2-Letter Words Starting with E

Secretly overhearing

Listening furtively

Monitoring leaves that don't start falling

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.

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

Electrotyper

The act or the process of making electrotypes.

Plural or third person singular

""A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.""

Ellipticity

Emancipation

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

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

Empoisonment

Empressement

Enantiomorph

Expressing concisely and succinctly

Concise expression (of idea)

Concise and succinct expression

Non-U Eastern capitals? Could be a succinct description

Picture of brain spread around, coating new mushroom ring

Encipherment

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

Comprehensive work of reference

Extensive reference work

Large reference work

Distribute a licenced copy full of information

Comprehensive

Brown et al. (wordplay)

Volumes of information

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

Voltaire, say - deep cynic lost at sea

Contributor to Britannica, Larousse etc

Large reference book contributor

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

Endomorphism

Endoparasite

""ENDOPARASITE Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozo\'94n. ectoparasite. See Entozo\'94n.""

Any of a large group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of peptide bonds in the interior of a polypeptide chain or protein molecule.

Endoperoxide

English word

Enteropathy

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.

Ones starting up start-ups, say

Businessmen and various peers enter run

Business risk-takers

Eosinophilia

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.

Epileptical

Having the capacity to induce epilepsy.

EPIPHENOMENA

By-product

A secondary effect; phone open mine (anagram)

Epiphytical

EPISTEMIC

Epithalamium

""EPITHELIAL Of or pertaining to epithelium; as, epithelial cells; epithelial cancer. as, epithelial cells; epithelial cancer.""

Disease and Illness

. See also: Animals ologies()

Equipollence

With equal power.

Being of the same weight.

An equipotential line or surface

Ergastoplasm

Escapologist

Ethnographer

Ethnography

Exasperated

Exasperation

Offensive former husband can be polite, possibly

""EXCEPTION The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.""

Atypically

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

Exemplarity

Exopeptidase

""To make or become greater in extent, volume, size, or scope; increase""

""The capacity of being expanded; as, the expansibility of air. as, the expansibility of air.""

Expansionism

Expansionist

A tendency to spread

Diffusivity

Expansivity

Expatriation

Expatriatism

EXPECTATION The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

""EXPECTORATE To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.""

Look forward to a speech with saliva

Be prepared for speech to produce coughing

What the speaker's audience does before coughing

Of a purposeful journey

Expeditious

""( form , of device, object ) → Entbehrlichkeit f ; (of person also) → Überflüssigkeit f EXTINGUISHANT (Chemistry) a substance, such as a liquid, foam, powder, etc., used in extinguishing fires""

Expensive

EXPERIMENTER One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments.

Doing a scientist's job

Explanative

Explanatory

Explantation

Explicative

Exploitation

""EXPLORATION The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries as, the exploration of unknown countries""

Explorative

Explosive

Exponential

The quality or state of being suitable for exportation.

Expressing strong disagreement

Expression of strong disagreement

Remonstration

Protestation

""Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter. as, an expostulatory discourse or letter.""

Style of painting

Art style expressing inner emotions

Artistic movement

Artist like Edvard Munch

Took a snapshot of the Liffey swim, in a manner of speaking, first

Member of artistic movement originating in early 20th century Germany

""EXPROPRIATE To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.""

Taking (of property) for public use

Taking of property for public use

The taking of property for public use

Expropriator

Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory.

Extemporaneously.

Improvising

Extemporizer

""EXTEMPORIZE To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address.""

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

Exteroceptor

EXTRAPOLATE

Extension by inference from trends

Inference based on known facts

Inference about the future based on known facts

EXTRAPOLATE

Extrapolator

English word

The substance so deposited.

English word

""The art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity.""

Current treatment

Use of currents or impulses in treatment of disease

EMPATHETIC

ENANTIOMORPH

Encapsulation

Inflammation of the brain.

English word

Encephalogram

Brain scan output

X-ray photo of the brain

Point to mushroom ring for saint on the way into state of brain damage

Encompassment

Encyclopaedia

Encyclopedism

Lexicographers' cousins

""ENDOPARASITE Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozo\'94n. ectoparasite. See Entozo\'94n.""

Endopeptidase

ENDOPOLYPLOID

ENDOSCOPIC Of or pertaining to endoscopy or an endoscope.

Epexegetical

Ephemerality

(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) (esp of a sea) situated on a continental shelf or continent

Epidemiology

... "I'll have what she's having"

Studier of diseases

Studier of infectious diseases

Plural or third person singular

Epididymitis

EPIGENETIC Of or pertaining to the epigenesis; produced according to the theory of epigenesis.

Epigrammatism

Epigrammatist

EPIGRAMMATIZE To represent by epigrams; to express by epigrams.

One who writes in an affectedly pointed style.

Epigrammatize

Epigraphical

Epiphytology

Epistemology

Descartes was one

One deducing knowledge from goose spittle? I'm confused!

EPITHELIALIZE

Epithelialize

EPITHELIZE

Adjective (-ic)

ERGASTOPLASM

Plural or third person singular

The formation or production of red blood cells.

The formation or production of red blood cells.

""A glycoprotein hormone that stimulates the production of red blood cells by stem cells in bone marrow. Produced mainly by the kidneys, it is released in response to decreased levels of oxygen in body tissue.""

Of science that treats of races and nations

Euphonious

Euphuistical

""Having waters rich in mineral and organic nutrients that promote a proliferation of plant life, especially algae, which reduces the dissolved oxygen content and often causes the extinction of other organisms. Used of a lake or pond.""

Exasperating

""EXCEPTIONAL Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior.""

""EXCEPTIONAL Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior.""

Exophthalmos

Exophthalmus

EXPANSIONIST

Expectedness

Expectoration

Experiential

By experiment; by experience or trial.

Explicitness

Exploitative

The process of raising a quantity to some assigned power.

Expostulation

Expressionism

Expressionist

Poker-faced, and lost for words (wordplay)

Train one performing, not so good at poker (wordplay)

Blank paper, with current lesson being partly switched

Expressive

Expressivity

Expropriation

Carried out or performed with little or no preparation; impromptu: an extemporaneous piano recital.

Kind of speech

Unprepared

Impromptu

Occurring outside the body

Extrapolation

Relating to or involving neural pathways situated outside or independent of the pyramidal tracts.

Ecocatastrophe

Ecophysiology