2-Letter Words Ending in A

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 .""

Tequila/citrus cocktail

Woman's drink

Type of tequila cocktail

Illegal drug (alt. spelling)

Alternative spelling for the hemp plant

""A strong-smelling Asian plant (Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).""

Play that made moral, perhaps (wordplay)

Torme's theatrics (wordplay)

Soap ingredient (wordplay)

Work sheets (wordplay)

Flowers for secretaries (wordplay)

Reminders, of sorts

See midgut .

Gun collection

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

Pl -ia [-ɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) the flat ciliated larva of flukes that hatches from the egg and gives rise asexually to other larval forms

Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape," for example

Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape,' for example

Old bird with no drink in singular performance

Rent freezes, say

Maria, root out stays!

Temporary bans on an activity

English word

Myocardium

Swimming-pools (US)

Swim-meet sites

US word for swimming-pools

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

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.

Benign tumour, typically at the end of a severed nerve

Massive glass houses (wordplay)

Shark tanks, maybe

Water worlds (wordplay)

These solid figures heard Cato, perhaps

Solids with eight faces

Figures doctor had to care

Players with excited roar about 16, say

Boston Pops, for one

Musicians in a pit (wordplay)

Pl. osmeteria (-tîr - ) An eversible glandular sac on the first thoracic segment of many caterpillars that secretes an unpleasant-smelling substance to ward off predators.

Ruins in wrestling (wordplay)

Regularly spray leaders at break in gym

Roman gymnasium.

English word

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.

""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.

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

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)

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

Votes put to country generally 9)

Whistler earned potential votes

Submissions to popular vote

Rhizoma

American growth perhaps irked Cuba

I back rude movement producing bloomer

Turn-of-the-century health resorts

Hospitals for recuperation

Supply AA with rations in clinics

Long-term care facilities

Hospitals for recuperation

Places for mending

Institutions providing rest for invalids

Sarcoma

Plural of sclerotium .

A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.

Term of address to a Portuguese girl

Lisbon miss

Plural of sequestrum .

Thousand-sesterce amounts

Anc. Roman units of value.

Miss Italy (wordplay)

Miss cue on air - sorry!

Young lady from Rome (wordplay)

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.""

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 .""

Second bungee-jumping artist from the lower orders

Bear genus could be broken down into these groups

Grounds for raising a harlot's vehicle

Underlying (rock) layers

Foundation underneath the layers

""Pl. sudatoria (-tôr - , -t r - ) A hot-air room used for sweat baths. Also called sudatory .""

Turbo-charged old Chevy (wordplay)

Fabulous deli delicacy (wordplay)

Great old Chevy (wordplay)

Big, hairy spider

Hairy creepy-crawly

Spider is natural at spinning

Range of a part, vocally

Range of a vocal part

A vocal part's range

Brutal ace found out, put in cell (wordplay)

Rod-shaped cell or structure that bridges a cavity

More-southern brasserie (wordplay)

Where to get a Pisa pizza (wordplay)

Fare for Italians to get here (wordplay)

""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. 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

Hives not restricted to apiarists

Nettle rash, an itchy skin eruption

Rash result of grasping the nettle (wordplay)

Shot cavalier infected by Latin disease

Chickenpox

Window washer's problem (wordplay)

Second-story man's undoing (wordplay)

High anxiety (wordplay)

""A spongy tissue with large air spaces found between the cells of the stems and leaves of aquatic plants, providing buoyancy and allowing the circulation of gases.""

Abnormal suppression or absence of menstruation.

""Pl. antheridia (- - ) A sperm-producing organ occurring in seedless plants, fungi, and algae.""

""Pl. archegonia (-n - ) A multicellular, often flask-shaped, egg-producing organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms.""

Varying heartbeat

Neuralgic pain in a joint or joints.

Instruments for sprinkling holy water

Implements for sprinkling holy water

Huge house plant

Iris adapts, being adaptable plant

Plant rallied Ada's spirit

Pl. atheromas or atheromata (-m -t ) A deposit or degenerative accumulation of lipid-containing plaques on the innermost layer of the wall of an artery.

Motorway in Italy

Major Italian highway

Italian highway

The presence of bacteria in the blood.

A dart aimed at the bull

Dart thrust into el toro

""Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets, constituting the genus Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.""

""Pl. barramunda or barramundas also barramundi or barramundis Any of several Australian food fishes, such as the lungfish. Also called ceratodus .""

English word

Light workout - land a brace!

Kind of 1 across (correctly 1 acrosses)

Menorahs, for example

English word

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

Spiritual powers

Personal magnetisms

Pl. chromonemata (-m -t ) The spirally coiled central filament of a chromatid along which the chromomeres are aligned.

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.""

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.

Harmony in a musical instrument

Cousin of the accordion.

Accordion's cousin.

Range rider, callow out West, shot!

Chain I left among red coral at sea

Group of mountain ranges

Thanksgiving Day centerpiece

Emblem of abundance.

Souvenir of Almathea, a gift from Zeus

A recording for rectification (wordplay)

Errors to be corrected (in book)

List of fixed mistakes

Venues for funeral ceremonies

Would they issue stardust in Hollywood (wordplay)

English word

Things sought for.

Things needed and wanted.

Very necessary things

Highly infectious throat disease

Immerse the hair for treating disease

Complaint: 'Doctor hit her with iPad'

Fly has upset his poor lad

Poorish lad used as subject for genetic research

Fruit fly

""Difficulty in articulating words, caused by impairment of the muscles used in speech.""

Pl. enchiridions or enchiridia (- - ) A handbook; a manual.

Plural of endocardium .

Plural of endometrium .

States of adjustment.

English word

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) an evergreen garden shrub with shiny green leaves and umbels of pale green flowers; a bigeneric hybrid between Fatsia japonica moseri and Hedera hibernica : family Araliaceae

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

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

Pl. hormogonia (-n - ) A part of a filament of a cyanobacterium that detaches and grows by cell division into a new filament.

MANIA an excessive or unreasonable desire; a craze

Pathology The state of being hypertonic.

Some dice, geometrically

Twenty-sided solids

20-faced solids

Periods between reigns

Pre-coronation periods

Leaderless periods

""A small, two-wheeled carriage drawn by one or two persons.""

Tokyo two-wheeler

Eastern taxi variable

Oriental carriage.

Keratoma

"Laughing" Australian bird

Down Under kingfisher

'Laughing' Australian bird

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

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

Bother in big house having a plant with narcotic properties

Reader's notes, at times

Reader's notes

Notes written beside text

English word

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

""Pl. mycorrhizae or mycorhizae (-z ) or mycorrhizas or mycorhizas The symbiotic association of the mycelium of a fungus with the roots of certain plants, such as conifers, beeches, or orchids.""

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

English word

Grasshoppers and crickets

""Pl. ostensoria (-sôr - , -s r -) also ostensories Roman Catholic Church See monstrance .""

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

Things kept secret

Innermost parts

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

English word

Hayden, Fels, Adler, etc.

Places to see the stars

Places for star gazers

""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

Presidential terms.

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

""Pl. rickettsiae (-s - ) Any of various bacteria of the genus Rickettsia, carried as parasites by many ticks, fleas, and lice, that cause diseases such as typhus, scrub typhus, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans.""

It contains abundant sodium channels

A genus of American perrenial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant.

Period of revelry

Exotic Australian festival

Ancient Roman December festival

Passive resistance, to Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi's policy of passive resistance to British rule

Norwegian group supports gay star active in non-violent resistance

Mark on tongue seen before a fever

Injure tongue with a complaint

Disease is to disfigure Roman Adonis, initially

Scleroma

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

English word

Sterigma

Southern Italian folk dance

Dance with Jack before everyone retires

Steps aren't at all problematic

Tumorous growths

Pl. termitaria (- - ) A nest built by a colony of termites. Also called termitary .

Four-sided dice, for example

Pyramids, and the like

'D4' dice in role-playing games, e.g

VACUA vacuum

""Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellid\'91. They have a more or less bellshaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched. Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellid\'91. They have a more or less bellshaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.""

Launderette

Laundromat

Launderette

The magic word!

Magic word - gibberish!

Spelling word (wordplay)

Recluse's problem, maybe

Cause of some reclusion

Morbid fear of open spaces