2-Letter Words Starting with R

Rationalize

The quality or state of being rational; rationality.

Empty-headed chatterers

American pit vipers

Blow up two green balloons almost all the way...and you're done

RAVENOUS extremely hungry

ACCELERATE To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; opposed to retard. retard.

Reaccession

Reaccredit

Reacquaint

ACTIVATING activate

Act of restoration to functioning state

ACTIVENESS The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

Reactivity

READABLE able to be read

Setting right notice that had been included when attending to problem again

Additional tweak

After study, no women find time for revision

Women excluded in new trade? Further change needed!

Readmission

Reafforest

Inflected form of AGGREGATED Inflected form of AGGREGATE To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. \'bdThe aggregated soil.\'b8aggregated soil.\'b8

Reaggregate

Realignment

Realization

ALLOCATING allocate

Actual place for further distribution

Actual site for another share out

Actual site for a new allotment

Realpolitik

Reanimation

Act of reannexing.

Second coming (wordplay)

A return to view

Act of once more coming into sight

Reappoint

Reapportion

Reappraisal

A paper surprisingly probing revolution making fresh judgement

ARTICULATE Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

Reasonless

Assemblage a second time or again.

Reassembly

Getting together again - like outside, like inside

Reassertion

Process of re-evaluation

Stresses mean somehow making new evaluation

Turbulent masses resent another property valuation

The act of reassigning.

Confidence boosters scare as nurse gets jittery

Fool you finally call in bank in sympathetic way

The act of reattaching; a second attachment.

Trying all over again

""Inflected form of ATTRIBUTED Inflected form of ATTRIBUTE To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).""

Reattribute

""AUTHORIZED Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. as, an authorized agent.""

Reauthorize

Rebroadcast

Obstinate in opposition

Not willing to accept discipline

Clatter in car turns out hard to handle

""CALCULATED Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball.""

Recalculate

""Inflected form of CALIBRATED Inflected form of CALIBRATE To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.""

Recalibrate

CANALIZING canalize

Recantation

""CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

Go over and back down again (wordplay)

Summarise yield again (wordplay)

Go over in summary

Recessional

""CESSIONARY Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt. as, a cessionary bankrupt.""

CHALLENGED having doubts expressed about its truth.

Rechallenge

Rechannel

CHANNELLED channel

""CHARGEABLE That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man.""

Recharter

""In a reciprocal manner; so that each affects the other, and is equally affected by it; interchangeably; mutually.""

Returned (favour)

Responded (to gesture) with a corresponding action

I accept order mistakenly went to and fro

Method's restraining bad actor's interchanges

RECIPROCATE To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.

""Inflected form of CIRCULATED Inflected form of CIRCULATE To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. as, the blood circulates in the body.""

Recirculate

Projects that make wasteland usable

CLASSIFIED classify

Reclassify

Capable of being recognized.

COGNIZABLY In a cognizable manner.

""An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal. recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal.""

Recombinant

Recommittal

Able to be brought back into friendship

Could be made up to disturb a noble cleric

To consecrate anew or again.

Recontact

Act of reconveying.

Recordation

Of drugs taken for enjoyment

(Of drugs) used for kicks

Like some drugs

""Inflected form of CRIMINATED Inflected form of CRIMINATE To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.""

Recriminate

""CULTIVATED marked by refinement in taste and manners; as, cultivated tastes in art.as, cultivated tastes in art.""

Recultivate

Creating pure liquid is improving

Convalescence

Getting better with unorthodox cure, gym activity helping

""Tv, Recuperatory Of or pertaining to recuperation; tending to recovery.""

DECORATING decorate

Process of doing up (room)

Redecorator

DEDICATING dedicate

""DEDICATION The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple. as, the dedication of Solomon's temple.""

Restored to wholeness or a perfect state; renewed.

Redisplay

Manage to catch Ed Balls admitting current employment problems

Doubled, repeated

Reduplicate

Reeducation

EMPHASIZED Having stress or emphasis.

Reemphasize

Reenactment

""ENGAGEMENT The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.""

ESCALATING escalate

ESCALATION

ESTIMATING estimate

EVALUATING evaluate

New appraisal of worth

It may yield a new rating

Right at ease with quotation written for new appraisal

Refashion

REFLATION

Reflectance

""FLECTIONAL Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection.""

Reformation

Reformat

FORMULATED reduced to a systematic form; reduced to a formula.

Reformulate

""FOUNDATION The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.""

Refractive

""REFRACTIVE Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers. as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers.""

Refractory

In a refractory manner; perversely; obstinately.

Refrainment

Coolers used for one controlling fights and arresting characters

REFRIGERATE To cause to become cool; to make or keep cold or cool.

Refrigerate

It's cooler in Alaska

Keeps cool in kitchen

Where not to put your bananas.

Regardless

Regeneracy

Regenerate

GENERATING generate

Process of renewal

Recovery expected in about thirty years

Process of bringing new life to an area

Promoting renewal

Regenerator

Regionalism

Regionalist

REGIONALIZE

Regionalize

REGISTER to record officially

Glove box item

Formal enrolment

Car number

Regularity

REGULARIZE To cause to become regular; to regulate.

Brought back (into the mouth)

Regurgitate

""One who is undergoing rehabilitation, as for a disability.""

Restore the reputation of (someone)

Restore a Blairite? The changes!

Restore after adversity

HUMANIZING humanize

REHYDRATE

Rehydration

Reification

Capable of being repaid; repayable.

Reimplant

Dance trainer working with a new form (wordplay)

A terraced inn, done up and given a new lease of life

Reincarnate

Reinflation

Reinhabit

INITIATING initiate

""Inflected form of INNERVATED Inflected form of INNERVATE To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches. as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches.""

Reinnervate

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

Reinoculate

Reinstall

Reinsurance

INTEGRATED Formed or united into a whole.

Restores elements of extraordinary Serengeti art

Give new energy to (someone)

Give fresh energy to

Give fresh strength to

Reiteration

REJUVENATE To render young again.

Recovery of youth

New lease on life

Recovery of youthful character

Rejuvenator

Rekeyboard

Relacquer

""Inflected form of LANDSCAPED Inflected form of LANDSCAPE A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.""

Relandscape

Relational

Family way to travel (wordplay)

Bond is on alert breaking in

Emotional association between two people

Described by Einstein's theory

Relativity

RELATIVIZE

LIABLENESS Quality of being liable; liability.

LUBRICATED smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction.

Relubricate

Reluctancy

Reluctation

Remainder

Remediation

Capable or worthy of being remembered.

""One who, or that which, serves to bring to, or keep in, mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder.""

Memorials

Remigration

""MILITARIZE to lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force.""

Screen matron adjusted to see complaint

Strong protest

Forceful reproachful protest in new Roman centres

Remonstrant

Told off - or men started to panic!

Told off

Protests as tormenters going free

Argues in protest

One who remonstrates; a remonsrant.