2-Letter Words Ending in A

Type of aria

Care if tea spilled here (wordplay)

The only waiting here is at the counter!

Eatery where there's no waiting!

Ballad ain't clean when broadcast

Simple melodic passage

Musical part carrying melody

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

""The use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer ahead to another unit, for example, the use of him to refer to John in the sentence Near him, John saw a snake.""

Band once fronted by Cerys Matthews

State of rigidity and stupor

State of muscular rigidity and stupor

Fabulous creature presses on each star thistle, for example

Chiasma

""Poisoning caused by ingesting fish contaminated with ciguatoxin, characterized by gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms.""

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

Businesses producing iron coats

Spies entrap working-class associations

Groups require actions or else

Prawns and lobster perhaps act as cure

A class made up of hard cases (wordplay)

Shrimp, lobsters, etc.

Diploma

Ecthyma

Empyema

""Pl. entamoebas also endamoebas or entamoebae also endamoebae (-b ) Any of several parasitic amoebas of the genus Entamoeba, especially E. histolytica, causing dysentery and ulceration of the colon and liver.""

Skin cells

Lamb contains marrow and the last pieces of cell tissue

Mysterious items - ciao trees (anagram)

Dark matter (wordplay)

Words not ideal for crossword puzzles

Skin eruption accompanying a fever

Skin rash accompanying a fever

Exodontics.

Fibroma

""Pl -ture [-ˈtʊəreɪ] (Music, other) Music embellishment, esp ornamentation added by the performer [Italian: a blossoming]""

Early spring bloom

Shrub with showy bell-shaped flowers

A frosty hi to the flowering shrub

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

English word

English word

Passage of urine mingled with blood.

English word

""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.""

English word

One with a Roman upset at a fiance, say

Woman in love

Cleopatra, to Antony

Congreve's 2 Juliana

Woman in disguise.

Woman undercover

Region of one country claimed by another

English word

English word

Flowering shrub of western U. S.

Californian species of bearberry

Chaparral shrub

Tequila/citrus cocktail

Woman's drink

Type of tequila cocktail

English word

Vocal runs

See midgut .

Gun collection

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

Rent freezes, say

Maria, root out stays!

Temporary bans on an activity

Myeloma

One billionth (10 -9 ) of a tesla.

Swimming-pools (US)

Swim-meet sites

US word for swimming-pools

Benign tumour, typically at the end of a severed nerve

Casual inaction restricts a plant

Action in a struggle with tobacco

Inaction is bad for a plant

Longing for something past

A seductive liar: George W. Ball

Love for the past

These solid figures heard Cato, perhaps

Solids with eight faces

Figures doctor had to care

""Pl. ommatidia (- - ) One of the structural elements, resembling a single simplified eye, that make up the compound eye of insects and other arthropods.""

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.

Benign swellings

Ruins in wrestling (wordplay)

Regularly spray leaders at break in gym

Roman gymnasium.

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

Same as Penult. Penult.

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

Land in ancient Palestine

English word

Popular name of rose moss.

Succulent herb of the purslane family

Plant of the purslane family

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

Rhizoma

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

Organising a loan isn't a bloomer

Fragrant Mediterranean shrub related to camomile

Sarcoma

Perhaps I can still sparkle

I can still change hint

A tiny bit

Plural of sclerotium .

Scotoma

Term of address to a Portuguese girl

Lisbon miss

Pl. sententiae (-sh - ) An adage or aphorism.

Plural of sequestrum .

Thousand-sesterce amounts

Anc. Roman units of value.

Foreheads

""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

Pl. stomodea also stomodaea (-d ) The anterior or oral portion of the alimentary canal of an embryo.

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 .""

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)

""Overactivity or irritability of the vagus nerve, adversely affecting function of the blood vessels, stomach, and muscles.""

The membranous outer covering of an organ or blood vessel.

Breaks in grammatical sequence

A haul Acton possibly offers of syntactic non sequiturs

Analemma

Stephen King book, richest in rewrite

English word

Number of folks (wordplay)

Sensational loss (wordplay)

It's a real knockout!

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

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

""ANEMIA a disorder of the blood, also ANAEMIA""

ASTHMA a chronic respiratory disorder

NAUSEA an inclination to vomit

Varying heartbeat

Neuralgic pain in a joint or joints.

Gum resin used medically

Foul-smelling but safe aid to a curry

Bitter medicine

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.

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

Blastoma

English word

Spiritual powers

Personal magnetisms

*Rural educational gathering

New York lake and colony

Cultural center in N.Y. State

Chloasma

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

Coloboma

Trill-a-minute performer (wordplay)

Musical runs and trills.

Elaborate vocal ornamentation

Harmony in a musical instrument

Cousin of the accordion.

Accordion's cousin.

Venues for funeral ceremonies

Would they issue stardust in Hollywood (wordplay)

English word

Things sought for.

Things needed and wanted.

Very necessary things

Diastema

Highly infectious throat disease

Immerse the hair for treating disease

Complaint: 'Doctor hit her with iPad'

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

Plural of endometrium .

""Pl. endothecia (-s - , -sh - ) The inner tissue of an anther or a moss capsule.""

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

English word

Young 6 said to be ending life

Painless method of killing

Young Burmese at home

(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

Pl. gametangia (-j - ) An organ or a cell in which gametes are produced.

Hematoma

Hepatoma

Pathology The state of being hypertonic.

Periods between reigns

Pre-coronation periods

Leaderless periods

A small evergreen tropical tree (Myrciaria cauliflora) native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern U. S.; it is grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches.Myrciaria cauliflora) native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern U. S.; it is grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches.

Keratoma

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

Lymphoma

""Pl. mediastina (-n ) The region in mammals between the pleural sacs, containing the heart and all of the thoracic viscera except the lungs.""

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.""

A sausage originally made in Bologna

Italian pork sausage

Smoked Italian sausage

Mail tedium (anagram)

On many platforms

Like high-tech gaming experiences

Abnormal muscular weakness or fatigue.

Mycetoma

Propensity for exaggerating

* Obsession with lying

Of or relating to the making of myths.

""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

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

Things kept secret

Innermost parts

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

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.""

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

Flower a.k.a. cinquefoil

P, as in these roses

Mighty harmful, a plant

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 ()

""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. 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.""

English word

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.""

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

""Pl. staminodes also staminodia (-n d - ) A sterile stamen, sometimes resembling a petal, as in the canna.""

Sterigma

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

Syntagma

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

""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.""

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

Xanthoma

Lack of feeling.

Insensitivity to pain induced by drugs

Literally "without sensation"

MALARIA an infectious disease

""The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero. his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.""