2-Letter Words Starting with R

Like a network

Form into a network

Describe nets that, if crossing, unravel initially, as netted

Pl. retinacula (-l ) Biology A band or bandlike structure that holds an organ or a part in place.

Museum employees

Retouch

Going over the same route.

Haulier returned and settled back with sweetheart (could be withdrawn)

Drawing back in

Taking back

Withdrawing from European area held by cartel

Something unsaid (wordplay)

Act of eating one's words

Taking back engineer's drawing

They eat their words

Star rector played instruments in theatre

Retrench

Returns to digs for economy's sake

Retroact

""RETROCEDE To cede or grant back; as, to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor. as, to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor.""

Goes back

Retrodict

Retropack

A backward view

One takes a backward view in it

Survey of the past.

REVANCHE a political policy designed to gain lost territory

REVANCHE a political policy designed to gain lost territory

Venerated

One who regards with reverence.

Esteems highly

Bows.

Revictual

Military force calling for withdrawal

Recall with reference to one's business

State of withdrawal

Like some electrical resistors

You don't have to answer this one!

Describing a question used for effect.

Kind of question

I must ache badly after onset of regular pains

Big, horny beast (wordplay)

Large, thick-skinned ungulate

Mammal with poor vision

""The examination or study of the soft palate, posterior nares, etc., by means of a laryngoscopic mirror introduced into the pharynx.""

Like Poe's poems

Like heartbeats

Class, music that has a timed regularity is...

Richness

Rickety

""Pl. rickettsiae (-s - ) Any of various bacteria of the genus Rickettsia, carried as parasites by many ticks, fleas, and lice, that cause diseases such as typhus, scrub typhus, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans.""

Glanced one Communist in bed guarded by another

Rebounded.

Ones who scoff

Ridicule

Absurd, endless derision around America

Twisted lid - curious or laughable (wordplay)

Ludicrous, ludicrous, ludicrous housing for one

A semisynthetic antibiotic derived from a form of rifamycin that interferes with the synthesis of RNA and is used to treat bacterial and viral diseases.

RIGORIST one who professes rigorism

Highway patrol setups

State Police devices.

Detour enforcers

How to get a goat to sleep? Music!

What a mama goat does (wordplay)

Hybrid '50s musical genre

Missilemen

Rocketry

Rockfish

""1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a small penguin, Eudyptes crestatus , of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and New Zealand, with a yellow crest on each side of its head""

Rockshaft

Jovial ruler has first spin in charge

Very jolly.

Lively lecture

AXR1, and others

Origins.

Funambulist

Equilibrist

Acrobat

""An aircraft, especially a helicopter, that is kept partially or completely airborne by airfoils rotating around a vertical axis.""

Roughcast

Oil rig workers

Aggressive people waving guns and choker

Hard-manual laborers

View along the highway (italicized)

Stare at a Swiss mishap?

Stare at a Swiss mishap (wordplay)

RUBRICAL pertaining to {rubric=n}

RUBRICATE Marked with red.

Rubricate

RUBRICATE Marked with red.

Rudbeckia

""RUSTICAL one who lives in the country, also RUSTIC, RUBE""

Stayed in the country

Countryman had daughter for dinner, got sent down

... dictates changes after their game suspended

Lives in the country.

Summers in the country.

RUSTICATE To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.

Ascot & Epsom

Sporting grounds.

Some tracks

Racetrack

Racewalker

Fast-paced Olympic event

Long-distance athletic event

RACIALIST

Engaged in organized crime

North American game played in a walled court

They record "blips."

RADICALISE

Radicalise

Radicalism

RADICALIZE

Radicalize

Quality or state of being radical.

Type of fallout

Emitting nuclear ions

Emitting ionising particles

Dating material

Cairo-born criminal ringing commercial dating agency

Allowing the passage of x-rays or other radiation; not radiopaque.

""Sun an instrument for measuring the intensity of radiant energy, composed of vanes which rotate at speeds proportionate to the intensity of the energy source. ; radiometric ,""

A radioactive tracer.

Rancidity

In a resentful way

Greedily

Rascal or rogue

Plain carols (anagram) - rogue

A disgrace to criticise onion

Reduction in density (of a gas)

The opposite of compression

Two lots of soldiers going to party, with loss of concentration

Rascality

Reason logically

Think logically about broadcast - air it at once!

Deduce

Harshness of voice

Harsh loud quality

Harsh noisiness

Overt, earthy sexuality

Reaccent

Reaccept

""ACCESSION A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy. as, a king's accession to a confederacy.""

Reaccredit

Reacquaint

ACQUIRING acquire

Opposing progress or reform

Opposing progress

Opposing reform

ACTIVATED activate

Stirs again tea, craves it badly

Readdict

ALLOCATED allocate

Reallocate

Reascend

Comfort provided by a friend

Relief from apprehension

A friend might provide it

Reattach

Reattack

Portfolio adjustments

Rebranch

""BROADCAST A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.""

Run the numbers again

Work out (sum) again

""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.""

CANALIZED canalize

Recanalize

The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.

CAPTURING capture

Receivable

Perhaps, tidies secret place out

God of trash control (wordplay)

Secret place for developing containers

Receptive

The state or quality of being receptive.

CERTIFIED certify

Recertify

'Lest we forget' poem (Kipling)

Hymn after service

Hymn heard during an exodus

Recessive

""CHALLENGE An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.""

Rechannel

Recharter

Rechristen

Recidivism

Recidivist

Reciprocal

Return (love/affection)

Give in return

Do something in return

Mutual relation

Trading principle

""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.""

Recitalist

Class assignments

Portions of an opera

Certain passages in opera.

Oratorical musical performance.

Recitativo

That may be reclaimed.

Land-use project

Retrieval, recovery

Reclusive

Recodify

COGNISING cognise

Process of identification

Acknowledgement

Recognizer

COGNIZING cognize

Called to mind

Recalled prayer during the rush

Remembered

COLONIZED colonize

Recolonize

Formed by or showing recombination: a recombinant chromosome.

COMBINING combine

COMMENCED commence

Recommence

Advised (a course of action)

Advised (to do something)

You'll like it

A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.

Recommit

Rewarded, paid back

Paid back

Recompense

COMPILING compile

COMPOSING compose

COMPUTING compute

CONCEIVED conceive

Reconceive

Reconciler

""RECONCILE To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled. as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled.""

CONDENSED condense

Recondense

Recondite

Restore to a particular state

Overhaul, renovate

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

Reconfirm

Need concert arranged? Staged reunion

Back together

Make strategic survey of land

Keep tabs on the enemy

Survey an enemy position

Make military examination of (a region)

Spy out (a region)

Make a military observation of (an area)

Reconquer

Reconquest

Reconsider

Build again

Make over

Recontact

Recontour

CONVENING convene

Reconvert

Reconvey

Sentenced again once verdict is challenged

CONVINCED convince

Reconvince

""Remembrance; recollection; also, a record.""

Recoupment

Like well-worn sofa OK for retrieving from skip (wordplay)

Recreation

To return one charge or accusation with another; to chargeback fault or crime upon an accuser.

Broke out afresh.

Recrudesce

Taking on people

Action of finding workers

Staff engagement

A four-shaped, perhaps

Regal cat run (anagram) - right-angled

Of a certain shape.

""Capable of being rectified; as, a rectifiable mistake. as, a rectifiable mistake.""

All in straight lines

Moving in straight lines

Consisting of straight lines

Rectorship

""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.""

Regained health

Got well

Recuperate