2-Letter Words Ending in A

""A jellylike mass of bacteria, also ZOOGLEA""

Pl. acetabula (-l ) Anatomy The cup-shaped cavity at the base of the hipbone into which the ball-shaped head of the femur fits.

""The failure of a ring of muscle fibers, such as a sphincter of the esophagus, to relax.""

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma). (Nepeta Glechoma).

A tree, the common mesquite

Blindness

""Pl. ambulacra (-l k r , -l kr ) One of the five radial areas on the undersurface of the starfish and similar echinoderms, from which the tube feet are protruded and withdrawn.""

Lack of pain NOT a country! (nonverbal)

State of "feeling no pain"

In Ala., easing of pain

""Loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant tumor.""

Showy flower, also known as columbine

One member - one in water - is Columbine

Plant also known as Granny's Bonnet

Battle overhead (wordplay)

Battle dress (wordplay)

Knitted hat (for bank robbers?)

Lake like a ... they say like a guitar

Triangular-bodied instrument

Mandolin's cousin

Bare all in dancing? Not me!

She's winning on points!

She may be winning on points!

Genus of parasitic worms

Type of aria

To which 'plant' can allude, possibly

Eurasian plant of the marigold genus

Pot marigold

A queen protected by duchess and coterie

Secret advisers

Intriguing group around the old lady artist, grabbing improperly

eg Harebell or Scottish bluebell

Genus of bellflowers

Bell flower

Ballad ain't clean when broadcast

Simple melodic passage

Musical part carrying melody

Star-fruit tree

Star fruit

""(Medicine / Pathology) Pathol a burning sensation along the course of a peripheral nerve together with local changes in the appearance of the skin [from New Latin, from Greek kausos fever + -algia ]""

Parts of brains

Lower posterior parts of the brain

Occupiers of the skull's posterior fossa

""One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.""

The disorder a child may wreak!

An alga responsible for turning stagnant water an opaque green

Ancient water clock

Dry places, not right for this to work

Dry places damaged this timekeeper

Any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.

Coelom

Scholarly get-togethers

Conferences, meetings for discussion

Seminars, meetings for discussion

""An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.""

""Pl. condylomas or condylomata (-m -t ) A wartlike growth on the skin or mucous membrane, usually in the area of the anus or the external genital organs.""

Pl -lae [-ˌliː] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the technical name for pollen basket

Pl. cuadrillas The group of assistants to the matador in a bullfight.

Programme of activities? Of course!

Courses of study.

Pictures representing a continuous scene

Pictorial landscape encircling a viewer

Curved wall used as a stage background

Diploma

Jockey displays a growth abnormality

Parroter's form of speech.

Habit of repeating others' words.

Repetition of another's words

City light is about a cause of fits

Misplace a treatment for antenatal condition

Lights in city and capital erected as a condition

Plural of encephalon .

Whole food (wordplay)

Hot Mexican dish

Special deal with china dish

Skin cells

Lamb contains marrow and the last pieces of cell tissue

""The sex organs, especially the external sex organs, called the external genitalia; the genitals.external genitalia; the genitals.""

""Pl. glochids also glochidia (-k d - ) One of the minute barbed hairs or bristles on certain plants, such as the prickly pear.""

""Pl. granulomas or granulomata (-m -t ) A mass of inflamed granulation tissue, usually associated with ulcerated infections.""

Simian soldier (wordplay)

Che Guevara, for one

To lure a girl is highly irregular!

English word

English word

y=1/x, say

Par hole by playing for curve

Certain curve in math

Officially informing (someone)

Something caught in the air

Viral disease that is highly contagious

Plural of involucrum .

Spicy Creole dish

Mardi Gras meal

One-pot New Orleans dish

Young adult novels (wordplay)

Children's books

The Brontes' Glass Town Confederacy stories, for example

Lacunar

This is On the Beach - long song about dictator

""Any shrubby or herbaceous plant of the genus Lespedeza, widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in the Southern U.S.Lespedeza, widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in the Southern U.S.""

Cancer of the blood

Type of cancer

Disease in which white blood cells multiply

1999's winning word: Verbosity

Nonstop talkativeness

Excessive talkativeness, perhaps incoherent

""A votive candle set into a small, decorative paper bag weighted with sand and placed in a row with others along a walkway, driveway, or rooftop as a holiday decoration. Also called regionally farolito .""

Dance similar to fandango

Spanish dance similar to the fandango

Spanish dance

English word

Vocal runs

Play that made moral, perhaps (wordplay)

Torme's theatrics (wordplay)

Soap ingredient (wordplay)

The layer of gelatinous material that separates the inner and outer cell layers of a coelenterate.

Gun collection

A limit arbitrarily imposed on IRA fixed weapons collection (wordplay)

Big stretch (wordplay)

Note modulating all nine periods

Really long time

English word

Myeloma

One billionth (10 -9 ) of a tesla.

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae [New Latin, from Greek nemos a grove + philein to love]""

Liking for new things

Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.

Aspirin target, maybe

Pain in the neck, perhaps

Broken rule again leads to complaint

The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord.

Longing for something past

A seductive liar: George W. Ball

Love for the past

Ruins in wrestling (wordplay)

Regularly spray leaders at break in gym

Roman gymnasium.

""A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papill\'91 of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart.""

Small Asian tree with heart-shaped leaves and fragrant lilac flowers

Map projection (wordplay)

Crimea, for one

Florida, for one.

Same as Penult. Penult.

""Pl. perihelia (-h l - , -h l y ) The point nearest the sun in the orbit of a planet or other celestial body.""

Land in ancient Palestine

Suff. ; see collodion .]

""Pl. plasmodia (-d - ) A multinucleate mass of cytoplasm formed by the aggregation of a number of amoeboid cells, as that characteristic of the vegetative phase of the slime molds.""

English word

Many-faced bodies

Prisms, e.g

Solid figures of more than six faces

Popular name of rose moss.

Succulent herb of the purslane family

Plant of the purslane family

""Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.""

Temple entrances

Lower class compartments with first-class return taking drunken pals back

Tropical Asian parasitic leafless plant

Plant with a large malodorous bloom

Plant smelling of carrion; flies afar (anagram)

Tropical tree or shrub, the powdered root of which yields valuable drugs

Dogbane

Mexican plant.

Organising a loan isn't a bloomer

Fragrant Mediterranean shrub related to camomile

Chicle-yielding evergreen

Chicle source.

Tropical tree

Logical as imitation stone (wordplay)

Imitation marble is logical as could be

Imitation marble.

Perhaps I can still sparkle

I can still change hint

A tiny bit

Plural of sclerotium .

Sickle cell anemia or sickle cell trait.

Simplex

Representations (of someone/something)

Kind of light chemical is raising images

Curve on mineral is coming up in images

""A volcanic area or vent which yields only sulphur vapors, steam, and the like. It represents the stages of the volcanic activity.""

""A crisp, puffy, deep-fried pastry often served with honey or syrup.""

Lamb Kabobs

""A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. as, th' army, for the army.""

Big, hairy spider

Hairy creepy-crawly

Spider is natural at spinning

Brutal ace found out, put in cell (wordplay)

Rod-shaped cell or structure that bridges a cavity

""Pl. triclinia (- - ) A couch facing three sides of a rectangular table, used by the ancient Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans for reclining at meals.""

Disease transmitted by the deer fly

""A groove; a fossa; as, the vallecula, or fossa, which separates the hemispheres of the cerebellum. as, the vallecula, or fossa, which separates the hemispheres of the cerebellum.""

Shot cavalier infected by Latin disease

Chickenpox

Sex

Breaks in grammatical sequence

A haul Acton possibly offers of syntactic non sequiturs

Analemma

Paramecium, rotifer, etc.

Neuralgic pain in a joint or joints.

Instruments for sprinkling holy water

Implements for sprinkling holy water

A dart aimed at the bull

Dart thrust into el toro

""The affinity of cellular structures for basic dyes, such as methylene blue.""

Eye-pupil dilater

Another name for deadly nightshade

Drug made from deadly nightshade

""Pl. blastemas or blastemata (-m -t ) The formative, undifferentiated material from which cells are formed.""

Blastoma

Light workout - land a brace!

Kind of 1 across (correctly 1 acrosses)

Menorahs, for example

""A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark. Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark.""

Facial fur (wordplay)

Pearly-gray fur

Feature cool on a rodent

Chloasma

Type of iguana

Large dark-bodied lizard living in Mexico and the southern USA

Grayish lizard once used as food by Native Americans

Summer-theater circuit

Additive in some bug repellents

Insect repellent sprayed into cellar

""Pl. clostridia (- - ) Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming, chiefly anaerobic bacteria of the genus Clostridium, such as the nitrogen-fixing bacteria found in soil and those causing botulism and tetanus.""

Plural of coelenteron .

Beetles' order

Genus of insects that includes beetles and weevils

""A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle.""

Coloboma

Trill-a-minute performer (wordplay)

Musical runs and trills.

Elaborate vocal ornamentation

Pl. columbaria (- - ) also columbaries a. A vault with niches for urns containing ashes of the dead.

Range rider, callow out West, shot!

Chain I left among red coral at sea

Group of mountain ranges

""Cyclop\'91dia The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven socalled liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. Hence, a work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See Encyclopedia. as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See Encyclopedia.""

Fly has upset his poor lad

Poorish lad used as subject for genetic research

Fruit fly

""Pl. endothelia (-l - ) A thin layer of flat epithelial cells that lines serous cavities, lymph vessels, and blood vessels.""

States of adjustment.

Plant bearing dense clusters of flowers

Rose with clusters of flowers

Rose with flower clusters

""Pl. florilegia (-j - ) A collection of excerpts from written texts, especially works of literature.""

Herb with white flowers that emit hot flammable vapour in hot weather

Blanket-flower

Blanketflower

Same as Gluoosuria. Gluoosuria.

Spanish city storing bad fruit

Passion flower in Spanish city is diseased

Passion fruit not well received by Andalusian city

It has little flowers happily arranged on a string like this inside

A palsy that affects one side only of the body.

Genetic disorder carried by Queen Victoria

""The layer of water in a thermally stratified lake that lies below the thermocline, is noncirculating, and remains perpetually cold.""

""Size a condition in which tissue or an organ of the body fails to grow to normal size. Cf. hypertrophy . ; hypoplastic ,""

Books printed before 1500.

Books printed before 1500

Some very early impressions

English word

""Pl. latifundia (-d - ) A great landed estate, especially of the ancient Romans.""

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania : infects humans and animals and causes diseases ranging from skin lesions to potentially fatal organ damage [New Latin, named after Sir W.B. Leishman (1865-1926), Scottish bacteriologist]""

Pl. leprosariums or leprosaria (- - ) A hospital for the treatment of leprosy.

An abnormally low number of white blood cells in the circulating blood.

""A thick, whitish discharge from the vagina or cervical canal.""

Lymphoma

Reader's notes, at times

Reader's notes

Notes written beside text

Melanoma

""Pl. mesothelia (-l - ) The layer of flat cells of mesodermal origin that lines the embryonic body cavity and gives rise to the squamous cells of the peritoneum, pericardium, and pleura.""

""Normal transformation of tissue from one type to another, as in the ossification of cartilage to form bone.""

""A drug, C 10 H 13 NO 4 , used in the treatment of high blood pressure.""

Extremely small plants

A sausage originally made in Bologna

Italian pork sausage

Smoked Italian sausage

In a way, say cheese!

Cheese for a scat singer (wordplay)

Mild, white cheese

Mail tedium (anagram)

On many platforms

Like high-tech gaming experiences

""Any of numerous parasitic, pathogenic microorganisms of the genus Mycoplasma that lack a true cell wall, are gram-negative, and need sterols such as cholesterol for growth. In humans, one species is a primary cause of nonbacterial pneumonia. Also called pleuropneumonia-like organism .""

The delicate outer sheath of a nerve fiber; the primitive sheath.

""A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness.""

Inflammation of the eye

Inflammation of the eye, especially conjunctivitis

Seeing limitation work, one brought into game after half-time

""Complete paralysis of the lower half of the body including both legs, usually caused by damage to the spinal cord.""

""A sexual perversion in which children rather than adults most strongly excite sexual desire, and are used as sexual partners.""

Things kept secret

Innermost parts

A plural of penicillium .

Bug that destroyed wines worldwide

Vine's lethal enemy

Insect similar to the greenfly that is destructive to vines

English word

Hayden, Fels, Adler, etc.

Places to see the stars

Places for star gazers

Excessive thirst

""Food and Nutrition Pathology. excessive appetite or excessive eating. Disease and Illness the tendency to eat a wide variety of food. ; polyphagist , ; polyphagic,""

Flower a.k.a. cinquefoil

P, as in these roses

Mighty harmful, a plant

""A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxill\'91 become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.""

""Pl. prothalli (-th l ) or prothallia (-th l - ) A small, flat, delicate structure produced by a germinating spore and bearing sex organs. It is the gametophyte of ferns and some other plants.""

Amazing Aldi's equal for food

Grilled Mexican snack

Cheesy Mexican snack

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

Your food inspector (wordplay)

A cause of food poisoning

Bacteria associated with food poisoning

It contains abundant sodium channels

Period of revelry

Exotic Australian festival

Ancient Roman December festival

Mark on tongue seen before a fever

Injure tongue with a complaint

Disease is to disfigure Roman Adonis, initially

Scleroma

Aria from "Carmen."

Fast Spanish dance

That which can be sensed

A highly potent form of marijuana obtained from unpollinated female plants.

""A crisp, puffy, deep-fried pastry often served with honey or syrup.""

Pl. stylopodia (-d - ) An enlargement at the base of the style of flowers in certain plants of the parsley family.

""The blending into one syllable of two successive vowels of adjacent syllables, especially to fit a poetic meter; for example, th' elite for the elite.""

Southern Italian folk dance

Dance with Jack before everyone retires

Steps aren't at all problematic

""A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses.""

""Any of various parasitic sporozoans of the genus Toxoplasma, including some that cause disease in birds and mammals.""