2-Letter Words Starting with E

Escapement

Escarpment

Escharotic

Branch of belief centred on final things

Subject to public claims

Desks

Heraldic shields

Having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole [adj] : ESEMPLASTICALLY

Esoteric doctrine or principles.

Variant of aesthetician .

ESTHETIC appreciative of the beautiful

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

Ethnicity

""Treating of, or pertaining to, ethnic or morality, or the science of character.""

""Pertaining to, or inquiring into, causes; \'91tiological.""

""A colorless oily liquid, C 10 H 18 O, derived from eucalyptus and used in pharmaceuticals, flavoring, and perfumery. Also called cineole .""

Eucalyptol

Of Holy Communion

Like consecrated bread

Devotedly thankful

Chromosomal material that is genetically active and stains lightly with basic dyes.

Chromosomal material that is genetically active and stains lightly with basic dyes.

Adjective (-ic)

Eugenical

Eugenicist

Using less embarrassing wording

Using a milder term for something taboo

Using milder words for unpleasant terms

Therapeutic dance system developed by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

EURYTHERM

Evacuation

My Immortal band

Grammy-winning "Fallen" band

"My Immortal" band

Fervently advocating something

Fervent in advocating something

Born-again or happy-clappy

Disembowelled

Disembowels

Guts

So as to conjure up images or memories

See about case in a way that invites strong feelings

Increased the severity of

Makes worse

Exactitude

Exactness

Holes made by digging

Holes dug by archaeologists to search for or expose buried items

Very, too, much

Extremely

Very

Excellence

In an awesome way (ABC, 1994-98)

Remarkably, VIP swaps starter of carpaccio for centre part of cutlet

Outstanding; not typical

Out of the ordinary

Very unusual

Excerption

2 (wordplay)

Overly

Overmuch

Excitation

Excitement

Eureka!, for one.

O frabjous day!

"O frabjous day!"

Pointedly punctuated

No longer tight-lipped person, a politician becoming emphatic

So as to be available for a few

The act or practice of excluding being exclusive; exclusiveness.

One who favor or practices any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism.

Select nature

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

Devises

""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.""

""The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.""

Of or pertaining to excrement.

Outgrowth, usually abnormal

An abnormal outgrowth

(Unwanted) outgrowth

Excrescence.

EXCRUCIATE Excruciated; tortured.

Excruciate

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

The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse.

Giving exoneration

Excursive

Curses director perhaps with shares

Ko-Ko was high as this lord!

One carrying out death sentence

Hangman, for example

Relating to carrying out the terms of a will

Women who work with a will

Executrix

""That may be exercised, used, or exerted.""

Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of single nucleotides from the end of a DNA or RNA chain.

Outrageous excess

Expectance

Hoping for change of 10p exactly

Prospect (Pip's were great!)

Prospect of future good

Assumption - hope

Constituting an object of expectation; contingent.

Anticipating including alternative drug

Soldiers going in with child's medicine

Cough medicine

Cough or spit out

Cough up and spit out

Look forward to paying no tax, but have to cough up

Expedience

Having much accumulated knowledge

Having wisdom gained through practice

Practised and knowledgeable

Feels.

EXPLICATE Evolved; unfolded.

""The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.""

Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory.

Explicator

Explicative.

Expunction

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

The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness.

Extinction

EXTRACT to draw out by force

Extraction

Extractive

""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.""

Process of freeing from a constraint or difficulty

Disentanglement

Exuberance

Exultancy

Ebulliency

Slight strangeness (of character)

Unconventional behaviour

Strange behaviour

Relating to clergymen

Member of clergy; or, relating to church

Clergyman

The science or theory of church building and decoration.

""A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the T\'91nia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog. T\'91nia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog.""

""In both senses also called echo ranging . A sensory system in certain animals, such as bats and dolphins, in which usually high-pitched sounds are emitted and their echoes interpreted to determine the direction and distance of objects.""

In an eclectic manner; by an eclectic method.

Eclecticism

Ecological

B-school statistical subject

""(used with a sing. verb) Application of mathematical and statistical techniques to economics in the study of problems, the analysis of data, and the development and testing of theories and models.""

In a frugal manner

Chill with old record in laid-back request: party's ending without dissipation

Thriftily

Fleet Street area friend keeping still or showing great delight (wordplay)

English clubs still followed by supporter very happily

Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; opposed to endoparasite. endoparasite.

Ecumenical

Ecumenicism

Ecumenicist

Edification

EDUCATED educate

English word

""One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.""

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

The power to be effective.

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

Act of effectuating.

Effeminacy

Bubbly

Fizzy

Sparkling

""EFFERVESCE To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form.""

Efficacity

Savings; economies

""That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt. as, an efflorescent salt.""

EFFLORESCE To blossom forth.

Egocentrism

In an egoistic manner.

Eigenvector

""EISTEDDFOD Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, being a patriotic revival of the old custom.""

Ejaculation

Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii.

Elasticity

Chosen deliberately; singled out.

Electioneer

ELECTIVE an optional subject of study

Like some charged particles

Currently getting to choose an old police friend

Experts on current problems

Nice articles about juice suppliers (wordplay)

Those working on The Wire produced lots of sparks

Electrify

Killed by shock

Dead of shock

Killed by a current

Electrocute

Electroform

""Of or pertaining to electrogenesis; as, an electrogenic condition. as, an electrogenic condition.""

Electrogram

Electrolyse

Method of removing hair roots

One way to remove unwanted hair

Method for removing unwanted hair

Electrolyte

""ELECTROLYTE A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.""

ELECTROLYZE To decompose by the direct action of electricity.

Electrolyze

Instrument for measuring differences in potential

A chemical compound or group that is attracted to electrons and tends to accept electrons.

""Pl. electrophori (- -r , - -r ) An apparatus for generating static electricity, consisting of a hard rubber disk that is given a negative charge by friction and a metal plate that is given a net positive charge by induction when in contact with the disk.""

Coat with metal

Put a thin coat on and choose to run to work, delayed

Charge-detecting instrument

Make off without damaging soccer team's leader's scientific apparatus

See electroconvulsive therapy .

Of or pertaining to electrical tension; said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary.

""The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus. Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus.""

""ELECTROTYPE A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.""

One making a copy by coating a mould with deposited copper

Electrotype

Things drawn out

Evocations.

In the form of an ellipse.

Relating to the clear expression of speech

Teacher of clear speech

Elucidation

ELUCUBRATE See Lucubrate. Lucubrate.

See Lucubration. Lucubration.

""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.""

Freedom from parents (wordplay)

Lincoln's concern

Abe's decree

Emancipator

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

Cut on a male is resulting in this!

Emasculator

Embarcadero

""Pertaining to, containing, or consisting in, an emblem; symbolic; typically representative; representing as an emblem; as, emblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity.as, emblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity.""

Embracement

Embrocation

EMPATHIC pertaining to {empathy=n}

They claim pal is suffering with stress

In a forceful way

Emplacement

""ENANTIOMER either of a pair of optical isomers of a chemical substance whose molecules are mirror images of each other, i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.""

Drunk saluted pecan in a nutshell

Encapsulate

Inflammation of the brain.

Turning practically senile with hepatic disorder

Enchainment

In a delightful manner

Enchantment

""(Linguistics) (tr) to convert (a message, document, etc.) from plain text into code or cipher; encode encipherer   n""

Act of surrounding

Comprehensively including

Meeting

Encrimson

An advance beyond expected limits

Gradual intrusion

Intrusion

Variant of incrustation .

Same as Incumbrancer. Incumbrancer.