2-Letter Words Starting with E

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.""

EXTERIORISE

Exteriorise

EXTERIORIZE

Exteriorize

Was finished when destroyed

Destroyed

Exterminate

Ridder of rats in 1918?

Ridder of rats in 1918 (wordplay)

Schwarzenegger, today (wordplay)

EXTERNALISE to make external.

Externalise

Externalism

EXTERNALIZE To make external; to manifest by outward form.

Externalize

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

Firefighting apparatus

Firefighting equipment

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

Located or occurring outside the cranium.

Extractive

""Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice.""

Old customs (wordplay)

Customs of an old flame (wordplay)

Originating or occurring outside the liver.

Extralegal

Adjective (-al)

Lying outside of the domain of logic.

Kind of affair

Occurring outside marriage

Outside marriage

Beyond the physical world

Extramural

Adjective (-ical)

Extraneous

Located or occurring outside the nucleus of a cell.

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.""

Adjective (-al)

""Outside of the uterus, or womb.""

Lavish expenditure (E, not Y)

Excessive spending

Lavish expenditure

Extravagance.

Elaborately staged light entertainment

Elaborately staged entertainment

Type of show.

EXTRAVAGATE To rove.

Extravagate

""EXTRAVASATE To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood.""

Extravasate

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.""

Earnestness

Earthliness

Closed-door hearing figures (wordplay)

End of the quip

Secretly overhearing

Listening furtively

Monitoring leaves that don't start falling

In an eccentric manner.

Econometrist

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

Fizz; vivacity

Fizziness; vivacity

Bubbling - vivacity

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

Quality of being shocking

Intricacy of astrolabe seen in disorder

Complicated detail

Complication

Elasmobranch

Elderliness

Helped someone move into an office, say

Canvassed

One who electioneers.

Electricity

""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.

Elucubration

Emargination

""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

Embitterment

""(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.

Empressement

Enantiomorph

Picture of brain spread around, coating new mushroom ring

Enchantress

Encipherment

Certain military tactics.

Support stirred game encounter

Shot in the arm

Something that heartens

Encouraging

Encroachment

Encrustation

Encumbrancer

Endangerment

ENDOCRINE

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

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.""

Endoperoxide

In a very active manner

In a lively manner

With vigour

Energization

""ENFRANCHISE To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.""

Enregister

Enshrinement

Noun (-ment)

ENTEROCOELE

Inflammation of both the small intestine and the colon.

Enterokinase

Enteropathy

Enterostomy

Enterovirus

Diversion for one's leisure time

Source of amusement

Hollywood's output

Enthrallment

Enthronement

Entrancement

Fortified ditches

Ones starting up start-ups, say

Businessmen and various peers enter run

Business risk-takers

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

Epicureanism

EPIGRAMMATISE

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

To represent by epigrams; to express by epigrams.

Equalitarian

Equestrienne

LIBRATING librate

""Act of keeping a balance, or state of being balanced; equipoise.""

Equilibrator

""LIBRATORY Balancing; moving like a balance, as it tends to an equipoise or level.""

Poised, as a tightrope walker.

Being of the same weight.

Erasability

Ergastoplasm

Nicely lag room (anagram)

How some chairs are designed

Erodibility

Erosiveness

EROTICIZE EROTIC an amatory poem

Erroneous

Erythroblast

Erythromycin

Alien nations, we hear

Eternalness

Eternization

Ethereality

""ETHEREALIZE To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether.""

Etherization

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

Ethnographer

Ethnography

""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.""

Eternally

Evisceration

Exacerbation

Exaggerated

Exaggeration

Exasperated

Exasperation

Excrescency

Excruciation

Excursionist

A tendency to digress

Execrable

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

Exemplarity

Exenteration

Exercitation

EXHIBITIONER One who has a pension or allowance granted for support.