2-Letter Words Starting with I

Intendant

To make tender or sensitive; to soften.

Variant of interrobang .

Worked upon each other.

Had an influence on each other.

""BASIN a wide dish, also BASON""

CASTE a system of distinct social classes

""To link together; to unite closely or firmly, as by a chain.""

CLASS to {classify=v}

FACED face

Meets (with)

Type of church group.

Like ecumenical event getting father in it excited

Fashionable Father excited about it, being ecumenical

GRADE to arrange in steps or degrees

""GRAFT to unite with a growing plant by insertion, also GRAFF""

Qualification for a position

Damaged credential tied together

Twined together.

Entwines.

Diversifies, as a speech

Scatters throughout

LAYER to form a single thickness

Insert blank pages between

Provide pages for notes

Insert blank pages in a book

LOCAL a person belonging to a particular place

At the dark of the moon.

A time of invisibility from Margaret Atwood

Of the interval when the moon is invisible.

Bring two families together, perhaps

Wed within family group

Do what Abie's Irish Rose did

MODAL a modal auxiliary

Associate at a summer job (wordplay)

Shut your friend up for the duration inside

Of or pertaining to internodes; intervening between nodes or joints.

OCEAN vast sections of salt water over most of the world

ORGAN a musical instrument

PARTY to attend a social gathering

PHASE to carry out in distinct stages or development

Set young trees among existing ones

Sow between rows

Interplay

""To plead against each other, or go to trial between themselves, as the claimants in an in an interpleader. See Interpleader. Interpleader.""

Periods between reigns

Pre-coronation periods

Leaderless periods

""Between the kidneys; as, the interrenal body, an organ found in many fishes. as, the interrenal body, an organ found in many fishes.""

Area between buildings

Future challenge for NASA.

Area between.

STAGE to produce for public viewing

U.S. 10, for one

I. C. C.'s province.

Not willing to take right road

TIDAL pertaining to tides

TRIAL to {test=v}

Onetime transit

Early supertrolley.

Bury, old city stop between Leeds and Manchester (wordplay)

Intervale

Blend together

Bury and Aston Villa initially in small tangle

Braid

ZONAL pertaining to a zone

Intestate

Type of flu

Of a certain tube, anatomically

Gutsy (wordplay)

Inthrall

Close associations

How you might be acquainted with a lover

Novel ain't timely, as secretly it's not for publication perhaps

Privately

Intimater

Dropping a hint

Suggesting

Close friend briefly is charged for revelation

Setter would, in private, terrify

One Democrat in personal torment

Hint about something like passport scare

Extremist let on train unfortunately

I learnt not to become self-opinionated

Fanatical Iran not let loose

Chanting

Where immigrants come to see pitch

Rise and fall in voice pitch

Gregorian-chant opener

Maybe booze in, to ten? I cannot!

Something like alcohol

eg Alcoholic drink

Fill with elation

Make (someone) drunk

Put under the table

Intrados

Adjective (-ic)

Kind of contest

Type of competition.

Within certain limits.

Within the nose.

INTRAPLATE

Not crossing a border in the US

Not under I.C.C.

Not the concern of I.C.C.

Occurring in or performed on a living organism: intravital staining techniques.

English word

Adjective (-al)

Intreat

Intrigant

English word

Intubate

""The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup.""

INTUIT to know without conscious reasoning

Inundate

Swirling in and out in flood

Audit on inn destroyed by flood

A flood

Inundator

INUNDATOR

To insert as in a sheath; to pr<?/<?/<?/ce intussusception in.

Void in which valiant die horribly

Discredit popular girl I go out with

Make it appear false? The patient scoffed!

Invalid

The condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.

""Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will. as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will.""

Having incalculable worth

Extremely useful

Very useful, home price covering rebuilt lab

Inestimably.

Not given to variation or change; unalterable; unchangeable; always uniform.

Always; in every case.

It may be conformal

Invariant

Invertase

INVEST to lay out for profit

""Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deeprooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error. as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error.""

Long-formed (bad habit)

Habitual attire even when running

Firmly established by usage or custom

Supervise an exam

Give life to

Give energy to

Give strength to

Sacred instrument found in bin, broken, with glue regularly applied

Without violation.

A request to participate

'Come Dancing' with Carl Maria von -

Save-the-date card follow-up

Using or containing invitations.

Invocate

The appeal of a fashionable career

A fashionable career in conjuring

A plea to be satisfyingly employed (wordplay)

Making or containing invocation; invoking.

""Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.""

Subjectivity, for Artemus (wordplay)

Inner significance; spirituality

Inwrap

Iodinate

The substitution or addition of iodine atoms in organic compounds.

Process of becoming charged

St. Elmo's fire process

*Process of electron gain or loss

""A compound, C 9 H 13 N 3 O, used as an antidepressant and formerly used to treat tuberculosis.""

""IRENICAL peaceful in purpose, also IRENIC, EIRENIC, EIRENICAL""

Like strict golfers (wordplay)

Firm and rigorous.

Strict and severe.

How many O. Henry stories end

In a strange twist

How hipsters like some things

Operator of a metal plant

Abraham Darby's remains rot, sadly

Sending forth radiant light.

Like the Earth, in many dystopian films

Sterilized food, in a way

Casts light upon

Lights up

Enlightens.

IRRADIATE To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster.

Senseless, unruly trial on air

Non compos mentis

Like some fears

Irredenta

Some Dublin pub goers (wordplay)

Slightly flawed items

Baker Street group

Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected.

Beside the point

Not appropriate to the matter in hand

Not applicable

""Admitting no return; as, an irremeable way. as, an irremeable way.""

Irridenta

Piping in water to

Farmer's activity during droughts

Washing out

The supply of water to crops

Crop-growing aid

Agricultural remedy for a drought

Moistening devices

Tiresome Irish girl can start to grate

Abrasive girl's endless score about sex

Getting at

Affliction of the skin or the mind

The pea, in 'The Princess and the Pea'

The pea, in "The Princess and the Pea"

Bothersome

Girl, one shut in the box in anger, causing anxiety

Isallobar

Ischaemia

""A protein or other substance, such as histocompatibility or red blood cell antigens, that is present in only some members of a species and therefore able to stimulate isoantibody production in other members of the same species who lack it. Also called alloantigen .""

Fuel gases

Adjective (-ic)

Equal in time.

Arrange loan with choirs performing at the same time

Isocracy

ISOCYANATE

Isogamete

Of the conjugation of two similar reproductive cells

ISOGLOSS a line indicating linguistically varied areas

Isograft

ISOLATE to set apart from others

Isolation

Isomerase

Isoniazid

Isooctane

Isostasy

Occurring at a constant temperature

Other mails sorted to the same degree

Earl in terrible hailstorm maintaining temperature

Styled like a villa, architecturally

In a particular southern European style

Like much Renaissance art

ITALIANISE

Sophia Loren's peepers (wordplay)

Adopt the characteristics of a certain country.

Idealistic rocks given a stressed look

Inclined to give a special emphasis

What idealistic is - as it's fanciful (wordplay)

Italicise

""ITALICIZE To print in Italic characters; to underline written letters or words with a single line; as, to Italicize a word; Italicizes too much. as, to Italicize a word; Italicizes too much.""

Italicize

Emphases for an orator

Sticker went quickly into cold travel

Travellers' train set in motion

Nomadic sorts

Migrant workers in transit, moving round the East

Made the circuit

Rode a circuit.

Traveled from place to place

Goes from place to place.

Iceboating

Opening remarks, perhaps

*Many party games

Opening remarks to strangers

One of the Ichthyosaura.

Iconoclasm

People who attack cherished institutions

Anti-establishment types

Antiestablishment types

Study of pictorial subjects

Iconostas

Screen bearing paintings in an Eastern church

Having twenty equal sides or faces.

Twenty-faced solid

How some twins dress

In exactly the same way

In the same way

IDEOGRAM a type of written symbol

IDEOGRAPH Same as Ideogram. Ideogram.

Of class concepts.

Like a propaganda war

""IDIOBLAST An individual cell, differing greatly from its neighbours in regard to size, structure, or contents.""

IDIOGRAPH A mark or signature peculiar to an individual; a trademark.

In a idiotic manner.

""IDOLIZE to worship, also IDOLISE""

""IDYLLIC simple and happy, also IDYLLIAN""

Einsteins, ironically

Know-nothings

Dolts

Outlawed

Illegalize

In a small-minded way

""Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space. as, illimitable space.""

""ILLIMITABLE Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space. as, illimitable space.""

Nonreaders

Without rhyme or reason

Senselessly

Capable of being illuminated.

It's measured in luxes

Illuminant

Lit up

Fills with wisdom

One who richly decorates manuscripts

Chimerical

Like picture books

With pictures

Shows with pictures

Emulates John R. Neill

Flagg or Rockwell, for example

Norman Rockwell, for example

Provider of pictures

ILLUVIATE ILLUVIA illuvium

Imaginary

In a imaginary manner; in imagination.

Mental ability to be creative

Power of mental invention

Power of mental creation

Full of ideas

One wise group indigenous to 5 down 7, perhaps

Inventive, creative