2-Letter Words Starting with A

Workers on a digest

They'll make short work of things

They shorten game in topless bars

Abolishes.

Rescinds

Repeals

Jobs for dentists

Abscisin

Distances from the y-axis on a graph

X-coordinates, in math

BASIC compiled two directions as co-ordinate values

Some ballots or voters

Election tippers, sometimes

They stay away from beast seen running

Absenter

Liqueurs made with wormwood

A bishop's vice, these short potent drinks

Wormwoods

Ultimates and perfections.

Things held to be always true

Some are moral

They provide pardons, for instance, covering me, initially, then you

Absorber

Absterge

Takes works of Picasso, say

Removes works by Pollock, say

Summaries of books.

Abstrict

Abutilon

Some points of contact

Supporting structures of a bridge.

Arch supports

Makes sour.

Annoys someone

Makes bitter

Some emissions reducers

Airburst

Airbus

Long-finned tunas

Fish bar so fancied up with lace

White-meat sources

Ornithological collar (wordplay)

Pacino's burden (wordplay)

Big bird's a hit, of course!

Albicore

Albinism

Albizzia

Albumose

Alburnum

Algaroba

Complete sets of letters

Complete assortments of letters.

Sets of runes

Perfume ingredient from whales

Perfume maker marries big shot, one-off

Light grey French perfume ingredient

Amberina

Amberoid

Atmospheres

Moods

Ambience

*Subject to interpretation

Open to differing interpretations

Of uncertain meaning

Aspirations, dreams

I'm not all there to want to get NNNNNNNNNN at last

'Although I'm not all there, is on it for them in the end (9)'

Greedy, getting stung by debts

Eager to advance.

Keen to succeed

Ones neither withdrawn nor outgoing

Ambrosia

Walks about

Walks around

Moves about

Ambusher

Plural or third person singular

""An infection or a disease caused by amoebas, especially Entamoeba histolytica.""

Anabaena

Bacteria, for example

Microorganisms that don't need oxygen

Many gastrointestinal tract residents

Anybody

Medieval crossbows

Arbalist

Arbelest

Opposite of 26 Across

Alder men (wordplay)

Limb trimmers

Tree experts

Arborize

""Any of a large group of viruses transmitted by arthropods, such as mosquitoes and ticks, that include the causative agents of encephalitis, yellow fever, and dengue.""

Arbuscle

Arbutus

Gathers together in a group

See lambs going round in flocks together

Meets bewildered males with Bess

Aubretia

Aubrieta

Travelling South, a ban on roads like this

Motor coaches

Abandoner

Humiliations

Abashment

Moderations of intensity

Tax deductions

Diminutions

Throne relinquishers

Abducens

Ufologist's subjects

An A of A&E

Snatchings

ABDUCTOR a person who abducts

Aberrance

Abeyancy

Abjection

Wretched quality

Surrendering sorts

Abolisher

Annulments

Much more than dislikes

Dislikes intensely

Loathes

Algonquins, for example.

Early inhabitants

First inhabitants.

Abruption

Curt rudeness

Criminal rents a pub, leading to son's rude quality

Curtness

Those who escaped ban crossed over

They take their leave without it

Muscles badly scorned by bad runners (wordplay)

Absorbant

Absorbent

They are positively negative

Eligible non-voters

Avoiders of alcohol

I mess about (anagram)

Moderate Jack to plug debts

I mess about, drunk or sober

Absurdism

Absurdist

Sailors turn on way and head for folly

Ballerina's hairdo gets into the act (wordplay)

Acerbity

Feats of agility

Gymnast's display

High-flying performance

Acrophobe

They are taken in, notice - top group ('90s group) on the way up...

Adsorbent

Adumbrate

Adverbial

Loops and rolls

Exercising swallows at flying display

Stunt flying

""AEROBE an organism that requires free oxygen, also AEROBIUM""

""AEROBE an organism that requires free oxygen, also AEROBIUM""

Decelerates, as with a space shuttle

Tools of historical revisionists

Retouches, in a way

Cuts of beef.

Varieties of gypsum

Onyx-like minerals

White minerals

ALBUMIN a {protein=n}

Algarroba

Amberjack

Amblyopia

Ambrotype

Emergency vehicles

Surprise attacks

Waylays.

Amebocyte

Infections caused by protozoans

Variant of amebiasis .

Such as 23 ac, 7 dn, 8 dn

Frogs and newts, for example

BATRACHOPHOBIA

Like the D-Day assault on Normandy

Having two natures.

For use on land and in water

Amphibole

Anableps

Anabolism

Leg-foot connectors

Plural or third person singular

Theory of some wonder drugs.

Weapons in the medical arsenal.

B cells' production

Protein substances

RABIES an infectious virus disease

Approbate

Positions in ballet dancing.

Persian rug patterns

Ballet positions

Arabicize

Arabinose

Arbitrage

Resolves, as a contract dispute

Decides to barter, as it is damaged

Determines to get back her support it deserves

Where they might bring back the birch (wordplay)

Flowers that do well among trees and shrubs (wordplay)

Plots of land on which many different trees or shrubs are grown

Guns of 15th century

Asbestos

Miner's disease

Chronic lung disease

Lung disease

Asbestus

Ascorbate

"Westminster Standards" framers

They come together to put together

Westminster Standards framers

Diets for the party members with seats

Pep rallies

Doctor ambles; she is avoiding hospital gatherings

Devices superseded by sextants

Old navigation instruments

Sextant forerunners

Such properties belong at taxes

Skills shown by artiste, but presented awkwardly

Characteristics

Vegetables that might ensure a big stew

Eggplants

Autobus

Shortens a word

Turns a registered nurse into a RN (wordplay)

Abdication

Aberrancy

They're irregular

Sailor in tears or suffering disorders

Abhorrence

Plural or third person singular

""The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis.""

Abiogenist

Abjuration

Abnegation

Abominator

Aboriginal

Abreaction

Abridgment

Abrogation

Abscission

Mariner answers and gets acquittals

Absolutism

People with rigid worldviews

A bandleader overcoming very old musicians, their principles undiminished

Absolutize

Absorbance

Absorption

No-votes (wordplay)

Third column in Congressional tallies

Characterized by abstinence; selfrestraining.

Abstinence

Abstracter

Abstractor

Highly illogical situations

Mistreatment

Insults

Acetabulum

Acrophobia

Afterbirth

Agoraphobe

Birds of ill omen

Largest sea birds.

Algebraist

Envoys in residence

High-ranking diplomats

Dillon, Allison, Coe, etc.

Ambergris

Ambiguity

Ambisexual

Ambulation

Ambuscader

Ambushment

Ameloblast

Affability

Amoebocyte

Amphiboly

Amphibrach

Anabaptism

Analphabet

Selman Waksman's field.

Medicines destroying micro-organisms

Bacteria destroyers such as penicillin or streptomycin

Arability

Arbitrager

Dispute deciders

Arborvitae

Arbovirus

Wearers of pallia

Assemblage

Having a melancholy temperament - is it a Labour failing (wordplay)

Gloomy

Irritable

Wheels out awful modern artworks after one

Abandonment