2-Letter Words Starting with E

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

Erotization

Erysipelas

ERYTHROCYTE

Common antibiotic

Erythrosine

Escapology

I must get away!

One's bound to be entertaining

Entertainer is to go places when free

In an esoteric manner.

Esotericism

Espieglerie

""ESSENTIAL Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.""

ESSENTIALISE essential

The quality of being essential; the essential part.

""ESSENTIAL Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.""

ESTABLISHER One who establishes.

New businessman's activity

Putting up with broken tables is half fetching

Founding

Esthetician

Estheticism

ETERNALIZE To make eternal.

The act of eternizing; the act of rendering immortal or famous.

""A colorless liquid, NH 2 (CH 2 ) 2 OH, used in the purification of petroleum, as a solvent in dry cleaning, and as an ingredient in paints and pharmaceuticals.""

""ETHEREALIZE To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether.""

Etherealize

The administration of ether to produce insensibility.

Ethicality

Ethionamide

Seeing other cultures through one's own

Judging other cultures by the standards of one's own

Relating to racial customs and characteristics

""The study of especially native or non-Western peoples from a combined historical and anthropological viewpoint, using written documents, oral literature, material culture, and ethnographic data.""

Of or pertaining to ethnology.

Ethnologist

Noun (-ence)

Dealing with word origins

Relating to word origins

ETYMOLOGISE

Etymologise

Partridge's associates

""ETYMOLOGIZE To give the etymology of; to trace to the root or primitive, as a word.""

Etymologize

Euchromatin

Eudaemonism

Eudaemonist

Eudaimonism

Of or pertaining to euhemerism.

Euphonical

Euphonious

EUPHORIC pertaining to {euphoria=n}

EUTHANATIZE

Euthanatize

Evagination

In revolutionary church, angry vigilantes like a preacher

""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.""

Evaporation

Blooming throughout the growing season.

Everlasting

Evidential

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

Disembowelling

Gradually developing

Rebel, no leader concerned with gradual change

Gradually developing as rebel after monarch's ousted as leader

What Scopes taught

Upholder of Darwin

Darwinian

Making worse.

Making (something) worse

EXACTING exact

Indulging in hyperbole

Overstating

Inflation? Cut rising going rate perhaps

An overdrawn account

Overstatement - overestimate

Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration.

Tests show cut back is not main problem

One squeezed by awful mansion tax: Myleene ultimately probes

Tests

""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.""

Very frustrating

Extremely annoying

Infuriating

Intense irritation

Open-air sex at assembly causes annoyance

Disgruntlement

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

Excellency

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

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

Exemplify

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

Act of exenterating.

Exercise; practice; use.

Exfoliation

Exhaustive

""EXHAUSTIVE Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. as, an exhaustive method.""

University student in demonstration before the queen

Making lively and cheerful

Making very happy

Making one feel lively and cheerful

Strong feeling of excited happiness

Joy for old Benn is without end: people oust leader!

Joyousness

""EXHILARATE To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man. as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.""

Exhortation

EXIGUOUS {meagre=adj}

Exobiology

""The branch of biology that deals with the search for extraterrestrial life and the effects of extraterrestrial surroundings on living organisms. Also called astrobiology , space biology .""

Acquittals

Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of single amino acids from the end of a polypeptide chain.

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

Exorbitance

""In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.""

EXORCISTIC

Exoterical

Exoticness

EXPANSION The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.

Policy of seeking economic or territorial growth

Doctrine of increasing the territory or influence of a country

Advocate of territorial enlargement

The Cloister and the Hearth author

Expatiation

EXPATRIATE To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

In atonement, treacherous rat gets exile

EXPATRIATE To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

Expectancy

Hopes for the future

Realistic hopes

Bank on answer to half the objections with hope and conjecture

Expediency

"". Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare.""

Expenditure

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

""Derived from, or pertaining to, experience.""

Data-based - inexpert male (anagram)

Tentative mixture - for example nitre

Based on untested ideas

Experiment

Researcher's former name required, transiting border

Former wife edges around new one that's adventurous

Rationales

Clarifying statements by old lover and pal travelling in Europe

Illuminating declarations by former pal moving places in Europe

( ks pl nt ) Explanted tissue.

Explication

The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness.

Unfair use

Taking advantage - optional exit (anagram)

""An act or deed, especially a brilliant or heroic one. See Synonyms at feat 1 .""

Exploration

Exportation

EXPOSITION The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.

""Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment.""

Expressive

""EXPRESSIVE Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. of; as, words expressive of his gratitude.""

""Taken out of the possession of another and transferred to one's own use often without permission; as, the expropriated land was developed into a public playground.as, the expropriated land was developed into a public playground.""

Expropriate

One who takes property for the public benefit

Expurgation

EXSANGUINE Bloodless.

Exsiccation

EXTEMPORISE

Extemporise

Spoke on the spur of the moment.

One who extemporizes.

Extemporize

Extenuation

EXTERIORISE

Exteriorise

EXTERIORIZE

Exteriorize

Was finished when destroyed

Destroyed

Exterminate

Ridder of rats in 1918?

Ridder of rats in 1918 (wordplay)

Schwarzenegger, today (wordplay)

EXTERNALISE to make external.

Externalise

Externalism

EXTERNALIZE To make external; to manifest by outward form.

Externalize

Snuffed out

Firefighting apparatus

Firefighting equipment

Extinguish

Extirpation

Extortionate.

(Of a price) much too high

Overly demanding

Outrageously costly

""EXTORTIONER , One who practices extortion.""

One who obtains money by force or threat

One who obtains things by threats

One obtaining something by force or threats

Located or occurring outside the cranium.

Extractive

""Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice.""

Old customs (wordplay)

Customs of an old flame (wordplay)

Originating or occurring outside the liver.

Adjective (-al)

Lying outside of the domain of logic.

Kind of affair

Occurring outside marriage

Outside marriage

Adjective (-ical)

""Outside of the uterus, or womb.""

Looking out additional account

Another translation going out with confidence high

Extrication

""The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. as, extroversion of the bladder.""

Important trial figures

An E of A&E

Courtroom figures

Earthliness

Easygoing

Secretly overhearing

Listening furtively

Monitoring leaves that don't start falling

In an eccentric manner.

Men of the cloth

Echolocation

Econometrist

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