2-Letter Words Starting with E

A form of osmosis

The outer covering of a spore

Core exit is for everyone

Former wife's erotic dancing is popular

Suitable for the general public

Exotism

Pertaining to an {exotoxin=n}

Microorganism discharge

Poison produced by micro-organism found in surrounding medium

Poison secreted by bacteria which cause damage to the infected host

Opened up sister stores, say

Grew in extent

There was no contract for this

Tool to install rings on piston

Muscle exerciser

One developing as former Chinese native, we hear

A type of transducer

Wide-open spaces

Large open areas

Broad stretches

It's no surprise to exceed this with PT

Assumed; required as due

Seen as likely to happen

Speed up progress (of)

Old exercise about to change and quicken

Hasten tide ebbing gently into river

Punished for plagiarism, say

Turned out a bad scholar (wordplay)

Removed (eg from school)

One out on the street (wordplay)

Ousted one

Booted one

Principal ousting a student, for example

Used up, as resources

Put out, as effort

Spent former writer died before his boss (wordplay)

One that {expends=v}

Expense

Auditor's items.

Costs incurred in doing one's job

Writer in Essex negotiated overheads

Expert

As an old hand

With great skill

With high skill

Subject to recompense, as a crime

Able to be atoned for

Not beyond redemption

Did penance for

Atoned for, as sins

Atoned for

Makes up for

Makes amends for

Makes amends or reparation

One who {expiates=v}

Expirer

Expiry

Running out of validity

Losing validity

Running out

Takes the mystery out of

Makes something clear

Shows the meaning of, or accounts for

Explant

Retired copper allowed to be outspoken

Graphic ridiculous clip in portal

Frank to leave, taking broken clip

Blown up - no longer valid

Went off in a 32 across way

Went off, as a bomb

Stick of dynamite, for example

Bursts out violently

Loses one's temper

Blows up or loses it

Deeds one's located in former plans

Bold or daring feats

Unfairly uses

Made a journey of discovery

What Knights did for Shakespeare

Went into uncharted territory

Shakleton or Amundsen, say

Da Gama, for one

Stanley and Livingston, say

Blazes a trail

Enters the unknown

Searches for the purpose of discovery

Promoter (of an idea or theory)

Promoter (of an idea)

Open next (anagram)

Sent (goods) abroad.

Sent abroad for sale.

Sent out, in a way

Old beer I take abroad (wordplay)

Former train worker (wordplay)

One selling abroad

Exposal

Whistle-blowers

Scandalmongers

Subjecting to light, making known

Showing up former sitting

Barely showing up

Sets forth thoroughly

O pure sex! (anagram)

Coverage, or lack of it (wordplay)

Revelation (of something secret)

Explains being out of cash (wordplay)

Sets forth or explains in detail

Unfolds former currency

Say nothing for drinks machine

Say nothing, get coffee

Daily order for coffee

Expulse

Expulse

Excised, struck out

Wiped or rubbed out

Old joke good editor crossed out

One who strikes out

Strikes out

Wipes out

Cuts out.

Cuts out

A trigonometric function of an angle

Exsect

Exsert

Perhaps one longed for 2 x 10, indeed.

Longed for more (wordplay)

Held out longer (wordplay)

Former sheep herder (wordplay)

Substance added as a diluent.

Soy protein, in some recipes

Finger-straightening muscle

Rose next exercising muscle

Limb muscle

No tin (wordplay)

Word on some paint cans

Kind of paint

Is the next real out (wordplay)

Always includes ten at the outside

Like some modems

Nonresident doctors

Extinct

Covered with laurels

Formerly rang the bell with praise

Praised the bell that was formerly rung

One who {extols=v}

Wrested by force.

Obtained via force

Took by threat

Shake down artist

Shakedown artist

Shakedown party

Passages taken from, say, books

Cook's flavorings

Fishes out of watery concentrations

Outside curved surface of an arch

Convex surface of an arch

Reactionaries, politically

Sex meter (anagram)

Meets Rex (anagram)

What dare-devils go to

High of sorts

Turned outwart Bot.

Facing outward, as anthers

Turned out to be right sort, bursting into flower

This has one quite put out

One stuck out for this

Forced out

One that {extrudes=v}

Shapes, in a way

Uses a blackhead gun, for example

Uses a Play-Doh Fun Factory

To remove a tube from

Substances that ooze out

Sap and sweat

Lots of stuff coming out, socially acceptable in former girlfriends

More than happy

Jubilant, rejoicing greatly

Showing great joy

Blowing one's horn, say

Rejoice with the boa sting

Growing population areas

Shed or cast off skins

Shed skin

Shed

Good lookers (wordplay)

Containers for pupils, irises, etc.

They fill sockets

Superman's X-ray vision (wordplay)

Rope attachments, sometimes

Rope attachments with ring-shaped heads

Hardware with ring-shaped heads

They may raise in surprise

Facial distinctions of John L. Lewis.

They're often plucked

The preference for the use of one eye over the other

A singular spectacle (wordplay)

Say about the old girl's monocle

Aid to vision

Some costume cutouts

Ghost costume feature

Parts of a mask

Eyehook

Pencil contents, perhaps

Bad thing to cry over (wordplay)

Look at Titanic for face-painter perhaps

See-through item (wordplay)

Iris is a bit of a looker

Viewing lens of optical instrument

The point at which an eye is placed

Sleep aid, perhaps

Freebie on some airplane flights

Looks at Hell, sunless with this

Ranges of vision.

Views

Pupil power (wordplay)

Seeing 8 across OK

Power of seeing

Dilapidated buildings, say

A sty and a sty (wordplay)

Condemned buildings, say

Butterfly markings look square close up

Moth markings

Peacock features

Piece of lobster or shrimp (wordplay)

Part of a lobster's anatomy

Stem bearing optical organ - steal key (anagram)

Item used to remove ocular debris

Ophthalmologist's implement

Cinder remover

Organs of sight in the mouth (wordplay)

Can such canines see to bite (wordplay)

Choice things to give (wordplay)

One ahead, I say! Press horn hard

Visionary by gum!

Yet he too (anagram)

An {eyewash=n}

Eyewink

Sense rage (anagram)

Agree new head shows enthusiasm

Enthusiasm of Strauss, for example

An alderman.

English word

Night owl's anathema, maybe

It's perhaps nobility before time

Nobility perhaps, but not of late

Earlship

English word

Set aside for tagged cattle (wordplay)

Set aside (for)

Designated organ and corrected faults

Not at all in jest.

Advanced, engaging retreat with intent

Sincerely and seriously

One phrase (anagram)

Sound-system accessory

They cater for a private reception

Parts of headsets

Some Secret Service wear

They may be custom-made for canals

Otoliths

Human that's like a fox (wordplay)

Like all mortals

Originating from our planet

Operating theatre is most filthy

Most nourishing, as a meal

Operating theatre is most dirty

Earthly

Adjective meaning resembling

Martian address (wordplay)

Human being (sci-fi)

One of us has to lean right, perhaps

Peanuts.

Goobers

Dawn of the Space Age (wordplay)

Up-coming world phenomenon (wordplay)

Famous picture from Apollo 8

Earthset

Puffball-like fungus

Two spinning bodies had fungus

Fungus with a spacy name

Hard water bubbling to the surface

Falling object's direction

Direction of a sunbeam.

Farming for defence (wordplay)

Rampart made of soil

Agriculture for defence

Angler's bait, perhaps

Soil-dwelling creature

Night crawler, for example

Listened without the speaker's knowledge

Listened in with attention like a judge

Eavesdropped

EASEFUL {restful=adj}

Kind of bike

Rights to use of others' lands.

Wayleaves, at law

Footballer on the way to Stirling

Moving toward the orient

Going from L.A. to Baltimore, for example

A steward's direction (wordplay)

To the Orient

To the sunrise

Hairdresser's shop

Calm - relaxed - nonchalant

Happy-go-lucky midshipman goes on leave

Listen in (on)

Act like an icicle (wordplay)

Rain on the roof?

Ebonise

Ebonize

Libel tune (anagram)

Overflowing with fervor

Overflowing with enthusiasm.

So odd that it's not in the middle!

Entire 300 destroyed? That's odd!

Crank, socially and mechanically

Ecclesia

Goon upset some members of church assembly

One barely working (wordplay)

Lili St. Cyr, for one

She grins and bares it

Ecdysone

Echelon

""Any of numerous tropical American plants of the genus Echeveria, having thick, succulent leaves often clustered in a showy rosette.""

Echinoid

English word

Echogram

Parroter's form of speech.

Habit of repeating others' words.

Repetition of another's words

Speech

""Pl. echoviruses Any of a number of enteroviruses of the family Picornaviridae, inhabiting the gastrointestinal tract and associated with various diseases, such as viral meningitis, mild respiratory infections, and severe diarrhea in newborns.""

City light is about a cause of fits

Misplace a treatment for antenatal condition

Lights in city and capital erected as a condition

""Coma and convulsions before, during, or shortly after childbirth, characterized by edema, hypertension, and proteinuria.""

They can't stick to one style

Multifarious architects

Overshadowing

Casting a shadow over Oriental part of the film with local rat

Great circles

Eclogite

Eclosion

Green nuts (wordplay)

Ecology

One might be worried to see lost ice go!

Student of environments.

Global warming researcher, often

Crash course (wordplay)

The science of bread-making (wordplay)

The study of the finances of the state

They may be the saving of you

Cuts in expenses

Favorite topic of Senator Byrd.

Save someone with ice almost melting

Someone once contrived to emulate 1

Mean to do this

Malthus, for one

Comes into (anagram)

Galbraith's calling.

Bypass brand names, say

Cut back

Be frugal

Core sheep (anagram)

Life-support system (wordplay)

All habitable areas, collectively

Tundra, for example (not the truck)

A green sphere (wordplay)

The local biosphere (wordplay)

Ecraseur

Transports of delight

Rapturous states

Raptures

Ecstatic

Ecthyma

Embryological layers

Ectomere

Lean-bodied person

Thin person required to model 22 top

One with a light body build

What supposedly emanates from a medium

Medium's output

Supposed material exuded by medium

Ectosarc

Cold-blooded animal

Ectozoan

ECUMENIC universal

Doctrine of religious unity.

Movement to unite Christian churches

Movement to unify the Christian churches

Advocate of Christian unity.

Edacity

Ewe slides on the alpine plant

Swedes lie for Alpine plant

Flowering plant and swedes lie abandoned

EDEMA an excessive accumulation of serous fluid

Toothless mammals.

Never a canine among them. Does one need to state this (wordplay)

Quality of food

Food quality

Lacking in credit, surprise factor is quality that's good to eat

Leader's an idiot - real stupid!

Leader of opinion (wordplay)

Journalistic leader, perhaps

Educable

Informing in form

- - Rita, film

Teaching

McMahon's schooling (wordplay)

Letters perhaps auctioned off

A tonic due (anagram)

What Dotheboys' Hall was not.

Like much PBS programming

Relating to teaching

Ones with class (wordplay)

Teachers and mentors, for example

Teachers and professors

Eduction

Effecter

Effect

Accomplishing a purpose, efficient

The result I have will do the trick

Producing the desired result

Some hormones

Producing the desired result

Sufficient to produce a result

Producing an intended result