2-Letter Words Starting with I

Pierce, me pail (anagram)

Stick with a toothpick, say

I've a ghostly air, perhaps to transfix

Block progress of (something)

Delay progress of (something)

Hinder or obstruct, say progress

An African grass

To {wager=v}

Exact or levy, say tax

Put or lay on- say a tax

Overstay your welcome, maybe

Bad and all as I am and simple

Adulterated or unchaste

Mixed with something else

Ascribe (something unpleasant)

Attribute or ascribe, say a fault

Attribute or ascribe - say fault

Uncompromising situation (wordplay)

Has-been's admission?

Has-been's admission (wordplay)

Apply paint heavily to.

Have an effect (upon)

Have a negative effect (on)

Have an effect (on)

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)

""An emblem with a motto, also IMPRESA, IMPRESSE""

Go from worse to bad (wordplay)

Get, make, better

I'm to turn out, come along

Miles up (anagram)

Maybe unthinking urge

A sudden urge

Working harmoniously (with)

Synchronized, as frequencies

Synchronized, as mechanisms

The essence of something

Essential quality of Hopkins

Preach a motivational sermon to, maybe

Arouse, prompt (to new heights)

Encourage another to breathe (wordplay)

One of several lead roles (wordplay)

Deuterium, for one

Carbon-14, for one

Duplicate specimen, in biology

To {pawn=v}

Miss Manners's assumption (wordplay)

Miss Manners's assumption?

Boundary-crossing, perhaps

To incorporate

Enclose, poetically

A curve joining points of equal light intensity

Pioneers synthetic rubber compound

Liquid in synthetic rubber manufacture

Synthetic-rubber ingredient

Smashing together

Four in deadlock became poker-faced

Volatile as a wooden Indian.

Unfazed by pits of olives found in jam

Z stands for it in electronics

Electrical resistance

Measure of opposition that is restricting politician on trip

Ask for

Involve in, say a crime

Put some of the blame on

Involve in a crime, ensnare

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

Put curse on (someone)

Invoke evil - crime tape (anagram)

Swear tripe came badly cooked

Woolly mice Peri's beaten!

Off the mark

Not quite right

Partake in TheatreSports, say

Be a make-up artist (wordplay)

In rally is talk off the cuff (wordplay)

Gall bladder finally removed in folly

Dessert in pieces in cool sauce

Lip or cheek

Rash devil, for all to see, lives wildly

Acting without forethought

Done without forethought

Subject to blame

I'm placed at liberty if open to accusation

Is that just cant (wordplay)

Some win cap --a bleary-eyed drunk!

With no trace of expertise

Noting the beginning

Silly Uncle Pat I blame

Make a charge from analysis of paint clue

Point the finger at inapt clue - revision needed

Render unwilling/unfit

Render unfit

Make unfit.

Meddle in others' affairs.

Be a busybody

Cut in gnarled tree without having to be intrusive

Insert between (one thing and another)

Put in for one stripe during manoeuvres

Muscle in sport I need, cut off!

""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.""

Rushing in or upon.

Electronic scanning device

The tube that made TV possible.

Television tube.

""A tricyclic compound, C 19 H 24 N 2 , used to treat depression and enuresis.""

Not readily perceived mentally

Paul's 10 black, held by white, can't be touched

Intangible.

Make perfectly happy

Enrapture

Capable of being imparted or communicated.

Like a mountain road, maybe

Like some roads after blizzards

Not able to get through, but I'm okay

Incapable of suffering or experiencing pain, impassive

Stolid

Toe-tapping trigger

Chafing of spirit.

Irritation at delay

Without fault or error

In accordance with the highest standards

Without fault

Sort of mood not to be ignored

One of the moods

Essential term in grammar

Impossible to appease

Unwilling to be appeased

Unable to be appeased

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

Saturate - permeating (anagram)

Saturate with a substance

Meagre pint served for soak

Marvellous monkey revises, having failed

Permissive development is quite majestic

Like Eddie Van Halen

Dent; impression.

Unlikely to occur.

Tall child misbehaving with Nick Sharp

Doubtful that rascal Robert qualified

Can be made better

Lack of discretion

Rashness and cheek? That's about right

That'll make one a rasher

Open to question

Transferred by imputation; that may be imputed.

Out of place

Without relevance

Totally irrelevant

Lack of fitness

Unfortunate aunt pitied for showing awkwardness

Genesis Chapter IX (i): epic struggle!

During race, say, fences left unfinished

Failed, as a pass

Crooked election - MP's not finished

Faultless; blameless; innocent.

Reason for dismissal

Clumsy oaf's condition

Clumsiness to end, tie it up properly

""Admitting of no expiation, atonement, or satisfaction; as, an inexpiable crime or offense. as, an inexpiable crime or offense.""

Unsuitable for surgery

Dreaded word from an oncologist

Unfit for use

Engaged in inspection; inspecting; involving inspection.

Thicken, as by evaporation.

Thicken by evaporation.

To thicken or condense

PHASE to carry out in distinct stages or development

Area between buildings

Future challenge for NASA.

Area between.

INTRAPLATE

Part of space.

Part of the earth's atomosphere.

Region of air above the earth.

Like high-level treason

Obdurateness.

Remorselessness shown by pet with nine mice being destroyed

No apologies for compiler's change involving 1 and 10

IMPERFORATE

Not allowing fluid to pass through

Like rain jackets

Hard

Primate's one crazy ape!

Pretend to be (another)

Pretend to be (another person)

IMPLANT to plant firmly

Not seeming probable

Full of holes

Provoking disbelief

Tending to implicate.

Persistent, pressing

Annoyingly persistent

Persistently demanding various permutation

Not able to be overcome

Immune to attack

Unable to be broken into

Capable of being impressed; susceptible; sensitive.

Lack of power; inability.

Lack of appetite.

Include as constituent part

Procreation (wordplay)

Combine procreation with some wriggling

Not to be avoided

Not possible to avoid

Certain drunken celeb's a pain

Cheap

... 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

Bearing inscription; of the character or nature of an inscription.

Always together / Siempre unidos

Very friendly, close

Always together

Impossible to overcome

Unconquerable

Not inclined towards moderation

Lacking self-control

Dined in a bad mood, indulging to excess

COUPLE to unite in pairs

Insert - not a reptile (anagram)

Insert (between other terms of a series)

Add words into

Scatter - enterprises (anagram)

Scatter (among things)

Printer's perseverance uncovering dot

Like a marriage headed for divorce

Impossible to enter

Impossible to understand

Not admitting passage

Unable to perceive.

Imperfect

A simple herb I fancy to be perennial

Enduring forever

Enduring Queen described by playful expert

Suggests one is on trial, for example? It isn't supposed to last!

Lack of respect

Northeast recipe - mash with mint sauce

Disrespectful behaviour

(Thing) that cannot be assessed

Difficult to estimate

Difficult to assess

Lack of foresight, thoughtlessness

Incapable of being appeased or satisfied; unappeasable.

Not relevant

Inappropriate - irrelevant

Disable; disqualify (law)

Prevent from functioning normally

Take power from a captain and cite changes

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.

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

*Freedom from control

Gain after escaping a record contract

HST's plane.

Reason for teaching someone a lesson provided it's popular field of study

Unable to be denied

Nuptial bed is pounded, it's certain

Not possible to deny

Not expedient; inadvisable: an inexpedient tactic.

Lack of worldly wisdom

Lack of knowledge or skill

Something rookies have

Impossible to explain

Enigmatic, popular former wife, flexible about clubs

Showing no emotion

Incapable of being subdued by force; impregnable; unconquerable.

Incapable of being expunged

Affording no shelter

Difficult to live in

Harsh, inimical to life

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

Office of an examining officer

Body of assessors examine 'O' grade

Examining official's office

Excess remnant with piece in shreds

Unrestrained alcohol consumption

Breaking the cane after being angry indicates lack of restraint

COMPARE to scrutinise for similarities

""To question imperatively, as a minister, or other executive officer, in explanation of his conduct; generally on the part of a legislative body.""

Interpretative.

Tending to interrupt; interrupting.

""Not repealable; not capable of being repealed or revoked, as a law.""

""Not responsive; not able, ready, or inclined to respond.""

English word

Imperceptible.

Flea's alarmed discovery (wordplay)

Impossible to feel

Too slight to be noticed

Imperceptive.

Not allowed

IMPERSONAL Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.

Calm after suffering a terrible bump

Cool as a cucumber

Keeping calm

Impossible to carry out

Unable to be done

Not feasible

See Improvvisatore. Improvvisatore.

Not appreciable; too small to be perceived; incapable of being duly valued or estimated.

Wrong trousers cut below hip

Out of place

Out of keeping

""Incorporating or tending to incorporate; as, the incorporative languages (as of the Basques, North American Indians, etc. ) which run a whole phrase into one word. as, the incorporative languages (as of the Basques, North American Indians, etc. ) which run a whole phrase into one word.""

Proof against decay or bribery

Honest, and disposed to err in public

Not subject to decay

Key spies blend in somehow, casing area

Like many an office aide

Vital hip damage straddling fences

Incapable of being explained; inexplicable.

Beyond description

Beyond words

Cool three drinks clutching bottle opener? It's dreadful!

Invulnerable

A specialized sensory nerve receptor that receives and responds to stimuli originating from within the body.

OPERABLE {usable=adj}

PARTICLE a very small piece or part

PERMEATE to spread through

INTERPOLATE To renew; to carry on with intermission.

Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.

Computer Science A signal to a computer that stops the execution of a running program so that another action can be performed.

Given to study of one's inner self

Given to self-examination

Inward-looking

Peel lacier bra off, precious!

Without any substitute

Cannot be substituted

Too lively to control

Not willing to be restrained

Not capable of being controlled

Prison rebel is turning reckless ...

*Van Heusen/Cahn classic

Unaccountable or unreliable

Easily influenced

Susceptible to being stamped on (wordplay)

Feeling or showing no appreciation; unappreciative.

Not approachable; unapproachable; inaccessible; unequaled.

Of minimum volume

Her bland piece I trashed as not good for readers

Not decomposable; incapable or difficult of decomposition; not resolvable into its constituents or elements.

That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible.

""CORPORATE Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. as, a corporate town.""

""OPERATIVE Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive. as, an operative motive.""

To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually.

Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory.

Beyond criticism

A horrible caper going wrong is blameless

Adjective (-ible)

One little drink secures record likely to include name for being out of control

Theme of a J. F. K. address.

Togetherness, in a way.

Mutual reliance.

Intussuscept

Not able to be understood

Beyond understanding