2-Letter Words Starting with E

""EXODERM the external layer of an embryo, also ECTODERM, EPIBLAST""

Exodontics.

""An enzyme, such as a digestive enzyme, that functions outside the cell from which it originates.""

Exogamy

Relating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one's own tribe; opposed to endogenous. endogenous.

Arising from external factors

Old partner gets one judge to let off

Clear of blame

Clear old partner unified amount charged

Expelled evil spirits.

Driven away or drowned in cut

Put a ban on spirits

He should get the devil out!

Priest, at times

His is a dispiriting occupation

Does a good turn (wordplay)

Emulates Father Damien, in a 1973 movie

Casts out the evil spirits

Ways to lose possession (wordplay)

Some of Jesus' miracles

They handle people's possessions

They lower one's spirits

People who may help you get rid of your possessions (wordplay)

Got rid of The Ghost from transmission (wordplay)

Casts out evil spirits by prayer

Exordium

Exosmose

Geocorona setting

Outermost layer of the earth's atmosphere

Fern germs' outer layers

Pl. exostoses (-s z) A bony growth on the surface of a bone or tooth.

Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone.

Foreign trait of behavior

Strikingly different quality

Alien character

Exotoxin

Expandor

Sienna pox disorder is spreading

Increase in volume

Board game add-on

One facilitating export almost died at sea

One dispatches journalist supporting one-time president

Penitent's aim

Atonement

Expiator

Having the power to atone

Making atonement

Making amends for former smug article on rightist

""Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word. as, an expletory word.""

Exploder

Blowing up

Took undue advantage of

Took advantage of

Made unfair gain from the weak

Old loaf cut by shop's end user

One who makes gain at another's expense

Oil - expert refiner can make it profitable

De Soto, Cabot, etc.

They travel in unknown regions

Study writing and reading by the scouts

Investigating (an area)

Marco Polo's forte

Searching or travelling for discovery

Report rapid increase

Violent release of energy

Brisance causer

Like jelly in pineapple (wordplay)

It gets blown up

Ex has power: love is renewed and fiery

Square numbers (wordplay)

Could be next Open Champions, perhaps

Oxen spent (anagram)

Retired redcaps (wordplay)

They send goods abroad for sale

Japanese automakers, for example

Sending abroad

Shipping abroad

Exposit

Role of a news commentator.

One shows it in poor sex novel

Explainer of complicated ideas or theories

Revelations (of scandals, etc)

Film box datum

Photographers' concerns

Put forward by not including hit

Set forth in detail

Interpreted.

Former boxer (wordplay)

Show sedated one giving details

Old money about to be taken up to interpreter

Expresso

Removal, as from school

Action of forcing out

Dismissal

EXSERT to {protrude=v}

Without preparation, of a speech say

Done or spoken without preparation

Spoken without preparation, impromptu

Annexe's relieved state (wordplay)

Anxiety no longer felt (wordplay)

Long to be more like this

Muscles opposed to flexors.

Straightening muscles on limbs

Straightening muscles

Hard ones might belie soft hearts

Outdoor scenes, in movies

Outsides

They might lift you up

They praise those no longer in the belfry team (wordplay)

High on (wordplay)

Praising to the heavens

Praising to the skies

Praise.

Extorter

Obtaining (something) under threat

Illegal forcing

Blackmailing

Blackmail, for example

Resort next to Rio for blackmail

An E of A&E

EXTORT to obtain something by violence or intimidation

Dentist fan (wordplay)

A drawer formerly (wordplay)

Fan (as in kitchen)

Is one out, going like this (wordplay)

Gregarious old dog enters race

Outgoing type's former car entered in TT

Way of shaping metal.

Something squeezed out

That's the outcome

Act of oozing

Sweat embarrassingly in a tuxedo (wordplay)

Eyepoint

It's impressive

Real attention-getter

Spectacular specimen

Eyestone

Earlywood

Of a rocket perhaps heading towards land

About to land

Lacking in freedom

Machine such as a bulldozer

Huge bulldozer

Caterpillar, often

Banks that can stop advances

Banks can stop advances

SWARTHMORE's wriggly team (wordplay)

Wriggly little creatures

Creatures ruining the marrows

Uses a bug or a wire, say

Presses an ear to a door

Spies, say

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

""The passage of blood from ruptured blood vessels into subcutaneous tissue, marked by a purple discoloration of the skin.""

""A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.""

Pertaining to ecchymosis.

Echelon

Sand dollar or starfish

Eg, sea urchin

Heroic men at sea netting 500 starfish maybe

Echiuroid

Echolalia

Gaelic cool (anagram)

Relating to our environment

Of concern to conservationists

Life preservers (wordplay)

Some EPA employees

Econobox

A good value

Providing good value

Like buying in bulk

No comedies (anagram)

'Cut costs so income moves' (Miliband)

Saved what does come in for recycling

Economise

Commerce department staffers

Veblen, Mill, etc.

Financial experts involved in some cost

""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.""

User of outdoor air to reduce energy consumption

Economize

Pl. ecospecies A taxonomic species considered in terms of its ecological characteristics and usually including several interbreeding ecotypes.

Ecosphere

Living quarters (wordplay)

They may be carefully balanced

Caves and coral reefs, for example

Cruise to Mexico's borders could be a way to help preserve nature

Vacationing naturist, perhaps

Visitor to untouched land

Visitor careful with footprints

""ECTODERM the external layer of an embryo, also EPIBLAST, EXODERM""

Ectomorph

Medium's vaporous substances.

Seance products.

Ectotherm

Pertaining to eczema; having the characteristic of eczema.

Toothless

Pieces from a board, perhaps

Leaders, real idiots in disarray

Newspapers' opinion columns

Horizon defined by Connolly's

Having control over prose, hid it away (

Newspaper head's role

They may be liberal

Students' goals.

School product

Sweeten

(Of salts) crystallise on the surface of brickwork

Bloom

Effluxion

Requiring no physical or mental exertion

Easy no force required

Not showing any strain

Lip gloss (wordplay)

Offer entry for brass!

Ferry often arranged brass

Having I trouble (wordplay)

Selfish fellow swallows a penny?

Having I-strain (wordplay)

Repeating I (wordplay)

Based on self-interest

Is nervous affliction in the East End selfish (wordplay)

Ones who aren't easy on the I's

Number one fans playing casino game

Insufferable people

Egression

""Any of a group of substances that are derived from arachidonic acid, including leukotrienes, prostaglandins, and thromboxanes.""

Covers ducks in blue - No, the opposite!

Some comforters

Quilts

Eigenmode

Welsh art festival

Welsh festival of poetry and music

Welsh cultural festival

A muscle which helps ejaculation.

Added detail to (an account)

Worked out in detail

Worked out carefully

Adds details to

Goes into detail

Develops complex close to Devizes

Synthetic rubber compounds

Rubber and neoprene

Reseal most faulty rubbery materials

Elbowroom

They have their say in November

Body that fills a seat (wordplay)

They have the final say on Election Day.

Terminals of a battery.

Part of a Frankenstein costume

Fabricated steel-cored conductors

Electro

An electric current that moves in an ionized layer above the equator in the earth's upper atmosphere.

The "E" of "E-mail"

Controlled by semiconductors

The e in e-mail

Eledoisin

Side views on blueprints

Mountain road postings

Architects' work bringing peerages (wordplay)

Heat making airmen toil

Device supplying current to a battery

"Legs" ZZ Top album

Three-dimensional geometric figures

Compressed spheres.

Geometric figures

Elocution

Elongate

Rubber band capability

Stretching out

Making more extensive disorder in gaol, note

Romantic getaways (wordplay)

Runs away to join up (wordplay)

They're frantic and romantic

Eloquence

With strong language

English queen's introduced to not yell when broadcast but speak thus (wordplay)

One who makes clear

He explains cryptic clue to arid characters

""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.""

ELUVIATE to undergo a transfer of materials in the soil

Extreme thinness

I arrived back at No 10 first in 9 condition

Boniness

Scents, for example

Odors, for example

Flowers coming out? One has stamina broken

Embargo

Decorated doctor ambled round area

Decorated with heraldic arms

Brilliantly decorated

""One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.""

My zeal, born afresh, is for heraldic devices

Concrete expression of some idea, quality, etc.

Incarnation

Personification

Given courage

Heartened.

EMBOLISM obstruction of a blood vessel by an embolus

Plumpness, French style.

Plumpness? Point to retiring aristocrat and me

Word from French meaning stout or full of figure

Emborder

Embosom

Suitable for bas-relief

""The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed.""

Mouthpiece of a musical instrument

Wind technique

River mouth

EMBOWEL to remove the entrails of

Embowel

Embower

Embraceor

Adds fictitious details to

Does needlework.

Art of sewer decoration (wordplay)

The art of sewing patterns

Doily-making skill

Immersing

Embrown

Formation and development of young animal or plant at its earliest stages

Biological science redefined by germy loo

Seed register at end of July is looking out for new life

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.

Emollient

Benefits from changing motel's menu (wordplay)

Fees.

Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use.

Part of problem - ploy men typically use

Use of pieces in work of Ptolemy

A person's work or profession

Empoison

Empower

Ambitious strivings.

EMULSOID a liquid dispersed in another liquid

Enamour

""Either of a pair of optical isomers of a chemical substance whose molecules are mirror images of each other, i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.""

Plan he once conjured up, being a brain

Spaces fenced off at racecourses

Coops and the like

Envelope contents

Encomiast

Muse among palms

Chance meetings

Unexpected meetings

Shut up about our being fostered!

Cheered by valour displayed in finale

That gave heart to our old folk at last

""One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer.""

Rough ocean surge lifts up

*HEARS (wordplay)

Cheers on.

Encrimson

Invaded cache or den, perhaps

Went too far

Went past the barrier

""One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.""

Makes inroads

Each censor sadly treads on someone's toes

Enclosure with vermin is crossing the line

Data protector (NJ)

Secret coding process

Princeton University finally cracking the art of coding

Variant of entamoeba .

Endamoeba

Did one's darnedest

Made an attempt

Tried hard

They're so trying

Requiring energy: an endergonic chemical reaction.

Living as a parasite or symbiont within the tissues of a host.

Plural of endocardium .

Endocrine

""ENDODERM the innermost layer of embryo, also ENTODERM""

""A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.""

""(used with a sing. verb) The branch of dentistry that deals with diseases of the tooth root, dental pulp, and surrounding tissue.""