2-Letter Words Starting with R

Caning material Var.

Hurried round a square palm

Palm used for wicker work

A bioflavonoid

Limit supply of (eg, food)

Limit (a supply)

Wartime allowance (wordplay)

Rope-ladder step

Small, tarred rope

Rung on a rope ladder.

Sugar cane stalk.

Shoot sprouting from a plant's base

Sprout from the root of a plant [1966]

Rodent on bark of oak, maybe, or palm

Cane rotter with birch (wordplay)

Can E be so mousey-brown (wordplay)

Persecute

A rat

Hire a bar man (wordplay)

Hire a bar man?

Will 'e keep in the train (wordplay)

Injured again, in a way

Damaged again

Er, perhaps, as 1 across does

Does the get 'er back up (wordplay)

Would this get 'er back (wordplay)

An ancient Greek drinking horn

Johnny's off (wordplay)

Raising a stink (wordplay)

Terrible decay - not even in the end!

Rough, loosely-woven dress fabric

Coarse woolen fabric

Rough open dress fabric

Shoot from a root Var.

Shoot from a root variable

Won over (wordplay)

Like botched photos, maybe

Like the Philippines in W.W. II

Learn new things, maybe

Prepare for a job transfer, perhaps

Prepare for a transfer, perhaps

Unit of ionising radiation

Versatile Dutch musician: 1885-1932

X-ray man.

In court (anagram)

Disturbance in court (wordplay)

Disturbance in court, perhaps

Tom Sawyer was one

Blueprints drawer*

River worker

Operators of river boats.

River travelers

Malayan tree bearing red fruit

Bright red Malaysian fruit

Nevertheless, one is following Aries

Beating of a drum

Continuous drum beat.

Sound of drum beats.

Combustion or decomposition, say

Response (to a stimulus)

Double take, for one

Reach once more

Again get about at what ain't confused

Achieve (goal) once more

Again, do up rogue's clothing, about to pinch bum

Velcro again, perhaps

Make secure again.

Double-check the seat belts

Perhaps the telling sort of 7 down

Storytelling uncle perhaps

Maybe brother Rex is on ecstasy

The act of {removing=v}

Get back

Part of day fine ... stop!

Repress (strong emotion)

Prevent (from excess)

Discoverer of light rays (1845-1923).

Tenor collated information for physicist

International unit of dose of gamma rays

Solemn supplication (in Christianity)

Asking back to work to cut dole

Time to beat the bounds? You want rain to go somehow

Decay in a roundabout way (wordplay)

Round trip (wordplay)

Decay? In a roundabout way, perhaps

Worker who makes rounds

Newspaper deliverer, for example

Milk or mail deliverer

Routeman

Waves off (wordplay)

What a Geiger counter measures

Diffusion of heat.

Social function of The House (wordplay)

Greeting one after 26 (wordplay)

Welcome to the party!

Building the Berlin Wall (wordplay)

Left-winger may take such editing

Editing communist move

Lesson this (wordplay)

The way to get less on (wordplay)

This could lead to lesson, perhaps

Second printing, old style.

Meal or snack

Rice often cooked for a meal

Thought to take out large meal

REFLATE to inflate again

Refusal - treatment as worthless

Refusal, renunciation

What the addresses of the Smiths received

""A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession.""

Lick again, for example

What a tearing performance!

Interpretation (of for example song)

Perhaps the tearing of a performance

PATTERN to copy a design

State of having had enough to eat

This has one full of peel in rot

Excessive fullness due to overeating

Like a snake or lizard, eg

Loathsome agent returning to fix it

Contemptible and not to be trusted

Cutting away, are removing a part

A cutting or paring off.

Restrive

Keeping hold (of something)

Enter into arrangements for custody

Memory or lien

Make taut again

Make more taut

In a new draft

Not in its original form, as an article

Amended religious lesson, dry in newer version

Are you one people? That'll spoil it all

Complete destruction or collapse

One race after sport's collapse

Change the names of

Give a new name to

Name afresh

Delivery of passage quoted

Classroom performance

Classroom activity

Enjoyable leisure activity

To do with mixed reaction for play

Refreshment of mind or body

Act of saving from evil

Action of saving from evil

Ponder time out making a recovery

Incumbent's aim, perhaps

Process of voting someone in again

Affirmation from the voters

Study reference shortly before lesson

Thought of doing it with Florence

Thought of liner, etc, at sea

Engineers taking part in light diversion

Function of a prism

Light diversion forcing father into response

""The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof.""

Gulf partly seen in relation to rule

Lout in rage breaking law

Last month, about the first, in area of law

IGNITION the act of {igniting=v}

Bond snatching a kiss for fun

Rest with family member accepting a kiss

Workaholic's need

Entire goal difference may determine it

Demotion, to a lower league

The tale told about exemplary put-down

Slum-clearance problem

Problem in urban renewal

Narrative about old Conservative's moving deed

Restoration to original state.

From youngsters (no child), huge cheer for makeover

Repair

Making of amends.

A making of amends.

Paying of damages.

About to appeal - yet again!

Rote learning method

About to ask for an encore

Put elsewhere, wild ponies riot

Change the locale

Put back in place.

What they say about you

Good report, fame

Name of English plant in allotment

Grit, that's the answer!

New Year's decision

Commitment often made on Jan. 1

""The act of resorbing; also, the act of absorbing again; reabsorption.""

Restrike

Umpires not prepared for fresh start

Something unsaid (wordplay)

Act of eating one's words

Taking back engineer's drawing

Preacher's sky-high feeling (wordplay)

Irate novel makes startling disclosure

Last book of the Bible

Military force calling for withdrawal

Recall with reference to one's business

State of withdrawal

Full spin (five letters)

Rising, or just turning over (wordplay)

Change of state (wordplay)

Thinking of motorway in disrepair

Maiden in state of collapse thinking

Musing Frenchman amid wreckage

Reduction in density (of a gas)

The opposite of compression

Two lots of soldiers going to party, with loss of concentration

Shallow, voluble, volatile person

Synonym for 7 Down

Accomplishment.

""The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.""

Harvest part to divide again

A second or renewed assertion of the same thing.

The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.

Land-use project

Retrieval, recovery

Process of identification

Acknowledgement

Restore to a particular state

Overhaul, renovate

""Remembrance; recollection; also, a record.""

DIGESTION The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.

Change of focus

""EDUCATION The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.""

Important religious movement.

Improvement in how sappers are deployed (wordplay)

Amendment, improvement

""HYDRATION The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate.""

Noun (-tion)

INFECTION The act or process of infecting.

Further spiralling of prices

""INJECTION The act of injecting or throwing in; applied particularly to the forcible throwing in of a liquid, or a\'89riform body, by means of a syringe, pump, etc.""

The act of putting something in again

""INVENTION The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing. as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.""

Restatement

Repetition

Repugnance; resistance; reluctance.

""MEDIATION The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention.""

Migration back to the place from which one came.

""OPERATION The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.""

""OXIDATION The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.""

""PARTITION The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom. as, the partition of a kingdom.""

Copying CIA, Interpol will go wrong

Copy; repetition

The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure.

Refusal of approval

""The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority.""

""RADIATION The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.""

Booking (in restaurant)

Dinner arrangement (wordplay)

Booking (in a restaurant)

Leaving of a job

Notice attitude of compliance

Acceptance of the inevitable

Breathing

n. any large convalescent home

n. any large convalescent home

Recompense for loss

Talk in one's sleep (wordplay)

1660 to 1685, in England

Repair top of oven part following break

Limiting condition

Check again on accommodating particular individual

Limitation

Repayment in kind

An eye for an eye.

Vengeance

Slowness in progress

Slowing; lag

Payback, so to speak

Vengeance

""Action returned, or action backward.""

Adjustment of a currency relative to others

Impressive or persuasive orator

Master of telling phrases.

RUBRICATE Marked with red.

Cheers about one charged following provincial university's punishment

""RACEMIZE to change into racemic form, also RACEMISE""

Complex consequence (of an event)

Result of macaroni, if it cooks

Complicating consequence

Process of making a treaty official

Constitution's approval process

Confirmation pleasure's no good (wordplay)

Act of restoration to functioning state

Actual place for further distribution

Actual site for another share out

Actual site for a new allotment

Act of reannexing.

Memory of soldiers gathering

It's about picking up gallery pictures from memory

Remembrance

CONCEPTION The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

Reconnect

Reconvict

Convalescence

Getting better with unorthodox cure, gym activity helping

Process of doing up (room)

""DEDICATION The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple. as, the dedication of Solomon's temple.""

The provision of a new meaning

New specification

ESCALATION

New appraisal of worth

It may yield a new rating

Right at ease with quotation written for new appraisal

""FOUNDATION The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.""

Process of renewal

Recovery expected in about thirty years

Process of bringing new life to an area

Glove box item

Formal enrolment

Car number

The enforcement (of a law) after a lapse

Further examination

Recovery of youth

New lease on life

Recovery of youthful character

MOTIVATION The act or process of motivating.

Pay - our men earn it (anagram)

Payment - a minor tenure (anagram)

Money paid for work or a service

RENATURE to restore natural qualities

NOMINATION The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated.

Action of giving up a thing

Giving up of rights, claim etc

Refuting the idea and point by mother from Channel Islands consumed by allowance

""OCCUPATION The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.""

PW's hope.

The returning of someone to their own country

The act of planting again; a replanting.

The act of repeopling; act of furnishing with a population anew.

Copy (of a work of art)

Golfer, say, cut out copy

Print made of a painting

""REGULATION The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.""

To strengthen again; to fortify anew.

Conveyance delivering a travelling woman

Act of coming back to life after death

The last novel written by Leo Tolstoy

Cult that is, perhaps, about to apply restrictions to network

The act of retroceding.

Retrodict

The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion. Retroversion.

""A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus. as, retroversion of the uterus.""

Further confirmation of truth

Once more confirming the truth (of something)

""VEGETATION The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.""

""ROBOTIZE to make automatic, also ROBOTISE""

""ROMANIZE to write in the Roman alphabet, also ROMANISE""

RANDOMIZE RANDOM haphazard

""The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.""

ACQUISITION The act or process of acquiring.

A second affirmation.

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

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

Assigning a work to a different artist

The assigning of something to a different category

""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.""

Give and take

Giving, in return

Mutual giving and receiving - cop in race riot (anagram)

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

Combination a second or additional time.

A new compilation.

The act of recomposing.

COMPUTATION The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

Counter-charge

Countercharge

Main criterion for putting right counter-accusation

Process of setting right

Act of putting right

Conversion of alternating to direct current

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

""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.""

Process of doing twice (or four times?) over

Repetition

(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.""

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

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

Process of chilling food

Act of cooling

Chilling process