2-Letter Words Starting with R

Devotion to ceremony

Fixation on fixed routines

I must rail about undue emphasis on ceremony

High churchman's trial - suit failed

One performing rites

Lover of high ceremony

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

Siblings may engage in them

Conference teams often have them

They may be between schools

Loving competition

Competitive

Where brook trout sleep (wordplay)

Wet bottoms (wordplay)

Channels between banks

Location for a bank-holiday (wordplay)

Area along, say, the Thames

Bank, of sorts

Place for the inn crowd (wordplay)

By the way it's an inn

Patrick Swayze movie w/Jeff Healey

Roadkill

Roadshow

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

Jam makers (wordplay)

Street repairs

M25, say, has mechanism for carriageway repairs

Precinct stat category

Highway events.

Be joined by Irish revolutionary in clothes appropriate for crimes

Invigorating insects

Robotism

Robotize

Robotry

Men returning by vehicle check revealed to be most sturdy

Rocaille

Rockaby

Rockabye

Rockaway

Stone-filled gardens

Space men.

Shipping area's retaining force: results of coastal erosion (wordplay)

The state or quality of being rocky.

Rockling

Rockrose

""A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.""

Rockweed

Rockwork

Units of radiation dosage

X-ray units

Units of X-ray exposure

Rogation

Roguery

With great mischief

In a mischievous manner

Painted the town red

Tories battered communist and celebrated

Whooped it up

Falstaff, for one

One can disturb retirer so!

Terrorise drunken reveller

Rolamite

Restorations of previous government spending levels, perhaps

Opportunities for big wins nearly part romantic couple

Liars Cameron's right about

Novelists get right into novels

Swains

Romanise

Romanise

Romanize

Lovers of love

Italian jerks are dreamy types

Ian Van Dahl's successful attempt

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

Roorbach

Roorback

Roothold

Return to gold standard and mint, say

Source of parsnip liquor, perhaps

Vegetables for the grafter

Ropewalk

Like a flower

Ruddy.

Rosarian

Rosarium

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

ROSTRAL pertaining to a {rostrum=n}

Starter sets (wordplay)

Star Wars time measurements

Crop-varying processes

Rotator

""Pl. rotaviruses Any of a group of wheel-shaped, RNA-contained viruses that cause gastroenteritis, especially in infants and newborn animals.""

Rotenone

Cultivates, in a way

Makes the beds, in a way

Works the soil, in a way

Worst of the worst

Most corrupt

Roturier

Roughage

Disorderly actors appearing plastered

Thug chucked coat

Rude players get plastered

Roughhew

Roughleg

Not with polish

This may be dealt with by plane

Hoarse quality

With brutal force

Wearing nonslippage horseshoes

Stoutly booted.

Toothed wheels for making rows of dots.

Monte Carlo gambling games.

Tote rules controlled roller tools

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

Noun (-ment)

In a rousing manner.

Rousseau

Paths to follow, to Brits

Boisterous behavior

Disruptive quality

Noise, disorder

Rowdyism

Royalism

Reading players, perhaps

Reading rather than Palace players!

Foes of the Revolution

King's demand (wordplay)

Neckwear for princes (wordplay)

Payments to composers, in reality so bad

Royster

Rubbaboo

Criticises the bees I found in the reeds

Criticises bishops with one in tears

Rubbly

Rubidium

Packs for bikers and hikers

Wrinkle on fires for camping types

Hikers' gear

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

Destructively, disastrously

Macaulay gives pleasure, with disastrous results

Destructively.

Measurers in commanding position

Period of a king's reign

King's position

Deep sounds as of thunder

Rumours

Cows spirit in workers

Cows and giraffes

Cud-chewing animals.

Chews the cud

Considers a terminus needs renovation

Chews the cud and ponders

They search odd planet gathering geranium

Rumply

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

Runround

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

Aw shucks and "Gee whillikers," for example

Caught dodging racist slur about countrymen

Ruralite

Ruralize

Whip off flimsy candle that's no longer in vogue

Minor shiner to move fast with little weight

Hurry to turn on illuminations, but the result is less than electrifying!

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

Russify

Russify

Rustical

Suspend (from university)

Suspend curate? It's ridiculous!

Banish to countryside

Country quaintness

One large town overcome by decay in a style that doesn't suit it (wordplay)

Condition of being out of practice

Discolouration of age

Tarnish can, in devices, start to spoil

Provide body protection, in a way

Protect against oxidation

Put a certain coat on

They taste like turnips

Swedes, gastronomically speaking

They may fall off a turnip truck

RUTTISH {lustful=adj}

Rabbinate

Rabbinism

Rabbitry

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

Pimlico Belmont etc.

Woodbine, Aqueduct and others.

Aqueduct, Hialeah, etc.

Rachitis

Racialism

Racialist

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

Electromagnetic waves, for example

Make extreme lift with first sign of lactic acid held back

Political creed of thorough reform

Keen Arab in revolution spread Islam, not a set of reforming principles

Radicchio

Messages from abroad

Certain messages.

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

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

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

Miracle men of a sort.

Pros at increasing profits

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

Ramosity

Unruly

Rampancy

Butter becomes shaky

In bad shape

Sheep shed the French run-down

The quality of being rancid.

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

Greedy actions

Rapidity

Raptness

Superior excellences

Rashness

Ratemeter

Ratepayer

Statements of reasons.

Underlying reasons.

What to do as the beer runs out (wordplay)

Most saucy, strangely saucier than removing article

Rauwolfia

Ravelling