2-Letter Words Starting with R

Disposition to say little.

Reserve nice compound in Crete, perhaps

There's not much to say for having it

Unusual reserve with unusually icy centre

Netted 100 lire at Rugby Union dance

After tea I see you get fifty in the rear of the net

Copper in French bed, put back into back, is netted

Old-fashioned purses.

Bags of vicious cruelties

Small southern constellation between Hydrus and Dorado

Make taut again

Make more taut

Retinene

Retinite

Inflammation of the sensitive layer of the eye

Eye woe

Retinoid

Retint

Pl. retinulae (-l ) A cluster of pigmented sensory cells in the compound eye of an arthropod.

Pl. retinulae (-l ) A cluster of pigmented sensory cells in the compound eye of an arthropod.

Retinula

Retirant

TIREDLY in a tired manner

Retitle

Retool

Retorter

Shooting back

Used an airbrush, say

Changed, as a negative

Spot remover (wordplay)

Alters, as a photo

Uses an airbrush

Paints over blemishes

Going over again.

Following a path again.

Going back over call about broken crate

Retrack

Took back (statement)

Recanted, pulled back

Took back or drew in

Mechanism that furls seat belt

15 14 on farm vehicle

One holding back a muscle

Worked out for a new bout

Dieter ran badly and was taught new ways

With skill updated loco in a rush

Like some used tires

Been again patient, perhaps, back there

Bought another round (wordplay)

Went off and again stood around, say

One on the run

Saving for action in court (wordplay)

Action of recovery

Fetching of something

Tee driver (anagram)

Emulated a well-trained dog

Recovered, resurrected

Lab, for one

Golden best friend (wordplay)

Labrador best friend (wordplay)

Finds and fetches.

Salvages burst tire during cut back

Does a Labrador's job

Attempted once again to save thousands, and cut anew

Legally affects past performances

Harks back to Socrates' art, not as debatable

Some of play recreating the past (operates backwards)

Move back in June - decor terrible, on reflection

Go back.

Go back

Verb with prefix re-

1. (Astronautics) the act of firing a retrorocket

Puts new parts on, in a way

Note: it's holding back army base's updates

Bent backward

(Astronautics) a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft

Turned up (nose)

Turned up, as a nose

Sounds like how one knows it's turned up

Soldiers home from service, for example

Service persons back from a tour of duty

People sent home from abroad re-enter US clandestinely

Those who credit purchases

A.E.F. after Nov. 1918

Many 12/26 store visitors

RE becoming ER (wordplay)

On the way back

Not going to make RE be ER

Retwist

They join back together

Homecoming attendees for example,

Getting ready for a comeback tour

Call around Europe, with that nit joining again

It could be the turn of gin - i.e., for the get-together

""UTILIZE to make use of, also UTILISE""

Reutter

VALUATE to {appraise=v}

One who makes a revelation; a revealer.

Revenant

""Having reverted to the normal phenotype, usually by a second mutation: a revertant mutant; revertant cells.""

Adore bronco tamers? (groan)

Going back to.

Revest

Earth barricade against blast

Retaining wall in fortification

Retaining wall

Revet

Supply a ship or army with food again.

Suppy a ship or army with food again.

Looked at again

Called on again

Paid another call.

Revolter

Act of rebel is disgusting

Rising in rebellion

Rebellious and horrible

Rewet

Heavy editors, essentially

Script doctors

Rewrite

In a new draft

Not in its original form, as an article

Amended religious lesson, dry in newer version

Rework

Rhatany

Device for indicating speed of blood circulation

Instrument for measuring velocity of flow.

Instrument for measuring a current of fluid

Light-regulating devices

They control ovens, cooking the roasts

Current regulators.

Rhetoric

Kind of fever - irate chum (anagram)

Afflicted with pain in joints etc

Affected by an inflammatory disease

English word

Most cold and damp, like the largest space heard

Rhizoma

Pl. rhizotomies Surgical severance of spinal nerve roots to relieve pain or hypertension.

Rose-colored semiprecious stone

Pink garnet used as a gem

Love having settled in American island, a gem

Mineral supplying the iron dose half contaminated

Massachusetts' state gem that would more aptly suit its neighbor

Merry's the work of McGonagall, say

Writer of short poems

Writer of inferior verse

Rhyolite

RHYOLITE a volcanic rock

Science of metrical form or analysis

'80s duo rejects EU and beats science (wordplay)

RHYTHMISE RHYTHMI rhythmus

RHYTHMI rhythmus

English word

More inclined to shake

Glancing rebounds, of bullets say

Blasted slugs coming back!

Pool glances, for example

Rigatoni

This rogue's reformed - just!

Just and upright

Just ego's hurt I fancy

Rightism

Tea Partiers, for example

Conservatives

Nearest the dexter side

Conservative majority, like 8 and 17 here

So to speak, inscribe 2nd Street on map in Far East (wordplay)

""Straightness; as, the rightness of a line. as, the rightness of a line.""

Just having a part of hospital to one side

Rigorist

Potted meat European found among nettles

Rimester

Carpentry supplies

Down Under oppossums

Possums' call, the reverse call

In wild and uncontrolled manner

In a rowdy way

In a boisterous way

Riposte

Most corrugated

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

Ingrain, as a pattern of behavior

Establish a custom

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

Robt. E. Lee, for one.

A paddlewheel may propel one

Where Mark Twain got his name.

Rivet

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

Invigorating insects

Robotism

Robotize

Robotize

Robotry

Men returning by vehicle check revealed to be most sturdy

Willy Ley, for one

Technician at NASA

Gagarin or Glenn

Space men.

Salad plant in middle of night shooting up rapidly

Speeding

""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.""

Units of radiation dosage

X-ray units

Units of X-ray exposure

Rogation

Painted the town red

Tories battered communist and celebrated

Whooped it up

Falstaff, for one

One can disturb retirer so!

Terrorise drunken reveller

Rolamite

Lovers of love

Italian jerks are dreamy types

Ian Van Dahl's successful attempt

Short lyric forms.

Short lyric poems.

Rooftree

Amtrak sleeping compartments

Sleeping car divisions

Cozy Pullman quarters.

Neighboring bunkers (wordplay)

Mark and Jez in "Peep Show", for example

Bert and Ernie, for example

Roothold

Return to gold standard and mint, say

Source of parsnip liquor, perhaps

Vegetables for the grafter

Roquet

ROSEATE rose-coloured

Roseroot

Billy's "Aquacade" pool?

The scent when the tide came in perhaps

Billy's "Aquacade" pool (wordplay)

Pertaining to a rostellum.

A little beak

ROSTRAL pertaining to a {rostrum=n}

""(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

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

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

Roturier

Disorderly actors appearing plastered

Thug chucked coat

Rude players get plastered

Roulette

Toothed wheels for making rows of dots.

Monte Carlo gambling games.

Tote rules controlled roller tools

Roundlet

Noun (-ment)

Paths to follow, to Brits

As a matter of course

Make customary

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

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

Basics of any subject

Elementary stages baffling true minds

First principles

Tinged with red

Ruffly

Rugged

Ruinate

Are you one people? That'll spoil it all

Complete destruction or collapse

One race after sport's collapse

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)

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

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

Weedy kid's condition worrying nit nurses

Rupture

Caught dodging racist slur about countrymen

Ruralite

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.""

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

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

RUTHFUL full of compassion

RUTTISH {lustful=adj}

Rabbinate

Rabbitry

A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble.

Rabidity

Pimlico Belmont etc.

Woodbine, Aqueduct and others.

Aqueduct, Hialeah, etc.