2-Letter Words Starting with E

Everlasting

EVERYDAY something appropriate for weekdays rather than Sunday

Evidential

EVISCERATE To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.

Disembowelling

Gradually developing

Rebel, no leader concerned with gradual change

Gradually developing as rebel after monarch's ousted as leader

Making worse.

Making (something) worse

EXACTING exact

Indulging in hyperbole

Overstating

Inflation? Cut rising going rate perhaps

An overdrawn account

Overstatement - overestimate

Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration.

Exaggerator

""Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative.""

Tests show cut back is not main problem

One squeezed by awful mansion tax: Myleene ultimately probes

Tests

""EXANTHEMA An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever.""

Very frustrating

Extremely annoying

Infuriating

Intense irritation

Open-air sex at assembly causes annoyance

Disgruntlement

""EXCAVATION The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.""

Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.

The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.

Rats! et al.

Can a mole exist with its head cut off? No! Never!

Snappy utterances

Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.

EXCOGITATE To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.

EXCOGITATE To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

Excoriation

Racking collapses in exit, accruing ...

Intensely painful

Very painful

""The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.""

Exculpation

""EXENTERATE To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. as, exenterated fishes.""

Act of exenterating.

Exercise; practice; use.

Exfoliation

Exhaustive

""EXHAUSTIVE Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. as, an exhaustive method.""

Making lively and cheerful

Making very happy

Making one feel lively and cheerful

Strong feeling of excited happiness

Joy for old Benn is without end: people oust leader!

Joyousness

""EXHILARATE To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man. as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.""

Exhortation

Acquittals

Exonuclease

Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of single amino acids from the end of a polypeptide chain.

""Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.""

Abnormal protrusion of the eyeball.

Same as Exophthalmia.Exophthalmia.

Exorbitance

""In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.""

EXORCISTIC

Exoterical

Exothermal

EXPANSION The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.

Policy of seeking economic or territorial growth

Doctrine of increasing the territory or influence of a country

Advocate of territorial enlargement

The Cloister and the Hearth author

Expatiation

EXPATRIATE To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

In atonement, treacherous rat gets exile

EXPATRIATE To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

Expectancy

Hopes for the future

Realistic hopes

Bank on answer to half the objections with hope and conjecture

Expectorant

Anticipated accepting nothing traitor coughed up

Expectorate

"". Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare.""

""Derived from, or pertaining to, experience.""

Data-based - inexpert male (anagram)

Tentative mixture - for example nitre

Based on untested ideas

Rationales

Clarifying statements by old lover and pal travelling in Europe

Illuminating declarations by former pal moving places in Europe

( ks pl nt ) Explanted tissue.

Explication

Unfair use

Taking advantage - optional exit (anagram)

""An act or deed, especially a brilliant or heroic one. See Synonyms at feat 1 .""

Exploration

Exportation

EXPOSITION The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.

""EXPOSTULATE To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; followed by with. with.""

Expostulate

""Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment.""

""Taken out of the possession of another and transferred to one's own use often without permission; as, the expropriated land was developed into a public playground.as, the expropriated land was developed into a public playground.""

Expropriate

One who takes property for the public benefit

Expurgation

EXSANGUINE Bloodless.

Exsiccation

Extemporal

Extenuation

Was finished when destroyed

Destroyed

Exterminate

Ridder of rats in 1918?

Ridder of rats in 1918 (wordplay)

Schwarzenegger, today (wordplay)

EXTERNALISE to make external.

Externalise

Externalism

EXTERNALIZE To make external; to manifest by outward form.

Externalize

Extirpation

Extortionate.

(Of a price) much too high

Overly demanding

Outrageously costly

Located or occurring outside the cranium.

Extractive

""Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice.""

Old customs (wordplay)

Customs of an old flame (wordplay)

Originating or occurring outside the liver.

Extralegal

Adjective (-al)

Lying outside of the domain of logic.

Kind of affair

Occurring outside marriage

Outside marriage

Beyond the physical world

Extramural

Adjective (-ical)

Extraneous

Located or occurring outside the nucleus of a cell.

Predicted from known data

Extended by inference from known data

Extrapolate

EXTRAPOLATE

Type of perception (2 words)

Kind of perception

Part 2 of the quip

""A premature contraction of the heart, resulting in momentary cardiac arrhythmia.""

Adjective (-al)

""Outside of the uterus, or womb.""

Lavish expenditure (E, not Y)

Excessive spending

Lavish expenditure

Extravagance.

Elaborately staged light entertainment

Elaborately staged entertainment

Type of show.

EXTRAVAGATE To rove.

Extravagate

""EXTRAVASATE To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood.""

Extravasate

Looking out additional account

Another translation going out with confidence high

Extrication

Earnestness

Earthliness

Easygoing

Closed-door hearing figures (wordplay)

End of the quip

Secretly overhearing

Listening furtively

Monitoring leaves that don't start falling

In an eccentric manner.

Men of the cloth

Echolocation

Ectoparasite

ECTOPARASITE Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; opposed to endoparasite. endoparasite.

""ECUMENICAL General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council.as, an ecumenical council.""

Editorialist

EDITORIALIZE to write an opinion in an editorial in a publication.

EDITORIALIZE to write an opinion in an editorial in a publication.

Editorialize

Educability

Educational

Educationese

Educationist

Energy shown by very loud cute lass excited about north-east success

Effectuation

Effectively

Eggheaded

In a self-centered way

In a selfish manner

In self-centred manner

Leading experts try crossing two types of monkey, vainly

Intricacy of astrolabe seen in disorder

Complicated detail

Complication

Elasmobranch

""ELECTRODE The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.""

Used to hoist iron

Device using current to attract iron

Invention of 1824

""ELECTROPLATE To plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, or gold, by means of electrolysis.""

Electroplate

Pertaining to electrostatics.

Plural or third person singular

""A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.""

Elucubration

Emancipation

Emargination

Emasculation

""EMBARRASS To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator. as, laughter may embarrass an orator.""

EMBARRASSED embarrass

Humiliation as member rants drunkenly

Financial difficulty; shame

A nineteen-eighty hit for 4 down

Embattlement

Emblazonment

""EMBLEMATIZE To represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize.""

Embolization

""(tr) Rare to confuse or entangle [from em- + obsolete brangle to wrangle, perhaps a blend of brawl 1 + wrangle ]""

Of or pertaining to embryology.

EMBRYONIC Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.

Emotionalism

Emotionalist

EMOTIONALIZE To give an emotional character to.

Emotionalize

""Pertaining to, or of the nature of, emphysema; swelled; bloated.""

The state of being employed: in the employ of the city.

Enantiomorph

Expressing concisely and succinctly

Concise expression (of idea)

Concise and succinct expression

Non-U Eastern capitals? Could be a succinct description

Picture of brain spread around, coating new mushroom ring

Enchantress

""The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention.""

Support stirred game encounter

Shot in the arm

Something that heartens

Encouraging

Encroachment

Encrustation

Encumbrancer

Comprehensive work of reference

Extensive reference work

Large reference work

Distribute a licenced copy full of information

Comprehensive

Brown et al. (wordplay)

Volumes of information

Endangerment

""Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph; as, the endolymphatic duct as, the endolymphatic duct""

Endonuclease

Endoparasite

""ENDOPARASITE Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozo\'94n. ectoparasite. See Entozo\'94n.""

Any of a large group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of peptide bonds in the interior of a polypeptide chain or protein molecule.