2-Letter Words Starting with E

Brief won't last long in anyone's books!

Lasting a short time

Lasting a very short time

Transitory things

Ephorate

Outer layers of cells of an embryo

Parts of sacs around hearts

The French Laundry patron, perhaps

Fond of luxury, pleasure, etc.

Lover of fine dining

Relating to skin surface

Of the outer layer of skin

Of the outer skin

Epifauna

EPIFAUNA fauna living on a hard sea floor

Epifauna

Quotations before chapters

Quotes for unreliable pie charts

Engraved inscriptions - Sherpa pig (anagram)

Stone-inscription study

Happy Geri upset to see the writing on the wall

Inscriptions putting end to male chauvinist musical genre hastily disembowelled

Removing hair, arrange into a pile

Hair removal finds Greek character overcome by joy

Religious, consumed by joy, shedding that which is superficial (wordplay)

English word

Pl. epiphanies Epiphany a. A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.

The disc with which certain molluscs close the aperture of their shell

To do with bishop - maybe Pepsi-Cola

See is special op compromised (wordplay)

See nature (wordplay)

""Pl. epistases (-s z ) An interaction between nonallelic genes, especially an interaction in which one gene suppresses the expression of another.""

Spite re-engendered when one's discharge is thus prevented

Record introduction of injection still concerned with genetic interaction

Pl. epistaxes (-st k s z ) A nosebleed.

What the doctor calls a nosebleed

Bleeding from the nose

Pertaining to an epitaph; epitaphian.

""Pl. epitaxies The growth of the crystals of one mineral on the crystal face of another mineral, such that the crystalline substrates of both minerals have the same structural orientation.""

Epitaxy

Skin cells

Lamb contains marrow and the last pieces of cell tissue

Influentially

Epopoeia

Scored vital goal in match? Offside!

Brought into line, punished, I squealed

Drew level

What could make one lie square (wordplay)

Levelling goal

Strike causing impasse from peer is sign of hesitation

Equalise

Made the same

Evened out

Six-shooter, a la the adult Western

With "The," Edward Woodward series

Pistol, in slang

Serves as a matchmaker (wordplay)

Squares up

Evens out

Matching the record

Engineer's concern.

Some memorization for a physics test

Chalkboard writings in a physics class

MOLAR a grinding tooth

Equipage

Just calm about it

Quite able to be fair with this

Quite able to be fair

Good way to divide up resources

Fairly efficiently tunnelling under eastern desert

Ambiguous,can be interpreted in two ways

Uncertain note on Queen single's sung

Of uncertain nature or significance

Issued in rays

Gave off, as light

Shot out

Shoots forth

Beams forth.

Emits

Kill time say, losing time

I created a grisly murder

Get rid of, eliminate entirely

""Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather. as, an erectable feather.""

""An instrument for measuring and recording the work done by a single muscle or set of muscles, the rate of fatigue, etc.""

Controversial

Controversial

Affected by wind or water, say

Relating to a process of wearing away

Like wind and rain

Errancy

Erratic.

Eructate

Belches

Erythema

Entered via ladders

ESCALADE to scale by means of a ladder

Attacks involving ladders

Went there, perhaps

Made a bigger war.

Got more intense

Resolved cases receive overdue increases

Ups over time

Increases in intensity

Way to the top, a la 12, perhaps

One-way flight (wordplay)

Anti-Stairmaster (wordplay)

Prepares potatoes in a way

Thin slices, as of veal

Bakes in a casserole

Baked in sauce, as potatoes

Wild oats of a kind

Tyll Eulenspiegel's activities.

Adventures of a sort

Escapism

Fantasy fiction readers, for example

Ivory tower dwellers.

Fantasy fiction readers, e.g

Hoity-toity appetizer

Gastronome's gastropods

Cooked snails

Varieties of salad greens

Salad greens

Salad greens.

Landscaper's job

Type of onion plants (Var.)

Onions first eaten by prince in bed on board

'E 'as been done down by the Crown

If 'e has not played fair, all his stuff went to the Crown

Things abstained from

Avoidances

Part of the thorax.

Part of the body

Group IV gullet

Mysterious items - ciao trees (anagram)

Dark matter (wordplay)

Words not ideal for crossword puzzles

Fruit trees grown on latticed walls

Branch-training trellises

Tree-trimming trellises

Espanol

Cape on northwest tip of Guadalcanal

Realm of bugs and plants (wordplay)

Bond activity (wordplay)

Agent's work (wordplay)

One's plan adequately describes walk

Send a plea out for a seaside walk

Eased off about scheme for promenade

Position statements

Wedding ceremonies

Marriages

Emerson and Lamb

Writers on various subjects

Bacon et al.

Tails seen, perhaps, as necessary

In Germany it 29 down a twisted tail

In Germany 19 across with a twisted tail

Found - his stable (anagram)

What covers essay by learner is found

Found - this sable (anagram)

Site meant for small cafe!

Sounds as if it's in France

Small (and usually shabby) cafe or bar

Ranches of S. A

Senor's stock farms.

Great ranches in Argentina.

Certain enzymes

Certain enzymes.

Enzymes

Esthesia

Worthy of great respect

Worthy of respect

Worthy of respect.

So as to deserve admiration

Rough times with a date

Roughly it is in Latin I got married

Reckoned diets changed around China

Handyman's figures

Body shop figures

Reckons big cars will go about one mile

One who's not being precise

One judging number, quantity, etc

Who you see about a dent

Spent the summer

Remained torpid during summer.

Estivate

""An estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 24 O 2 , produced by the ovaries and used in treating estrogen deficiency.""

Estragon

Put at a distance

Friends no more.

A nerd gets (anagram) - separated

One who estranges.

Greatness, sadly, sets one apart

Turns away.

Turns away

Estray

Exacted by way of a fine

Like an arm of the sea

Of large river mouths.

The sounds of New York, for instance

Arms of the sea.

Waters at the mouth

Formed in a firth.

Beer verse type? - of the mouth

River and sea unite, blended in such a place

Odds and ends.

They sound like numerous editions

The King of Siam's favorite words

How grateful can one be (wordplay)

How Forster's Moment endured

Nearly let out forever

In a moral way

After direction, City Hall works as it should!

They are around when I summon them in a moral way

Ethician

Like a sieve; cribriform.

Rulers of 6Ac, possibly, including part of Rhion and outskirts of Corinth

Ethylate

Ethylate

Blanched, as celery.

Pale of late, about to die horribly

Whitened, as plants.

Causes to whiten by excluding light

Deprives of color and strength

Becomes blanched from lack of light

Oil producers lie and cut pay anyhow

Typical EU destroyed trees

Brussels ruined typical producers of oil

Eucalypt

""An organism with "good" or membrane-bound nuclei having multiple chromosomes; eucaryotes also have other membrane-bound organelles such as mitochondria or chloroplasts, within the cytoplasm enclosed by the outer membrane. Such cells are characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria and blue-green algae. Contrasted with prokaryote.prokaryote.""

Of an ancient system of geometry

Dutch uncle without a notion of geometry

Type of geometry

Geometry type

That's figuratively the hidden clue I had over the boy

Eudaemon

Organism with membrane-bound organelles

Eulachan

Eulachon

Eupatrid

Eupepsia

Bush perhaps began in excessive optimism

Great feeling about key plant

Plant for bishop in high spirits

Euphoria

Eurybath

Eustacy

EUTHANIZE

""Of or belonging to the infraclass Eutheria, a division of mammals to which all the placental mammals belong.""

Such purgatives use 'Vacant' indicators

Withdrawn with due caveat, possibly

Left an unsafe place

Didn't wait for the hurricane

Leaves due to a threat

Clears out a cute vase damaged

Clears out foolishly a cute vase

Sized up

Sized up getting moved out if Liberal becomes Conservative

English girl with posh date possibly given an assessment

Judges use a valet for dressing

Assesses, as the subject of a contract

Pans, perhaps

Professor, at times

Judgmental person

Appraiser

Faded away

Faded away.

Seven and ace, possibly diamonds, vanished

Doesn't stay visible

Fades away

Disappears gradually

Pertaining to the Gospels

Pertaining to the Bible

Based on the Gospels

Evanish

Evanish

Let off steam, perhaps (wordplay)

Get steamed (wordplay)

Get steamy (wordplay)

A sedimentary deposit that results from the evaporation of seawater.

So as to avoid the point

In a deliberately vague manner

In a suspicious manner

Times with little light reading as plane crashes

Come to pass

Come to pass.

Turn out that you ate 24 across

Swamp (in Florida, for example)

Always a gap in the trees in Florida

A large shallow lake or marsh

Online occupation (wordplay)

Computer business (wordplay)

Calling for online mission (wordplay)

Tending to call up, say memories

Awakening memories of octave I've lost

Evoking deep memories

Evocator

EVOLVE to {develop=v}

Like back rents

Oppressive demands of former doings of Sisson

Rigour of head supporting old enterprise

Old flame, frightful cat with head for precision

The precision of former bit of play on water

EXALTED exalt

One who examines; an examiner.

Bubble fillers, perhaps

They may pass on what they know

Witnesses, in court

Testy, former underground workers

People questioning pitmen after cutback

S.E.C. employees

Looking at closely

Very good looking

Subjecting to inspection

Example

Deprived of or lacking life

Skin eruption accompanying a fever

Skin rash accompanying a fever

Exanthem

Byzantine governorship - formerly a Thrace, perhaps

Exarchy

Dug or hollowed out

Hollowed out

Dug up

Digs made by former lover Eva, cast adrift

Machine used for quarrying

Powered machine for digging earth

Power shovel

Swapped old coins and old coins

Caught and executed after old lover returned

Former lover with money and diamonds returned

One who exchanges; one who practices exchange.

Swaps for sex change

Trading places.

Calls may be made via these money markets

May be cut out

Duty collector (hist.)

'The de'il's away wi' him', said Burns

Old smuggler's foe

Easily aroused or made emotional

Highly strung - easily roused

Easily enthused

Excitant

Cried out in surprise

Former lover put in a demand and shouted

Called as former partner demanded

One who exclaims.

Tear a new one

'Blame former wife? Blow me!', I scoffed

Censure actor I threw in river

Absolve (from a crime)

Free or clear from blame

Clear of charges

Minor, maybe

Forgivable, pardonable

Justifiable

EXCUSE to free from blame or guilt

River crustacean to the French abhorrent

Abominable, deserves to be detested

No good at all

""EXECRABLE Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch. as, an execrable wretch.""

Felt loathing for

The cursed river has got boxed in

That cursed river got boxed in

Curses river's decrepit transport

Deplores what top managers are paid (wordplay)

Curses late unreliable cars touring Spain

EXECRATE to {curse=v}

River separated worker from performer

Performer in river, wounded worker

Artist, performer

Models are not liable to have bottom wiped by Swedish bloke

Models

Serving as a model.

Setting a good standard

Worthy of imitation

Use a microdermabrasion agent, say

I exalt foe disposed to save his skin!

Use pumice on, perhaps

They let out air

Old prince joining the workers: they can let off steam

Exhalent

Needing a rest

He used tax form that's expired

Worn out as he taxed us horribly

""One who, or that which, exhausts or draws out.""

Exodontics.

Exogamy

Relating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one's own tribe; opposed to endogenous. endogenous.

Old partner gets one judge to let off

Clear of blame

Clear old partner unified amount charged

Expander

Spreading out, growing

Enlarging, extending

Expandor