2-Letter Words Starting with E

Forming spikes, as corn

Short nautical line

Rope for reefing a sail

An insect; to eavesdrop (slang)

Insect or bug (wordplay)

Insect with aural toupee (wordplay)

Letting (up on)

Relaxation, say, about a moral slip

Letting off the throttle (with "up")

Get in a pie - for this (wordplay)

In a Subway, say

Busy around 7:00PM, say

Lamb (new) in film studio

Lamb or kid, old style

Young lamb Obs.

Working out in anger!

Inn rage (anagram)

Working for one's pay

Sound stopper (wordplay)

Sound barrier (wordplay)

Listener's temporary block!

Stud poker (wordplay)

Stud, for one

Hoop, for one

Moving in a certain direction.

Map reference

Taking up (wordplay)

Bringing up (wordplay)

What gelatin is doing to Jell-O lover

The start of something new (wordplay)

Clearing the dust off (wordplay)

Cleaning the blackboard

Escaping (tax/duty)

Managing to avoid

Escaping paying tax

Perhaps a hearing aid for current safety

How electric gadgets need a hearing aid

For garden work, a hearing aid

Making oneself inconspicuous

Obliterating or erasing

Rubbing out sixth letter opposite

Passing (as of time)

Passing away (as time)

Looking ill, upset, Carol is passing by

Embay

Politician in London borough is piercing

Authorising woman to get jewellery

Kind of act or resolution

Giving power to make possible

Making (a bill) law

Making into law

Putting into effect

Putting behind bars (wordplay)

Putting in an enclosure.

What you might use a face cream to combat

Is this a matter for boxing (wordplay)

Keeping under glass, for example

Placing in a box

Enface

Some English getting old with appeal

Taking into employment

Taking someone on and winning

Weaving together

Twining together

Twisting together

Driving to anger

More than provocative

Apt to incense

Totaling

Reducing to an average

Regarding as equal

Considering identical

Leaving prison too early (wordplay)

Breaking out of confinement

Con's plan

Attempting, to write a treatise perhaps

Making an attempt

The cockney is talking, or trying to

Estate

Unreasonable in making demands

Making serious demands

Difficult and onerous

Glorifying, lifting up high

Highly praising

Glorifying

Getting out of breath

Letting it out

Breathing out

Martian address (wordplay)

Human being (sci-fi)

One of us has to lean right, perhaps

Hairdresser's shop

Calm - relaxed - nonchalant

Happy-go-lucky midshipman goes on leave

Informing in form

- - Rita, film

Teaching

Like a good sermon

Promoting genial vet after work

Lifting the spirits

Issuing from a source

Proceeding from a source.

Fellow's worrying about coming out

A grave occupation (wordplay)

Preserving a dead body

Means of corpse preservation

Embank

Boarding every other term - quite mad!

Venturing to put the compiler up? Mad!

Boarding, as a ship

Embar

On fire

Getting up in arms (wordplay)

Activity at a joyful reunion

The way to have one in arms

Emplace

Emplane

Trying to equal.

Glutamine (anagram)

Imitating

Type of ornamentation

High gloss finish

Adorning with a brightly colored surface

Charming.

Pitching tents

Encash

Enchase

Winning finish gets attention in golf

Delightful finale holds attention

Winning over the listener in the finish

Enflame

Enframe

Impression of burial (wordplay)

Shallow burial (wordplay)

Inscription for burial (wordplay)

Surrounding with a glow

Improving the value of (something)

Improving the quality (of something)

Improving inn with change, perhaps

Making more of release

Making bigger

Augmentative

Boarding a jet

Enslave

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

Capturing

Involving possibly ten in a bad way

Involving as a result.

Leading to in consequence

Matching the record

Landscaper's job

Estray

Looking at closely

Very good looking

Subjecting to inspection

Example

Spreading out, growing

Enlarging, extending

Making up for leaving father split inside

Tagging for future use

Setting apart

Specially tagging

Eavesdropping (colloq.)

Listening secretly

Reprimand for not very flighty creature, not altogether hot stuff

Elongate

Eluviate

Emaciate

Embargo

Embattle

Working editor-wise.

Leaving home, perhaps

Leaving to live abroad

Moving from Moscow (Russia) to Moscow (Idaho)

EMPANEL to select a jury from a list

Doing fingernails

Enamour

Enchain

Working, for a spell (wordplay)

Delightful singing by chaps heading off

Charmingly appealing

Enclasp

Endamage

Devitalizing.

Sweeping with gunfire.

Propagating by cions.

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

Engrail

Engrain

""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)

Causing involvement

Entrain

Delightful.

Delightful

Bewitching

Catching, in a way

Begging that rage in tent be modified

Asking (someone) earnestly

Beseeching

Seeing in one's mind

Enwrap

Evening game

Equalize

Eradiate

Eructate

Escalade

Increasing rapidly

Intensifying

Escalop

Escheat

Trying to get in the ballpark (wordplay)

Solve Enigmatist by guesswork

Trying to get close to

Estivate

Estrange

Extracting from court records

Legally enforcing forfeit of ring, estate being redistributed

Ethylate

Etiolate

Fire drill activity

Clearing out

Critic's chore

Fading away gradually

Fading out

Evanish

Bringing up, in a way

Making hollow, in a way

Dig action

Swapping

Exclaim

Cursing after director, say, cut short evaluation

Like raising children, at times

Like housework

Justifying the kicked-out lover? Unlovely at home, not much good!

Describing former lover: unattractive, independent and no good

Explant

Removing, as a wisdom tooth

Getting out of taking part at last

Taking out

Extubate

Exuviate

Scoping out

Looking straight at English graduate that comes in crying

Our planet - travelling in space like a bulldozer!

What excavating equipment is designed for

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

Adding detail and complication to

Getting rid of (something)

Removing from contention

Defeating in a tournament

""ELUCIDATE To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject. as, an example will elucidate the subject.""

""ELUTRIATE 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.""

Decorating with a coat of arms

EMBRANGLE To confuse; to entangle.

Empanel

EMPATHISE

Sharing one's feelings (wordplay)

EMPHASISE To place emphasis on; same as emphasize.emphasize.

The act of giving special importance or significance to something.

ENCAPSULE

Giving hope or confidence to

Promising, optimistic

Gradually intruding (upon)

Jeopardizing

Endeavor

ENRAPTURE To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish.

Enravish

Ensheath

Patriotic work by Sibelius

Fascinating; enslaving

Deeply fascinating

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

""ENUMERATE To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation. as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation.""

""ENUNCIATE To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.""

Enwreath

Completely removing

Uprooting.

Escallop

Espalier

EUTHANIZE

Changing into vapour

EVENTUATE To come out finally or in conclusion; to result; to come to pass.

Disturbed grave - silent and deathless

Disturbed grave, silent and deathless

Undying

""EXCORIATE To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.""

EXCULPATE To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit.

""EXFOLIATE To separate and come off in scales or lamin\'91, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.""

Pardoning unruly Generation X

Clearing of blame

Vindicating

""EXPATIATE To range at large, or without restraint.""

EXPLICATE Evolved; unfolded.

""EXPURGATE To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book. as, to expurgate a book.""

EXSICCATE To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up.

Like certain circumstances

""EXTIRPATE To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy. as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.""

Handing over (criminal) to another country

""EXTRICATE To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc. as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc.""

EXUBERATE To abound; to be in great abundance.

Awfully patient with Girls Aloud? Very!

Painfully noisy in the grain division

Very loud and shrill

Momentous - hat shrinkage (anagram)

Of great consequence

Very important or shocking

EDULCORATE To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity.

EFFECTUATE To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

ELUCUBRATE See Lucubrate. Lucubrate.

""EMANCIPATE To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country. (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.""

EMASCULATE To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

Awkward shame in Government

Socially very awkward

Causing to feel shame

Comprehensively including

Striving

Engarland

""ENSANGUINE To stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a bloodred color; as, an ensanguined hue. as, an ensanguined hue.""

Providing with amusement

Having guests in

Considering - holding a party

""EQUIVOCATE To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity. as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity.""

New businessman's activity

Putting up with broken tables is half fetching

Founding

ETERNALIZE To make eternal.

""EVANGELIZE To instruct in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity; as, to evangelize the world. as, to evangelize the world.""

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

Making worse.

Indulging in hyperbole

Overstating

Very frustrating

Extremely annoying

Infuriating

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

Racking collapses in exit, accruing ...

Intensely painful

Very painful

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