2-Letter Words Starting with E

They're so trying

Plural of endocardium .

""ENDODERM the innermost layer of embryo, also ENTODERM""

Endogamy

Marrying within the same tribe; opposed to exogamous. exogamous.

Plural of endometrium .

Endoplasm

""ENDORSE to declare one's approval, also INDORSE""

""A highly toxic crystalline insecticide, C 9 H 6 Cl 6 O 3 S, used in the control of crop insects and mites.""

""Pl. endothecia (-s - , -sh - ) The inner tissue of an anther or a moss capsule.""

""Pl. endothelia (-l - ) A thin layer of flat epithelial cells that lines serous cavities, lymph vessels, and blood vessels.""

Endurance

Devitalizing.

Weakened state

Fatigue from worship with leader of Vatican arriving late

Lack of fizz upset Frenchman, acclaim being a non-starter

Sweeping with gunfire.

""A process of extracting perfumes by exposing absorbents, as fixed oils or fats, to the exhalations of the flowers. It is used for plants whose volatile oils are too delicate to be separated by distillation.""

Date of a battle (wordplay)

A phase of love or of war (wordplay)

Battle that led to union (wordplay)

We're getting married

In an attractive way

Engarland

Propagating by cions.

Firmly incorporating English adventurer's activity on river (wordplay)

Engrail

Engrain

Printing plates, often

13 across, but not too deep, for them, perhaps

Incised designs

Relative of chromatic.

Having the same pitch but written differently, in a score

Continuation onto next line in poetry

Flow of one line of a verse to the next without pause

""Either of two closely related pentapeptides having opiate qualities and occurring in the brain, spinal cord, and other parts of the body.""

""The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace.""

Enokidake

The study of wine and the making of wine; viticulture.

Poor Rupert Dean is delighted

When Lil Wayne is happy, he feels ...

When Lil Wayne is happy, he feels...

Enrapture

Enravish

Enravish

Make red with blood

Ensheath

Wraps

""ENSILAGE to store in a silo, also ENSILE""

Tangling up

Angler's in mess gripping pole getting tangled

Tangling

What's wrong with ensign wrapping up well (wordplay)

Implication

""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.""

Entamoeba

Entangler

Causing involvement

TV does it sometimes

Has friends over

Acts as host.

Enthalpy

Bewitched? Get out and tell her!

What Svengali did

Spell with this

So in Mensa I managed 1ac

Warmth from the sun as I'm swimming

False Messiah, nut showing zeal

Surprisingly taut, she's in buff!

She's a nut, it turns out!

Buff for N. Shute as it turned out

""ENTODERM the innermost layer of embryo, also ENDODERM""

Trailers on film sets (wordplay)

Followings

They trail along behind - hospital department hours being trimmed a long time

Entrainer

Entrain

Delightful.

Delightful

Bewitching

Sting victim's court defense, perhaps

Tricking (of someone) into crime

Underhand arrest maneuver

Catching, in a way

Petitions and submissions put away inside

Please, can I stay up another hour? and the like

Requests a vermouth served up between courses

Begging that rage in tent be modified

Asking (someone) earnestly

Beseeching

Ballet dancer's leaps.

Ballet leaps

""ENUCLEATE To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.""

Enucleate

Capable of being counted

Finite, in a way

Counted, in a way

Mature 24 might be listed

Listed one by one

Lists one by one

Counts

Online counter (wordplay)

One who counts out

Census Bureau employee

Capable of being enunciated or expressed.

Shaved Paul indecent, kinky it's said

Mentioned

Speaks clearly

One who enunciates or proclaims.

Seeing in one's mind

Enwrap

Enwreath

Enwreathe

EPAULETTE

Dress uniform adornments

Plants lasting only a few days

Short-lived things.

""Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast.""

Epicalyx

Epicalyx

EPICARDIA

Part of a sac surrounding the heart

Heart protector

Of an earthquake's origin

Devotees of fine dining

Persons fond of luxury.

Gourmands or gourmets

""Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.""

""Pl. epididymides (-m -d z ) A long, narrow, convoluted tube, part of the spermatic duct system, that lies on the posterior aspect of each testicle, connecting it to the vas deferens.""

Situated immediately over the stomach

Pl. epiglottises or epiglottides (-gl t -d z ) The thin elastic cartilaginous structure located at the root of the tongue that folds over the glottis to prevent food and liquid from entering the trachea during the act of swallowing.

EPIGRAPH an engraved inscription

EPIGRAPH an engraved inscription

Epilation

Epimerase

Epinasty

Of or relating to the part of the oceanic zone into which enough sunlight enters for photosynthesis to take place.

Sudden revelations

Adjective (-ous)

Epiphragm

Pl. epiphyses (-s z ) The end of a long bone that is originally separated from the main bone by a layer of cartilage but later becomes united to the main bone through ossification.

""Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphysis.""

""Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers bishops, priests, and deacons of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind.""

See son wearing majestic old crown

Bishop's office copies tape improperly

See majestic old crown son's wearing

Incidental.

EPISOMAL pertaining to an {episome=n}

Epistasy

To do with letters

Describing a work comprised of letters

Like pen pals' relationships

EPITAPH to compose an inscription on a tomb

""Of or pertaining to epithelium; as, epithelial cells; epithelial cancer. as, epithelial cells; epithelial cancer.""

EPITOMIC relating to an epitome

""The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind.""

Equaliser

Evening game

Evenly proportioned things.

Constitutional concerns

Pistols, to small hoods

Equalize

Many quite outraged and one's kept calm

Evenness of temper

Evenness of temper.

Like algebra

Near the hot line (wordplay)

Near 0 degrees (wordplay)

Of an earth line

Polo player, for one.

New inquest re a man on horseback

Person on horseback

States of adjustment.

On it quite a revolutionary way of riding

Horsemanship.

Horsemanship

Model queen? Vital for peer!

Tantamount (to)

The same as

Beat about the bush

Be a weasel

Use evasive language

Eradiate

Not permanent

Killed time not in dictated (wordplay)

Completely destroyed

Completely eliminated

Puts an end to

Finishes off arcade site complex

Wipes out completely

A creator? I'd set out to be different!

Rot and acid are sent back for one to exterminate

Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude.

Ergograph

""A crystalline alkaloid, C 33 H 35 N 5 O 5 , derived from ergot that induces vasoconstriction and is used especially in treating migraine.""

Morecambe and Wise, we hear, sag from this blooming characterisation

In an arousing manner

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

Complaint could produce replies, say

English word

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

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.

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

To make eternal.

""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

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

According to national groups.

Ethylate

Etiolate

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

""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

Eukaryote

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

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]""

Euphorbia

Inducing euporia.

Euphrasy

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.

Young 6 said to be ending life

Painless method of killing

Young Burmese at home

Adjective (-ic)

EUTHANIZE

Euthanize

Eutherian

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