2-Letter Words Starting with E

Like algebra

Near the hot line (wordplay)

Near 0 degrees (wordplay)

Of an earth line

States of adjustment.

Model queen? Vital for peer!

Tantamount (to)

The same as

Not permanent

The quality or state of being erectile.

Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude.

A plant sterol that is converted into vitamin D by ultraviolet radiation.

In an arousing manner

ERUPTIVE a type of rock

Complaint could produce replies, say

Lafayette, for one

French air squadron

Squadron of airplanes.

Escalader

Escalade

Increasing rapidly

Intensifying

Rapid rise in prices or wages

Cold war to hot war.

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

One-way flights (wordplay)

Nonstop flights (wordplay)

They take shoppers to new levels

""ESCALATOR A stairway or incline arranged like an endless belt so that the steps or treads ascend or descend continuously, and one stepping upon it is carried up or down; -- originally a trade term, which has become the generic name for such devices. Such devices are in common use in large retail establishments such as department stores, and in public buildings having a heavy traffic of persons between adjacent floors.""

Baked with a breadcrumb topping

Baked in a cream sauce.

Baked in a cream sauce

Escalop

Robbie Williams' current album

Houdini's art

Robbie Williams album that got away (wordplay)

Pertaining to the gullet

Pale idlers (anagram)

Shoe is European with spiralled design

Shoe that ties around the ankle

Espalier

Part 3 of quote

To a marked degree.

In particular

Shore-front walkways

Public walks along the seaside.

Litter mounts up after English Proms

Food and water, for example

Requirements that cook eats in less

Key points: 'Scuttling ... silent seas'

Estradiol

ESURIENT {greedy=adj}

To make eternal.

""An antibacterial drug, C 10 H 24 N 2 O 2 , used in combination with other drugs in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.""

Heavenly way to put you to sleep over your friend

So Wordsworth's minstrel appears to have thee flustered, as a matter of fact

Leader in Economist, article truly in heavenly style

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

According to national groups.

Relating to study of various peoples

Ethology

Student of animal behavior

One studying animal behaviour got hostile, wild

Hog's toilet excited student of animal behaviour

Ethylate

Etiolate

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

Causes

""A volatile, terpenelike oil extracted from the eucalyptus, and consisting largely of cymene.""

Aromatic Australian tree

Koala's diet source

Tree common in California.

Euglenoid

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

Cracking up during a speech

Paying tribute to Brussels on record, I quaver

Being enthusiastic with detailed planning after European Union

Eulogizer

Eulogize

Euploidy

Capable of tolerating a wide range of salt water concentrations. Used of an aquatic organism.

Critic's chore

Online appraisal (wordplay)

Assessment

Critique

Exercising or involving careful analytical evaluations.

Judges, at times

Missionary position (wordplay)

Job done on the convertible (wordplay)

Work done on the convertible (wordplay)

Traveling soulsman (wordplay)

Preacher of the Christian Gospel

Preacher gives Lent a transformation

Attempt a conversion (wordplay)

Preach the gospel

Preach

In a way full of incident

In the end, level with union supporter

Sooner or later

In due course

Where the Florida gators play (wordplay)

Boy found in eastern borders of US swamp

Home to many a manatee

In all locations (US)

All over

Tending to prove reckless, dive in late

Demonstrative disturbing tale divine

On a record

Devil's deeds, say

Evilness

Processes of growth.

Gradual changes

Process of unfolding.

Gradual change of love back to hole to entrap me

EXACTING exact

Group of larks

Flock of larks

Flocks of larks

Capable of being examined or inquired into.

Exceptional quality

Great merit

Honorary title.

Official title of great merit (wordplay)

Ambassador's honorific title

Ambassador's title

Longfellow's poetic injunctions.

EXCISION the act of {excising=v}

EXCITING excite

Exclaimer

Exclaim

EXCLUDE to shut out

(tr) to keep out; prevent from entering

Bars on six clues (cryptic)

Exclusive

Former copper taken in hand about caress and let off

Clears of blame

Virus carrier, often

Software file or arrangement of data behind former precursor of euro

Pertaining to exegesis; tending to unfold or illustrate; explanatory; expository.

Flaked off

Coats with yogurt or sugar, say

Breathing out

Former wife Henry VIII beheaded: country gives a sigh

Cheer at Sussex town centre - at a price

Make very happy or very animated

Make very happy

EXIGUOUS {meagre=adj}

Science concerned with life on other planets

Releasing heat: an exothermic reaction.

Lexical toy (anagram)

Former friend admits of hearing in a strange way

Like some batons

Ten plebeians somehow able to grow

That may be expected or looked for.

EXPECT to anticipate

As predicted

Capable of being expelled or driven out. <i>

Not worth keeping

Able to be sacrificed

What money is.

Explainer

Justifying the kicked-out lover? Unlovely at home, not much good!

Describing former lover: unattractive, independent and no good

Explant

Profanities

Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.

EXPLICABLE Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.

EXPLICATE Evolved; unfolded.

Explicate

One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.

""In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention. as, he explicitly avows his intention.""

Exploiter

Leveraging

Applying first of gears to follow former pilot manoeuvring in

Taking advantage of feat - one day of victory

Explosion

Bombs without G & T, perhaps (wordplay)

Cherry bombs and depth charges

Fit for marketing abroad

Boxer leapt around, finding market abroad

Expulsion

Relaxation.

Extemporaneous; unpremeditated.

EXTEND to {expand=v}

In an extended manner.

""Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.""

Suited to being lengthened or widened

Outwardly; externally; on the exterior.

Former supporter of seabirds (wordplay)

Always squeezing by on the outside

How to apply liniment

Extolment

Not permitted or governed by law.

Off-premises (univ. studies)

Leftover wall painting (wordplay)

Taking place off campus (wordplay)

'Almost clean' Brexit arranged, that can be delivered

EXTRUDE to {protrude=v}

Exultance

EXULTANT exulting

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

EXULTING exult

Scoping out

Looking straight at English graduate that comes in crying

Bridge sitter (wordplay)

Cups that may be watching you (wordplay)

See-through items (wordplay)

Eyelet

Earliness

Earthlight

Terrestrial quality

Ebullience

With overflowing enthusiasm

Ebullition

Selective philosophy

The taking of ideas from a wide range of sources

ECTOPIC relating to ectopia

Like substance believed to exude from mediums

EDAPHIC pertaining to the soil

Some mountain plants

Edibility

How Lou Grant spoke (wordplay)

As a newspaper head behaves

In an opinionated manner

Capability of being educated.

A docile aunt (anagram) - instructive

Designating certain TV programs.

Relating to teaching

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

Sweetens.

In a manner that works well

With effect; efficaciously.

In a productive manner

With competence

First of July gone, fly if nice jet's arranged economically

(Of surface) became covered with salts

Effloresce

Effortful

Effulgence

Classless society supporter

Believing all people are equal

In favour of equality

With an extremely swelled head

Obsessed with oneself

Like Trump

Conceited and boastful

Having I trouble

Get social, it makes you big-headed

""Greatly; enormously; shamefully; as, egregiously cheated. as, egregiously cheated.""

EIDETIC a person with a photographic memory

Eigenvalue

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

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

Ejaculator

""Casting or throwing out; fitted to eject; as, ejaculatory vessels. as, ejaculatory vessels.""

Elaborate

Adding detail and complication to

Added refinement or detail

Development of further detail

Detailed development

Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.

In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.

""Made with strands or inserts of elastic, allowing it to stretch; -- of fabrics; as, slacks with an elasticized waistband.as, slacks with an elasticized waistband.""

ELASTOMER

Being past middle age and approaching old age; rather old. See Usage Note at old .

Elecampane

Campaign for votes

To campaign to be elected

Campaign for winning poll

Electoral

Voters in general

Voters in various districts.

Constituencies

Electress

One wiring house

One who may do a wire transfer

Sparks (informal)

Might this prove shocking (wordplay)

Power of right in vote for one town

One form of energy

Thrilled - powered up

Strongly aroused

Charged; thrilled

Charges

Shock greatly!

Kill, injure by a shock

Kill by shock

(Chemistry) to form (a metallic object) by electrolytic deposition on a mould or matrix

English word

Electrojet

ELECTRO to make an electroplate for printing

That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties.

Fluid in a battery

Liquid or gel that contains ions

The liquid in your battery

To decompose by the direct action of electricity.

Study of voting (wordplay)

Science that produced radar

Brand-new science.

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

Of or relating to the combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces in a unified theory.

Electuary