2-Letter Words Starting with E

Ethylate

Ethylate

Petroleum gases

""ETHYLENE a flammable gas, also ETHENE""

System of roots (wordplay)

A word's origins

Derivation of a word

Oil producers lie and cut pay anyhow

Typical EU destroyed trees

Brussels ruined typical producers of oil

Eucalypt

""An organism with "good" or membrane-bound nuclei having multiple chromosomes; eucaryotes also have other membrane-bound organelles such as mitochondria or chloroplasts, within the cytoplasm enclosed by the outer membrane. Such cells are characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria and blue-green algae. Contrasted with prokaryote.prokaryote.""

Organism with membrane-bound organelles

Heart harmonious proportions in a building. Architecture

Eurybath

Euryoky

Harmonious Mercury hit, one side scratched, unfortunately

EU photo captures Tory rebels being tolerant of different conditions

English word

So as to avoid the point

In a deliberately vague manner

In a suspicious manner

Is that all what God created (wordplay)

All - Earwicker, for example

One and all

So it would seem!

In an obvious manner

As can be clearly seen

EXALTED exalt

In an agitated manner

In an agitated and cheerful manner

With great enthusiasm

""Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.""

EXCUSE to free from blame or guilt

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

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

Serving as a model.

Setting a good standard

Worthy of imitation

Give an illustration of

Illustrate

In a critical way

External to a chemical ring structure: an exocyclic double bond.

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

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.""

Utterly fast

Explicitly

EXTENSE extensive

EXTRA something additional

Perhaps mostly at the very end

The very thing at the very end, perhaps

To a high degree or extent

Desperate situation - toe (wordplay)

Furthest point; a hand or foot

The utmost limit

Triumphant happiness

Triumphant elation

Spot the Ball editor confronted

Being looked at, I wept out loud

Something round Edgar confronted

Wild flower - get by hire (anagram)

A plant; they're big (anagram)

Small plant may look lively

Protectors of the orbs (wordplay)

Kohl's site (wordplay)

Deployed falsely, perhaps, by a woman

Eyelet

Pencils in a purse, perhaps

Edgy makeup items (wordplay)

I serenely supply slap

Seeing things

Visual aids

Watch parts required for telescopes (wordplay)

Eyepoint

It's impressive

Real attention-getter

Spectacular specimen

Scrutinizes the underworld (wordplay)

Power nap wear

Onetime editors' wear

Eyesight

Lobster's features

Features of a lobster's anatomy

Eyestone

Result of computer overuse, maybe

Crammer's woe, perhaps

What a gricer does to get it (wordplay)

Eyewash

Eyewater

Earlywood

A boiling up or over; effervescence.

""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.

Ones whose business is taking off (wordplay)

Living quarters (wordplay)

They may be carefully balanced

Caves and coral reefs, for example

""Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; used reproachfully of men.""

EFFERENT an organ conveying impulses to an effector

Efficacy.

Skill fixing fence, if icy

Performance with speed and economy

Economy in production

Lip gloss (wordplay)

Offer entry for brass!

Ferry often arranged brass

Disheartened luvvy is upset with fee, strangling female in OTT manner

Quality of rubber bands

Actress/screenwriter Kazan

Helen Incredible quality

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

Chuck senior (wordplay)

Its old hat say to make jelly with this

Voluntarily.

Simple - like copper, say

Simple, my dear Watson!

No problem in Baker Street (wordplay)

With strong language

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

Embayment

My zeal, born afresh, is for heraldic devices

Art of sewer decoration (wordplay)

The art of sewing patterns

Doily-making skill

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

EMETICAL pertaining to {emetics=n}

Relative radiation power.

Emphysema

""A pathological condition of the lungs marked by an abnormal increase in the size of the air spaces, resulting in labored breathing and an increased susceptibility to infection. It can be caused by irreversible expansion of the alveoli or by the destruction of alveolar walls.""

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

Encrypt

Data protector (NJ)

Secret coding process

Princeton University finally cracking the art of coding

Pope's letter

Pope's letter to the clergy.

Letter from the Pope to all his bishops

""A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.""

ENDEMIC an endemial disease

An enzyme that acts on or is retained within the cell producing it.

Endolymph

""ENDOMORPH A crystal of one species inclosed within one of another, as one of rutile inclosed in quartz.""

Endophyte

ENDOPHYTE

Endostyle

Internal generation of heat in animals

Conclusion to different setter's warmth of heart (wordplay)

Permanently underlying problem

In a permanent way

Nurse to call in at the proper time without fail

We're getting married

In an attractive way

Enjoyment

A lot see round new and refurbished rooms opened by university

Enthymeme

A la a siren

With allure

Watching cricket, perhaps (wordplay)

Buggy pursuit (wordplay)

Wriggly field (wordplay)

""ENZYME a complex protein, also ENZYM""

""Geology the vertical movement or tilting of the earth’s crust, affecting broad expanses of continents. ; epeirogenic , epeirogenetic , adj . Earth ()""

Epicalyx

Epicalyx

A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle.

""Pl. epididymides (-m -d z ) A long, narrow, convoluted tube, part of the spermatic duct system, that lies on the posterior aspect of each testicle, connecting it to the vas deferens.""

""An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ.""

Pl. epiphyses (-s z ) The end of a long bone that is originally separated from the main bone by a layer of cartilage but later becomes united to the main bone through ossification.

""Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphysis.""

EPIPHYTE a plant growing on another plant

""Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers bishops, priests, and deacons of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind.""

Pl. episiotomies Surgical incision of the perineum during childbirth to facilitate delivery.

EPISOMAL pertaining to an {episome=n}

To do with letters

Describing a work comprised of letters

Like pen pals' relationships

""The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind.""

Many quite outraged and one's kept calm

Evenness of temper

Evenness of temper.

The quality or state of being erectile.

ERGODIC pertaining to the recurring of any state

Eriophyid

In an arousing manner

ERUPTIVE a type of rock

Complaint could produce replies, say

English word

Erythrism

Erythrite

A red substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin.

""ESCALATOR A stairway or incline arranged like an endless belt so that the steps or treads ascend or descend continuously, and one stepping upon it is carried up or down; -- originally a trade term, which has become the generic name for such devices. Such devices are in common use in large retail establishments such as department stores, and in public buildings having a heavy traffic of persons between adjacent floors.""

Robbie Williams' current album

Houdini's art

Robbie Williams album that got away (wordplay)

Part 3 of quote

To a marked degree.

In particular

Like a writer of short pieces

ESURIENT {greedy=adj}

Heavenly way to put you to sleep over your friend

So Wordsworth's minstrel appears to have thee flustered, as a matter of fact

Leader in Economist, article truly in heavenly style

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

According to national groups.

Ethylate

""A volatile, terpenelike oil extracted from the eucalyptus, and consisting largely of cymene.""

Aromatic Australian tree

Koala's diet source

Tree common in California.

Eucaryote

Eukaryote

Having cells with visible nuclei surrounded by a nuclear membrane; pertaining to eukaryotes. Contrasted with prokaryotic.prokaryotic.

Euonymus

""1. having a pleasing and harmonious rhythm, order, or structure""

EURYBATH an organism that can live in various water depths

Capable of tolerating a wide range of salt water concentrations. Used of an aquatic organism.

""Any of various large, segmented aquatic arthropods of the order Eurypterida that existed from the Ordovician Period to the Permian Period.""

Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox

Sweet Dreams duo

Queen's debut hit

Eurythmy

In a way full of incident

In the end, level with union supporter

Sooner or later

In due course

In all locations (US)

All over

All the gin? Very drunk!

2, 7 and 23, say, keeping extremely slim

All that is; life in general

Something mislaid? Look here!

End of the quip

In all places

Your average female

""An ordinary woman, representative of all women.""

Evonymus

EXACTING exact

Official title of great merit (wordplay)

Ambassador's honorific title

Ambassador's title

Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.

EXCITING excite

Apologetic.

Exhibiting; publicly showing.

EXIGUOUS {meagre=adj}

Science concerned with life on other planets

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.

Protein substances acting outside the cells that secrete them

Lexical toy (anagram)

Former friend admits of hearing in a strange way

EXPECT to anticipate

In the event it will disappear

Old boyfriend reportedly kissed Nancy heading off in hope

As predicted

Suitability to the circumstances

Ploy of former lover to deny epic mistake

Under the circumstances, it's convenient divorcee heard Jim met Cyndie Cook

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

EXPLICABLE Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.

""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.""

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

Urban motorway (US)

Turnpike, for one

Former medium's style on autobahn

In an extended manner.

Outwardly; externally; on the exterior.

Former supporter of seabirds (wordplay)

Always squeezing by on the outside

How to apply liniment

EXULTANT exulting

EXULTING exult

Scoping out

Looking straight at English graduate that comes in crying

Scarlet pimpernels

Eyedness

Medicine-cabinet gadget

Liquid dispenser

Pipette kin

Bridge sitter (wordplay)

Cups that may be watching you (wordplay)

See-through items (wordplay)

Eyelet

Things that amaze

Ogles bridal wear (wordplay)

Plural of gerund noun

One seeing (eg, crime)

Police may look for one

Tautological observer (wordplay)

With overflowing enthusiasm

ECTOPIC relating to ectopia

ECUMENIC universal

EDAPHIC pertaining to the soil

How Lou Grant spoke (wordplay)

As a newspaper head behaves

In an opinionated manner

Capability of being educated.

In a manner that works well

""EFFECTIVE Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment. as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment.""