2-Letter Words Starting with E

Exanthema

Exarchate

Infuriate snake by weed back in river

Intensely irritate a sea expert at sea

Enrage former Queen, bit embracing snake

Bringing up, in a way

Making hollow, in a way

Dig action

The act of digging

Hole created by paleontologists

Virginia in old action organised on site

Backhoes

Backstage visitors without passes (wordplay)

Excerpter

Excerpt

The act of excerpting or selecting.

Excerptor

Excipient

Bygone award (wordplay)

Fervour of old lover getting recognition

I got in awful tax notice, hence agitated state

Tending to stir up

Causing elation

Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.

What some speed demons crave

State of upped energy

What many fans generate

EXCITING excite

Think through

Think out.

Think out

Censured

Denounces strongly.

Denounces

Excrement

Former breakfast pastry is superfluous

Excretion

Excruciated; tortured.

Former copper taken in hand about caress and let off

Clears of blame

Apologetic.

Cursing after director, say, cut short evaluation

Ben's posthumous curse against fire god

Curse of senior manager on dole

Hate helping to support boss

Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying.

Execrator

Virus carrier, often

Software file or arrangement of data behind former precursor of euro

Executant

An E of A&E

Accomplishments.

Those in charge of the suits

Board makeup

Board members

Pertaining to exegesis; tending to unfold or illustrate; explanatory; expository.

Exegetist

1040 filer's delight

Big help at tax time.

Taxpayers' delights

Clean fish

Flaked off

Coats with yogurt or sugar, say

Breathing out

Former wife Henry VIII beheaded: country gives a sigh

Exhauster

Like raising children, at times

Like housework

The anxious eccentric shows fatigue

Possible effect of heat

Marathoner's concern

Leaving no stone unturned

Like a thorough search

Painstakingly complete.

Exhibit

Show (of art)

Showing off scholastic achievement

Show how a student may be financed

Serving for exhibition; representative; exhibitory.

Showers seen at the bathroom trade fair (wordplay)

Exhibiting; publicly showing.

Cheer at Sussex town centre - at a price

Make very happy or very animated

Make very happy

Digging up (of a corpse)

Digging up (of a body)

Archaeologist's work

Exiguity

Continued manifestations.

Exocytose

Exocytosie

Pl. exocytoses (-s z ) A process of cellular secretion or excretion in which substances contained in vesicles are discharged from the cell by fusion of the vesicular membrane with the outer cell membrane.

Exodontia

A dentist specializing in the extraction of teeth.

Freed from blame

Shown to have been blameless

Said "not guilty."

Free from blame.

Frees from guilt

No longer one scolds, but rather frees from blame

Enormous, fantastic treat in box

Much too pricey

Steep tax Breton and I reimposed

EXORCIST one who practices {exorcism=n}

Releasing heat: an exothermic reaction.

Like some reactions

Releasing energy, as a chemical reaction

Lexical toy (anagram)

Former friend admits of hearing in a strange way

Exoticism

EXOTIC something from another part of the world

Enlarged upon

Expatiate

Stranger in a strange land (wordplay)

Stalin's daughter, for one

American in Paris, perhaps

That may be expected or looked for.

EXPECT to anticipate

Hope next peace is arranged with Conservative involved

In the event it will disappear

Old boyfriend reportedly kissed Nancy heading off in hope

Expectant

As predicted

Quick fixes

Expediter

Good dispatcher's activity

Pushing forward

Speed of journey (wordplay)

Lewis and Clark's trip, for one

Dispatch old penny publication

Effective logisticians

Mess around (with)

Soldiers follow one in specialist trial

Try a new position, for example

Expertise

Expertism

Expertize

Expertize

Old sauce or skill

Lost nerve and skill

Skilfulness of specialist reaching headland

Amends

Contract nullifier

""Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles. as, the expiratory muscles.""

Explant

Profanities

EXPLICATE Evolved; unfolded.

Explicate

One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.

""In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention. as, he explicitly avows his intention.""

Exploiter

Leveraging

Applying first of gears to follow former pilot manoeuvring in

Taking advantage of feat - one day of victory

Fit for marketing abroad

Boxer leapt around, finding market abroad

Exposit

Point of view of an old flame (wordplay)

Divorcee's demand (wordplay)

World's fair.

Serving to elucidate.

Letter to Times sure to be revealing

Serving to elucidate

Greek chorus, for example

""Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical.""

The act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged.

""Having material deleted; -- of books; as, at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions.as, at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions.""

Removes censorable passages from books.

Cleans up

Count on him to find the dirty bits

Fops, dandies, coxcombs, etc.

Exsertion

EXSICCATE To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up.

Exsiccate

Relaxation.

Extemporaneous; unpremeditated.

EXTEND to {expand=v}

In an extended manner.

""Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.""

Suited to being lengthened or widened

Results of a great massage (wordplay)

Additional telephones

Some filings

Diminished

Mitigates.

One who extenuates.

Outwardly; externally; on the exterior.

EXTERMINE To exterminate; to destroy.

Extermine

Former supporter of seabirds (wordplay)

Always squeezing by on the outside

How to apply liniment

""A person associated with but not officially residing in an institution, especially a nonresident physician on a hospital staff.""

Extinct

Death of a species

Process of dying out

Dying out, as of species

EXTINCT to extinguish

Put out (a light/fire)

Put out, former wife can spout about one

Redesigned the six-gun I put out

Rooted out.

Uprooted old Irishman, ready to drop trousers

Uproots

One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer.

Extolment

Extortion

Removing, as a wisdom tooth

Getting out of taking part at last

Taking out

Trace toxin circulating in blood

The strain of dental treatment

Dental operation

Capable of being extracted.

Recycled John Deere machines (wordplay)

They get out with former pullers

Handed over (to another country)

Surrendered to another country

Handed over to another country

Takes back legally

Hands over, in a way

Surrenders to another country

Extrados

Not permitted or governed by law.

Off-premises (univ. studies)

Leftover wall painting (wordplay)

Taking place off campus (wordplay)

Irrelevant; of outside origin

Unrelated to the subject

Irrelevant to the subject

Extravert

Extremism

Folks found on the fringes

They go overboard

Corrupt sexist term for fanatics

'Almost clean' Brexit arranged, that can be delivered

Old pet, heard outside, is set free

Old cat tried, when entangled, to get disentangled

Released.

Disengages

Frees

They're no wallflowers

Party animals composed texts about dog

Outgoing ones.

EXTRUDE to {protrude=v}

Extrusion

Extubate

EXUBERATE To abound; to be in great abundance.

Exuberate

Exudation

Exultance

EXULTANT exulting

""The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph.""

EXULTING exult

Subject of A. C. Spectorsky's book.

No city dweller, this

One with a long commute, probably

Exuviate

""The rejecting or casting off of some part, more particularly, the outer cuticular layer, as the shells of crustaceans, skins of snakes, etc.; molting; ecdysis.""

Scarlet pimpernels

Eyelet

Ogles bridal wear (wordplay)

Plural of gerund noun

One seeing (eg, crime)

Police may look for one

Tautological observer (wordplay)

Sincerity, as displayed by Hemingway (wordplay)

Intense seriousness

Serious-mindedness

China perhaps in fear, then war ensues

It's baked and often glazed

Some ceramic pottery

Earthlight

Terrestrial quality

Bulldozers, for example

Construction site vehicles

Bulldozers

Our planet - travelling in space like a bulldozer!

What excavating equipment is designed for

Squeak at her (anagram)

You may find faults with them

Some aftershocks

(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) the Classical myth Poseidon (or Neptune) in his capacity as the bringer of earthquakes

Earthshine

First to see the sun, maybe

As far to the right as can be - on paper

Furthest from the west

With overflowing enthusiasm

Ebullition

Selective philosophy

The taking of ideas from a wide range of sources

""Of or pertaining to econometrics; as, econometric theories.as, econometric theories.""

Ecotourism

Ecotourist

Skinny

ECTOPIC relating to ectopia

Like substance believed to exude from mediums

ECTOTHERM

Adjective (-ic)

ECUMENIC universal

ECUMENIC universal

Edibility

Process of moral improvement

Moral/intellectual improvement

Moral improvement

How Lou Grant spoke (wordplay)

As a newspaper head behaves

In an opinionated manner