2-Letter Words Starting with R

Robustious

Roisterous

How an engaged couple might speak to each other

Ruminative

Radioactive

Emission from, eg, uranium

Property of uranium, for example

Atomic emission

One way to look at things

'That's about a catalogue I call Y, but not in imagination (13)'

Capable of reasoning; rational: a reasonable person.

Rebarbative

RECALCITRANCE

Abstract noun (-ity)

Engaging in mutual accusations

Rectangular

Rectilinear

""ELIGIBILITY The quality of being eligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage. as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage.""

Referential

An instrument for measuring the reflectance of a surface.

FORMABILITY

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

Abstract noun (-ity)

Reiterative

Possible to remedy: remediable problems.

Reminiscent

In a remonstrant manner.

""A. The work, act, or process of repairing.""

""Of, relating to, or being something that repeats or is repeated: a repeat offender; a repeat performance of the play.""

Repetitious

Replicate (-k t) also replicated (-k t d) Folded over or bent back upon itself: a replicate leaf.

Reportorial

""(Medicine / Surgery) (tr) Surgery to cut out part of (a bone, an organ, or other structure or part) [from Latin resecāre to cut away, from re- + secāre to cut]""

Residential

The quality of being resistible; resistibleness.

With dazzling sumptuousness

In a sumptuously impressive way

In an impressively beautiful manner

Restrictive

Retributive

In a retroactive manner.

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

Reverberant

Producing reverberation; acting by reverberation; reverberative.

In a reverential manner.

The quality of being reversible.

Pre-war fighter (wordplay)

O, O, like them perhaps for a change

So what's new around that (wordplay)

Rheumatical

Radiology employing x-rays.

Rudimentary

Rumbustious

RADIOCHEMIST

""(Electronics & Computer Science / Telecommunications) the use of radio waves for transmitting information from a distant instrument to a device that indicates or records the measurements Sometimes shortened to telemetry RANGATIRATANGA (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) NZ the condition of being a Maori chief; sovereignty""

""RADIOTELEPHONE A wireless telephone, in which the signal is conveyed by radio waves.""

Rambunctious

Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory.

Serving or tending to reconcile.

[ costs ] → recouvrable hc_En_Fr()

""The quality or condition of being rectangular, or rightangled.""

Abstract noun (-ity)

""REFERENTIAL Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. as, notes for referential use.""

The quality of being refrangible.

Remunerative

""(tr) to keep (feelings, etc.) under control; suppress or restrain to repress a desire""

PRODUCTIVELY productive

Acknowledge skill and propriety

Celebrity is apt to stir middle-class desire (wordplay)

Onus

The act of retrieving; retrieval.

RADIOAUTOGRAPH

RADIOMETRIC

Telegraphy using the radiant energy of radio waves; wireless telegraphy; -- the term adopted for use by the Radiotelegraphic Convention of 1912.

The quality or condition of being recognizable.

Capable of or qualified for reconciliation: reconcilable differences.

Reduplicative

To become aware of (something forgotten) again; bring back to one's consciousness; recall

Remonstrative

Cloning, for example

In a retrogressive manner.

In a backward-looking manner

With nostalgia

'Tainted love' is pretty clever with hindsight

Revolutionary

""RITUALISTIC Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism.""

ROENTGENOGRAPH