2-Letter Words Starting with E

Eroticize

Originating from or causing sexual stimulation; erogenous

Errantry

ERRATIC a large rock transported by glacier

Eructate

Emission of gas from a crater

Volcanic activity

Victoria perhaps beheaded after rejecting cure for wind

Erudition

ERUPTIVE a type of rock

Complaint could produce replies, say

English word

Erythrism

Erythrite

A red substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin.

Lafayette, for one

French air squadron

Squadron of airplanes.

Escalader

Escalade

Increasing rapidly

Intensifying

Rapid rise in prices or wages

Cold war to hot war.

'I'd like to speak to your supervisor,' e.g

One-way flights (wordplay)

Nonstop flights (wordplay)

They take shoppers to new levels

""ESCALATOR A stairway or incline arranged like an endless belt so that the steps or treads ascend or descend continuously, and one stepping upon it is carried up or down; -- originally a trade term, which has become the generic name for such devices. Such devices are in common use in large retail establishments such as department stores, and in public buildings having a heavy traffic of persons between adjacent floors.""

Baked with a breadcrumb topping

Baked in a cream sauce.

Baked in a cream sauce

Escalop

MEP can't see new temporal regulator

Part of a watch, typewriter or piano

Part of watch mechanism

Robbie Williams' current album

Houdini's art

Robbie Williams album that got away (wordplay)

Steep slope - map's centre (anagram)

Steep slope recent maps disguised

Long steep slope

Serving or tending to form an eschar;; producing a scar; caustic.

Escheat

Piece of furniture.

Support for French writers

Place for a quill pen

Wall hanging for the titled

Shield with a coat of arms

Coat of arms's spot

Pertaining to the gullet

Pale idlers (anagram)

Shoe is European with spiralled design

Shoe that ties around the ankle

Espalier

Part 3 of quote

To a marked degree.

In particular

Esperance

Espionage

Shore-front walkways

Public walks along the seaside.

Litter mounts up after English Proms

Like a writer of short pieces

Food and water, for example

Requirements that cook eats in less

Key points: 'Scuttling ... silent seas'

French taverns.

Esterify

Esterify

Esthesis

Trying to get in the ballpark (wordplay)

Solve Enigmatist by guesswork

Trying to get close to

Reckoning on time, as it turned out

Ball-park figure

Thinking that if on time it's a worry

Inclined to appraise.

Price fixers of a sort

Estivate

""Same as \'92stival, \'92stivate, etc.\'92stival, \'92stivate, etc.""

Estradiol

Alienators of affection.

Estrange

Extracting from court records

Legally enforcing forfeit of ring, estate being redistributed

""ESTROGEN a female sex hormone, also ESTRIOL, OESTRIOL, ESTRIN, OESTRIN, OESTROGEN, ESTRONE, OESTRONE, THEELIN, THEELOL""

Esurience

ESURIENT {greedy=adj}

To make eternal.

Eternise

Time spent in waiting rooms (wordplay)

Ages to develop entire site (wordplay)

They take forever

Eternize

""An antibacterial drug, C 10 H 24 N 2 O 2 , used in combination with other drugs in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.""

Heavenly way to put you to sleep over your friend

So Wordsworth's minstrel appears to have thee flustered, as a matter of fact

Leader in Economist, article truly in heavenly style

Etherify

Etherify

Etherizer

Etherize

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

Ethicize

Ethionine

According to national groups.

Relating to study of various peoples

Ethology

Student of animal behavior

One studying animal behaviour got hostile, wild

Hog's toilet excited student of animal behaviour

Ethylate

Etiolate

""The operation of blanching plants, by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant.""

Causes

Social protocols

""A volatile, terpenelike oil extracted from the eucalyptus, and consisting largely of cymene.""

Aromatic Australian tree

Koala's diet source

Tree common in California.

Eucaryote

Eucharis

An instrument for the volumetric measurement of gases; so named because frequently used to determine the purity of the air.

EUGENIC pertaining to {eugenics=n}

Euglenoid

Any of a class of simple proteins that are soluble in dilute salt solutions and insoluble in distilled water.

""The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.""

One who advocates euhemerism.

Eukaryote

Having cells with visible nuclei surrounded by a nuclear membrane; pertaining to eukaryotes. Contrasted with prokaryotic.prokaryotic.

Cracking up during a speech

Paying tribute to Brussels on record, I quaver

Being enthusiastic with detailed planning after European Union

Eulogizer

Eulogize

Eunuchism

Eunuchoid

Euonymus

Pl. eupatridae (-r -d ) or eupatrids A member of the hereditary aristocracy of ancient Athens.

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any small pelagic shrimplike crustacean of the order Euphausiacea: an important constituent of krill [from New Latin Euphausiacea, perhaps from Greek eu- + pha- from phainein to reveal, show + ousia substance, stuff]""

EUPHEMISE

Euphemise

Holy mackerel! and others

Euphemist

""EUPHEMIZE To express by a euphemism, or in delicate language; to make use of euphemistic expressions.""

""EUPHEMIZE To express by a euphemism, or in delicate language; to make use of euphemistic expressions.""

Euphemize

Union expresses depth of acidity broadcasting debts? Sounds harmonious!

Euphonium

Euphorbia

Inducing euporia.

Euphrasy

""Belonging to the euphuists, or euphuism; affectedly refined.""

Euploidy

""1. having a pleasing and harmonious rhythm, order, or structure""

EURYBATH an organism that can live in various water depths

Capable of tolerating a wide range of salt water concentrations. Used of an aquatic organism.

""Any of various large, segmented aquatic arthropods of the order Eurypterida that existed from the Ordovician Period to the Permian Period.""

Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox

Sweet Dreams duo

Queen's debut hit

Eurythmy

Eutectoid

Young 6 said to be ending life

Painless method of killing

Young Burmese at home

Adjective (-ic)

EUTHANIZE

Euthanize

Euthenist

Eutherian

Eutrophy

Fire drill activity

Clearing out

Removal of aunt with a voice quaking

Desperate move to a safer place

Organized withdrawal

Like some war zone-related measures

Critic's chore

Online appraisal (wordplay)

Assessment

Critique

Exercising or involving careful analytical evaluations.

Judges, at times

Tending to fade from sight

Tending to fade away.

Even a horrible smell is short-lived

Fading away gradually

Fading out

Missionary position (wordplay)

Job done on the convertible (wordplay)

Work done on the convertible (wordplay)

Traveling soulsman (wordplay)

Preacher of the Christian Gospel

Preacher gives Lent a transformation

Attempt a conversion (wordplay)

Preach the gospel

Preach

Evanish

"Gone With the Wind"

Changed states, in a way

Gradually faded away

Disappears at sea - prove otherwise!

Disappears in a way, to cover up order by judges

Disappears

Device that turns liquid to gas

Air conditioner component

Fridge device

Evaporite

EVAPORITE

Like 12, passed as fair

Fair and impartial

Worker made matching boxes for fair

Evenness

In a way full of incident

In the end, level with union supporter

Sooner or later

In due course

Came to pass

Resulted

Comes to pass

Everlasting.

Where the Florida gators play (wordplay)

Boy found in eastern borders of US swamp

Home to many a manatee

Fairway foliage (wordplay)

Laurels, for example

Places for Christmas trim

In all locations (US)

All over

All the gin? Very drunk!

2, 7 and 23, say, keeping extremely slim

All that is; life in general

Something mislaid? Look here!

End of the quip

In all places

Your average female

""An ordinary woman, representative of all women.""

Evidence

Tending to prove reckless, dive in late

Demonstrative disturbing tale divine

On a record

Devil's deeds, say

Evilness

Deprive of vital parts, as a fish

Eater's vice possibly producing gut

Deprive of vital parts

Old 11 being drowned by son - I've gone mad in acts of calling out

Processes of growth.

Gradual changes

Process of unfolding.

Gradual change of love back to hole to entrap me

Evonymus

Provoke rage placing old tree in van

Make (a bad thing) worse

Provoke troublesome bearcat in river

EXACTING exact

Quality of being precise

Opposite of roughness

Care for former wife feeling cold, not tense

Over-egg, somewhat!

Shady politician's credo, part 1

Caricature, by definition

Group of larks

Flock of larks

Flocks of larks

Capable of being examined or inquired into.

Examinant

Exanthema

Exarchate

Infuriate snake by weed back in river

Intensely irritate a sea expert at sea

Enrage former Queen, bit embracing snake

Bringing up, in a way

Making hollow, in a way

Dig action

The act of digging

Hole created by paleontologists

Virginia in old action organised on site

Backhoes

Exceptional quality

Great merit

Honorary title.

Official title of great merit (wordplay)

Ambassador's honorific title

Ambassador's title

Longfellow's poetic injunctions.

Backstage visitors without passes (wordplay)

Excerpter

Excerpt

The act of excerpting or selecting.

Excerptor

Exchanger

Swapping

National treasuries

Treasuries

Excipient

EXCISION the act of {excising=v}

Bygone award (wordplay)

Fervour of old lover getting recognition

I got in awful tax notice, hence agitated state

Tending to stir up

Causing elation

Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.

What some speed demons crave

State of upped energy

What many fans generate

EXCITING excite

Exclaimer

Exclaim