2-Letter Words Starting with R

Meal or snack

Rice often cooked for a meal

Thought to take out large meal

REFLATE to inflate again

See Reflection. Reflection.

""FRESHEN to improve the condition of, also FRESH""

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.""

Cancellation (of a debt)

Pardon granted for sins or crimes

Miser moves to holy city for forgiveness

Lick again, for example

What a tearing performance!

Interpretation (of for example song)

Perhaps the tearing of a performance

He gets a lot of parts

Fix-it guy

Oft-idle Maytag employee

Fixer-uppers (wordplay)

Misters fix-it

Fixers concerning two chaps

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

Feeling of disgust

Feeling of intense distaste or disgust

Driving off US peril with no resolution

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

Getting back to about this account of it

One river's turbulent ebb

You get a return about this account

Louvre's in mess with horror

Sudden and unpleasant violent reaction

Disgust

In a new draft

Not in its original form, as an article

Amended religious lesson, dry in newer version

Retina pigment

Photosensitive pigment in the retina also called visual purple

""A synthetic antiviral ribonucleoside, C 8 H 12 N 4 O 5 , that inhibits the replication of DNA and RNA, used to treat respiratory syncytial virus.""

When perhaps to be uncouth

(Of wood or stone) not smoothly cut

Clue for when without refinement

Does he deliver the circulars (wordplay)

One who delivers goods

Daily deliverer of milk, papers, etc

Certain inspectors

Are you one people? That'll spoil it all

Complete destruction or collapse

One race after sport's collapse

Fuming afar (anagram)

Makin' mistakes on the sitar (wordplay)

Tattered tot with quick bread?

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

DIVISION the act of dividing

Incumbent's aim, perhaps

Process of voting someone in again

Affirmation from the voters

EMISSION the act of {emitting=v}

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.""

A return to a former state

Area circling about vessel's retreat

Movement backward.

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}

INVASION the act of {invading=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.

Act of subduing

Relative of inhibition.

The tyranny of the subconscious (wordplay)

Abraham Lincoln, for one

Miller, for one.

Howard Baker, politically

What they say about you

Good report, fame

Name of English plant in allotment

One's crisis forced annulment

Cancellation

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)

A yellow vitamin of the B complex

Vitamin B2, alternatively

Vitamin B-2.

A semisynthetic antibiotic derived from a form of rifamycin that interferes with the synthesis of RNA and is used to treat bacterial and viral diseases.

Thinking of motorway in disrepair

Maiden in state of collapse thinking

Musing Frenchman amid wreckage

Dating material

Cairo-born criminal ringing commercial dating agency

Of or pertaining to the Radiolaria.

Rascal or rogue

Plain carols (anagram) - rogue

A disgrace to criticise onion

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

""ACCESSION A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy. as, a king's accession to a confederacy.""

Item on a spy's checklist (wordplay)

Literacy campaign (wordplay)

Interpret objective as getting in again

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.

""PROVISION The act of providing, or making previous preparation.""

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

To commission again; to give a new commission to.

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

Reconnect

A second conversion.

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

A second or repeated impression; a reprint.

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

Altering course, sniper produces echo

Indirect effect; echo

Indirect consequence of some action

The act of planting again; a replanting.

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

Recovery of something owned

Lender's response to car loan default

Result of borrower's car loan default

Censure about her pension, sadly

Blame, reproof

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.

SUBMISSION The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance.

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.""

Trumpet-shaped flower

Shrub with large flower clusters

Large shrub with evergreen leaves

Solid figure with six equal faces

""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

Process of organising

Strict organisation and control

Strict control of budget meeting may be held

Bringing up a storybook character round about ancient city, getting into trouble

""The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.""