2-Letter Words Starting with R

Romanise

Wrote Japanese with English characters, for example

Romanize

Lovers of love

Italian jerks are dreamy types

Ian Van Dahl's successful attempt

Short lyric forms.

Short lyric poems.

Rondelle

Roofline

Spatial largeness inside a building

Quality of a luxury car

Joey's acquiring digs showing spacious quality

Roquet

Rosarian

The compass plant. See under Compass. Compass.

Starter sets (wordplay)

Star Wars time measurements

Crop-varying processes

Rotenone

Worst of the worst

Most corrupt

Stoutness of daughter one embraces after decline

Rubbish and untidy mess - nature of an all-rounder (wordplay)

Plumpness that is not true, nakedness turning heads

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

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

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

Does he deliver the circulars (wordplay)

One who delivers goods

Daily deliverer of milk, papers, etc

Certain inspectors

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) Forestry small pieces of timber (about 5-15 cm, or 2-6 in.) in diameter; small logs""

A nematoid worm.

Noun (-ment)

In a rousing manner.

As a matter of course

Make customary

Boisterous behavior

Disruptive quality

Noise, disorder

Rowel

Rubber

I'd undress revealing healthy rosiness

Glow of fantastic sunrise seen across two days

Basics of any subject

Elementary stages baffling true minds

First principles

Tinged with red

Thuggish female unfairly treated

Ruinate

Are you one people? That'll spoil it all

Complete destruction or collapse

One race after sport's collapse

Destructively, disastrously

Macaulay gives pleasure, with disastrous results

Destructively.

Deep sounds as of thunder

Rumours

Cows spirit in workers

Cows and giraffes

Cud-chewing animals.

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

Cud chewer

What's odd in a politician, almost the thinker (wordplay)

Ransacker's action

It's being said that for us it's rum with a gin mixture

Smuggler from isle (Lewis, say)

Fast driver carrying illegal booze (3,6)

Revenuer's target

Relatives of "karts."

Little cars and autos burn-damaged

Cheap, economical cars

Fugitives: Archaic.

Fugitives Archaic.

More than one old vagabond manages to pinch precious material

Evasive treatment Slang.

Rush about to manage a period of boxing

Evasion of a sort.

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

Runround

Weedy kid's condition worrying nit nurses

Rupture

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

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

Of certain teachers.

Rabbinism

A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble.

Racemize

Raciness

Yarn suppliers (wordplay)

Car user not prepared for their stories!

Royal courtesan condemned yarn spinners

Radiancy

Electromagnetic waves, for example

Radicate

Relating to or caused by radioactivity.

Ship's communication device

Communication device

Data device carried by balloon

Device for signaling weather data.

Raffinose

Fuming afar (anagram)

Makin' mistakes on the sitar (wordplay)

Tattered tot with quick bread?

RAGGED tattered

Miracle men of a sort.

Pros at increasing profits

Medicine man's forte

There are some dances for this

Leader pursues distraught airman trying to break drought

Rainspout

A squall accompanied by rain.

Nor'easters, often

Tail ends of most hurricanes

Reasons to pull out the tarp

Rainwash

Rainwash

Rainwater

Debauchery

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

In a roundabout way

Rampancy

Rampart

Ramrod

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

Hurried dismissal is going through

Searching through destructively

Wasted no time collecting the loot (wordplay)

R, as in this buttercup or crowfoot

Descending a mountain, in a way

Raptness

Superior excellences

Rashness

Ratchet

Statements of reasons.

Underlying reasons.

What to do as the beer runs out (wordplay)

Reasonably set limit to partner's share

Helping friend in a way that's sensible

By logical means

RATTLING the act of rattling

Rattoon

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.

Reaccede

Reaccent

Reaccuse

Familiarize again

Familiarize anew

Get back in touch with antique car that's broken down

Reactance

Readapt

Readopt

Readorn

Reaffix

Front end job

Current around a lake needs more regular adjustment

Realness

Transform later reign, making more changes

Reanalyse

Reanalysie

ANALYZED analyze

Reanalyze

Brought back to life

Jump-started

Like zombies

Brings back to life

Reannex

Reanoint

Reapply

Reappoint

""An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.""

Venus de Milo's concern?

Venus de Milo's concern (wordplay)

Treaty violation, maybe

Rearouse

Ordered again (wordplay)

Put in a different order

Fixed new date for back garden makeover

Alters the configuration

Does a new musical adaptation.

One sorts out the mountains at the back

How the hidden scare finished and was once more on the up and up

Fair and just

Just a boy, captured by a rebel at sea

Just a ban, or else reforms

Be on salary that's been adjusted in a fair manner

Rationally

They're thought to make rings around a broken nose

They're thought to be about a boy to sing at last

They're thought to be the way to get about a boy to get him to sing

Irrational

Transferred to a different job

Received orders

Transferred to another department, perhaps

Reassume

Allaying the doubts and fears of

Confidence-boosting

Confidence-inspiring

Reattain

Reavail

Made a comeback

Roused again

Resurgent Kew area spoiled by Scottish hooligan

BALANCED balance

Rebalance

Boxer and others

Boxer and others.

Uprisings of refractory animals

Reblend

Exceeding annual expectations (wordplay)

Reboard

Rebottle

Rebounder

Rebound

Rebranch

Rebranch

Rebreed

Doing construction

Rebutton

""CANALIZE to dig an artificial waterway through, also CANALISE""

Recarry

Receipt

Recension

Quality or state of being recent.

Reception

Holiday is on/off following withdrawals

Economic slumps

Hard times

Rechange

Rechannel

Recharge

Rechart

Careful C.P.A.'s activity

Rechoose

Change the names of

Give a new name to

Name afresh

They receive price set in fixed arrangement

Donees

Recircle

Delivery of passage quoted

Classroom performance

Classroom activity

Bill's calculations (wordplay)

Bill more than once

Getting back from the sea

Getting back to being on the dole again (wordplay)

Reclasp

Reclean

Reclothe

Reclusion

Acknowledged God, sincere in action

Accepted foreign coins with greed

Showed appreciation for creation of co-designer

acknowledges novel crises gone

Like a bloviating senator, for a time

End of Allen comment

End of the comment

One who recognizes; a recognizor.

Recognize

Recoinage

To colonize again.

Recolor

COMBINED a skiing competition combining two events

Recombine

Order people filling in survey to start again

Order soldiers in advance exercise to make fresh start

It's about to get off the ground or get down to business again

Advocates