2-Letter Words Starting with E

(tr) to place or enclose in or as if in a shrine

Enslavement

Confused state; perplexity

A complication

Confused state

Pl. enterostomies Surgical construction of an opening in the intestine through the abdominal wall.

""The act of enthralling, or state of being enthralled. See Inthrallment. Inthrallment.""

Work to rule after this act

Installation of a monarch

Installation of a monarch or bishop

Claims settlement in disruption

Claims to give a name to central fundamentalist school

English word

Entomofauna

Entomology

One who studies insects

Person studying insects

Insect studier

Entrainment

Gate soldiers go to first in a state of joy

After getting in fellows start to tingle with sense of delight

Entreatment

Protection from opponents, church people hid in river

Entrustment

Tallies

Postmen even changing about fifty wrappings

Environment

Enzymology

The branch of science that deals with the biochemical nature and activity of enzymes.

""EPHEMERAL Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower. as, an ephemeral flower.""

Fastidiousness in luxury

A nice umpire's unusual sort of philosophy

In an epidemic manner.

Study of the incidence and distribution of diseases

""Pl. epididymides (-m -d z ) A long, narrow, convoluted tube, part of the spermatic duct system, that lies on the posterior aspect of each testicle, connecting it to the vas deferens.""

Plural or third person singular

""Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.""

(Of saying) concise, witty

Like a short and witty saying

In the style of a concise and witty remark

Resembling epilepsy.

Pl. epiphenomena (-n ) A secondary phenomenon that results from and accompanies another: "Exploitation of one social class or ethnic group by another [is] an epiphenomenon of real differences in power between social groups" (Harper's).

Episiotomy

The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.

His work is seldom read (and never scanned)

Spenserian song adapted by Gustafson in wartime

Poem honoring newly- weds

Epithelioma

Equanimity

Equilibrium

English word

""Relating to, or causing, erythema.""

Common antibiotic

Esotericism

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

Estheticism

Unfamiliar dudes in ET or Alienation

Disaffection of irregular soldiers captured by 26

Disaffection of people in a Regent St disturbance

""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.""

Ethionamide

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.

EURYTHERM

Blooming throughout the growing season.

What Scopes taught

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.""

Rats! et al.

Can a mole exist with its head cut off? No! Never!

Snappy utterances

Exclusivism

Exemplify

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

Abnormal protrusion of the eyeball.

Same as Exophthalmia.Exophthalmia.

Exothermal

Policy of seeking economic or territorial growth

Doctrine of increasing the territory or influence of a country

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

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

Extemporal

EXTEMPORISE

Extemporise

Spoke on the spur of the moment.

One who extemporizes.

Extemporize

""An instrument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force.""

Was finished when destroyed

Destroyed

Exterminate

Ridder of rats in 1918?

Ridder of rats in 1918 (wordplay)

Schwarzenegger, today (wordplay)

Externalism

Adjective (-al)

Kind of affair

Occurring outside marriage

Outside marriage

Beyond the physical world

Extramural

Adjective (-ical)

Econometrist

""ECUMENICAL General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council.as, an ecumenical council.""

Ecumenicity

In a self-centered way

Elasmobranch

""ELECTRODE The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.""

Electroform

Used to hoist iron

Device using current to attract iron

Invention of 1824

Electrometer

Emancipation

Emargination

Emasculation

""EMBARRASS To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator. as, laughter may embarrass an orator.""

EMBARRASSED embarrass

Humiliation as member rants drunkenly

Financial difficulty; shame

A nineteen-eighty hit for 4 down

Embattlement

Decorating audacious men libels them

Additional beautification

Adornment, decoration

Embezzlement

Embitterment

Emblazonment

""EMBLEMATIZE To represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize.""

Embolectomy

Embolization

""(tr) Rare to confuse or entangle [from em- + obsolete brangle to wrangle, perhaps a blend of brawl 1 + wrangle ]""

Noun (-ment)

Plural or third person singular

The development and growth of an embryo.

The development and growth of an embryo.

Of or pertaining to embryology.

Embryologist

EMBRYONIC Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.

Emotionalism

Emotionalist

EMOTIONALIZE To give an emotional character to.

Emotionalize

Emotionless

""Pertaining to, or of the nature of, emphysema; swelled; bloated.""

The state of being employed: in the employ of the city.

Empoisonment

Empressement

Emulousness

Enantiomorph

Picture of brain spread around, coating new mushroom ring

Encipherment

Certain military tactics.

""The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention.""

Support stirred game encounter

Shot in the arm

Something that heartens

Encroachment

Encumbrancer

""The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning.""

Endangerment

""Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph; as, the endolymphatic duct as, the endolymphatic duct""

Plural or third person singular

""A condition, usually resulting in pain and dysmenorrhea, that is characterized by the abnormal occurrence of functional endometrial tissue outside the uterus.""

Endomorphism

Endosymbiont

Plural or third person singular

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) a type of symbiosis in which one organism lives inside the other, the two typically behaving as a single organism. It is believed to be the means by which such organelles as mitochondria and chloroplasts arose within eukaryotic cells endosymbiotic   adj ENDOSYMBIOTIC (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) a type of symbiosis in which one organism lives inside the other, the two typically behaving as a single organism. It is believed to be the means by which such organelles as mitochondria and chloroplasts arose within eukaryotic cells endosymbiotic   adj EPIDERMOLYSIS (Medicine / Pathology) (Medicine) a group of genetic disorders causing blistering of the skin and mucous membranes. In simple cases the blistering is induced by injury, but in serious cases it occurs spontaneously""

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) a type of symbiosis in which one organism lives inside the other, the two typically behaving as a single organism. It is believed to be the means by which such organelles as mitochondria and chloroplasts arose within eukaryotic cells endosymbiotic   adj""

Endothelioma

Enfeeblement

Norse god of mischief

Does one get lit with it (wordplay)

State of awareness

Information about illumination

Enshrinement

Noun (-ment)

Gentleman grappling with tens of complicated relationships

Enterostomy

Diversion for one's leisure time

Source of amusement

Hollywood's output

Enthrallment

Enthronement

Specialising in science of insect

Of the study of insects

Colonial got me excited in terms of studying cricket maybe

Insect studiers

Bug studiers

Those who study bugs' motion got less confused

Feeding on insects; insectivorous.

Entomophily

Fertilized by the agency of insects; said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.

Entrancement

Fortified ditches

Abstract noun (-ity)

Pertaining to the surrounding world

To do with one's surroundings

A number of very harsh chaps coming in late, turning green

ENZYMATIC

Enzymologist

Epicureanism

Epidemicity

""The branch of medicine that deals with the study of the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations.""

EPIGRAMMATISE

""One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them.""

To represent by epigrams; to express by epigrams.

EPIPHENOMENA

By-product

A secondary effect; phone open mine (anagram)

EPISTEMIC

Epithalamium

Disease and Illness

Ergastoplasm

Nicely lag room (anagram)

How some chairs are designed

Erythromycin

Essentialism

Setting up shop, maybe

Church's foundation (wordplay)

Act of setting up

The quality of deserving esteem or regard.

Alien nations, we hear

Ethanolamine

Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group.

ETYMOLOGISE

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

EUDAEMONIST

Evolutionism

""EXAMINATION The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.""

""Of, relating to, or characterized by, exanthema; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous eruption.as, an exanthematous eruption.""

Deprive of church privileges

Exclude from church

Exclude from a church

The state or quality of being exemplary; fitness to be an example.