2-Letter Words Starting with E

""EQUILIBRATE To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.""

Equinoctial

""Equal in force, power, effectiveness, or significance.""

Equipollent

PROBABLE something that is likely to occur

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

English word

Ergodicity

Erotization

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

Erythorbate

A nucleated cell in bone marrow from which red blood cells develop.

Erythrocyte

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

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.""

The administration of ether to produce insensibility.

Ethionamide

Seeing other cultures through one's own

Judging other cultures by the standards of one's own

Ethnic anthropologist

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

Eucalyptole

Euchromatin

Eudaemonism

Eudaemonist

Eudaimonism

Euphonical

Euphonious

EUPHORIC pertaining to {euphoria=n}

EURYTHERM

Evagination

Evaporation

Blooming throughout the growing season.

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 (something) worse

Inflation? Cut rising going rate perhaps

An overdrawn account

Overstatement - overestimate

Exaggerator

""Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative.""

Tests show cut back is not main problem

One squeezed by awful mansion tax: Myleene ultimately probes

Tests

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.""

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 <?/.""

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

""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

Act of exenterating.

Exercise; practice; use.

Exfoliation

University student in demonstration before the queen

Strong feeling of excited happiness

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

Joyousness

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

Exonuclease

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.""

Abnormal protrusion of the eyeball.

Same as Exophthalmia.Exophthalmia.

Exorbitance

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

EXORCISTIC

Exoskeleton

Exoterical

Exothermal

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

In atonement, treacherous rat gets exile

Hopes for the future

Realistic hopes

Bank on answer to half the objections with hope and conjecture

Expectorant

Anticipated accepting nothing traitor coughed up

Expectorate

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

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.

""EXPOSTULATE To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; followed by with. with.""

Expostulate

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

""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

Exsiccation

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.""

Extenuation

EXTERIORISE

Exteriorise

EXTERIORIZE

Exteriorize

Ridder of rats in 1918?

Ridder of rats in 1918 (wordplay)

Schwarzenegger, today (wordplay)

""A sense organ, such as the ear, that receives and responds to stimuli originating from outside the body.""

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

Old customs (wordplay)

Customs of an old flame (wordplay)

Lying outside of the domain of logic.

Extraneous

Predicted from known data

Extended by inference from known data

Extrapolate

EXTRAPOLATE

Type of perception (2 words)

Kind of perception

Part 2 of the quip

""A premature contraction of the heart, resulting in momentary cardiac arrhythmia.""

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.""

Easygoing

Closed-door hearing figures (wordplay)

End of the quip

Secretly overhearing

Listening furtively

Monitoring leaves that don't start falling

Echolocation

Econometrist

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

Ectoparasite

ECTOPARASITE Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; opposed to endoparasite. endoparasite.

Editorialist

EDITORIALIZE to write an opinion in an editorial in a publication.

EDITORIALIZE to write an opinion in an editorial in a publication.

Editorialize

Educational

Educationese

Educationist

Effectuation

Effectively

The production of flowers

The production of flowers; powdery surface crust

Flowering

Effortful

Big head

By the sound of it, with an eye in the middle, that's what makes one sell fish

In a self-centered way

In a selfish manner

In self-centred manner

Leading experts try crossing two types of monkey, vainly

Quality of being shocking

Intricacy of astrolabe seen in disorder

Complicated detail

Complication

Elasmobranch

Helped someone move into an office, say

Canvassed

One who electioneers.

""ELECTROCUTE To execute or put to death by electricity. E*lec`tro*cu"tion, n.""

Death, maybe, in the chair

Death by current flow

(n.) the art of giving campaign speeches

""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

Electrology

One who removes body hair by means of an electric current.

ELECTROLYZE To decompose by the direct action of electricity.

Used to hoist iron

Device using current to attract iron

Invention of 1824

Electrometer

Electrophile

ELECTROPHILE

""An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.""

""ELECTROPLATE To plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, or gold, by means of electrolysis.""

Electroplate

Electroscope

Electroshock

Pertaining to electrostatics.

Electrotyper

The act or the process of making electrotypes.

Elocutionist

Elucubration