2-Letter Words Starting with A

English word

Key chain (wordplay)

Fiji, for example

Hawaii, i.e.

Architrave

Archpriest

Arctangent

Growing or living or burrowing in sand.

Of or relating to a reference system based at the center of the planet Mars.

Rule by the best.

Upper class, nobility

Elevated types carry a cost I fancy

Nobles

Swells

Arithmetic

AROMATIC a fragrant substance

""Pl. arthroscopies Examination of the interior of a joint, such as the knee, using a type of endoscope that is inserted into the joint through a small incision.""

ARTHROSCOPE

""That can be articulated: vague, barely articulable thoughts.""

Clearly stated to be jointed

Put into words

Said to be segmented

Utters clearly

""One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering. (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.""

Same as artefactual.artefactual.

Placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot; a member of the artiodactyla.artiodactyla.

Ascendance

Ascendant

Ascendence

""Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon. as, the ascensional power of a balloon.""

Found out

Ascetical

Asceticism

Ascomycete

Ascription

ASEPTIC an aseptic substance

Helps.

Hobnobber's activity

Football club (wordplay)

Part of PA

Conceptual connection

""Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. as, the associative faculty.""

Astigmatic

Bitterness (of taste)

Sharp or bitter quality

Sharpness, severity

""A tumor of nervous tissue derived from interstitial cells, in which the cells are relatively well-differentiated and resemble astrocytes. The occur primarily in the crebrum and cerebellum.""

Astronomy

Of or pertaining to astronautics.

Pl. atelectases (-s z ) Total or partial collapse of the lung.

Pl. atelectases (-s z ) Total or partial collapse of the lung.

""Pertaining to, implying, or containing, atheism; -- applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books.as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books.""

""Formation of atheromatous deposits, especially on the innermost layer of arterial walls.""

Physical fitness and strength

Strength, fitness

'Hi!' to campers (anagram)

Armpits echo (anagram)

Of air; conveying special mood

Extremely badly

Paper clips might symbolize them

Attendance

""The capacity, as of a pheromone, to attract.""

ATTRACT to {entice=v}

Attractant

Coming at the movies

""ATYPICAL not typical, also ATYPIC""

They have lots to offer

In an audacious manner; with excess of boldness; impudently.

An instrument for measuring hearing activity for pure tones of normally audible frequencies. Also called sonometer .

Used a stethoscope

Auscultate

AUTARCHIC

Adverb

Autochthon

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

Autocracy

Autocross

Group outside the class system

AUTOGRAPH That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.

""Capable of self-nourishment; requiring only minerals for growth; using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, and certain bacteria. It is opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.""

AUXOTROPH

""AVALANCHE A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.""

Aviculture

AVOCATION A calling away; a diversion.

Avouchment

Avuncular

A bridge player, Richard, and two fellow players filled with astonishment

Of or pertaining to axiology.

Of or relating to a method of projection in which an object is drawn with its horizontal and vertical axes to scale but with its curved lines and diagonals distorted.

""Any of various rod-shaped, nonpathogenic, nitrogen-fixing bacteria of the genus Azotobacter, found in soil and water.""

Abecedarian

Abjectness

Abracadabra

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

Absorbancy

Absorbency

Absorptance

ABSTRACT to draw away

In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.

Abstraction

The quality of being abstract.

In a scholarly manner

Distinguished scholars

Academicism

Acatalectic

Accelerando

Gaining speed

Increasing speed

An increase in rate

Rate of increase of speed

A speeding up

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

Throttles

ACCENTUATE To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Giving special importance to something

Emphasis, stress

Acceptation

Accession

ACCESSORISE

Accessorise

ACCESSORIZE

Accessorize

Short grace note that is played very quickly

Not on purpose

Friend follows chance unwittingly

Ran into someone with friend by mistake

Accipitrine

Acclamation

Acclimation

Accustomed to new conditions

Accustomed to upset mice with acid and salt

Acclimatise

Peruvian city in adapted

""ACCLIMATIZE To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.""

Acclimatize

Adjusted and put up

Allowed room for

Made comfortable

Furnishes houses

""He who, or that which, accommodates.""

Pianists playing second fiddle (wordplay)

Accompany

Pulled off top

Done - with a high degree of skill

Having particular skills

One who accomplishes.

Accomplish

Squeeze box player

Player is into arranging following agreement

One's instrumental in making peace with Israeli supporter though not at frist

Scheme first ignored in bill for delivery

An accessory item of equipment or dress. Often used in the plural.

Article of equipment

Bill gathers another metre, making dress

Items of dress/equipment required for an activity

ACCREDIT to accept as true

Marked or produced by accretion.

ACCULTURATE

Acculturate

""ACCUMULATE To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. as, to accumulate a sum of money.""

Process of gathering

Growth of capital

Build-up

Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.

Accumulator

The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.

ACCURSED accurse

Chemical expert sits on the deadly liquid

Acetanilide

English word

Acetylation

Even a chemist (anagram)

The done things

Exploits from active men he's translated

Absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions of the stomach.

Absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions of the stomach.

Achromatism

ACHROMATIZE To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Achromatize

Acidimetry

Acidulation

Recognised information in a record

Admits information revealed in accounts

Admits information is revealed in the accounts

In relation to sound or to hearing.

Acoustician

Person one knows slightly

Someone one knows slightly

It was auld to Burns

Current inactivity gets the nod

Tacit approval

Consent

Acquirement

Acquisition

Acquittance

Acriflavine

Acrocentric

Acromegalic

Acromegaly

After the manner of an acrostic.

Actability

Photographic instruments.

""Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic. (a) heating, or (b) actinic.""

""Botany Capable of being divided into equal halves along any diameter, as the flowers of the rose or tulip; radially symmetrical.""

""Any of various filamentous or rod-shaped, often pathogenic microorganisms of the order Actinomycetales that are found in soil and resemble bacteria and fungi.""

Actinomycin

Activeness

Acupressure

Acupuncture

""As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.""

""ADJUDICATE To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.""

Formal judgement

Civil judgment based on evidence presented

Adjudicating.

Adjudicator

ADJUDICATOR One who adjudicates.

Adolescence

Adolescent

A naturally occurring chemical formed during the oxidation of epinephrine.

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.

Plug + truck + sticks = progress

Advertency

English word

Science of lift and flight

Scientific study in which secondary aim is dicey

Secondary aim to revise properties of flying objects

(used with a sing. verb) The science of magnetic characteristics associated with atmospheric conditions.

""The medical study and treatment of physiological and psychological disorders associated with atmospheric or space flight. Also called aerospace medicine , aviation medicine .""

AERONAUTIC

One versed in the theory of beauty and artistic expression.

The cult of the beautiful

Russell contacts relative over the jerk with master of art movement

AESTHETIC

Affectation

Deliberate pretence - exaggerated display

Artificial and pretentious characteristic

Warm-hearted - loving

Tender attachment to Buddy heading off

Disease destroyed loving

Afficionado

In an afflictive manner.

Affricative

Secondary results

Repercussions

Agnosticism

Agoraphobic