2-Letter Words Starting with E

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

Executer

Carrying out, as one's duties

Running, as a program

Carrying out killing

Performance killing act

How something is done

Performance of capital detachment

Old style I incorporated in evening suit

Having the power to act

Management finish around four

They obey one's will

They will enforce wills

They have the will to settle things

""Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive.""

Woman with great will power (wordplay)

Female appointed by a testator

Female with willpower

Used kettlebells, say

Got to get trained

Did push-ups

Treadmill runs around in circles perhaps

Francesco, Italy's star striker

One keeping fit

Cutting of taxes by queen works out

Puts into practice.

Multiple repetitions to train

Releasing energy.

States of need variable

States of need Var.

Is this to exit this scene (wordplay)

That's life!

Being sixteen, maybe, at church

Exocrine

External to a chemical ring structure: an exocyclic double bond.

Expelled evil spirits.

Driven away or drowned in cut

Put a ban on spirits

He should get the devil out!

Priest, at times

His is a dispiriting occupation

Does a good turn (wordplay)

Emulates Father Damien, in a 1973 movie

Casts out the evil spirits

Ways to lose possession (wordplay)

Some of Jesus' miracles

They handle people's possessions

They lower one's spirits

People who may help you get rid of your possessions (wordplay)

Got rid of The Ghost from transmission (wordplay)

Casts out evil spirits by prayer

Foreign trait of behavior

Strikingly different quality

Alien character

Suppose worker is pregnant

Cough mixture missing or with child

Anxious and hopeful with child

Looking forward to a birthday (wordplay)

Regarding as likely to happen

Anticipating, looking forward to

Former head catching nearly 16? Clarify!

Analyse and develop in detail

Make clear the meaning of

Explicit

Exscind

Exsecant

Exsect

Ordered chiefs of Taxes, Customs and Excise to dry up!

Following sex change, preserve queen in ice that's dry

Extinct

Separated, a metal from ore say

Drew or pulled out, tooth say

the sort of outcome one achieved

Dentist fan (wordplay)

A drawer formerly (wordplay)

Fan (as in kitchen)

Free (from a difficulty)

Free (from difficulty)

Release from entanglement or difficulty

Not essential or inherent

Originating from the outside

Not inherent

Noun (-ance)

Triumphant happiness

Triumphant elation

Seeing things

Visual aids

Watch parts required for telescopes (wordplay)

Eunice Bell translation shows liveliness

Cheerful enthusiasm; boiling over

High spirits.

A boiling up or over; effervescence.

Odd numbers (wordplay)

Many Tim Burton characters

Unconventional people

""The passage of blood from ruptured blood vessels into subcutaneous tissue, marked by a purple discoloration of the skin.""

""A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.""

Pertaining to ecchymosis.

Ones whose business is taking off (wordplay)

Echelon

Echeveria

Sand dollar or starfish

Eg, sea urchin

Heroic men at sea netting 500 starfish maybe

Echiuroid

Echolalia

Eclampsia

Eclipsis

Gaelic cool (anagram)

Relating to our environment

Of concern to conservationists

Life preservers (wordplay)

Some EPA employees

Econobox

A good value

Providing good value

Like buying in bulk

No comedies (anagram)

'Cut costs so income moves' (Miliband)

Saved what does come in for recycling

Economise

Commerce department staffers

Veblen, Mill, etc.

Financial experts involved in some cost

""ECONOMIZE To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. as, to economize one's income.""

User of outdoor air to reduce energy consumption

Economize

Pl. ecospecies A taxonomic species considered in terms of its ecological characteristics and usually including several interbreeding ecotypes.

Ecosphere

Living quarters (wordplay)

They may be carefully balanced

Caves and coral reefs, for example

Cruise to Mexico's borders could be a way to help preserve nature

Vacationing naturist, perhaps

Visitor to untouched land

Visitor careful with footprints

""ECTODERM the external layer of an embryo, also EPIBLAST, EXODERM""

Ectomorph

Medium's vaporous substances.

Seance products.

Ectotherm

Promoting unity between churches

General; universal

World-wide.

Ecumenism

Ecumenist

Pertaining to eczema; having the characteristic of eczema.

They may be liberal

Students' goals.

School product

Sweeten

Capable of being effaced.

Erasure

Effective

Consummate outcome? You crew, so they say

""Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; used reproachfully of men.""

Was AE rated to do this (wordplay)

Fizz, give off bubbles

Show some enthusiasm

Efficacy

Efficacy.

Skill fixing fence, if icy

Performance with speed and economy

Economy in production

(Of salts) crystallise on the surface of brickwork

Bloom

Effluence

Great brightness, or a flood of light

Brightness

Having I trouble (wordplay)

Selfish fellow swallows a penny?

Having I-strain (wordplay)

Repeating I (wordplay)

Based on self-interest

Is nervous affliction in the East End selfish (wordplay)

Ones who aren't easy on the I's

Number one fans playing casino game

Insufferable people

""Any of a group of substances that are derived from arachidonic acid, including leukotrienes, prostaglandins, and thromboxanes.""

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

Ejaculate

A muscle which helps ejaculation.

Ejectment

Quality of rubber bands

Actress/screenwriter Kazan

Helen Incredible quality

Coarse herb of Europe

Flowering plant having large hairy leaves and narrow yellow petals

Voluntarily.

They have their say in November

Body that fills a seat (wordplay)

They have the final say on Election Day.

Made with juice (wordplay)

Type of engineering.

Kind of discharge

Terminals of a battery.

Part of a Frankenstein costume

Fabricated steel-cored conductors

Electro

An electric current that moves in an ionized layer above the equator in the earth's upper atmosphere.

The "E" of "E-mail"

Controlled by semiconductors

The e in e-mail

Elegancy

Trainer in a gym

Having a part omitted.

Like nothing obscure

Elocution

Eloquence

Torturous clue one saw explained

Made clear how to edit a clued version

Made clear

Edits a clue, perhaps, and makes it clear

Explains cryptic clue first time and succeeded!

Clears up

One who makes clear

He explains cryptic clue to arid characters

1980's word: Studiously work out

Final word of 1980: "produce by intensive effort"

Final word of 1980: 'produce by intensive effort'

Emaciate

Extreme thinness

I arrived back at No 10 first in 9 condition

Boniness

Free terrorists snap title up

CIA pet name for setting free

Meat-pie can be served free

Unsex poor Mae with loveless kiss

Weaken metal and cause to fracture

Cut Samson's hair, for example

Relating to or acting as a symbol

Representative

Symbolical

EMBOLISM obstruction of a blood vessel by an embolus

Mouthpiece of a musical instrument

Wind technique

River mouth

Embraceor

Instances of breaking out from egg, cocoon, etc

EMETICAL pertaining to {emetics=n}

High rank and repute

Emittance

Feeling your pain

Showing concern

Having the power of entering another's feelings

""A pathological condition of the lungs marked by an abnormal increase in the size of the air spaces, resulting in labored breathing and an increased susceptibility to infection. It can be caused by irreversible expansion of the alveoli or by the destruction of alveolar walls.""

Something Locke spoke about with ruler hiding pressure in charge of belief

John Locke, philosophically

One believing all knowledge is based on experience

Somehow it's crime to imprison holy philosopher

Woman at court, people with backstreet laws

Laws.

The buck private stops here

Outdoor quarters.

ENCAPSULE

Encapsule

Means of protecting breakables

Covering.

ENCASH to convert into cash

""The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc.""

Encaustic

Plan he once conjured up, being a brain

Enchain

Sorcerers or magicians, for example

Working, for a spell (wordplay)

Delightful singing by chaps heading off

Charmingly appealing

Whole foods (wordplay)

Each island prepared Mexican food

Some fast-food offerings

Pl. enchiridions or enchiridia (- - ) A handbook; a manual.

Used code words (wordplay)

Secret

ENCIPHER to write in a secret code

Playing ring-around-the-rosy

Surrounding

Ringing

Enclasp

Spaces fenced off at racecourses

Coops and the like

Envelope contents

Encomiast

Muse among palms

Chance meetings

Unexpected meetings

Shut up about our being fostered!

Cheered by valour displayed in finale

That gave heart to our old folk at last

""One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer.""

Rough ocean surge lifts up

*HEARS (wordplay)

Cheers on.

Encrimson

Invaded cache or den, perhaps

Went too far

Went past the barrier

""One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.""

Makes inroads

Each censor sadly treads on someone's toes

Enclosure with vermin is crossing the line

Encrust

Encrypt

Data protector (NJ)

Secret coding process

Princeton University finally cracking the art of coding

Weighed down

Pope's letter

Pope's letter to the clergy.

Letter from the Pope to all his bishops

""A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.""

Endarchy

ENDEMIC an endemial disease

Requiring energy: an endergonic chemical reaction.

Living as a parasite or symbiont within the tissues of a host.

Plural of endocardium .

Endocrine

""(used with a sing. verb) The branch of dentistry that deals with diseases of the tooth root, dental pulp, and surrounding tissue.""

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) (of organisms, such as algae) growing inside rock""

ENDOPHYTE

Endoscope

Crazy picosecond of peering into people

Final large policeman in charge of instrument for viewing organs

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

Endurance

""That branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital, forces, and which comprehends the consideration and general investigation of the whole range of the forces concerned in physical phenomena.""

Relative of chromatic.

Having the same pitch but written differently, in a score

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

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

Way of making one flush (wordplay)

Education's goal.

Process of making wealthy

Secreting securely

Enscroll

Ensigncy

ENSORCEL to {bewitch=v}

Puts under a spell.

English word

Commercial's forte.

Seduction ruined eminent 'tec

Carrot, at times

A la a siren

With allure

Of an embryonic layer

Entoproct

Delightful.

Delightful

Bewitching

Ballet dancer's leaps.

Ballet leaps

Cuts of beef taken from between the ribs