2-Letter Words Starting with R

""OCCURRENCE A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. as, the occurence of a railway collision.""

Repellency

Altering course, sniper produces echo

Indirect effect; echo

Indirect consequence of some action

Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.

Dicky sent me parcel with new spare parts maybe

For each upset select man changing substitutes

Substitutes artificial pearls containing binding agent

Replication

Able to be rebuked or upbraided

Preparing for another use

Treating, eg, spent nuclear fuel for reuse

""PRODUCIBLE Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended.""

REPRODUCE To produce again.

Copy (of a work of art)

Golfer, say, cut out copy

Print made of a painting

""Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction.""

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

Repugnancy

PURCHASING purchase

Putting off green, child has us beaten

Rescindment

SEARCHABLE Capable of being searched.

Researchist

Resemblance

SENTENCING sentence

Resiliency

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

Resocialize

Respectable

With due honors

Particularly clever type is wrong

Individually in the order given

Individually and in the order mentioned

Sumptuous quality

The quality or state of being resplendent; brilliant luster; vivid brightness; splendor.

Restricted

Tailor contrite with sir's ties

Restrictive

Organised differently

Restructure

Resurrect

Conveyance delivering a travelling woman

Act of coming back to life after death

The last novel written by Leo Tolstoy

Brought back to consciousness

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

Resuscitate

One who brings back to life or consciousness

Reticulate

RETICULATE

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

An immature red blood cell that contains a network of basophilic filaments.

Adjective (-al)

TRACTILITY The quality of being tractile; ductility.

Reduction of expenditure

Digging more ditches for the sake of economy (wordplay)

Ditch mining engineer included in fee achieving economy

Retroaction

The act of retroceding.

Retrodict

Retrodict

Retrodict

Retrospect

UNIONISTIC Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.

""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

Revictual

VICTUALLED victual

Pertaining to revivals.

""Rare restoration to life or animation; revival [from Latin, from revīviscere come back to life, related to vīvere to live; see revive ]""

Rhabdocoele

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

Rhetorical

Skilled speakers that may give heroic rants, I fancy

Group that's called a crash

Myopic giants

Hefty herbivores

Rhinoscopy

Rhizoctonia

To the beat

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

Ricochet

Ridiculous

Roadblock

Rockabilly

Geologic study, out of debt, turning to Reverend Spooner

Rodenticide

How an engaged couple might speak to each other

ROMANTICISE

Romanticise

Romanticism

Romanticist

ROMANTICIZE

Romanticize

Ropedancing

Roughcast

Rubberneck

Traffic-accident gawker

One gawking at traffic

Motoring menace

Rubefacient

Rubrication

Rustication

Racemization

Radicalness

Radioactive

Emission from, eg, uranium

Property of uranium, for example

Atomic emission

Adjective (-ic)

The chemistry of radioactive materials.

Radiochemist

RADIOISOTOPE

Radionuclide

Consequences if mica is spilt into food

Consequences

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

Aggressive greed

Greedy quality

Resumption of good relations

Renewal of cordial relations

Resumption of harmonious relations

""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

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

Raucousness

Raunchiness

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

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)'

Reappearance

""The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.""

""ARTICULATED United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton. as, an articulated skeleton.""

Rearticulate

Reattachment

Objection to client in race car crash

Strong objection or opposition

Strong opposition

RECALCITRANCE

Recalcitrant

CALCULATING Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.

""CALCULATION The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.""

""Inflected form of CALIBRATING 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.""

""CALIBRATION The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument.""

Abstract noun (-ity)

""Inflected form of CAPITALIZED Inflected form of CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

Recapitalize

Summarized a pictured tale

Summed up about yield in the German returns

Summarises main point of (something)

Receivership

""Inflected form of CENTRIFUGED Inflected form of CENTRIFUGE an apparatus having containers for liquids arrayed around a central pivot and rotated at a high speed, thus generating centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.""

Recentrifuge

Receptionist

Open-minded quality

Receptivity

Recessive

""CHALLENGING requiring full use of one's abilities or resources; as, challenging task.as, challenging task.""

CHANNELLING channel

CHOREOGRAPH

Rechristen

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

Give and take

Giving, in return

Mutual giving and receiving - cop in race riot (anagram)

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

Reciprocator

Reciprocity

""CIRCULATING moving or flowing in a circuit and returning to the same point; as, steam circulating through the pipes; the circulating thyroid hormones.as, steam circulating through the pipes; the circulating thyroid hormones.""

""CIRCULATION The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.""

Reclassify

Reclusive

Recognizance

Memories concerned with church offerings

Memories of lost licence - or being devastated

Combination a second or additional time.

Suitable to be recommended; worthy of praise; commendable.

Recommission

Recommitment

A new compilation.

The act of recomposing.

COMPUTATION The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

To concentrate again; to concentrate thoroughly.

Reconception

Reconciliation.

Recondite

Made like new

""Inflected form of CONFIGURING Inflected form of CONFIGURE To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.""

CONNECTIONS connection

Did a preliminary survey

""RECONNOITRE To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations.""

Inflected form of CONSECRATED Inflected form of CONSECRATE Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

Reconsecrate

Reconsider

To consolidate anew or again.

Restored to original state

Put back together from parts

Restored to original form

Reconstitute

After disturbance, centre court's crowd finally gets composed again

One who recreates

""CONTAMINATE To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.""

Reconversion

Reconveyance

CONVICTIONS conviction

CREATIONIST

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

Counter-charge

Countercharge

Main criterion for putting right counter-accusation

Recriminatory.

Engaging in mutual accusations

""Rkrdssens, Recrudescency The state or condition of being recrudescent. ens, Recrudescency The state or condition of being recrudescent.""

To crystallize again.

Rectangular

Process of setting right

Act of putting right

Conversion of alternating to direct current

Rectilinear

RECTITUDE Straightness.

""Inflected form of CULTIVATING Inflected form of CULTIVATE To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. as, to cultivate soil.""

Recuperation

Recursive