2-Letter Words Starting with E

Process of unfolding.

Gradual change of love back to hole to entrap me

Evonymus

EXACTING exact

Group of larks

Flock of larks

Flocks of larks

Capable of being examined or inquired into.

Examinant

Exanthema

Bringing up, in a way

Making hollow, in a way

Dig action

The act of digging

Hole created by paleontologists

Virginia in old action organised on site

Exceptional quality

Great merit

Honorary title.

Official title of great merit (wordplay)

Ambassador's honorific title

Ambassador's title

Backstage visitors without passes (wordplay)

Excerpt

The act of excerpting or selecting.

Exchanger

Swapping

Excipient

EXCISION the act of {excising=v}

Bygone award (wordplay)

Fervour of old lover getting recognition

I got in awful tax notice, hence agitated state

What some speed demons crave

State of upped energy

What many fans generate

EXCITING excite

Exclaim

Bars on six clues (cryptic)

Excrement

Former breakfast pastry is superfluous

Excretion

Summer jaunts

Short journeys

Cursing after director, say, cut short evaluation

Ben's posthumous curse against fire god

Curse of senior manager on dole

Hate helping to support boss

Executant

An E of A&E

Accomplishments.

1040 filer's delight

Big help at tax time.

Taxpayers' delights

Clean fish

Hitting the gym

Practicing kinky sex, I cringe

Without hesitation, cutting training

Breathing out

Former wife Henry VIII beheaded: country gives a sigh

Like raising children, at times

Like housework

The anxious eccentric shows fatigue

Possible effect of heat

Marathoner's concern

Exhibit

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

Urgent conditions

Continued manifestations.

Exodontia

A dentist specializing in the extraction of teeth.

Protein substances acting outside the cells that secrete them

Freed from blame

Shown to have been blameless

Said "not guilty."

Free from blame.

Frees from guilt

No longer one scolds, but rather frees from blame

Enormous, fantastic treat in box

Much too pricey

Steep tax Breton and I reimposed

Driving out evil spirits.

Expelling or striking guards

Ninety-one regions reformed, getting rid of spooks

Exorcize

EXOTIC something from another part of the world

Like some batons

Ten plebeians somehow able to grow

Expansion

Hope next peace is arranged with Conservative involved

In the event it will disappear

Old boyfriend reportedly kissed Nancy heading off in hope

Expectant

Good policy

Suitability to the circumstances

Ploy of former lover to deny epic mistake

Under the circumstances, it's convenient divorcee heard Jim met Cyndie Cook

Quick fixes

Good dispatcher's activity

Pushing forward

Speed of journey (wordplay)

Lewis and Clark's trip, for one

Dispatch old penny publication

Not worth keeping

Able to be sacrificed

What money is.

Feel (an emotion)

Has a background in History (wordplay)

The best teacher, some say

Mess around (with)

Soldiers follow one in specialist trial

Try a new position, for example

Old sauce or skill

Lost nerve and skill

Skilfulness of specialist reaching headland

Amends

Contract nullifier

Explainer

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

Describing former lover: unattractive, independent and no good

Explant

Leveraging

Applying first of gears to follow former pilot manoeuvring in

Explosion

Exposit

Point of view of an old flame (wordplay)

Divorcee's demand (wordplay)

World's fair.

Expounder

Bringing forth a statement

Stating in detail, with "on"

Setting out virtues of joining euro (wordplay)

Setting forth in words

Revealing old copy of vinyl record

Fair amount of the check-up is needing attention, in a manner of speaking

An emoticon represents one

A particular word or phrase.

Explicit, one on choice of words

""A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon.""

""EXPRESS to make known by words,signs or symbols""

Expulsion

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

Exscind

Exsertion

Relaxation.

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

Results of a great massage (wordplay)

Additional telephones

Some filings

Diminished

Mitigates.

One who extenuates.

EXTERMINE To exterminate; to destroy.

Extermine

Former supporter of seabirds (wordplay)

Always squeezing by on the outside

How to apply liniment

""A person associated with but not officially residing in an institution, especially a nonresident physician on a hospital staff.""

Extinct

Death of a species

Process of dying out

Dying out, as of species

EXTINCT to extinguish

Put out (a light/fire)

Put out, former wife can spout about one

Redesigned the six-gun I put out

Extolment

Extortion

Removing, as a wisdom tooth

Getting out of taking part at last

Taking out

Trace toxin circulating in blood

The strain of dental treatment

Dental operation

Irrelevant; of outside origin

Unrelated to the subject

Irrelevant to the subject

Extrusion

Extubate

Lively cheerful quality

Joy to the max

High spirits

Exudation

Exultance

EXULTANT exulting

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

EXULTING exult

Subject of A. C. Spectorsky's book.

No city dweller, this

One with a long commute, probably

Exuviate

""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.""

Scoping out

Looking straight at English graduate that comes in crying

Eyedness

Eyelet

Ogles bridal wear (wordplay)

Plural of gerund noun

One seeing (eg, crime)

Police may look for one

Tautological observer (wordplay)

Eagerness

Earliness

Sincerity, as displayed by Hemingway (wordplay)

Intense seriousness

Serious-mindedness

China perhaps in fear, then war ensues

It's baked and often glazed

Some ceramic pottery

Terrestrial quality

Our planet - travelling in space like a bulldozer!

What excavating equipment is designed for

Earthshine

First to see the sun, maybe

As far to the right as can be - on paper

Furthest from the west

Ebullience

With overflowing enthusiasm

Ebullition

Plural of echinococcus .

Starfish, for example

""Of or pertaining to econometrics; as, econometric theories.as, econometric theories.""

ECONOMISE same as economize.economize.

Economizer

""ECONOMIZE To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. as, to economize one's income.""

ECUMENIC universal

ECUMENIC universal

ECUMENIC universal

Process of moral improvement

Moral/intellectual improvement

Moral improvement

A docile aunt (anagram) - instructive

Designating certain TV programs.

Relating to teaching

Sesame Street, for example

"Sesame Street," Bill Nye shows, etc

"Sesame Street," for example *

Effacement

Effeminate

In a productive manner

With competence

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

Effulgence

Classless society supporter

Believing all people are equal

In favour of equality

Egocentric

Self centred nature

Concern for your own interests and welfare

Possible alternative title for this puzzle

With an extremely swelled head

Obsessed with oneself

Like Trump

Eicosanoid

Eigenvalue

... converge - it somehow follows Euclid's first mathematical concept

Direction-finding line that is over Covent Garden and missing Barking

Eighteenth

Element discovered in 1952

Element named for famous scientist.

Radioactive metal

""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.

Adding detail and complication to

Added refinement or detail

Development of further detail

Detailed development

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

One wiring house

One who may do a wire transfer

Sparks (informal)

Study of voting (wordplay)

Science that produced radar

Brand-new science.

In fundamental manner

In a fundamental sense

Tremendous as a trumpeter (wordplay)

Ah, Lenten pie stirred - huge!

Very large or ungainly

Bringing out

Getting rid of (something)

Removing from contention

Defeating in a tournament

Part 6 of the quip

Type of contest.

Kind of contest

""Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.""

Agents that exclude.

Certain growths

Extensions

""ELUCIDATE To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject. as, an example will elucidate the subject.""

Clarification, explanation

Explanation

ELUSIVE deceptive

""ELUTRIATE To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing. as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing.""

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

Eluviation

Emaciation

Freed from slavery

Set free

Unfettered

Emancipate

One who sets free from slavery

Epithet applied to Lincoln.

Lincoln, on January 1, 1863

Embalmment

Structures along a river

Part of a flood control program.

Going on board (a ship)

Tom Baker in a muddle going on board

Embarkment

Arousing resentment in

Emblazoner

Decorating with a coat of arms

Embodiment

Embolden

Embonpoint

Emborder

Relief work.

Embowel