2-Letter Words Ending in A

Skin cells

Lamb contains marrow and the last pieces of cell tissue

Bush perhaps began in excessive optimism

Great feeling about key plant

Plant for bishop in high spirits

""Pl. hypanthia (-th - ) The ringlike, cup-shaped, or tubular structure of a flower on which the sepals, petals, and stamens are borne, as in the flowers of the rose or cherry.""

y=1/x, say

Par hole by playing for curve

Certain curve in math

Blood and Blood Vessels

Hypermetropia.

Abnormally deep or rapid breathing.

Condition marked by overexcitability

English word

Insufficient oxygenation of the blood

Sign of severe altitude sickness

""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.""

""(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.

""Pl. nephridia (- - ) A tubular excretory organ in many invertebrates, such as mollusks and earthworms.""

Ruins in wrestling (wordplay)

Regularly spray leaders at break in gym

Roman gymnasium.

English word

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

Microscopic denizens of fresh water

One-celled animals.

Common protozoans

Pl. paraments or paramenta (-m n t ) An ecclesiastical vestment or hanging.

Pl. parapodia (-d - ) One of the fleshy paired appendages of polychete annelids that function in locomotion and breathing.

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

Map projection (wordplay)

Crimea, for one

Florida, for one.

Same as Penult. Penult.

""Any of numerous succulent tropical herbs of the genus Peperomia, having simple, entire, palmately veined leaves and numerous minute, unisexual flowers densely grouped in cylindrical spikes.""

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

""Pl. perikarya (-k r - ) The cell body of a neuron, containing the nucleus and organelles.""

""Pl. perimysia (-m zh - , -m z - ) The sheath of connective tissue enveloping bundles of muscle fibers.""

Pl. periostea (-t - ) The dense fibrous membrane covering the surface of bones except at the joints and serving as an attachment for muscles and tendons.

Pl. peritonea also peritonaea (-tn- ) The serous membrane that lines the walls of the abdominal cavity and folds inward to enclose the viscera.

Apparition

The Beatles and Justin Bieber, once

Wonders if scrap heap contains new sign

They're extraordinary

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.""

N as in lung problem (wordplay)

Aureomycin chases it.

Inflammation of the lung

Tree with showy flowers

Showy, scarlet flower

Showy tree

English word

Many-faced bodies

Prisms, e.g

Solid figures of more than six faces

Ranch in "Bonanza"

Tall pine tree of North America

The Cartwrights' spread

""Any of several disorders of porphyrin metabolism, usually hereditary, characterized by the presence of large amounts of porphyrins in the blood and urine.""

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.""

English word

Prenomen

Proper pair treated a first-time mother

Pl. primordia (-d - ) An organ or a part in its most rudimentary form or stage of development.

Three-book Newton work

English word

Temple entrances

Pl. prostomia (-m - ) The portion of the head in earthworms and other annelids that is situated anterior to the mouth.

""The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

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

Birth

A burning passion (wordplay)

Lighting problem (wordplay)

Burning desire (wordplay)

Chicle-yielding evergreen

Chicle source.

Tropical tree

Simplex

Foreheads

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

Non-motile male gametes in red seaweeds

Freshwater algae genus

Freshwater algae

""Pl. sporangia (-j - ) A single-celled or many-celled structure in which spores are produced, as in fungi, algae, mosses, and ferns. Also called spore case .""

Turbo-charged old Chevy (wordplay)

Fabulous deli delicacy (wordplay)

Great old Chevy (wordplay)

""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.""

""Pl. treponemata (-m -t ) or treponemas Any of a group of spirochetes of the genus Treponema, including those that cause syphilis, pinta, and yaws.""

Window washer's problem (wordplay)

Second-story man's undoing (wordplay)

High anxiety (wordplay)

""Pl. antependia (-d - ) A decorative hanging for the front of an altar, lectern, or pulpit.""

Instruments for sprinkling holy water

Implements for sprinkling holy water

Huge house plant

Iris adapts, being adaptable plant

Plant rallied Ada's spirit

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

English word

Beetles' order

Genus of insects that includes beetles and weevils

Thanksgiving Day centerpiece

Emblem of abundance.

Souvenir of Almathea, a gift from Zeus

""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.""

Highly infectious throat disease

Immerse the hair for treating disease

Complaint: 'Doctor hit her with iPad'

Alcoholism - so dim a pain (anagram)

Problem for A.A.

Sot's cravings

Fly has upset his poor lad

Poorish lad used as subject for genetic research

Fruit fly

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

Hepatoma

""Pl. hesperidia (- - ) A berry having a thickened leathery rind and juicy pulp divided into segments, as an orange or other citrus fruit.""

Theme in "Philadelphia"

MANIA an excessive or unreasonable desire; a craze

Pathology The state of being hypertonic.

""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 ,""

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

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

Lymphoma

""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.""

""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 .""

Of or relating to the making of myths.

English word

""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

Grasshoppers and crickets

Distortion of memory

Illusion of remembering events experienced for the first time.

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

""The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.""

Prepared with a certain Italian cheese

""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 .

Pl. pentahedrons or pentahedra (-dr ) A solid having five plane faces.

Pl. pericardia (-d - ) The membranous sac filled with serous fluid that encloses the heart and the roots of the aorta and other large blood vessels.

Pl. pericrania (-n - ) The external periosteum that covers the outer surface of the skull.

""Pl. perineuria (-n r - , -ny r -) The sheath of connective tissue enclosing a bundle of nerve fibers.""

Sudden turn of events

Unexpected turn of events, as in a literary work

Unexpected turn of events, especially in a literary work

""Pl. perithecia (-sh - , -s - ) A small flask-shaped fruiting body in ascomycetous fungi that contains the ascospores.""

Bug that destroyed wines worldwide

Vine's lethal enemy

Insect similar to the greenfly that is destructive to vines

Evergreen herb

North American plant of the wintergreen family

English word

Hayden, Fels, Adler, etc.

Places to see the stars

Places for star gazers

Leaves for the holidays (wordplay)

Plant isn't opiate, sadly

Plant petition as ordered

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

""Pl. praenomens or praenomina (-n m -n , -n m -) A first or given name.""

""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.""

Form of long-sightedness

Pl. proctodea (-d ) or proctodeums also proctodaea (-d ) or proctodaeums An inward fold on the surface of the embryonic ectoderm that develops into part of the anal passage.

Disease and Illness ()

A socially correct goose (wordplay)

Artificial intelligence (wordplay)

A socially correct goose?

""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.""

Thorny plant with small fruit clusters

Thorny evergreen shrub related to the hawthorn

Thorny evergreen shrub with white flowers and bright red or yellow berries

""Pl. scriptoriums or scriptoria (-tôr - , -t r -) A room in a monastery set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records.""

""Poison blood poisoning caused by pathogenic microorganisms and their toxic products in the bloodstream. ; septicemic, ; septicaemic,""

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

English word

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.""

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

Excessive fear of foreigners

Fear of anything foreign or strange

Dislike of foreigners

Recluse's problem, maybe

Cause of some reclusion

Morbid fear of open spaces

A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body.

English word

English word

(Medicine / Pathology) Pathol absence of spermatozoa in the semen azoospermic   adj AZOOSPERMIC (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol absence of spermatozoa in the semen azoospermic   adj BACILLAEMIA (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol the presence of bacilli in the blood

""An abnormal, often obsessive interest in excrement, especially the use of feces for sexual excitement.""

Feed me

'Feed me'

See Japanese cedar .

Books

English word

Songs or poems celebrating a marriage

A malignant growth containing epithelial cells; called also epithelial cancer. epithelial cancer.

""A type of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms, senseless laughter, delusions, hallucinations, and regressive behavior.""

Fear of rinsing (wordplay)

A symptom of rabies

Rabies; aversion to water

Order of ants

Order of four-winged insects

Order of insects with four transparent wings

A condition marked by an unusually high concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hypoventilation.

""Exceptionally exact or vivid memory, especially as associated with certain mental illnesses.""

""Abnormally increased appetite for and consumption of food, thought to be associated with a lesion or injury in the hypothalamus.""

""An increase in, or excessive growth of, the normal elements of any part.""

An abnormally low concentration of potassium ions in the blood.

Abnormally low body temperature

Body condition caused by extreme cold

Condition with abnormally low body temperature

Baggage, supplies, etc.

Hindrances

Encumbrances one with defect preventing free speech first

Natural emetic drug

Copper swallowed by uncouth Phaeacian as emetic

Taking issue (wordplay)

Taking ill (wordplay)

Problem with lifting (wordplay)

Moths and butterflies

Butterflies and moths

Polite padre converted large group of fliers

""An abnormal condition characterized by white spots or patches on mucous membranes, especially of the mouth and vulva. Also called leukoplasia .""

""Sex an abnormal attraction, especially erotic, to corpses. ; necrophile, necrophiliac , n . Corpses an abnormal attraction, especially erotic, to corpses. ; necrophile, , adj. ; necrophiliac, , adj. -Phile, -Philia, -Phily an abnormal, often sexual attraction toward the dead or a dead body. ; necrophile , Death""

Fear of or contempt for Black people and their culture.

Uncontrollable sexual desire

Evergreen ground cover

""Pl. papillomas or papillomata (-m -t ) A small benign epithelial tumor, such as a wart, consisting of an overgrowth of cells on a core of smooth connective tissue.""

""Body, Human , Perception""

A technical name for a pun

Punster's activity

Art of punning

Composition on a ground bass

Composition with a repeating ground bass

Composition over a ground bass

Reform policy (in Soviet Union)

Gorbachev's reform policy

Soviet economic program begun in '88

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

Pl. phantasmata (-m -t ) See phantasm .

""Pl. philodendrons or philodendra (-dr ) Any of various climbing tropical American plants of the genus Philodendron, many of which are cultivated as houseplants.""

A dread or intolerance of light.

See cell membrane .

Pl. plasmodesmata (-m -t ) or plasmodesmas also plasmodesms A strand of cytoplasm that passes through openings in cell walls and connects the protoplasts of adjacent living plant cells.

Literary introductions

The presence of excessive amounts of protein in the urine.

English word

""Pl. protonemata (-n m -t , -n m -) The green filamentous growth that arises from spore germination in liverworts and mosses and eventually gives rise to a mature gametophyte.""

Cell projections whose name literally means "false feet"

Pervasive in the '60s

Spellbound genre

Entertainment affecting the mind and emotions

Theater class taught by Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped. Centiped.

""The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.""

Greek dish having spinach and feta cheese in filo pastry

In Greek cooking, a filo pastry stuffed with spinach and feta cheese

English word

Pl. spermagonia also spermogonia (-n - ) A cup-shaped cavity or receptacle in which the spermatia of certain lichens and fungi are produced.

""A small sac connected with the female reproductive organs of insects and many other invertebrates, serving to receive and retain the spermatozoa.""

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

""Body, Human""

""Pl. superstrata (-str t , -str t ) One layer or stratum superimposed on another.""

""Pl. treponemata (-m -t ) or treponemas Any of a group of spirochetes of the genus Treponema, including those that cause syphilis, pinta, and yaws.""

""Pl. xiphisterna (-n ) The posterior and smallest of the three divisions of the sternum, below the gladiolus and the manubrium. Also called xiphoid , xiphoid process .""

Embellishing musical note [2005]

A form of colorblindness characterized by insensitivity to green.

Book of knowledge

Reference work

Reference book

An increase in the number of eosinophils in the blood.

Pl. epiphenomena (-n ) A secondary phenomenon that results from and accompanies another: "Exploitation of one social class or ethnic group by another [is] an epiphenomenon of real differences in power between social groups" (Harper's).

""Body, Human a condition of the body in which muscular movement is abnormally agitated. ; hyperkinetic ,""