2-Letter Words Starting with I

Like puppy mills, to many

Cruel and risible about drone

Cruel but popular chap put in shade

Admit, to a secret society say

Put through hell night, perhaps

Ordain pioneer (wordplay)

Make a technological breakthrough, say

Make something new

Start something new

Engrave; enter (name in list)

Engrave; dedicate (to)

Write (a dedication) in (a book)

Nice and sure? Wrong!

Not free from danger.

Subject to doubts

""To place in a shrine, also ENSHRINE""

Expose to the sun

Expose to sunlight

Enclose, poetically

{unstable=adj}

An insect (anagram)

Example set by the ancients, maybe

Case - isn't acne (anagram)

An inward stroke

Protect (from, eg, heat)

Lean suit (anagram)

Install fiberglass, perhaps

""To wrap around, also ENSWATHE""

Including people of various ages

Prisoner (during war)

One who is kept prisoner

One held during war.

Connect

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

Suggest to trusted friend (wordplay)

Give hint to close friend (wordplay)

Give an inkling of

""To give a right to, also ENTITLE, INTITLE""

Perform a Gregorian chant, say

Say slogans, perhaps

Speak in a certain way.

Love affair sparks interest

Arouse the curiosity of

Secret love affair

Facing inward

To insert a tube into

Flood - and unite (anagram)

Flood (a place)

Overwhelm single sister? Go steady!

Lacking in courtesy

In Tube one's aggressive

Tending to spread

Tending to intrude

Give line out showing lure

Persuade by flattery

Persuade by cajolery

Lacking survival ability

Unable to survive or develop normally

Not virile

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

Provide water to (crops)

Make arable, perhaps

Supply water to (land)

Make it irater (wordplay)

Drive mad with needle (wordplay)

Go against the grain.

""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

Fit to be put out

Fit for publication

Like a magazine that's hot off the presses

Creation and delivery (as of a license)

Act of putting into circulation

P.O. action

Some artists lay it on a bit thick!

Repetition.

Repetition

Zealot variable

Blindly partisan advocate

Dogmatic type

Blind zealot

Like a match

Far from fireproof

Part of design I tabled that's not fireproof

As one being lit, perhaps (wordplay)

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!

Not well-written

Impossible to read

Not easily read

Lack of harmony in stormy male cabin

Lack of proportion I am to compare

One can blame corrupt bias

I'm to whip in the cheese to make it overlap

I am the cat among dairy produce, going to overlap (wordplay)

Regularly overlapping brick, mostly, framed by one friend

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

Mimicking ape over teatime

Following a model

Mimicking or onomatopoeic

Innateness

At pressing once (wordplay)

Instant response to a goal, for example

Being nearby, one stranger made time

Move to Mexico, maybe

Come to America

Come to a new land

Impending danger

That's what's soon that I am for me to start with

Twice this writer's discontented clientele after new approach

Freedom from mixture; purity.

Not able to be shifted

Deaf to emotional pleas

Unyielding, fixed

Fickle fellow's admission (wordplay)

Not able to be changed

Unchanging over time

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

Ain't Maine dull (wordplay)

Going nowhere (wordplay)

Not lively - in a lively way

Impossible to hear

Sound off as one is not hearing this

Silent, or almost so

To infuse by breathing; to inspire.

Is that just cant (wordplay)

Some win cap --a bleary-eyed drunk!

With no trace of expertise

Embodied in human form

Embodied in flesh like a spirit or devil

Represented in bodily form

Inducement I have to get in money first

In a small coin I have inducement

Carrot on a stick, for example

Noting the beginning

Rate of occurrence (eg, of a crime)

Range of occurrence

Extent of influence.

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

Nonsexist, in a way

Allowing anyone to enter

Broad in scope.

Give trouble to.

Hassle as government department cuts pay

Would this bother you in the chest (wordplay)

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

Teach to unravel clue? I can't!

Current clue can't possibly impress

Instil by persistent instruction

Silly Uncle Pat I blame

Make a charge from analysis of paint clue

Point the finger at inapt clue - revision needed

Old book (in English) with change of heart may be past praying for

Cop for fit that's beyond remedy

Beyond reach of treatment

Like Pollyanna's optimism

Curved; bent; crooked.

Like some ink

Unable to be rubbed out

Bill I need changing can't be changed

What a bind it is to be in a false set!

Formal, multiple-copy document

In study prepared true contract

Poverty

Render unwilling/unfit

Render unfit

Make unfit.

Lack of zip in cold ENE winds

Never do your best with this

Symptom of spring fever.

""Capable of being induced, caused, or made to take place.""

Introduce to what I have characterised by the influence of general laws

Make lit (wordplay)

Not one anti-beer (wordplay)

Make drunk mix it in a beer

Spinning fine story, defying expression

Unable to be described in words

Unable to be expressed in words

Very silly wearing hat to keep cool

Inflate in childish way

Silly, wearing cooler hat

Infantile; childish.

Make love (wordplay)

Inspire with a sudden passion

Arouse passion in

Contagious

Catchy

Capable of being inferred or deduced from premises.

Logician's conclusion

A logical conclusion from a premise.

Deduction from evidence

Conclude a wall covering is sterile

Conclude shingle is unproductive

Reason that hat needed for desert

Sway under it (wordplay)

Clue in fen (anagram)

Fine clue composed about name, say

Bring to a boil (wordplay)

Make very angry

Enrage or exasperate

Resistant to melting, as certain metals

Terrible Sun lie/fib can't be run together

Fit to eat

Ingrained state

Essential state

Intrinsic state

INJECT to force liquid into

... the beginning of fairness (wordplay)

Lack of fairness

Have in only what's frozen? Fair enough

Podiatrist's recommendation, perhaps

Buglossidium privatum (wordplay)

Part of a shoe

Central tax (English) to provide causes of sensation

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

Animal that sponges on another

Limitless in a way

Incapable of being satisfied.

Constantly wanting more

Buggy

Saint seen to be unfeeling

In meaning around at anything so foolish

Eaten for your sins - it's so foolish

Raisins in cereal, somewhat phony

Feigned, perhaps

Not out because engineers were deceitful

Fixed 'annuities' (wordplay)

Fixed "annuities" (wordplay)

Intimate with annuities

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

Urge on - teasing it (anagram)

Start eating, it's fantastic!

Urge on to some action.

Set up something for women (wordplay)

Caltech, for one

Set up organisation for women (wordplay)

Suited for safeguarding

O. K. for a Lloyd's risk.

Like life and health

Protection money (wordplay)

Cover against misfortune

Cover against loss

Awful trait - gene pool mix!

Incorporate into the whole

Verb in current headlines.

One isn't even worried or concentrated

Word with farming or care

Level of care

Try to help, perhaps

Plead for one

Plead on behalf of another

PC desktop, e.g

Bury oppose link-up

Point of communication

Perhaps bury terror to 35 across

There's a butt in this

Meddle in Bury with free movement

FILE to arrange in order for future reference

To pour or spread between or among; to diffuse; to scatter.

Arrange in alternating order, as digits

Make a mesh out of

Weave together

Insert between rows of words

Insert between rows of words.

Do a tailor's job.

Meddle in others' affairs.

Be a busybody

Cut in gnarled tree without having to be intrusive

One of Austin's versets (wordplay)

Short performance during an interval

Performance between the acts.

MALE a member of the male sex

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!

Flat land between hills

Step in (to change the course of events)

Come between; interrupt

Interfere between disputants

Laced together

Blended together

ZONE to arrange in areas

Not having planned to leave (wordplay)

Without the will (wordplay)

Not ready to go, you might say

Inner tube (wordplay)

Seat of fortitude?

Seat of fortitude (wordplay)

Entangled? Bundle it in crate!

Involved during scam, almost put away

Make certain it is very complicated

Put 1 + 1 together (wordplay)

Make a presentation (wordplay)

Bring into use

Tending to enter uninvited

Coming in uninvited

Being present uninvited

Like an epiphany

Easy to figure out

There's no reason to be so spontaneous

Words meant to hurt

Abusive language

You'd swear it's in five, etc. I have here

Driven to discover (wordplay)

Totally making stuff up

Adept at originality

INVERSE a direct opposite

""An enzyme capable of effecting the inversion of cane suger, producing invert sugar. It is found in many plants and in the intestines of animals.""

Vain Eliot possibly sacrosanct . . .

Free from injury

Kept sacred in a blooming-sounding way

Writer of unseen words (wordplay)

Like a spy's ink (wordplay)

Hidden, like some exports

""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.""

Easily aroused to anger

Quick to anger

Eric and Basil get upset and cross

Rock hard with Jagger (wordplay)

Heavy, durable china

Certain sedimentary rock

Expose to UV waves, say

Fuming about artist I'd backed to shine

Shed light on

Touchy, and that's flat at last

2 down, and that's flat at last

Hot, as a grump

Rushing in or upon.

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

Convert to sloping type

Print in sloping letters

Put on a slope, it is held by girl

Give a list to, say

Put a slant on (wordplay)

Put right (wordplay)

Word expressing repetition

Step-by-step, like a for-loop

Like 24/7 news channels

Travel on a circuit

Travel a circuit

Travel a regular circuit, as a judge

Electronic scanning device

The tube that made TV possible.

Television tube.

IDEOLOGIZE

A volcanic rock formed by the welding together of tuff material from an explosive volcanic eruption.

Not laudable; not praiseworthy; worthy of censure or disapprobation.

To make or declare illegal or unlawful.

I will say again one cannot read

Uneducated crook in Sydney? Say again

One who signs with an X, perhaps

Shine a light on (wordplay)

Put in the spotlight

Make bright with light

Angry about student sensuality? Clarify!

Prepare drawings for a book

Show it's all true, strangely enough

Possible to hold in your head (wordplay)

Within creative or fanciful limits

Not too far-fetched

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

Mary would have taken issue with this!

I'm taking cute Alma out! Perfect!

Ready for the white glove treatment

I'm terribly miserable without a waterproof

Semi-limber freestyle swimmer should be so

Like oil and water