2-Letter Words Starting with E

""EXECRABLE Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch. as, an execrable wretch.""

Felt loathing for

The cursed river has got boxed in

That cursed river got boxed in

Curses river's decrepit transport

Deplores what top managers are paid (wordplay)

Curses late unreliable cars touring Spain

EXECRATE to {curse=v}

Executer

They obey one's will

They will enforce wills

They have the will to settle things

""Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive.""

Woman with great will power (wordplay)

Female appointed by a testator

Female with willpower

Models are not liable to have bottom wiped by Swedish bloke

Models

Serving as a model.

Setting a good standard

Worthy of imitation

Used kettlebells, say

Got to get trained

Did push-ups

Treadmill runs around in circles perhaps

Francesco, Italy's star striker

One keeping fit

Cutting of taxes by queen works out

Puts into practice.

Multiple repetitions to train

Releasing energy.

A fort's the sound of them

Huffings and puffings

Strenuous efforts

""One who, or that which, exhausts or draws out.""

One displaying (at show)

I hit boxer (anagram)

One showing items in gallery display

Exhorter

Giving a rah-rah talk

Urging on

Exocrine

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

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

Geocorona setting

Outermost layer of the earth's atmosphere

Fern germs' outer layers

Expander

Expandor

Dispatcher

Facilitator

One facilitating export almost died at sea

One dispatches journalist supporting one-time president

Expeller

Expender

Expert

Purge about giving way to brash punditry

What repeated failure eventually grants

Skill or knowledge in a particular field

""Possession of specific skills, also EXPERTNESS""

""To possess specific skills, also EXPERT, EXPERTISE""

Expiator

Having the power to atone

Making atonement

Making amends for former smug article on rightist

Teacher, at times

He makes clear letter clearer

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

Exploder

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

Retired redcaps (wordplay)

They send goods abroad for sale

Japanese automakers, for example

Sending abroad

Shipping abroad

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

Former boxer (wordplay)

Show sedated one giving details

Old money about to be taken up to interpreter

Pushed out, you said (wordplay)

Said to be sent at speed (wordplay)

Stated, put into words

Former ironer (wordplay)

Crowd replacing centre of Exeter, one might announce

Clearly states they're fast

They don't make many stops

Delivers tabloid newspapers

Utterly fast

Explicitly

Expresso

They delete

Remove unsuitable material from (a text)

Remove unsuitable matter from (a text)

Remove obscene text

Capable of being thrust out or protruded.

Exsert

EXSERT to {protrude=v}

Without preparation, of a speech say

Done or spoken without preparation

Spoken without preparation, impromptu

Seat belt attachments

Substances that add protein to meat

Muscles opposed to flexors.

Straightening muscles on limbs

Straightening muscles

Hard ones might belie soft hearts

Outdoor scenes, in movies

Outsides

To exterminate; to destroy.

Outward appearances

Get rid of dandelions

Root out a text ripe for reappraisal

Destroy totally

They might lift you up

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

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

Separated, a metal from ore say

Drew or pulled out, tooth say

the sort of outcome one achieved

Dentist fan (wordplay)

A drawer formerly (wordplay)

Fan (as in kitchen)

Turn over (a perp), in a way

Hand (someone) over to a foreign state

Bring from abroad

EXTRA something additional

Sociable, lively person unusually Green

Outgoing partygoer enters rude text

Person on lookout for more green

Perhaps mostly at the very end

The very thing at the very end, perhaps

To a high degree or extent

Extreme

The holding of way-out ideas

Immoderate political action

Radical political belief

One with very radical views

Test mixer drunk by radical

Far left- or right-winger

Desperate situation - toe (wordplay)

Furthest point; a hand or foot

The utmost limit

Free (from a difficulty)

Free (from difficulty)

Release from entanglement or difficulty

Not essential or inherent

Originating from the outside

Not inherent

Is one out, going like this (wordplay)

Gregarious old dog enters race

Outgoing type's former car entered in TT

Extruder

Extrude

Way of shaping metal.

Something squeezed out

""Forced out at the surface; as, extrusive rocks; -- contrasted with intrusive.as, extrusive rocks; -- contrasted with intrusive.""

Merry from bubbly (wordplay)

Lively former queen (wordplay)

Exeunt bar, being in high spirits

To abound; to be in great abundance.

Wild flower - get by hire (anagram)

A plant; they're big (anagram)

Small plant may look lively

Pencils in a purse, perhaps

Edgy makeup items (wordplay)

I serenely supply slap

It's impressive

Real attention-getter

Spectacular specimen

Result of computer overuse, maybe

Crammer's woe, perhaps

What a gricer does to get it (wordplay)

Eyewater

Earlywood

Tagging for future use

Setting apart

Specially tagging

Of a rocket perhaps heading towards land

About to land

Lacking in freedom

Soiled, perhaps, by such crudity

It can be indecent

Quality of being gross

Earthly

""The sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon, by which we see faintly, when the moon is near the sun (either before or after new moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined by direct sunlight, or \'bdthe old moon in the arms of the new.\'b8""

Science fiction characters.

We are, strangely, entities with little inside

Listener objects about Liberal people vis-a-vis aliens

Machine such as a bulldozer

Huge bulldozer

Caterpillar, often

Heart tremor (wordplay)

Ground-breaking, king size.

Capp's McGoon.

Earthrise

Glow during the moon's crescent phase

Faint illumination of the moon's dark side

Earthstar

Earthward

Banks that can stop advances

Banks can stop advances

SWARTHMORE's wriggly team (wordplay)

Wriggly little creatures

Creatures ruining the marrows

Eavesdropping (colloq.)

Listening secretly

Reprimand for not very flighty creature, not altogether hot stuff

Provider of sound testimony (wordplay)

One who gives sound testimony (wordplay)

Sit and release terrible winds!

Winds disturbing isle after festival

Uses a bug or a wire, say

Presses an ear to a door

Spies, say

Odd numbers (wordplay)

Many Tim Burton characters

Unconventional people

Echeveria

Sand dollar or starfish

Eg, sea urchin

Heroic men at sea netting 500 starfish maybe

Echiuroid

User of outdoor air to reduce energy consumption

Ecosphere

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

Ectotherm

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

Do these ladies die over their hair over their papers (wordplay)

Do such women die with their hair over papers (wordplay)

Sweeten

Tropical aquarium plants

Marine plants with ribbonlike leaves

Eeriness

EFFERENT an organ conveying impulses to an effector

Was AE rated to do this (wordplay)

Fizz, give off bubbles

Show some enthusiasm

(Of salts) crystallise on the surface of brickwork

Bloom

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

Bargee gets new set of whiskers

Whiskers (wordplay)

Word for copters

Having I trouble (wordplay)

Selfish fellow swallows a penny?

Having I-strain (wordplay)

Egression

Covers ducks in blue - No, the opposite!

Some comforters

Quilts

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

Elaterite

Elbowroom

Chuck's dad's source of wine (wordplay)

Chuck senior (wordplay)

Its old hat say to make jelly with this

Office of churchmen with tree crafts

They have their say in November

Body that fills a seat (wordplay)

They have the final say on Election Day.

Made with juice (wordplay)

Type of engineering.

Kind of discharge

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

Simple - like copper, say

Simple, my dear Watson!

No problem in Baker Street (wordplay)

Heat making airmen toil

Device supplying current to a battery

"Legs" ZZ Top album

One who makes clear

He explains cryptic clue to arid characters

1980's word: Studiously work out

Final word of 1980: "produce by intensive effort"

Final word of 1980: 'produce by intensive effort'

""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.""

Elutriate

""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.""

To take away the margin of.

Embargo

Embarkation.

An E of A&E

Defalcators.

Soured ale put in middle of remedy

Made resentful

Made hostile

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

My zeal, born afresh, is for heraldic devices

Emborder

Mouthpiece of a musical instrument

Wind technique

River mouth

Embower

Embraceor

All snarled up

Embrangle

Embrasure

EMBRITTLE

Embrittle

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

Instances of breaking out from egg, cocoon, etc

Leaving home, perhaps

Leaving to live abroad

Moving from Moscow (Russia) to Moscow (Idaho)

Imagine rot (anagram)

Foreign settlement (wordplay)

Post-war problem.

Agents giving English girl a sign

Diplomatic agents

Go-betweens

Something Locke spoke about with ruler hiding pressure in charge of belief

John Locke, philosophically

One believing all knowledge is based on experience

Somehow it's crime to imprison holy philosopher

Empower

Empurple

Photographer's agent

I'm sure life in storm is wetter

Pots and pans.

Glossy cooking utensils

Corrosion-resistant utensils

Enamour