2-Letter Words Starting with E

Sacred image in Eastern Orthodoxy

Portrait statue variable

Sacred picture Var.

Name akin to Helen

Lancelot wore her scarf.

Name akin to Helen

Short and sweet (wordplay)

Short on charm (wordplay)

Prone to wearing pointy shoes, maybe

Convey to a distance Var.

Remove afar off variable

Conceal as goods in law

Dye for red ink

Rose-red dye.

Textile-dyeing substance

Carry away (property).

Remove afar off.

Remove to a distance Law.

""An alkaloid which causes vomiting, also EMETINE""

A chemical compound

An insecticide

Instruct (to do a thing)

Instruct (someone to do something)

Urge (to do something)

Navy flier (wordplay)

Junior flag rank (wordplay)

Flag officer (wordplay)

Wind-borne (Amer.)

Of the wind

Carried by the wind

Lasting a very long time

V-e-r-y long term

Lasting a long time

Poor imitator (var.)

Inferior follower or imitator

Inferior pigeon fancier

Excuse for non-appearance in court

Excuse for nonappearance Law.

Excuse for nonappearance at court.

""A female sex hormone, also ESTRIOL, OESTRIOL, OESTRIN, ESTROGEN, OESTROGEN, ESTRONE, OESTRONE, THEELIN, THEELOL""

Star in Draco

Star in Draconis.

Brightest star in Draco

A pesticide

First printing, say

Bulldog, for one

I die not (anagram)

Spectre, phantom; no oldie (anagram)

Unsubstantial image

Image; phantom.

One-grained wheat

One-grained wheat.

Salient tissue protein

Protein that allows skin to stretch

Constituent of stretchable fibers

Transport it alone (wordplay)

High feeling (wordplay)

Broken toenail brings great joy!

Omission (from a book, etc)

Saying "I dunno," say

Slurred speech (wordplay)

Avoidance of empty-headed self-deception

Getting away - fancy day off

Adroit escape

Washing process, in chemistry.

Variety of oriental nut oil washing out with solvent

Process of extracting material by washing with solvent

Nile, say (anagram)

I say, Len, this is just like paradise

Any isle (anagram)

English proposal to show feelings!

E.g. fear, hate etc.

Seconded by Smokey Robinson (wordplay)

English population's outgrowth

Kinship on mother's side.

A growing out.

Hold fast? He can in trouble!

Confine in N E China, perhaps

Put in fetters

Imbue with a wood finish

At last the water will get right in

Dye's earning pots

Boost the entertainment value of, say

Add some pep to

Make more engaging

Get limited access (wordplay)

Maybe get on to express enthusiasm

Heed the "All aboard!" announcement

Surround or circumscribe

Surround club after sin? Not entirely

Form a ring around

""Growing close to the ground, also EPIGEAL, EPIGAEAL, EPIGEIC, EPIGEOUS""

External parasite, such as a flea.

Surface dweller loves to zip around in space

Greek "Wheel of Fortune" buy (wordplay)

Greek letter - pinoles (anagram)

One's lip (anagram)

Something rubbed out

Rubbing out.

Obliteration.

Intestinal juice component

Enzyme

Shore leave (wordplay)

Effect of wind, perhaps

The wearing away by weather 97)

Periodical (as some winds and wells)

Annual, as winds.

Periodic, as certain winds.

Vague answer, say

Illegal avoidance (of tax)

Waffle-making (wordplay)

Bound hole-electron pair in a semiconductor

Electron bound to arouse notice in Times? Quite the reverse

""Pertaining to exile, also EXILIC""

Clarify, so now complicated (wordplay)

Describe former lover: ugly (wordplay)

Account for one in former scheme

The emergence of insect from pupa

Bringing out temptation son should avoid

Drawing out

Coaching missing a formal way to develop potential

Outpouring (of words)

Outpouring (of words?)

Pouring out following melting

Waste emission

Discharge

Cleo, for one.

Cleopatra or Tutankhamun, say

Person from Alexandria (wordplay)

Hole number (wordplay)

Greens on a golf course (wordplay)

Golfer's round number (wordplay)

Brainy one (wordplay)

Scientist - seen in it (anagram)

A genius, relatively speaking (wordplay)

Pilot's emergency exit (wordplay)

Removal of joint-EEC development

Emergency seat's purpose

Substance derived from elaterium

Drunk inert ale - what a purgative!...

White crystalline substance, used as a purgative

Polly affair, perhaps (wordplay)

Pick of the leader (wordplay)

Cross-country race, maybe

Return from the depths, perhaps

End of an eclipse

Reappearance after eclipse

Carbon dioxide, for one

Internet assignment (wordplay)

Release of carbon dioxide, for example

To {embitter=v}

Mayonnaise, for one

Perhaps milk with muesli made available

Homogenized milk, for example

Piece of one's mind (wordplay)

Telencephalon

Conjure an image of

Picture to oneself

Imagine, as a future event

Medicine used in nose drops

E = mc2, for one

The Pythagorean theorem, for one

Mathematical statement using the = sign

The act of {erecting=v}

Daisy fleabane

Plant of the daisy family's "flea-bane" genus

Plant beginning to grow in lake and not shooting up

Breaking out (of spots, lava etc)

Venting session (wordplay)

I run poet ragged with outburst

Moralist

A lunar inequality

Inside-out state

State of being turned outward

Turning out to be the online type

Expulsion (from a property)

Removal of home-wreaker (wordplay)

Landlord's weapon

The act of pulling out

Blackmailer's specialty

Old lawsuit involving exorbitant demand

Act of demanding by force or authority

Act of cutting out

Act of surgical removal

Surgical removal

Why do oxen tire out (wordplay)

Strain from Nero (exit, fiddling)

Use force to tire one among the oxen

Microorganism discharge

Poison produced by micro-organism found in surrounding medium

Poison secreted by bacteria which cause damage to the infected host

McMahon's schooling (wordplay)

Letters perhaps auctioned off

A tonic due (anagram)

The act of flowing out; effusion.

Genesis or Kinks making an appearance

Leaving as green is so rough

Leaving

Seems you've made a soft landing, ducky!

Cover for the sleeping sea bird (blue)

But soft! You've landed, ducky!

English word

Height - a live note (anagram)

Piece of RICE (wordplay)

Face lift (wordplay)

Speech in clue too complicated

The talking cure? That's a nice way of saying it!

The skill of clear and expressive speech

Chad, for one

Issue half of them before a race

A flowing forth

Act of attempting to match or surpass

Effort to equal others

Wannabe's focus

Incarnadine. Possibly for non-crimes

Ponder varying hydrogen in body chemical

It causes a runner's high

A hormone terminus, or a Greek letter N

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

Clue in brief (wordplay)

Show how to make it less heavy, perhaps

Impart knowledge to

Please have a party!

Wine and dine, say

Have it in mind to have party (wordplay)

Same as Entropium. Entropium.

The French Laundry patron, perhaps

Fond of luxury, pleasure, etc.

Lover of fine dining

Removing hair, arrange into a pile

Hair removal finds Greek character overcome by joy

Religious, consumed by joy, shedding that which is superficial (wordplay)

Learning rugby version outside

Rio settled with United showing wisdom

Snobby display, at times

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

""Of or belonging to the infraclass Eutheria, a division of mammals to which all the placental mammals belong.""

Online occupation (wordplay)

Computer business (wordplay)

Calling for online mission (wordplay)

Change of life (wordplay)

Niche-finding process

Darwin's great theory

Rule breaker (wordplay)

It's said to prove a rule

It doesn't conform to the general rule

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.

""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.""

Getting you way stout, by the sound of it

Insure cox on pleasure trip

Outing curs, once it's charged

Sally's trip

Performance killing act

How something is done

Performance of capital detachment

Freedom (from, eg, tax)

Daughter or son

Immunity from the next poem I compose

Sienna pox disorder is spreading

Increase in volume

Board game add-on

Penitent's aim

Atonement

Report rapid increase

Violent release of energy

Brisance causer

Removal, as from school

Action of forcing out

Dismissal

EXSERT to {protrude=v}

Annexe's relieved state (wordplay)

Anxiety no longer felt (wordplay)

Long to be more like this

Blackmail, for example

Resort next to Rio for blackmail

An E of A&E

Way of shaping metal.

Something squeezed out

That's the outcome

Act of oozing

Sweat embarrassingly in a tuxedo (wordplay)

Result of computer overuse, maybe

Crammer's woe, perhaps

What a gricer does to get it (wordplay)

A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.

Rubber band capability

Stretching out

Making more extensive disorder in gaol, note

ELUVIATE to undergo a transfer of materials in the soil

Extreme thinness

I arrived back at No 10 first in 9 condition

Boniness

Improvement made in note design

Editor's job.

a new editor could make such a difference!

Imagine rot (anagram)

Foreign settlement (wordplay)

Post-war problem.

Data protector (NJ)

Secret coding process

Princeton University finally cracking the art of coding

Weakened state

Fatigue from worship with leader of Vatican arriving late

Lack of fizz upset Frenchman, acclaim being a non-starter

""Either of two closely related pentapeptides having opiate qualities and occurring in the brain, spinal cord, and other parts of the body.""

""(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) the upper layer of water in a lake [from epi- + Greek limnion, diminutive of limnē lake]""

""A hormone secreted by the adrenal medulla that is released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress, as from fear or injury. It initiates many bodily responses, including the stimulation of heart action and an increase in blood pressure, metabolic rate, and blood glucose concentration. Also called adrenaline .""

Polo player, for one.

New inquest re a man on horseback

Person on horseback

On it quite a revolutionary way of riding

Horsemanship.

Horsemanship

Emission of gas from a crater

Volcanic activity

Victoria perhaps beheaded after rejecting cure for wind

A red substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin.

Rapid rise in prices or wages

Cold war to hot war.

'I'd like to speak to your supervisor,' e.g

Reckoning on time, as it turned out

Ball-park figure

Thinking that if on time it's a worry

""Same as \'92stival, \'92stivate, etc.\'92stival, \'92stivate, etc.""

""The operation of blanching plants, by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant.""

Any of a class of simple proteins that are soluble in dilute salt solutions and insoluble in distilled water.

Removal of aunt with a voice quaking

Desperate move to a safer place

Organized withdrawal

Online appraisal (wordplay)

Assessment

Critique

Group of larks

Flock of larks

Flocks of larks

The act of digging

Hole created by paleontologists

Virginia in old action organised on site

The act of excerpting or selecting.

Bygone award (wordplay)

Fervour of old lover getting recognition

I got in awful tax notice, hence agitated state

Ben's posthumous curse against fire god

Curse of senior manager on dole

Hate helping to support boss

Breathing out

Former wife Henry VIII beheaded: country gives a sigh

The anxious eccentric shows fatigue

Possible effect of heat

Marathoner's concern

Show (of art)

Showing off scholastic achievement

Show how a student may be financed

Digging up (of a corpse)

Digging up (of a body)

Archaeologist's work

Speed of journey (wordplay)

Lewis and Clark's trip, for one

Dispatch old penny publication

Contract nullifier

Point of view of an old flame (wordplay)

Divorcee's demand (wordplay)

World's fair.

An emoticon represents one

A particular word or phrase.

Explicit, one on choice of words

The act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged.

Relaxation.

Death of a species

Process of dying out

Dying out, as of species

Trace toxin circulating in blood

The strain of dental treatment

Dental operation

""The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph.""

""The rejecting or casting off of some part, more particularly, the outer cuticular layer, as the shells of crustaceans, skins of snakes, etc.; molting; ecdysis.""

Process of moral improvement

Moral/intellectual improvement

Moral improvement

Classless society supporter

Believing all people are equal

In favour of equality

The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight.

Added refinement or detail

Development of further detail

Detailed development

One wiring house

One who may do a wire transfer

Sparks (informal)

Bringing out

Part 6 of the quip

Type of contest.

Kind of contest

Clarification, explanation

Explanation

""The process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier.""

Going on board (a ship)

Tom Baker in a muddle going on board

Liniment - cabinet room (anagram)

Liniment

Handbook; a manual of devotions.

A toxin produced by bacteria that is specific for intestinal cells and causes the vomiting and diarrhea associated with food poisoning.

The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition.

Mountaineer out for the count

The act of numbering

The act of mentioning one by one

Clear delivery of words

Clarity of speech

Formal rejection

EPOXIDE an epoxy compound

Complete destruction

Extirpation

""EROTIZE to give a sexual meaning to, also EROTISE""

Variant of aesthetician .

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

The act of unsheathing.

The turning of liquid to vapour

Process of losing moisture

One way that water can get into the atmosphere

Test of proficiency

Test of knowledge

Formal test

Eureka!, for one.

O frabjous day!

"O frabjous day!"

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

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

Skin removal

"O come all ye faithful . . . "

O come all ye faithful...

O come all ye faithful . . .

Finding of not guilty

Proof of innocence

Innocence Project victory

Act of expatiating.

Prospect (Pip's were great!)

Prospect of future good

Assumption - hope

Reason or justification (for something)

Justification for an action or belief

That which makes meaning clear

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

Process of investigation

Committee's activity

Process of discovering new lands

""The act of exporting; the act of conveying or sending commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of commerce.""

""The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.""

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

Partial excuse

Mitigation; palliation

Complete eradication

Eradication

End of the quote

Former custom producing court surrender

Deportation, one-time practice

Process of freeing from a constraint or difficulty

Disentanglement

""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.""