2-Letter Words Starting with R

Reactivation

A second affirmation.

Reafforest

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

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

Reannexation

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

Political prerogative

Reapportion

APPROPRIATE Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

Capable of reasoning; rational: a reasonable person.

Assigning a work to a different artist

The assigning of something to a different category

""Inflected form of AUTHORIZING Inflected form of AUTHORIZE To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary. as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.""

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

""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.""

Receptionist

CHOREOGRAPH

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

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

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

Counter-charge

Countercharge

Main criterion for putting right counter-accusation

Engaging in mutual accusations

Process of setting right

Act of putting right

Conversion of alternating to direct current

RECTITUDE Straightness.

Recuperation

Redecoration

Rededication

Redefinition

""REDEMPTIONER One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude.""

Desperate employer tends to repeated and extensive use of manpower

DESCRIPTION The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

Production of new buildings etc for area

Note progress with new building

Renewal, as of rundown area

Rediscount

Rediscovery

It's ruddy well all over once more, you'll find

Seems shade's for shade all found once more

""DISPOSITION The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will. as, the disposition of a man's property by will.""

Reductionism

Reductionist

Process of doing twice (or four times?) over

Repetition

Reembroider

Reemployment

Reencounter

Reescalation

Reevaluation

(A) repeat interview (of witness)

Further check

""EXPORTATION The act of exporting; the act of conveying or sending commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of commerce.""

An instrument for measuring the reflectance of a surface.

An instrument for measuring the reflectance of a surface.

REFLECTORIZE

Reflectorize

Reflexology

Replanting with trees; reconversion into a forest; the act of reforesting.

FORMABILITY

Inflected form of FORMATIONAL Inflected form of FORMATION The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

Ace politicians backing think tank and other institutions for inprovement

""Inflected form of FORMULATING Inflected form of FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

""FORMULATION The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.""

Refoundation

A contrivance for exhibiting and measuring the refraction of light.

Any of several instruments used to measure the index of refraction of a substance.

Process of chilling food

Act of cooling

Chilling process

Cool places for rare tigers to play

Regeneration

Process of organising

Strict organisation and control

Strict control of budget meeting may be held

REGIONALIST

REGIONALIZE

Enrollments

Bringing up a storybook character round about ancient city, getting into trouble

Inflected form of HABILITATOR Inflected form of HABILITATE Qualified or entitled.

""HOSPITALIZE To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.""

Inflected form of HYPNOTIZING Inflected form of HYPNOTIZE To induce hypnotism in; to place in a state of hypnotism.

""The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.""

Reimposition

Reimpression

Rebirth (of a soul)

An encore of sorts.

Restrain auto people?

Embody anew

INFESTATION The act of infesting or state of being infested; molestation; vexation; annoyance.

""REINFORCE See Re\'89nforce, v. t. Re\'89nforce, v. t.""

Bridle because setter provides stress

Check with regard to concrete support

Check for binder giving strength

INNERVATION The act of innerving or stimulating.

""Inflected form of INOCULATING Inflected form of INOCULATE To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.""

INOCULATION The act or art of inoculating trees or plants.

INSPECTIONS inspection

""A renewing, or making whole again. See Redintegration. Redintegration.""

""Inflected form of INTRODUCING Inflected form of INTRODUCE To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawingroom. as, to introduce a person into a drawingroom.""

Inflected form of INVIGORATED Inflected form of INVIGORATE To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.

Reinvigorate

Inflected form of INVIGORATOR Inflected form of INVIGORATE To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.

Rejuvenation

Rekeyboard

Loves displaying oriental craft

Sexual liaisons

Connections

Religiosity

The quality of being religious.

LUBRICATION The act of lubricating; the act of making slippery.

Remonstrance

In a remonstrant manner.

Protesting.

Protesting

Turning violently on traitors, men protest

Disapproval

Protesting forcefully

Remonstrator

Without compunction, pity, or compassion

In a relentless manner

Oxford detective with not so much in bank, cruelly

Remotivation

Removable

Remuneration

""MYTHOLOGIZE To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.""

""NATIONALIZE To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.""

Renaturation

Rencounter

Rendezvous

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

Act of reaching fresh agreement

Process of changing agreed terms

Renomination

Renouncement

Renunciation

Reoccupation

Deja vu episodes

ORCHESTRATE to write an orchestra score for; -- of a musical composition.

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

A change of direction

Changing of focus or direction

A changing of direction

Transfers of people (or profits) to their home countries

Aftereffects

Repetitious

Rephotograph

Replantation

""Inflected form of POPULARIZED Inflected form of 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.""

Repopularize

Repopulation

Reportorial

Reposeful

Reposition

Rides recovered by banks, formally

Reproofs

""REPRESSION The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers. as, the repression of evil and evil doers.""

With disapproval, European interrupts cooking of phall curry

Reproaching

Reproducible

Copies

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

PROGRAMMING program

Reprographer

Reprographic

Reprography

Reprovision

... USA, perhaps, land heading off further issue

""PUNCTUATION The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning.""

Requisition

Reregulation

""SEGREGATION The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.""

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

Resolidify

Resourceful

Respirometer

SPIROMETRIC

""STIMULATION The act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated.""

Resubmission

RESURRECTION A rising again; the resumption of vigor.

Act of revival

Act of bringing back to consciousness

Act of revival from unconsciousness

Resuscitator

Reticulation

Reticulocyte

Retinopathy

Retinoscopy

Retransform

""TRANSLATION The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop. as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.""

In a retroactive manner.

RETROACTIVE Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective.