2-Letter Words Starting with I

Colorless, odorous oil.

Violet perfume base

Liquid used in perfumery.

Pretend not to hear, say

Pretend it's not 2, no (wordplay)

Not to want two, no (wordplay)

To {wager=v}

Exact or levy, say tax

Put or lay on- say a tax

Overstay your welcome, maybe

Money received in advance (wordplay)

'Enter, perhaps, for cash (6)'

Economic blunder! Company lost receipts!

Compound found in dolerite rocks

Crystalline organic compound, present in coal tar

Foot pad (wordplay)

Expanse beneath an arch (wordplay)

Low-level supporter (wordplay)

Perform in a choir, perhaps

Do a voice-over, perhaps

Speak liturgically, perhaps

Call on (deity)

Call on (a deity)

Call on (for inspiration)

Inweave

Salt; to aide (anagram)

Sterilize, perhaps, as a cut

Salt with element #53

Table salt additive

NaI, for example, chemically

Salt of element 53

What I may stand for (wordplay)

I, that is to say, around the god

I use it, perhaps, to disinfect cut

Enrich to prevent goiters, say

Process the salt

Treat in a way, as salt

Blue or violet mineral.

A blue mineral.

Bluish crystalline mineral

Produce charged particles in (something)

Charge, British-style

Produce charged particles in

Give a charge to (wordplay)

Take electrons from, perhaps

Take charge (wordplay)

Liquid used in perfumery

Perfume ingredient

Hero-worship can make one so idle!

Worship (S, not Z)

Worship and adore

Put on a pedestal

Look up to

Consider a star

Base one? Good lord!

Base - in globe (anagram)

I belong (anagram)

Cave in Spain, base for one male tramp

Succumb to water pressure, perhaps

Collapse violently inwards

How to beg for 1 across, perhaps

How the Sioux see you (wordplay)

Beg for naughty fairy tales (wordplay)

Go from worse to bad (wordplay)

Get, make, better

I'm to turn out, come along

How a macro lens is used

Huddled up, for example

Surround (var.)

Give support to.

O.K. variable

Give approval to.

Crystalline alcohol.

No heirs (anagram)

Just off Land's End (wordplay)

Floundering - nor is he near the coast!

Bill has spoken thus, perhaps (wordplay)

Bill (fit to sing?)

Request for payment singing (wordplay)

Cause participation of (someone)

Cause to share in

Have to do with

One smoker, awfully tedious

I find reformed smoker irritating

Smokier bombs causing irritation

""To satirize with irony, also IRONISE""

Scholarly introduction to research

Introduction to a treatise.

Introduction.

""A type of atom, also ISOBAR""

One of several zones with equal radiation

""A line indicating the earth's magnetic field, also ISOGONAL, ISOGONIC""

Put away (wordplay)

Also tie (anagram)

Eat soil (anagram)

Feature on a meteorological map

Meteorological map feature

Map connector

Type of atom

One of a related set of atoms

Either of two atoms with equal neutrons but not protons

One of several lead roles (wordplay)

Deuterium, for one

Carbon-14, for one

Duplicate specimen, in biology

A type of {enzyme=n}

An alkaloid used as an antidepressant

Former cold store

Place for certain cold storage

Pre-refrigerator creation

Vesuvianite, a glassy mineral.

Trailer's observation (wordplay)

Still like that (wordplay)

Trailer's observation?

Offer as sacrifice (usually by burning)

I am the former doctor - sacrifice this!

Sacrifice me - I am the former doctor

Fixed

Miss Manners's assumption (wordplay)

Miss Manners's assumption?

Boundary-crossing, perhaps

In the early stages.

Not fully developed

Not fully realized

To incorporate

Refractory setter with document in river

Ungovernable

Unruly daughter breaking image borne by prophet from the east

""A person to whom a bill is assigned, also ENDORSEE""

Make a technological breakthrough, say

Make something new

Start something new

Expose to the sun

Expose to sunlight

An inward stroke

""To place on a throne, also ENTHRONE""

Perform a Gregorian chant, say

Say slogans, perhaps

Speak in a certain way.

Facing inward

Make a supplication

In botany, rolled inwards at the margins

Rolled up in a spiral.

Treat with an antiseptic

Like iron

TV detective's right to life (wordplay)

Protector for the club team (wordplay)

Cromwell's soldier

Cook's heavy utensils

It's hard to sell

Raw ore in metallic items

""A type of isotherm, also ISOCHEIM""

""A curve showing pressure and temperature, also ISOCHOR""

Area of folded rock strata

Tightly folded rock layers

Folded area of rock strata

Like some parts of compounds

Capable of being separated.

Capable of being separated

""A type of chemical compound, also ISOLOG""

A curve joining points of equal light intensity

Pioneers synthetic rubber compound

Liquid in synthetic rubber manufacture

Synthetic-rubber ingredient

Weather-map line

Contour line of equal mean summer temperature

One expression of triumph in line used by meteorologist

Zealot variable

Blindly partisan advocate

Dogmatic type

Blind zealot

Easily overlooked.

Part of army in base not demanding attention

Gunners in base not needing to be called to attention

Groin acne (anagram)

Not knowing the answer!

Not 2, no? How blissful that could be!

""An organic crystalline base, C 3 H 4 N 2 , that is an inhibitor of histamine.""

Not able to be shifted

Deaf to emotional pleas

Unyielding, fixed

Suction sound: phonet.

Appeal to umpire - not out!

Make insistent requests for entropium

Plead with umpire not to be wrong

""(Medicine / Pathology) an archaic word for abscess [from Old French empostume, from Late Latin apostēma, from Greek, literally: separation (of pus), from aphistanai to remove, from histanai to stand]""

I am taking the attitude it's a fraud

Ploy of many a con man

The assuming of a false identity

Lack of strength or power

Helplessness, powerlessness

Helplessness and how, perhaps, men cope with it

Partake in TheatreSports, say

Be a make-up artist (wordplay)

In rally is talk off the cuff (wordplay)

""The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common ground by a fence.""

Give trouble to.

Hassle as government department cuts pay

Would this bother you in the chest (wordplay)

Badly put together; inartificial; rude; unpolished; irregular.

Render unwilling/unfit

Render unfit

Make unfit.

Lack of zip in cold ENE winds

Never do your best with this

Symptom of spring fever.

Podiatrist's recommendation, perhaps

Buglossidium privatum (wordplay)

Part of a shoe

The lack of guilt is in no way reported!

State before the fall (wordplay)

Corrupt state? On the contrary!

Do a travel clinician's job, say

Grant immunity to, say

Protect, in a way

Fresh answers, say

Brat's specialty (wordplay)

One that has a blooming cheek

Having no answer, one bull is confused

If this were you wouldn't get it

Like some problems

Meddle in others' affairs.

Be a busybody

Cut in gnarled tree without having to be intrusive

The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise.

Insert between (one thing and another)

Put in for one stripe during manoeuvres

Muscle in sport I need, cut off!

Laced together

Blended together

ZONE to arrange in areas

Put 1 + 1 together (wordplay)

Make a presentation (wordplay)

Bring into use

Vain Eliot possibly sacrosanct . . .

Free from injury

Kept sacred in a blooming-sounding way

""A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.""

""IONIZE to convert into ions, also IONISE""

""A compound that enhances transport of ions across cellular membranes, by binding them and carrying them across. As a class ionophores tend to be lipophilic in nature; each compound is usually specific for one or a small number of ions.ionophores tend to be lipophilic in nature; each compound is usually specific for one or a small number of ions.""

Rock hard with Jagger (wordplay)

Heavy, durable china

Certain sedimentary rock

English word

(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a line on a map or diagram connecting places from which it takes the same time to travel to a certain point

Any of the chemically distinct forms of an enzyme that perform the same biochemical function.

United cell is ready for insertion into broken toe

One of a group of enzymes that catalyzes the conversion of one isomer into another.

ISOMERE an organ corresponding with another

Flammable liquid hydrocarbon

Electronic scanning device

The tube that made TV possible.

Television tube.

IDEOLOGIZE

Freeze in place

Hold still

Speed on one motorway way too high

Unreasonable setter's style and class

Excessive organising made me riot

I, as in this everlasting flower

An everlasting.

Allowed to come in, as foreign products

Like many foreign goods, I can be brought in as hand luggage (wordplay)

I am over the drink, can get it in and get able to carry it

Cameron swayed taking tip for power

The - of Being Earnest

Tip Cameron somehow to get power

Anything's belief (wordplay)

Little devil in hopeless (wordplay)

Hopelessly difficult to deal with

Setter's after Scottish thinker's abscess

Unlikely to occur.

Tall child misbehaving with Nick Sharp

Doubtful that rascal Robert qualified

Can be made better

Out of place

Without relevance

Totally irrelevant

Of the beginning

During race, say, fences left unfinished

Failed, as a pass

Crooked election - MP's not finished

Certain line a boxer takes (wordplay)

Harsh exile or ban possibly

Relentless smashing of Alex O"Brien

Not named or classified

Without identification

New home, tax-free, that is housing five

Like Consumer Electronics Show offerings

Using new methods

Unsuitable for surgery

Dreaded word from an oncologist

Unfit for use

Excessive noise in spout adjoining home

Over the top

A rendition becoming excessive

""To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.""

""Incapable of being associated, joined, or connected.""

Admitting no answer

English word

Fill with elation

Make (someone) drunk

Put under the table

Give life to

Give energy to

Give strength to

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

Part of space.

Part of the earth's atomosphere.

Region of air above the earth.

See osmiridium .

On the fence

Tories' rule broken, lacking purpose ...

Of two minds

ISOCYANATE

ISOLATE to set apart from others

""An essential amino acid, C 6 H 13 NO 2 , that is isomeric with leucine.""

Cause to be remembered always

Elect to French Academy

Commemorate memorial, it's rebuilt

What Juno saw with?

What Juno saw with (wordplay)

Ensure remembrance forever

IMPERFORATE

Primate's one crazy ape!

Pretend to be (another)

Pretend to be (another person)

Persistent, pressing

Annoyingly persistent

Persistently demanding various permutation

Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced.

Utter gibberish

Disjointedness.

Babble

Include as constituent part

Procreation (wordplay)

Combine procreation with some wriggling

Not easily discouraged

Boat of Billy Budd

Impossible to subdue

Providing useful facts

""INOCULATE To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.""

Harmless - not objectionable

Harmless drunk missing wife, figure touring the bogs

Harmless

... the beginning of a spy (wordplay)

Anna -, Russian poet (Requiem)

I name worker who is not effective

Badly timed

Untimely end of Doctor, trapped by River Song after fashionable operation

Untimely

Animal such as a hedgehog or shrew

Such as an anteater

Animal such as an anteater

Casual unconcern

COUPLE to unite in pairs

Intimate chat (wordplay)

Exchanges lay classes to rest

Dealings between people

To incorporate within oneself; same as interiorize.interiorize.

To incorporate within oneself.

Like some memos

Insert - not a reptile (anagram)

Insert (between other terms of a series)

Add words into

Pump kin (wordplay)

Ask questions of (someone)

Tore granite off grill

Not reliable at work and insufferable

The last straw

Not reliable, sadly, and beyond the pale

Inability to endure (something)

D. W. Griffith classic

Theme of "To Kill A Mockingbird"

INVOLUCRA

Not removable; immovable; inflexible.

Incapable of being dissolved or resolved into parts; insoluble.

""Incapable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate. as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate.""

English word

(Thing) that cannot be assessed

Difficult to estimate

Difficult to assess

Lack of foresight, thoughtlessness

""Failure to cognize, apprehended, or notice.""

""Not commutable; not capable of being exchanged with, or substituted for, another.""

Nearly means a Bible story, which is unrivalled

Detailed interest over lesson's unmatched

A problem I can work out like no one else (wordplay)

Antagonistic mongrel bit policeman

That cannot coexist

Not able to go together

Lack of ability

Inability to act skilfully

Lacking skill and ability

Not computable.

Not leading to a firm result

Not giving a clear result

Undecided when trick is seen in full

Want of congruence; incongruity.

Nice balloons burst? Can't get over it!

Not to be comforted

Not able to be comforted

""Lacking harmony, agreement, or compatibility; discordant.""

""Not consumable; incapable of being consumed, wasted, or spent.""

The quality or state of being incontinent.

(-p r- t) Combined into one united body; merged.

Start of a lapel-button warning message

Not able to be reformed

Dyed-in-the-wool and in religion crib

That cannot be separated

Brainwash - do it in trance perhaps

Imbue with any opinion

Not a credit - in poor condition

Affording no shelter

Difficult to live in

Harsh, inimical to life

Want or neglect of observance.

Having no operculum; -- said of certain gastropod shells.

INSOLUBILIZE

Office of an examining officer

Body of assessors examine 'O' grade

Examining official's office

COMPARE to scrutinise for similarities

INVOLVE to implicate or entangle