2-Letter Words Starting with R

They drive you away

Buy back

Repurify

Repurify

Repursue

What they say about you

Good report, fame

Name of English plant in allotment

Requester

Asking for

Asking for gent, squire's all over the place

Asking

Requestor

Part of R.I.P.

Dispel cares with quiet prayer

This leads in pace in races, quite strangely

Sex in Esquire's spread needs ...

Needs

REGULATE to control according to rule

Resalute

To do this to her clues, editor intervenes

Again plan here 500 clues to be rewritten

Resculpt

Resecure

SHUFFLED shuffle

Makes a new deck arrangement

PM's cabinet changes

RESIDUAL something left over

In a steadfast fashion

How some face a new year

In a firm manner

Resolute

Grit, that's the answer!

New Year's decision

Commitment often made on Jan. 1

Ringing plastic surgeon about dad's rear and hip

Decisive

Showing due deference

Showing due regard for others

Showing deference

Resprout

Waiting area (wordplay)

Where to act on a gut feeling (wordplay)

Starter home (wordplay)

RESTFUL {tranquil=adj}

Gave a refund

Restored to a better condition

Restitute

Restudy

Restuff

Resultant

""Being without result; as, resultless investigations. as, resultless investigations.""

Resummon

Umpires not prepared for fresh start

Inverted, as a flower

Resupply

Resupply

Sea-sport star wearing red emerged from water again

SURFACER one that {surfaces=v}

Bringing up queen, master on board takes square and is back on top

Revival (in popularity)

Comeback; green curse (anagram)

A period of increased activity

Brings back into use.

Takes out of mothballs

Brings up again

Resurvey

TEXTURED texture

Retexture

Like a network

Form into a network

Describe nets that, if crossing, unravel initially, as netted

Pl. retinacula (-l ) Biology A band or bandlike structure that holds an organ or a part in place.

Museum employees

Retouch

Reverse transcriptase is found in it

Like many online clothing purchases

Reunify

UNIONIST an advocate of {unionism=n}

UTILIZED utilize

Reutilize

Reutter

VALUATED valuate

Revaluate

""Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge.""

Revictual

Full spin (five letters)

Rising, or just turning over (wordplay)

Change of state (wordplay)

Revulsion

I must ache badly after onset of regular pains

Mum is earth-shattering persistent pain!

Inflammation of the joints

Painful disorder of the joints

Of or resembling rheumatism.

Cold culprit

Rhizopus

Ones who scoff

Ridicule

Absurd, endless derision around America

Twisted lid - curious or laughable (wordplay)

Ludicrous, ludicrous, ludicrous housing for one

Legitimately

RIGOROUS characterized by rigor

Ritualism

Her social debut hardly bootless

RITUALIZE

Ritualize

Joints near shoulders

Rural inns

Bird in bar holding a nose (wordplay)

Predigital beeper (wordplay)

Speedy bird travelled, say, over river (wordplay)

Robust.

The quality or state of being robust.

Prone to swaggering

Carousing noisily

""A cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century.""

Thorny issues (wordplay)

Pretty thorny plants, usually

They have many sticking points

Rostellum

State of the stout? Head under bar drinking barrel

Roughcast

Roughdry

Roughdry

Roughen

Formed crudely

Log cabin brawl (wordplay)

Crude place (wordplay)

Where to buy sandpaper (wordplay)

Oil rig workers

Aggressive people waving guns and choker

Hard-manual laborers

Harsh jockey (wordplay)

Teddy Roosevelt, for one

Epithet for one of the Roosevelts.

Roulette

A swinging alternative!

Play area feature? Not exactly

Ride in a devious way

Short and lively rural strains.

Original sound with early vocal music

Certain songs.

Wide-swinging blow

Building with a locomotive turntable

Railroad-yard feature

And trouble (anagram)

Local charity organisation

Place for King Arthur's knights

Roundwood

Roundworm

Start a fight with man in shearing shed

Rousement

Antipodean worker planned tours around!

Man of all work on a ranch.

General labourer employed on an oil rig

Mechanical

Routinize

""RUBBERIZE To coat or impregnate with rubber or a rubber solution or preparation, as silk.""

Adjective meaning resembling

View along the highway (italicized)

Stare at a Swiss mishap?

Stare at a Swiss mishap (wordplay)

Rubellite

RUBRICAL pertaining to {rubric=n}

RUBRICATE Marked with red.

Rubricate

RUBRICATE Marked with red.

Type of hummingbird

Hummingbird variety

Rudbeckia

Run like a bull, without direction

Without steering mechanism

Lacking direction

Shaft at a ship's stern

Rudeness

Simple parking in neutral, awfully basic

Regret baggy state of jumper, say

Regretful sadness

""RUFFIAN to behave like a tough, lawless person""

RUGGEDIZE

Ruggedize

Toughness, determination

Rugosity

Ruination

Periods in office of those who govern countries

""In a ruminant manner; by ruminating, or chewing the cud.""

Thinking of booze in a can: $1,000

Seaman admits hesitation in philosophical activity

Thinking of motorway in disrepair

Maiden in state of collapse thinking

Musing Frenchman amid wreckage

Meditating

Ruminator

Odd messengers craftily dodging duty

Deliberately deceptive actions.

Delaying tactics

Rusticating

Rurality

Ruralize

Rushlight

Russeting

Russet

Russify

""RUSTICAL one who lives in the country, also RUSTIC, RUBE""

Stayed in the country

Countryman had daughter for dinner, got sent down

... dictates changes after their game suspended

Lives in the country.

Summers in the country.

RUSTICATE To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.

Ruthenium

As Attila would

English word

Ascot & Epsom

Sporting grounds.

Some tracks

North American game played in a walled court

Allowing the passage of x-rays or other radiation; not radiopaque.

Scamps tease when pinching cake

Mud larks' playmates.

Street urchins

Rainsquall

""Any of a breed of merino sheep of French origin, raised for wool and meat.""

In a resentful way

Greedily

Rapporteur

In a rapturous manner.

Word from the French for "stir up"

Gunners eat out, ordering unhealthy stew

Vegetable stew, Provence style

Harshness of voice

Harsh loud quality

Harsh noisiness

Overt, earthy sexuality

Reacquaint

ACQUIRING acquire

Again modifying fair in English city

Reargument

Comfort provided by a friend

Relief from apprehension

A friend might provide it

""ATTRIBUTE To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).""

""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.""

Rebutton

Run the numbers again

Work out (sum) again

CAPTURING capture

""CIRCULATE To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. as, the blood circulates in the body.""

Reclusive

COMPUTING compute

""CONFIGURE To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.""

Reconquer

Reconquest

Build again

Make over

Recontour

Recoupment

Broke out afresh.

Recrudesce

Taking on people

Action of finding workers

Staff engagement

A four-shaped, perhaps

Regal cat run (anagram) - right-angled

Of a certain shape.

""CULTIVATE To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. as, to cultivate soil.""

Regained health

Got well

Recuperate

Recurrence

The river keeps flowing

Recursive

Recusancy

Rediscount

Rediscuss

Rediscuss

Fearsome - unnerving

Awe-inspiring fortification on island to the north

Formidable

Inflected form of DOUBTABLY Inflected form of DOUBT to be uncertain about

""REDUCTION The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province. as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.""

By reduction; by consequence.

In a refundant manner.