2-Letter Words Starting with A

Appurtenance

""AQUACULTURE the cultivation of aquatic animals, such as fish or shellfish, or of plants, such as seaweed, in a controlled and sometimes enclosed body of water. The term includes use of either salt or fresh water. It is a form of agriculture, but under water.""

ARABICIZE ARABIC derived from gum arabic

Arborescence

Tree farming - rub our article (anagram)

Cultivation of trees

Archaeology

Past master (wordplay)

His work is in ruins (wordplay)

His career is in ruins (wordplay)

Jurassic fossil bird

Extinct primitive bird

An old bird's cheaper to X-ray, surprisingly!

Canterbury or York, for example

High church office

Senior church post

Archduchess

Archegoniate

Of or pertaining to an archdeacon.

Head of large monastery

Chairman tried to convert Greek ecclesiastic

Abbot is a terribly rich fellow and terribly tired

Archipelago

The science of architecture.

Relating to building design

Of design

Bow struck the City with the first flower of building design

Architecture

Noble classes

Numbers expert

Expert on calculating machine trait I engineered

A titchier man, I fancy, may be one who has no trouble with tots!

Aromaticity

ARTHRITIC

Arthroscopy

They're expressive of joints on the move

The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.

Possible to determine

Identifiable

The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery.

""The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.""

""Of or pertaining to association, or to an association.""

Associative

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

Asthmatical

Astringency

Pl. astrocytomas or astrocytomata (-m -t ) A malignant tumor of nervous tissue composed of astrocytes.

Like Armstrong or Glenn

Relating to the nature of stars

Asynchronism

ASYNDETIC Characterized by the use of asyndeton; not connected by conjunctions.

ATAVISTIC displaying characteristics of a previous cultural era or of a previous ancestral form; displaying atavism

Atheistical

Atomistical

Atrocious

Attractancy

Atypicality

Aggressive boldness; unmitigated effrontery

CD's ancestor

Input for a recorder

Auscultation

AUTECOLOGIC

In an authentic manner; with the requisite or genuine authority.

Shown to be true

Established as genuine

Certified

Authenticate

""AUTHENTICATE To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.""

Autocatalyse

Autocatalysie

Pl. autocatalyses (-s z ) Catalysis of a chemical reaction by one of the products of the reaction.

Autocephaly

""Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.""

Aboriginal; indigenous; native.

""AUTOEROTIC sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.""

""Infection, such as recurrent boils, caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites that persist on or in the body.""

Without thought

Spontaneously

Autonomical

Aviculturist

Avocational

Axiological

By the use of axioms; in the form of an axiom.

Abortifacient

The state of being abstracted; abstract character.

""ABSTRACTION The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.""

Hazarding a guess: doctor who puts stomach muscles in pulleys (wordplay)

Abstractness

Accelerating

Accelerometer

""The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.""

Accessible

The quality of being accidental; casualness.

Accommodation

Accompaniment

Capable of being accomplished; practicable.

Something achieved

Successful achievement

A cold kind of praise about quiet exploit

Responsibility, state of being answerable

Bill has the skill and the responsibility

To be able to tell stories is an essential feature of public life

The office or employment of an accountant.

Accreditation

Acculturation

Accumulative

Accurateness

Accursedness

Accustomation

Habituation.

Acetaminophen

Acetazolamide

Acetification

Acetylcholine

A skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism.

In an achromatic manner.

Acidification

Confessedly.

Thanks to Government we lack men with new dimension unfortunately

Acrylonitrile

Actinomorphy

Of or pertaining to actinomycetes.

Actualization

Those working for pin money (wordplay)

Medical needle users

They may needle you

A malignant tumor originating in glandular tissue.

ADRENERGIC producing or activated by epinephrine or adrenaline

Of or pertaining to the adrenal cortex.

""The study of the sources, dispersion, and effects of airborne biological materials, such as pollen, spores, and microorganisms.""

Inflected form of AERODYNAMIC Inflected form of AERODYNE a heavier than air aircraft

AEROELASTIC

Aeronautical

AESTHETICIZE

Affectedness

With abandon I, Tony, felt a face lovingly

Affectless

Affenpinscher

AGGLUTINOGEN

Agricultural

Experts in their field

ALLOPATRIC

ALLOSTERIC

A first (wordplay)

Ordered aaabcehilllpty (wordplay)

End of quip

Consisting of both letters and figures

So as to show concern for the well-being of others

Amicableness

Aminoaciduria

Impregnation with ammonia or an ammonium compound.

Amplification

Mail Magna Carta revision with resorted letters

Anaphrodisiac

Anchoritical

Anelasticity

""ANESTHETIC Same as An\'91sthesia, An\'91sthetic.An\'91sthesia, An\'91sthetic.""

Anglicization

The study of human body measurement for use in anthropological classification and comparison.

Opposed to alcoholism

ALLERGENIC of or pertaining to allergens or allergenicity.

ARRHYTHMIC

Antiarthritic

Antibacterial

Inflected form of BIOTICALLY Inflected form of BIOTICAL pertaining to {life=n}

""CAPITALISM An economic system based on predominantly private (individual or corporate) investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of goods and wealth; contrasted with socialism or especially communism, in which the state has the predominant role in the economy.socialism or especially communism, in which the state has the predominant role in the economy.""

""CAPITALIST One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.""

""CARCINOGEN Any substance that produces cancer; as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.""

""CENSORSHIP The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. as, to stand for a censorship.""

Anticoagulant

""COMMERCIAL Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. as, commercial advantages; commercial relations.""

Anticommunism

Anticommunist

CONVULSANT

Good against convulsions.

""CORRUPTION The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.""

""DEMOCRATIC Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.""

Antidesiccant

ANTIDROMIC

Antiepileptic

Antigenicity

Inflected form of HISTAMINIC Inflected form of HISTAMINE

""HISTORICAL Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page.as, an historical poem; the historic page.""

""HUMANISTIC Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. as, humanistic devotion.""

Antimechanist

Word with prefix anti-

Antimicrobial

Converted Christian man to revolutionary, perhaps

Athenian held by opponent of government, such as 17

It can appear odd to Christian man, being a Republican

""NEOPLASTIC of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.""

Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.

Antipsychotic

""RADICALISM The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform.""

Plural noun (-sions)

""REFLECTION The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.""

""REFLECTIVE Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror. as, a reflective mirror.""

Antirheumatic

""SCIENTIFIC Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations. as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.""

Antiscorbutic

Source of Pernod keeping source of tequila friendly, suppressing twitch cleanly

Antisocialist

Antispasmodic

Efficacious against syphilis.

""TECHNOLOGY Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.""

By way antithesis.

TUBERCULAR Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

Aperiodicity

In the form or manner of aphorisms; pithily.

APOCALYPTIC

The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness.

With regret, a poet logically has log moved

Shamefacedly

Apoplectical

""APOSEMATIC Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.""

Apostolicity

APOTROPAIC

Appendectomy

Add one to my church number before the operation

Plural or third person singular

Appendicitis

Appreciative

Period of learning trade

Period for learning a skilled trade

Period of learning in a skilled trade

Aquaculturist

Arabicization

Pertaining to arboriculture.

Arboriculture

Pl. archaebacteria An archaeon.

Studying history through digs

Relating to study of historic artefacts

Dealing with old remains in a mad alcoholic rage