word

""Pl. microvilli (-v l ) Any of the minute hairlike structures projecting from the surface of certain types of epithelial cells, especially those of the small intestine.""

A.   decorative glassware in which coloured glass rods are fused and cut to create flower patterns: an ancient technique revived in Venice in the sixteenth century and in France and England in the nineteenth century

Titles from Francis

Pl. pianissimos A part of a composition played very softly or quietly.

Mustard relish (by Marilynne Robinson)

Select a flower aloud with relish

Pickle with mustard and spices

English word

""Pl. portamenti (-t ) or portamentos A smooth uninterrupted glide in passing from one tone to another, especially with the voice or a bowed stringed instrument.""

CALCULI calculus

""Pl. prosciutti (-t ) or prosciuttos An aged, dry-cured, spiced Italian ham that is usually sliced thin and served without cooking.""

Pl. recitativi (-v ) or recitativos (-v z) See recitative 2 .

""Pl -dei [-dɪˌaɪ] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) Anatomy either of two muscles that connect the spinal vertebrae to the scapulae [New Latin, from Late Latin rhomboides : see rhomboid ]""

Pl. ritornelli (-l ) or ritornellos An instrumental interlude recurring after each stanza in a vocal work.

Mixed salad prepared in island (Guam)

Amusing lad playing medley

Grand mixed salad

A cargo ship transported old boxes

Stone tombs

Ancient caskets in wreckage of a cargo ship

One way to serve veal

Italian dish consisting of breaded and fried meat in light sauce

""Pl. septenarii (- - ) A Latin verse used only in comedy and consisting of seven feet, especially a catalectic iambic or trochaic tetrameter.""

Waxy substance from whales

Oily stuff: it's about to keep hairdo wonderful

Once-valuable substance harvested from certain whales' heads

A poultry dish is named for this singer

Describing an Italian diva's pasta dish

Florentine diva referenced in recipes

Courtroom entree (wordplay)

Food cooked in little cases (yellow)

Bagged Barilla product

""Pl. ventriculi (-l ) A hollow digestive organ, especially the stomach of certain insects or the gizzard of a bird.""

Pasta with pets in it (wordplay)

Literally, "little worms"*

Pasta thinner than spaghetti

""(Cookery) small squares of pasta containing a savoury mixture of meat, cheese, or vegetables [Italian, plural of cappelletto , literally: little hat]""

Italian paramilitary police

""A high-altitude cloud composed of a series of small, regularly arranged cloudlets in the form of ripples or grains.""

""A high-altitude, thin, hazy cloud, usually covering the sky and often producing a halo effect.""

Well-informed people

Very well-informed people

Those in the know since con got busted

Pl. condottieri (-tyâr ) A leader of mercenary soldiers between the 14th and 16th centuries.

""Pl. consiglieri (-r ) An adviser or counselor, especially to a capo or leader of an organized crime syndicate.""

English word

""Pl. cumulonimbuses or cumulonimbi (-b ) An extremely dense, vertically developed cumulus with a relatively hazy outline and a glaciated top extending to great heights, usually producing heavy rains, thunderstorms, or hailstorms.""

Monkey of the South American genus Aotus

Plural of echinococcus .

""Pl. enterococci (-k k s , -k k ) A usually nonpathogenic streptococcus that inhabits the intestine.""

""A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria.Plumeria.""

Large semi-aquatic mammals

Aquatic Afr. mammals

Semi-aquatic mammals

THALAMI thalamus

English word

""Pl. macronuclei (-kl - ) The larger of two nuclei present in ciliate protozoans, which controls nonreproductive functions of the cell, such as metabolism.""

""The second of the three excretory organs that develop in a vertebrate embryo, becoming the functioning kidney in fish and amphibians but replaced by the metanephros in higher vertebrates. Also called Wolffian body .""

""The third and final excretory organ that develops in a vertebrate embryo. In birds, reptiles, and mammals it replaces the mesonephros as the functional excretory organ and develops into the adult kidney.""

Pl. micronuclei (-kl - ) or micronucleuses The smaller of two nuclei in ciliate protozoans that contains genetic material and functions in reproduction.

Clouds in Britain most unusual

Gram positive balls, often from the lung

Bacteria which cause a particular lung disease

English word

Pasta in long fine strands.

English word

Members of a communist bureaucracy

Eastern unfurnished inn

Fitzgerald's battered inn

Eastern inn

Pl. divertimentos or divertimenti (-t ) A chiefly 18th-century form of instrumental chamber music having several short movements. Also called divertissement .

""Pl. electrophori (- -r , - -r ) An apparatus for generating static electricity, consisting of a hard rubber disk that is given a negative charge by friction and a metal plate that is given a net positive charge by induction when in contact with the disk.""

""Pl. gastrocnemii (-m - ) The largest, most prominent muscle of the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot and bends the knee.""

English word

Some vaginal flora

""Pl. leptocephali (-l ) One of the small, flat, transparent larvae of eels and certain other fishes, characterized by a long, narrow head.""

""Pl. meningococci (-k k s , -k ) A bacterium (Neisseria meningitidis) that causes cerebrospinal meningitis.""

Pl. stratocumuli (-l ) A low-lying cloud formation occurring in extensive horizontal layers with rounded summits.

Pathogenic bacteria

Bacteria that can cause scarlet fever, pneumonia etc.

Man eaters; cannibals.

Scholarly gatherings for discussion

English word

Pl. proventriculi (-l ) The division of the stomach in birds that secretes digestive enzymes and passes food from the crop to the gizzard.

Pathogenic bacteria

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An extinct primate postulated from bones found in Java in 1891 and originally designated Pithecanthropus erectus because it was thought to represent a species evolutionarily between apes and humans. Pithecanthropus is now classified as Homo erectus.

""Pl. streptobacilli (-s l ) Any of various gram-negative, rod-shaped, often pathogenic bacteria of the genus Streptobacillus, occurring in chains, especially S. moniliformis, which causes a type of rat-bite fever.""

""Pl. tarsometatarsi (-s , -s ) A compound bone between the tibia and the toes of a bird's leg, formed by fusion of the tarsal and metatarsal bones.""