2-Letter Words Starting with R

MOTIVATING motivate

MOTIVATION The act or process of motivating.

MOVABILITY Movableness.

""REMUNERATE To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense, or other sacrifice; to recompense; to requite; as, to remunerate men for labor. as, to remunerate men for labor.""

Pay - our men earn it (anagram)

Payment - a minor tenure (anagram)

Money paid for work or a service

(Of work) paying

Profitable

Remunerator

Remunerative.

Renaissance

RENATURE to restore natural qualities

Open to discussion for changes

Able to be changed by agreement

Inflected form of NEGOTIATED Inflected form of NEGOTIATE To transact business; to carry on trade.

Tries to get new deal to redevelop one great site

The quality or state of being renewable.

Renography

NOMINATING nominate

NOMINATION The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated.

Verb with prefix re-

Action of giving up a thing

Giving up of rights, claim etc

Refuting the idea and point by mother from Channel Islands consumed by allowance

RENUNCIATE

""Pertaining to renunciation; containing or declaring a renunciation; as, renunciatory vows. as, renunciatory vows.""

""OCCUPATION The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.""

Reoperation

Reorganizer

ORGANIZING organize

""Inflected form of ORIENTATED Inflected form of ORIENTATE To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward.""

Reorientate

Reoxidation

Repartition

PATRIATING patriate

PW's hope.

The returning of someone to their own country

Repattern

Note: reptilia evolved like parrots

PHOTOGRAPH A picture or likeness obtained by photography.

Dicky sent me parcel with new spare parts maybe

For each upset select man changing substitutes

Substitutes artificial pearls containing binding agent

The act of planting again; a replanting.

Replaster

Replication

POLARIZING polarize

""POPULARIZE To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. as, to popularize philosophy.""

POPULATING populate

The act of repeopling; act of furnishing with a population anew.

Reprimand

To restore to an original state.

Inflected form of PRIVATIZED Inflected form of PRIVATIZE

Reprivatize

Able to be rebuked or upbraided

Reprobation

Reprogram

PROGRAMMED program

""The process of reproducing, reprinting, or copying graphic material especially by mechanical, photographic, or electronic means.""

""The process of reproducing, reprinting, or copying graphic material especially by mechanical, photographic, or electronic means.""

Repudiation

Repugnancy

PURCHASING purchase

Having a good reputation; honorable.

""REPUTATION The estimation in which one is held; character in public opinion; the character attributed to a person, thing, or action; repute.""

Reradiation

REGULATING regulate

""REGULATION The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.""

SEARCHABLE Capable of being searched.

Researchist

Inflected form of SEGREGATED Inflected form of SEGREGATE Separate; select.

Resegregate

Resemblance

Doubts about dinner plans (wordplay)

Displaced tribes to be put in them? One has qualms

Notices new sign in a store

Inflected form of SOCIALIZED Inflected form of SOCIALIZE To render social.

Resocialize

Respectable

Respiration

Inflected form of STABILIZED Inflected form of STABILIZE

Restabilize

Begrudges ringing Tate Modern initially for new accounts

Person running eating house

Eating premises owner

One catering to diners

""Inflected form of STIMULATED Inflected form of STIMULATE To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory. as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory.""

Restimulate

Restoration

Restorative

Capable of being restrained; controllable.

With restraint.

Brought back to consciousness

Test acid user, possibly given a quick fix (wordplay)

Resuscitate

One who brings back to life or consciousness

Retaliation

Retardation

Reticulate

RETICULATE

Cult that is, perhaps, about to apply restrictions to network

Adjective (-al)

TRACTILITY The quality of being tractile; ductility.

Retransform

TRANSLATED

Retranslate

Retroaction

Retrograde

""RETROGRADE Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.""

""Inflected form of VACCINATED Inflected form of VACCINATE To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows. vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.""

Revaccinate

VALIDATING validate

Further confirmation of truth

Once more confirming the truth (of something)

VALORIZING valorize

Revaluation

VEGETATING vegetate

""VEGETATION The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.""

Echoed with sound

Beat or sent back sound

Echoed

Reverberate

""Of or pertaining to a reversion; involving a reversion; to be enjoyed in succession, or after the termination of a particular estate; as, a reversionary interest or right. as, a reversionary interest or right.""

Revictual

VICTUALLED victual

VITALISING vitalise

VITALIZING vitalize

Pertaining to revivals.

Rhabdocoele

""RHABDOME a rodlike structure in the retinula, also RHABDOM""

""RHAPSODIZE To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody""

Rhetorical

Skilled speakers that may give heroic rants, I fancy

Toe ma roughly bashed? Medical specialist may know all about it

Rhizoctonia

Bragging to make Orlando furious (wordplay)

""Related to the rhombohedron; presenting the form of a rhombohedron, or a form derivable from a rhombohedron; relating to a system of forms including the rhombohedron and scalenohedron.""

To the beat

Any of various enzymes that break down RNA. Also called RNase .

Roadblock

Roadholding

""ROBOTIZE to make automatic, also ROBOTISE""

Rockabilly

Rodomontade

""ROMANIZE to write in the Roman alphabet, also ROMANISE""

How an engaged couple might speak to each other

ROMANTICISE

Romanticise

Romanticism

Romanticist

ROMANTICIZE

Romanticize

Ropedancing

Rotogravure

Roughcast

Rowanberry

Rubefacient

Rubrication

Ruminative

Rustication

Rabbitbrush

Racemization

Radiation

Radicalness

Radioactive

Emission from, eg, uranium

Property of uranium, for example

Atomic emission

Adjective (-ic)

The chemistry of radioactive materials.

Radiochemist

Radioelement

Radiography

Radiograph

They have an unstable nucleus

RADIOISOTOPE

Radiolabel

RADIOLABEL

Radionuclide

Radiothorium

Raffishness

Consequences if mica is spilt into food

Consequences

'Do they make one branch out in a masculine, if sheepish, manner? (13)'

RANDOMIZE RANDOM haphazard

Aggressive greed

Greedy quality

Resumption of good relations

Renewal of cordial relations

Resumption of harmonious relations

Rapturous

""RAREFACTION The act or process of rarefying; the state of being rarefied; opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air. condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.""

Ratification

""RATIOCINATE To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument.""

""The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.""

Given to precise thinking

Ratiocinator

Reasonable behaviour (wordplay)

Reasonable, the way I become vocal

Finding a reason why

""RATIONALIST One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system; also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist. Reasonist.""

Reasonable practices

Rationalizer

""RATIONALIZE To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.""

Shallow jar and cups Enid smashed

Shallow jar and cups Enid replaced

Giddy

Raucousness

Raunchiness

Raylessness

ACCELERATED caused to move faster

Reaccelerate

""ACCLIMATIZE To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.""

Reaccredit

Reacquaint

ACQUISITION The act or process of acquiring.

Ultra-conservatives

Die-hards showing response to sign (wordplay)

Traditionalists sign after performance by soldiers

Reactivation

Readability

Readjustment

A second affirmation.

Reafforest

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

""AGGREGATION The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.""

One way to look at things

'That's about a catalogue I call Y, but not in imagination (13)'

'Actual places, it seems, are once more given out (13)'