2-Letter Words Starting with R

Potted meat European found among nettles

Rimester

Ringbone

Domestic Old World birds

Old World pigeons with markings around the neck

Ringneck

Where best to see fights

Elite arena seats

Great seating for fights

Most corrugated

Riprap

Inclines sons to accept family's peril

Level of danger

Danger originates with sons ensnaring family

Ingrain, as a pattern of behavior

Establish a custom

""Ritzier , ritziest Informal Elegant; fancy.""

Siblings may engage in them

Conference teams often have them

They may be between schools

Slope along the Truckee, say

Land along the Mississippi, for example

Where artists like to paint.

Where brook trout sleep (wordplay)

Wet bottoms (wordplay)

Channels between banks

Robt. E. Lee, for one.

A paddlewheel may propel one

Where Mark Twain got his name.

Location for a bank-holiday (wordplay)

Area along, say, the Thames

Bank, of sorts

Toward a river.

Rivet

Place for the inn crowd (wordplay)

By the way it's an inn

Patrick Swayze movie w/Jeff Healey

Places to make a stand (wordplay)

Impromptu picnic locales

Locales for rest stops

Where ships are at odds (wordplay)

Anchorage arranged as date in bar

There's no street there - just water for anchorage

Sporty two-seaters

Sporty old cars

Duesenberg A's, for example

Precinct stat category

Highway events.

Be joined by Irish revolutionary in clothes appropriate for crimes

Robotize

Robotize

Robotry

Men returning by vehicle check revealed to be most sturdy

Rocaille

Rockaby

Rockabye

Stone-filled gardens

Willy Ley, for one

Technician at NASA

Gagarin or Glenn

Space men.

Salad plant in middle of night shooting up rapidly

Speeding

The state or quality of being rocky.

Rockrose

Rockweed

Units of radiation dosage

X-ray units

Units of X-ray exposure

Roguery

Painted the town red

Tories battered communist and celebrated

Whooped it up

Falstaff, for one

One can disturb retirer so!

Terrorise drunken reveller

Rolamite

Played boisterously

Opportunities for big wins nearly part romantic couple

Liars Cameron's right about

Novelists get right into novels

Swains

Romanise

Romanise

Wrote Japanese with English characters, for example

Romanize

English word

Short lyric forms.

Short lyric poems.

Rondelle

Roofline

Rooftree

Where boobies hang out (wordplay)

Adelies' breeding grounds

Breeding places.

Amtrak sleeping compartments

Sleeping car divisions

Cozy Pullman quarters.

Spatial largeness inside a building

Quality of a luxury car

Joey's acquiring digs showing spacious quality

Neighboring bunkers (wordplay)

Mark and Jez in "Peep Show", for example

Bert and Ernie, for example

Ropewalk

Roquet

Like a flower

Ruddy.

ROSEATE rose-coloured

Roseroot

Roseslug

Billy's "Aquacade" pool?

The scent when the tide came in perhaps

Billy's "Aquacade" pool (wordplay)

Some richly colored timbers

The compass plant. See under Compass. Compass.

Pertaining to a rostellum.

A little beak

""(Physics / General Physics)™ a device used for measuring the flow of a fluid. It consists of a small float supported in a tapering glass by the flow of the fluid, the height of the float indicating the rate of flow""

Two lists can be alternated

Capable of going round register on board

Possible to turn

Rotator

Rotenone

Worst of the worst

Most corrupt

Roturier

Roughage

Beaten just off the fairway (wordplay)

Scuffed, say

Made coarser

When perhaps to be uncouth

(Of wood or stone) not smoothly cut

Clue for when without refinement

Roughhew

Roughleg

Oil-rig worker needs to be tough

Oil rig worker, of course

Rowdy sort

Not with polish

This may be dealt with by plane

Hoarse quality

Roulette

Toothed wheels for making rows of dots.

Monte Carlo gambling games.

Tote rules controlled roller tools

Song is loud - yearn for change

Slow, circling medieval dance

Circle dance; simple song

Roundlet

Hula hoop quality

What Billy Bunter had in cycle cape

Certain inspectors

Noun (-ment)

Rousseau

Paths to follow, to Brits

As a matter of course

Make customary

Boisterous behavior

Disruptive quality

Noise, disorder

Rowel

King's demand (wordplay)

Neckwear for princes (wordplay)

Payments to composers, in reality so bad

Royster

Rubber

Criticises the bees I found in the reeds

Criticises bishops with one in tears

Rubbly

""A variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium.""

Put headings on mss.

Out of order, but racier - to provide with headings

American growth perhaps irked Cuba

I back rude movement producing bloomer

I'd undress revealing healthy rosiness

Glow of fantastic sunrise seen across two days

Rudesby

Basics of any subject

Elementary stages baffling true minds

First principles

Tinged with red

Ruffly

Rugged

RUGGED {rough=adj}

Measurers in commanding position

Period of a king's reign

King's position

Backed protest about Brown, I thought

Pondered at length

Pondered about the drink in a boy

Chews the cud

Considers a terminus needs renovation

Chews the cud and ponders

They search odd planet gathering geranium

Rumply

Smuggler from isle (Lewis, say)

Fast driver carrying illegal booze (3,6)

Revenuer's target

Fugitives: Archaic.

Fugitives Archaic.

More than one old vagabond manages to pinch precious material

""Pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.""

Weedy kid's condition worrying nit nurses

Laird rues moving, though settled in the country

Makes like country rises around the Europe and Asia divide

Ruralite

Ruralize

Ruralize

""See Russet, n., 2 and 4. Russet, n., 2 and 4.""

Russify

Russify

Suspend (from university)

Suspend curate? It's ridiculous!

Banish to countryside

Condition of being out of practice

Discolouration of age

Tarnish can, in devices, start to spoil

Element name derived from the Latin for 'Russia'

Element name derived from the Latin for "Russia"

Hard brittle white element of the platinum metal group

Rabbinate

Rabbitry

A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble.

Rabidity

E.g. Ascot

Epsom Downs or Ascot

German's plan for The Curragh

Sunny Jim's specialty.

Tim Tam and others.

You can bet on them

Racemize

Pimlico Belmont etc.

Woodbine, Aqueduct and others.

Aqueduct, Hialeah, etc.

20km Summer Olympian

One who tries to keep a step ahead (wordplay)

Rachitis

Raciness

Crooked bettors at Wimbledon (wordplay)

Don Vito Corleone and others

Makes people offers they can't refuse (wordplay)

Rackety

Yarn suppliers (wordplay)

Car user not prepared for their stories!

Royal courtesan condemned yarn spinners

Type of viewing equipment.

Indicator in a detection device.

Screen with blips

Radiancy

Make extreme lift with first sign of lactic acid held back

Incite to rebellion, maybe

Relating to or caused by radioactivity.

A radioactive isotope used as a tracer; a radiotracer.

Pl. radiolyses (-s z ) Molecular decomposition of a substance as a result of radiation.

Measurer of, eg, X-rays

Electromagnetic energy measurer

It measures intensity of radiant energy.

""The use of the radiometer, or the measurement of radiation.""

Not allowing the passage of x-rays or other radiation.

Ship's communication device

Communication device

Data device carried by balloon

Device for signaling weather data.

Raffinose

Rafflesia

RAGGED tattered

Ridicule orchard workers (wordplay)

Railbus

Marsh-bird banters (wordplay)

Marsh-bird banters?

Badinage and persiflage

Compelled by coercion

Pushed a bill through hastily

Sent to prison on false evidence

Switch hitter (wordplay)

Conductor, for example

Conductor, for example.

Miracle men of a sort.

Pros at increasing profits

Rainwash

Rainwash

Rainwater

Debauchery

King, one taken in by lack of caution, has dissolute quality

Ramosity

Unruly

Rampancy

Butter becomes shaky

In bad shape

Sheep shed the French run-down

The quality of being rancid.

Like some trials

Like lottery results

RANDOMIZE

Randomize

Roman sends out what's exemplified by Ernie

Actor's fury? Parts with bad unpredictability

Man's snored dreadfully - feature of irregular noise

Buffalo's stamping grounds

Rankness

Pillagers

Something bag-like carried by soldiers and pillagers

Greedy actions

Rapidity

Descending a mountain, in a way

Account-making official

Recorder to prepare reports about a terror pup

Raptness

Superior excellences

Rashness

Ratchet

Ratemeter

Ratepayer

Statements of reasons.

Underlying reasons.

What to do as the beer runs out (wordplay)

Heap to scare a mouse (wordplay)

Much-used car.

Car of a sort.

Most saucy, strangely saucier than removing article

Noun (-ment)

Ravelling

Tangles.

RAVENOUS extremely hungry

""The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, or a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband. as, the ravishment of children from their parents, or a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband.""

A radiosonde used to observe the speed and direction of upper-air winds and tracked by a radio direction-finding instrument or radar.