2-Letter Words Starting with E

Egomania

Natives of Cairo, say

Africans say pay isn't bad

Pet saying distressed locals in Memphis (wordplay)

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

Like some jet fighter seats

Like CDs and DVDs

Shed light (on)

Say more, please

Fancy getting English leftist to speak!

Elastase

Neoprene, for example

Material obtainable from ores - metal

Always securing final order for material

Click beetles

Elaterin

""A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen. mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.""

Likely to attract votes

Fit to pick first, as those standing should be

Having a chance of getting in with gorgeous date being taken out

Sort of roll, A-E, etc (wordplay)

College of voters (wordplay)

College of presidents (wordplay)

""A medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note under Confection. Confection.""

Elegance

Do this with Grace

Gracefully and tastefully

Gentle lay, rendered with style

1988's winning word: Mournful

Mournful Alice with a leg broken

Drunk Gaelic ale - becoming mournful

On the table (wordplay)

Basic Tears for Fears album (wordplay)

Basic and potent

The planes (anagram)

They're long in the tooth (wordplay)

What do mahouts ride (wordplay)

Elevated

Like a good sermon

Promoting genial vet after work

Lifting the spirits

Height - a live note (anagram)

Piece of RICE (wordplay)

Face lift (wordplay)

They can give you a lift

Lifts, in London

Businesspeople take them down

How heat might knock one out (wordplay)

Exclude cream-covered Mina (wordplay)

Do away with, remove

Dangle toe (anagram)

Do a gentle flip, when stretched

Lengthened dress for elegant do

Musk scandals? (or draws out)

Stretches for poor Noel and rich Bill

Gone stale possibly, so pulls out

Edit a clue, perhaps, to make it clear

Explain cryptic clue one time

Throw light on a problem, make clear

""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

Came off a diet for modelling thus!

I arrived up here with such a thin boy

I came up over such a very thin boy

Wastes time, a case for improvement

Grows thin, as mice eat in a frenzy

Thins

Issuing from a source

Proceeding from a source.

Fellow's worrying about coming out

Chad, for one

Issue half of them before a race

A flowing forth

Tending to radiate something

Spreading abroad

Flowing forth.

Things that give off fragrances, for example

They use preservatives

A grave occupation (wordplay)

Preserving a dead body

Means of corpse preservation

Embank

Prohibited, in a way

Banned officially

Commercial blockers (wordplay)

Restrictions imposed on commerce.

Legal prohibitions on commerce

Boarding every other term - quite mad!

Venturing to put the compiler up? Mad!

Boarding, as a ship

Turn red, maybe

Induce squirming in, perhaps

Cause to blush, maybe

Embar

An embassy.

D.C. row houses (wordplay)

Homes away from home (wordplay)

Buildings in a Washington, D.C., 'row'

Beset with attackers

Beset by difficulties

Struggling doctor stops mad ladette

Puts under siege

Fortifies me returning on wrong tablets

Fortifies, as a military camp

A bay.

Emblazer

On fire

Celebrates or proclaims

Decorates brilliantly

One guilty of embracery.

Embracer

Nobbling race outsider could be right by me

Getting up in arms (wordplay)

Activity at a joyful reunion

The way to have one in arms

Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing.

To confuse; to entangle.

Opening amber fluid OK

Opening in a wall for firing through

Opening to fire nasty Amber beyond doubt

""Pertaining to an embryo, or the initial state of any organ; embryonic.""

Emeerate

Subject to alteration

Fade out, like Marryat's uncomplicated seaman

Rectifiable

Made corrections to

Rectified.

Improves by revision

Corrects a text.

Corrects text

They've left me staring in bewilderment

People leaving, streaming out

Ones moving far from home

Left the country, perhaps

Sought greener pastures, perhaps

Went abroad to live

Uses an exit visa, perhaps

Leaves regimes at loggerheads!

Goes on leave for good

Ability to give off radiant energy

Optics unit

Caught up in the moment, maybe

Rational converse (wordplay)

Too menial to get worked up!

Stuffed Spanish pastries

Stuffed pastries of Latin America

Pastries de Chile

Empanel

Understandings of others' situations

Kindred feelings

Be understanding of

Identify mentally with another person

Have fellow-feeling for

Identify with another's thoughts

Identify (with)

Create an emotional bond

Tail of an airplane

Aircraft's tail assembly

Give extra importance to

Impasse he cultivated, causing stress

Worried MP? Ease his stress

Underline, say

Put in italics

Call attention to

Smoker's lung condition

Distension of the lung

Lung condition causes bad ESP mayhem

Pragmatic way to price mail (wordplay)

Mail price (anagram)

Based on observation or experience

Emplace

Emplane

Empyema

Empyrean

Trying to equal.

Glutamine (anagram)

Imitating

Act of attempting to match or surpass

Effort to equal others

Wannabe's focus

Suitable for modeling

Desirous of equaling someone else

Taking after emu, returning alive; excellent!

Mirroring software programs

Programs that let computers run software written for other systems

Copiers

Law that has been passed

Action on Capitol Hill

Process of passing a law

Metalworkers, at times

Surfacers of a sort

Makers of cloisonne.

Type of ornamentation

High gloss finish

Adorning with a brightly colored surface

Artist of smooth surfaces.

Artist initially erased celebrity register

With a shiny topcoat

Used japan

Screamed head off about tag and put a coat on

Charming.

Echo called about our being in love!

Our mean Ed (anagram)

In love with - named rou (anagram)

Pitching tents

For Paul, scene to summarize

Summarize

Encash

Prepared by means of heat; burned in.

Plural of encephalon .

Like some gangs

Kept in shackles

Spelled, perhaps, and sing in need

Charming Delerium song (wordplay)

Under a spell and thence transformed

At last the singer is bewitching

Stock character in some fantasy novels

Magician from Nabokov, then Crane, perhaps with...

Enchaser

Enchase

Whole food (wordplay)

Hot Mexican dish

Special deal with china dish

Seized and held.

One who publicly praises or flatters another

One who offers praise, waving team's icon

Snaps come out and go round

Bring about spasm once tormented

Corrupt cop names head of smuggling ring

Give hope to (someone)

Give support to, stimulate hope

Argue once mistakenly and inspire

Endamage

Endamage

Endameba

Endameba

Variant of entamoeba .

Puts on the line

Places at risk

Puts in peril

Endbrain

Winning finish gets attention in golf

Delightful finale holds attention

Winning over the listener in the finish

Takes a crack at

Exerts effort.

Industrious efforts

Try to finish always as you might say

How trying this is!

Do one's best around Eve Cook (wordplay)

Endleaf

Inner layers: Bot

Endocast

Inside of a cell

Plod names unruly cell occupant

Endosarc

Wind up with nothing to lift from inside bone

Orchestra spotted by Doyle (wordplay)

Parts of a book.

They're inside the covers

Terminal treelike branchings of motor nerve cells

Destroyed north pedestal is reduced to flat structures

Not that bad

Like minor hardships

Like adversity, one hopes

In an endurable manner.

Last to be first in this test (wordplay)

Last to demonstrate this (wordplay)

Crude Anne (anagram)

On the ropes

Sapped of zip

Deprived of vigour

Saps of vigor.

Brings lethargy upon

Saps of strength

Shot at, as a line of troops

Rakes with fire

Rakes with gunfire

Arrangements, as of opposed mirrors, giving the effect of long vistas

Enflame

Enframe

Wreathe with flowers.

Transferred to a new plant

Added to a plant

Engrail

Inveterate, if erroneous, need to store corn

Engramme

Impressive people (wordplay)

People who chase English partygoers (wordplay)

Mint employees

Impression of burial (wordplay)

Shallow burial (wordplay)

Inscription for burial (wordplay)

Surrounding with a glow

Some food additives

Improving the value of (something)

Improving the quality (of something)

Improving inn with change, perhaps

Magnetic around one - mysterious!

I get manic about puzzling!

Mysterious giant mice on the run!

Such as gives pleasure

Giving pleasure

Pleasurable

ENJOY to take pleasure in

They "blow up" photos.

They blow up shots

Darkroom equipment

Making more of release

Making bigger

Augmentative

Polygons with nine angles

Geometric nine-angled figures.

Nine-sided figures

""A widely cultivated mushroom (Flammulina velutipes) native to North America and eastern Asia, having a pinlike appearance that superficially resembles the bean sprout. Also called golden needles .""

Boarding a jet

Ape Turner (anagram)

Send into a swoon

Put in ecstasy

Ensample

Cover, as a sword

Cover, as a knife

Put a protective layer around

Ensheath

Preserved fodder in a way

In storage.

Ensilage

Bond dealers (wordplay)

Subjugators

Enslave

Ensnarer

A singer poorly with two new heads - it's catching

Capturing

Tangled, fowl lost her head and growled

Tangled up

Twisted up

Enswathe

Wraps, as in bandages

Entailer

Involving possibly ten in a bad way

Involving as a result.

Leading to in consequence

Entameba

Entameba

""Pl. entamoebas also endamoebas or entamoebae also endamoebae (-b ) Any of several parasitic amoebas of the genus Entamoeba, especially E. histolytica, causing dysentery and ulceration of the colon and liver.""

All wound up (wordplay)

English books inclined to be involved

Caught up in nasty net, fish died

Kitten with a string, for example

Snares fish in cod nets

Gets mixed up with ten crooked corners

Twists together into a confusing mass

ENTERA enteron

ENTERAL pertaining to the enteron

Please have a party!

Wine and dine, say

Have it in mind to have party (wordplay)

Spellbinds

Transports

Crowns

Nice retinue (wordplay)

Star cluster (wordplay)

Celebrity's following

Entozoan

Got limited access (wordplay)

Boarded a Pullman car

Started on a journey.

ENTRAIN to board a train

'Came in, perhaps, bewitchingly (9)'

Came in, perhaps, under a spell

So delighted to have gone in, perhaps

Ways into buildings

Delights in actor's appearances

Ways to get in

Tricked, as by an interrogator

Caught in a snare

Stung, in a way

Imp, Lo! Red (wordplay)

Begged to have been patient at last

Appealed earnestly, begged

Ballet dancer's leap

Difficult ballet step.

Enter Dotty, with bird's dance movement

Passages at the front

They allow access

Portals

Remove a core or a growth

Extract (a kernel) from shell or husk.

Count or mention items one by one

Clarify, as a word puzzle clue

Give chapter and verse

Composing a nice tune, say (wordplay)

Provide clear terms (wordplay)

Say (something) clearly

Conceived to have a face in the end

Viewed with the mind's eye.

Saw in one's mind

Pictures the wise men following the N6!

'Conceives of, imagines (9)'

One imagines the faces of headless fowl

Covered with packaging

Totally absorbed, warden playing entertaining piano in gym

Surround, envelop

Like some breakdowns

Like some reactions

Eparchy

Shoulder piece (mil.)

Shoulder board (Var.)

Top decoration for officer (wordplay)

Ependyma

Mayflies, for example

Short-lived mayflies

Fifteen works of Nabokov? Or some of his collected specimens (wordplay)