2-Letter Words Starting with E

Free (from a difficulty)

Free (from difficulty)

Release from entanglement or difficulty

Not essential or inherent

Originating from the outside

Not inherent

Is one out, going like this (wordplay)

Gregarious old dog enters race

Outgoing type's former car entered in TT

Extruder

Extrude

Way of shaping metal.

Something squeezed out

""Forced out at the surface; as, extrusive rocks; -- contrasted with intrusive.as, extrusive rocks; -- contrasted with intrusive.""

Extubate

Extubate

Merry from bubbly (wordplay)

Lively former queen (wordplay)

Exeunt bar, being in high spirits

To abound; to be in great abundance.

That's the outcome

Act of oozing

Sweat embarrassingly in a tuxedo (wordplay)

EXUDATE an exuded substance

Noun (-ance)

Triumphant happiness

Triumphant elation

Exuviate

Exuviate

Spot the Ball editor confronted

Being looked at, I wept out loud

Something round Edgar confronted

Wild flower - get by hire (anagram)

A plant; they're big (anagram)

Small plant may look lively

Protectors of the orbs (wordplay)

Kohl's site (wordplay)

Deployed falsely, perhaps, by a woman

Eyelet

Pencils in a purse, perhaps

Edgy makeup items (wordplay)

I serenely supply slap

Seeing things

Visual aids

Watch parts required for telescopes (wordplay)

Eyepoint

It's impressive

Real attention-getter

Spectacular specimen

Scrutinizes the underworld (wordplay)

Power nap wear

Onetime editors' wear

Eyesight

Lobster's features

Features of a lobster's anatomy

Eyestone

Result of computer overuse, maybe

Crammer's woe, perhaps

What a gricer does to get it (wordplay)

Eyewash

Eyewater

Earlywood

Tagging for future use

Setting apart

Specially tagging

Of a rocket perhaps heading towards land

About to land

Lacking in freedom

Soiled, perhaps, by such crudity

It can be indecent

Quality of being gross

Earthly

""The sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon, by which we see faintly, when the moon is near the sun (either before or after new moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined by direct sunlight, or \'bdthe old moon in the arms of the new.\'b8""

Science fiction characters.

We are, strangely, entities with little inside

Listener objects about Liberal people vis-a-vis aliens

Machine such as a bulldozer

Huge bulldozer

Caterpillar, often

Heart tremor (wordplay)

Ground-breaking, king size.

Capp's McGoon.

Earthrise

Glow during the moon's crescent phase

Faint illumination of the moon's dark side

Earthstar

Earthward

Banks that can stop advances

Banks can stop advances

SWARTHMORE's wriggly team (wordplay)

Wriggly little creatures

Creatures ruining the marrows

Eavesdropping (colloq.)

Listening secretly

Reprimand for not very flighty creature, not altogether hot stuff

Provider of sound testimony (wordplay)

One who gives sound testimony (wordplay)

Easiness

Sit and release terrible winds!

Winds disturbing isle after festival

Uses a bug or a wire, say

Presses an ear to a door

Spies, say

Eunice Bell translation shows liveliness

Cheerful enthusiasm; boiling over

High spirits.

A boiling up or over; effervescence.

A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.

Odd numbers (wordplay)

Many Tim Burton characters

Unconventional people

""The passage of blood from ruptured blood vessels into subcutaneous tissue, marked by a purple discoloration of the skin.""

""A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.""

Pertaining to ecchymosis.

Ones whose business is taking off (wordplay)

Echelon

Echeveria

Sand dollar or starfish

Eg, sea urchin

Heroic men at sea netting 500 starfish maybe

Echiuroid

Echolalia

Eclampsia

Eclipsis

Gaelic cool (anagram)

Relating to our environment

Of concern to conservationists

Life preservers (wordplay)

Some EPA employees

Econobox

A good value

Providing good value

Like buying in bulk

No comedies (anagram)

'Cut costs so income moves' (Miliband)

Saved what does come in for recycling

Economise

Commerce department staffers

Veblen, Mill, etc.

Financial experts involved in some cost

""ECONOMIZE To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. as, to economize one's income.""

User of outdoor air to reduce energy consumption

Economize

Pl. ecospecies A taxonomic species considered in terms of its ecological characteristics and usually including several interbreeding ecotypes.

Ecosphere

Living quarters (wordplay)

They may be carefully balanced

Caves and coral reefs, for example

Cruise to Mexico's borders could be a way to help preserve nature

Vacationing naturist, perhaps

Visitor to untouched land

Visitor careful with footprints

""ECTODERM the external layer of an embryo, also EPIBLAST, EXODERM""

Ectomorph

Medium's vaporous substances.

Seance products.

Ectotherm

Promoting unity between churches

General; universal

World-wide.

Ecumenism

Ecumenist

Pertaining to eczema; having the characteristic of eczema.

Toothless

Edginess

Suitableness for being eaten.

Pieces from a board, perhaps

Leaders, real idiots in disarray

Newspapers' opinion columns

Horizon defined by Connolly's

Having control over prose, hid it away (

Newspaper head's role

Do these ladies die over their hair over their papers (wordplay)

Do such women die with their hair over papers (wordplay)

They may be liberal

Students' goals.

School product

Sweeten

Tropical aquarium plants

Marine plants with ribbonlike leaves

Eeriness

Capable of being effaced.

Erasure

Effective

Consummate outcome? You crew, so they say

""Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; used reproachfully of men.""

Fat fee mine when dressed as woman

Womanly bird in weak embrace

(Of a man) like a woman

EFFERENT an organ conveying impulses to an effector

Was AE rated to do this (wordplay)

Fizz, give off bubbles

Show some enthusiasm

Decadence; weakness

Camp procedure, injecting iron into broken feet and head

Efficacy

Efficacy.

Skill fixing fence, if icy

Performance with speed and economy

Economy in production

(Of salts) crystallise on the surface of brickwork

Bloom

Effluence

Effluvium

Effluxion

Requiring no physical or mental exertion

Easy no force required

Not showing any strain

Lip gloss (wordplay)

Offer entry for brass!

Ferry often arranged brass

Great brightness, or a flood of light

Brightness

Disheartened luvvy is upset with fee, strangling female in OTT manner

Bargee gets new set of whiskers

Whiskers (wordplay)

Word for copters

Len's eating out at Rose's (wordplay)

Clown is second in gala

Wild roses.

Having I trouble (wordplay)

Selfish fellow swallows a penny?

Having I-strain (wordplay)

Repeating I (wordplay)

Based on self-interest

Is nervous affliction in the East End selfish (wordplay)

Ones who aren't easy on the I's

Number one fans playing casino game

Insufferable people

Egression

""Any of a group of substances that are derived from arachidonic acid, including leukotrienes, prostaglandins, and thromboxanes.""

Covers ducks in blue - No, the opposite!

Some comforters

Quilts

Eigenmode

(Mathematics) Maths Physics one of the particular values of a certain parameter for which a differential equation or matrix equation has an eigenfunction. In wave mechanics an eigenvalue is equivalent to the energy of a quantum state of a system

Last hole in golf

Of course this is the last hole

Grant's position in presidential history

Big birthdays

Welsh art festival

Welsh festival of poetry and music

Welsh cultural festival

""EJACULATE To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject.""

Ejaculate

A muscle which helps ejaculation.

Ejectment

Added detail to (an account)

Worked out in detail

Worked out carefully

Adds details to

Goes into detail

Develops complex close to Devizes

Quality of rubber bands

Actress/screenwriter Kazan

Helen Incredible quality

Synthetic rubber compounds

Rubber and neoprene

Reseal most faulty rubbery materials

Jubilance

Elaterite

Elbowroom

Chuck's dad's source of wine (wordplay)

Chuck senior (wordplay)

Its old hat say to make jelly with this

Office of churchmen with tree crafts

Coarse herb of Europe

Flowering plant having large hairy leaves and narrow yellow petals

Voluntarily.

They have their say in November

Body that fills a seat (wordplay)

They have the final say on Election Day.

Made with juice (wordplay)

Type of engineering.

Kind of discharge

Terminals of a battery.

Part of a Frankenstein costume

Fabricated steel-cored conductors

Electro

An electric current that moves in an ionized layer above the equator in the earth's upper atmosphere.

The "E" of "E-mail"

Controlled by semiconductors

The e in e-mail

Eledoisin

Elegancy

Rudiments.

ABC's

Rudiments

Simple - like copper, say

Simple, my dear Watson!

No problem in Baker Street (wordplay)

Side views on blueprints

Mountain road postings

Architects' work bringing peerages (wordplay)

Got rid of.

Removed and replaced lead in time

Did away with

Gets rid of junk in sale time

Does away with

Gets rid of

Heat making airmen toil

Device supplying current to a battery

"Legs" ZZ Top album

Three-dimensional geometric figures

Compressed spheres.

Geometric figures

Trainer in a gym

Having a part omitted.

Like nothing obscure

Elocution

Elongate

Rubber band capability

Stretching out

Making more extensive disorder in gaol, note

Romantic getaways (wordplay)

Runs away to join up (wordplay)

They're frantic and romantic

Eloquence

With strong language

English queen's introduced to not yell when broadcast but speak thus (wordplay)

Torturous clue one saw explained

Made clear how to edit a clued version

Made clear

Edits a clue, perhaps, and makes it clear

Explains cryptic clue first time and succeeded!

Clears up

One who makes clear

He explains cryptic clue to arid characters

1980's word: Studiously work out

Final word of 1980: "produce by intensive effort"

Final word of 1980: 'produce by intensive effort'

""ELUTRIATE To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing. as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing.""

Elutriate

""ELUTRIATE To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing. as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing.""

Eluviate

ELUVIATE to undergo a transfer of materials in the soil

Emaciate

Extreme thinness

I arrived back at No 10 first in 9 condition

Boniness

Plural of lilangeni .

Scents, for example

Odors, for example

Flowers coming out? One has stamina broken

Free terrorists snap title up

CIA pet name for setting free

Meat-pie can be served free

To take away the margin of.

Unsex poor Mae with loveless kiss

Weaken metal and cause to fracture

Cut Samson's hair, for example

Lamb cooked in cheese not a learner's preservation process

A work by Rachel Whiteread (2005/6)

Dike or levee

Check on overflow

Embargo

Embarkation.

Embassage

Embattle

Embayment

Embedding

Embedment

An E of A&E

Defalcators.

Obtaining by fraud

Misappropriating

Soured ale put in middle of remedy

Made resentful

Made hostile

Decorated doctor ambled round area

Decorated with heraldic arms

Brilliantly decorated

""One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.""