2-Letter Words Starting with E

Impedimenta

Book of knowledge

Reference work

Reference book

Comprehensive in terms of information

Endemicity

Inflammation in heart

Growing or developing within cartilage; applied esp. to developing bone.

Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of bonds between nucleic acids in the interior of a DNA or RNA molecule.

Within or passing through the trachea: an endotracheal tube.

Enforcement

Given the right to vote

Enfranchise

Improvements

Ensorcel

""Pl. enterococci (-k k s , -k k ) A usually nonpathogenic streptococcus that inhabits the intestine.""

""Pl. enterococci (-k k s , -k k ) A usually nonpathogenic streptococcus that inhabits the intestine.""

Enterocoele

ENTEROCOELE

Ardent - thin suitcase (anagram)

Showing keen interest

Intensely keen and interested

Gate soldiers go to first in a state of joy

After getting in fellows start to tingle with sense of delight

Entranceway

Protection from opponents, church people hid in river

ENTROPIC pertaining to {entropy=n}

Enucleation

Enunciation

EOSINOPHILE

Relating to epexegesis; explanatory; exegetical.

Fastidiousness in luxury

A nice umpire's unusual sort of philosophy

""The outermost layer of cuticle of an arthropod exoskeleton, composed mostly of wax.""

""Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties.""

In an epidemic manner.

Epidiascope

(Of saying) concise, witty

Like a short and witty saying

In the style of a concise and witty remark

""Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.""

Epiphytotic

Episcopacy

Episodical

Equinoctial

""Equal in force, power, effectiveness, or significance.""

Equivalence

VOCALITY the possession of exercise of vocal powers

""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.""

Use of intentionally vague language

Use of deliberately vague language

A beating about the bush

Equivocator

Eradication

Erectility

Ergodicity

Erythrocyte

ERYTHROCYTE

Common antibiotic

Escapology

I must get away!

One's bound to be entertaining

Entertainer is to go places when free

In an esoteric manner.

Esotericism

Esthetician

Estheticism

Ethicality

Seeing other cultures through one's own

Judging other cultures by the standards of one's own

Relating to racial customs and characteristics

Of or pertaining to ethnology.

Noun (-ence)

Dealing with word origins

Relating to word origins

Eucalyptole

Fast-growing trees

Euchromatin

Of or pertaining to euhemerism.

Euphonical

EUPHORIC pertaining to {euphoria=n}

Evanescence

In revolutionary church, angry vigilantes like a preacher

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

Disembowelling

Making worse.

Making (something) worse

EXACTING exact

""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.""

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

Excellency

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.

""One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the antipopish politicians of the time of Charles <?/.""

Exclusivism

Exclusivist

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

Excrescence

Excrescent

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

""One who goes on an excursion, or pleasure trip.""

Whose inappropriate musical offering recorded by 7 (wordplay)

They're known for taking the head off others for the chairmen (wordplay)

They get away with murder taking the head off others

Exercise; practice; use.

Exonuclease

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

Exorbitance

EXORCISTIC

Exoterical

Exoticness

Expectancy

Hopes for the future

Realistic hopes

Bank on answer to half the objections with hope and conjecture

EXPECTED expect

Expectorant

Anticipated accepting nothing traitor coughed up

Expectorate

Expediency

""EXPERIENCE Trial, as a test or experiment.""

Explication

The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness.

Exsiccation

""A sense organ, such as the ear, that receives and responds to stimuli originating from outside the body.""

Located or occurring outside the cranium.

Extractive

Originating or occurring outside the liver.

Lying outside of the domain of logic.

Adjective (-ical)

Located or occurring outside the nucleus of a cell.

Lavish expenditure (E, not Y)

Excessive spending

Lavish expenditure

Extravagance.

Extrication

In an eccentric manner.

Men of the cloth

Echolocation

Econometrist

The study of the interrelationship between an organism's physical functioning and its environment.

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.""

Ecumenicity

Educability

Educational

Educationese

Educationist

Power to achieve results

Note very loud Scene VI set out to provide potency

Capability

Effectivity

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

Effectuation

Fizz; vivacity

Fizziness; vivacity

Bubbling - vivacity

Effectively

The production of flowers

The production of flowers; powdery surface crust

Flowering

Big head

By the sound of it, with an eye in the middle, that's what makes one sell fish

In a self-centered way

In a selfish manner

In self-centred manner

Leading experts try crossing two types of monkey, vainly

Elasmobranch

Helped someone move into an office, say

Canvassed

One who electioneers.

Electricity

""ELECTROCUTE To execute or put to death by electricity. E*lec`tro*cu"tion, n.""

Death, maybe, in the chair

Death by current flow

(n.) the art of giving campaign speeches

""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.""

Electroform

Electrology

One who removes body hair by means of an electric current.

ELECTROLYZE To decompose by the direct action of electricity.

Used to hoist iron

Device using current to attract iron

Invention of 1824

Electrometer

Electrophile

ELECTROPHILE

""An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.""

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

Electroplate

Electroscope

Electroshock

Pertaining to electrostatics.

Electrotyper

The act or the process of making electrotypes.

Ellipticity

Elocutionist

Elucubration

Emancipation

Emasculation

Embolectomy

The development and growth of an embryo.

Of or pertaining to embryology.

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

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

Encipherment

Certain military tactics.

""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

""The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning.""

Voltaire, say - deep cynic lost at sea

Contributor to Britannica, Larousse etc

Large reference book contributor

ENDOCRINE

Plural or third person singular

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

Endonuclease