2-Letter Words Starting with E

Covered with a hard coating

Caked, in a way

Like a secure transmission, often

Describes information in code

Of words, coded or enciphered

Hampers with identifications of food additives (about a hundred)

Broken by premier of chefs, code of added ingredients proves a hindrance

Burdens

Encyclic

Encyst

Inner layers: Bot

Endocast

Type of gland

Thyroid or pituitary.

Hormonal, in a sense

Occurring with absorption of energy.

Of processes of change within the earth

Endosarc

Camera on a tube

Instrument for viewing internally

Instrument for viewing internal body parts

Keyhole surgical procedure

'Keyhole' surgical procedure

Clinical insight

A toxin produced by certain bacteria and released upon destruction of the bacterial cell.

Last to be first in this test (wordplay)

Last to demonstrate this (wordplay)

Crude Anne (anagram)

Running around, say

Full of life

Full of beans

Makers (wordplay)

Strong-arm guys

They carry things out

Putting teeth into

Ensuring observance of rules

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!

Proclaiming something in City bank

Saying nominal word during retirement of likeable government leader

Proclaiming.

Enricher

Adding A and D, perhaps

Adding lard, for example

Prince Charming gets rid of cramp by adding nutrients to diet, for example

Jen's conceded that somewhat settled

Settled in fine, in the end

Aim to keep fine at Oxford and settled

Fixes snugly

Settles securely

Fixes firmly

Enscroll

Fascinate; roll scene (anagram)

Enchant, fascinate; con seller (anagram)

Ensorcel

Actuality of organizing Henley, etc

English word

'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

Ballet dancer's leap

Difficult ballet step.

Enter Dotty, with bird's dance movement

Steak cut from between the ribs

Boned steak cut off the sirloin

Company time during course gets cut

Remove a core or a growth

Extract (a kernel) from shell or husk.

Composing a nice tune, say (wordplay)

Provide clear terms (wordplay)

Say (something) clearly

Enuretic

Enzootic

Like some breakdowns

Like some reactions

Eparchy

Parts of sacs around hearts

A funeral ode

EPICENE one having characteristics of both sexes

Earthquake origination point

Starting point of certain waves

Focal point, as of a quake

Epicotyl

Of sensory nerve fibres of the skin capable of fine discrimination

The French Laundry patron, perhaps

Fond of luxury, pleasure, etc.

Lover of fine dining

The doctrines of Epicurus.

Circles rolling around other circles

Inner circles, in astronomy models

""Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle.""

They're sick of catching so many

Outbreaks that spread like wildfire

Lots of them about? Well, no

I'm pierced, with deformation of skin

Of skin's outer layer

Relating to the skin's outer layer

Relating to a nervous disorder

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

EPIPHYTE a plant growing on another plant

To do with bishop - maybe Pepsi-Cola

See is special op compromised (wordplay)

See nature (wordplay)

Certain projectors

Record introduction of injection still concerned with genetic interaction

Relating to knowledge

Relating to the theory of knowledge

Relating to how you can ever really know something, to philosophers

Pertaining to an epitaph; epitaphian.

EPITHET to {term=v}

Affecting a large number of animals at the same time within a particular region or geographic area. Used of a disease.

Influentially

EPSILON a Greek letter

Ambiguous,can be interpreted in two ways

Uncertain note on Queen single's sung

Of uncertain nature or significance

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.""

They're put-up jobs

They're all put-up jobs

A trait of Homo sapiens.

Upright state destroyed recent letter

Upright stance

Like a good office chair, perhaps

Like some chairs

Built for comfort

Controversial

Controversial

Blue book material (wordplay)

Isometric exercises being sexy

Isometric form of sexual desire

Anais Nin, for one

Purveyor of hot stuff

Sex up

Turn blue

Errancy

Erratic.

Eructate

Belches

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

Shunning Dutch artist that's cut off appendage

Keeping company with

Accompanying

With flipping fabulous bird, gent is dancing outside

Escrow

Things that are fit to be eaten

Mysterious items - ciao trees (anagram)

Dark matter (wordplay)

Words not ideal for crossword puzzles

Cape on northwest tip of Guadalcanal

Ranches of S. A

Senor's stock farms.

Great ranches in Argentina.

Study of beauty and art (Var.)

Study of beauty and art

American principles of taste

Poor niece sure has hunger

European sinecure falling to rapacity ...

Greediness

Odds and ends.

They sound like numerous editions

The King of Siam's favorite words

In a moral way

After direction, City Hall works as it should!

They are around when I summon them in a moral way

Ethician

Moral majority (wordplay)

Rulers on rights and wrongs

They have morals

Ethicize

Ethicize

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

Cultural identity in the new large town

Race in the bustling business centre

Racial origin

""ETHYLENE a flammable gas, also ETHENE""

Assigning a cause to

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

Eulachan

Eulachon

The state of being eunuch.

EUNUCH a castrated man

EUPHENIC dealing with biological improvement

Harmonious Mercury hit, one side scratched, unfortunately

EU photo captures Tory rebels being tolerant of different conditions

Eustacy

Eutectic

Of or relating to a eutectic mixture or alloy.

Since the trouble storing uranium, we get life science

""Having waters rich in mineral and organic nutrients that promote a proliferation of plant life, especially algae, which reduces the dissolved oxygen content and often causes the extinction of other organisms. Used of a lake or pond.""

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

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

Evection

Forcible removals, as of tenants

Ousters

Shown to be true

Shown how to begin to dive back

Made clear.

Plunge up to the scene for signs

Any signs that one might dive up over the scene (wordplay)

Displays

Capable of being proved beyond doubt

Able to be proven

Demonstrable

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

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

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

They go too far

The very thing

Going beyond; very great

Going beyond

Outdo others with fast time - fantastic!

Former prison upset 10 - splendid!

Wicked old chamber ten destroyed

Let's sing to Silvia, that she is 90, in Pisces

Doing better than 40, by the sound of it, in first gear

Marvellous! On and up! (motto)

Upwards with tall poet (wordplay)

New York state motto ("ever upward")

Apart from

Rule breaker (wordplay)

It's said to prove a rule

It doesn't conform to the general rule

""That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition. as, an exceptive proposition.""

Quoted (from)

Like pull-quotes

Selectively quoted, not included without right

EXCERPT to select a passage from

One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.

Excess

More than is desirable

Essex vice? Possibly getting high

Over the top

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

Former supermarket employee?

Former supermarket employee (wordplay)

UK's Treasury Department

Taking an exception.

May be cut out

Duty collector (hist.)

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

Old smuggler's foe

Duty officer? Remove him!

Smugglers are their quarry

British tax officers.

Surgical removals

Removals

Easily aroused or made emotional

Highly strung - easily roused

Easily enthused

Excitant

In an agitated manner

In an agitated and cheerful manner

With great enthusiasm

EXCITON a combination of excited electron and hole

Cried out in surprise

Former lover put in a demand and shouted

Called as former partner demanded

One who exclaims.

Draught- - - , strips of foam rubber, metal etc. inserted into doors or windows

Less.

""The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded.""

Select story for one newspaper only

Select, high-class

Tabloid publisher's coup

Tear a new one

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

Censure actor I threw in river

Waste old money securing rock group

Excreter

Excrete

Getting you way stout, by the sound of it

""Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.""

Absolve (from a crime)

Free or clear from blame

Clear of charges

By a stream flowing outwards

Insure cox on pleasure trip

Outing curs, once it's charged

Sally's trip

Tending to digress

Joining former scoundrels, this person has to be going off-topic

Making detours, rescue injured, 10 and 4 in different places

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.""